Linda Christopherson
Senior Consultant
Linda Christopherson is a successful leader, coach, consultant, and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience in developing talent, improving performance, and leading change. She has provided clients in finance, manufacturing, education, government, the arts, healthcare, and human services with expertise in:
Executive Coaching
Strategic Planning
Change Leadership
Talent Development Strategy
Strategically Aligned Competency Models
Board Development
Evaluation & Performance Improvement
Conflict Management
Team Development
Group Facilitation and Training
She is the president of Linda Christopherson & Associates (LC&A), a consulting organization that has served a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations across the U.S. since 1994.
LC&A clients have included George Washington University, EnPro Industries, SPX, Clariant Corporation, Duke Energy, Coca Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Atrium Health, the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, United Way Greater Charlotte, the Mint Museum, and the Foundation For The Carolinas.
For 10 years during that period, she was also the executive director of the McColl Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) at Queens University of Charlotte. In that role, she developed and led several highly effective leadership development programs that continue today, including the Physician Leadership Institute and the Education Leadership Institute. She led the team that created the School Executive Leadership Academy, an alternative path to the principalship approved by the N.C. Board of Education.
Prior to launching Linda Christopherson & Associates, she was an executive with Royal Insurance, where her roles included chief human resources executive, training and organization development executive and internal consultant for strategic projects, reporting to two CEOs. In these roles, she led executive teams that created a new headquarters business model, created new product and market strategies, developed competency-based compensation systems, and launched corporate-culture change initiatives.
In greater Charlotte, Linda has served organizations in volunteer and leadership roles, including the Safe Alliance Board of Directors, the YWCA Board of Directors, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Board of Directors, where she served as a member of the Executive Committee, chair of the Nominating Committee, chair of the Development Committee, chair of Strategic Planning, and a member of the JDRF Speaker’s Bureau.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Georgetown University-certified facilitator who holds many certifications, from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to 360-degree assessment.
