Christine Martin
Christine Martin, MA, MBA, MCC, has been a high performance business and executive coach since 1992. Since 2003, her primary clients have been leaders and project managers at NASA. Her practice also includes management leaders at Informatica Corporation and professional coaches at all levels. Prior to 2002 she specialized in coaching CEO's of emerging companies and professionals in multiple fields. She has held the credential Master Certified Coach from the ICF since 1999.
Early in the development phase of the UTD Executive Coaching Program, Christine assisted in setting up a curriculum that met ICF standards from the outset. She consistently teaches 3 modules (101, 105 and 201) and is a mentor coach for individuals and groups as they complete their certification requirements.
For the International Coach Federation, Christine was 2005-2006 chair of the Credentialing Initiative overseeing the individual credentialing program and training program accreditation. She served two terms as an ICF Vice President and was a member of 6 ICF committees: Executive, Finance, Ethics and Standards, Portfolio Exam Standards, Credentialing and was chair of the Language Committee. She continues to be an active member of the credentialing assessor team.
Christine graduated with honors from the University of Southern California in Philosophy and French, completed her M.A. in Philosophy at USC and earned an MBA from Pepperdine University's prestigious Presidential/Key Executive Program. As a business consultant she wrote over 30 major business plans and evaluated nearly 100 for venture capitalists. For over ten years prior to her move to North Carolina in 2005, she was a graduate school professor teaching core business administration and public policy courses at California Lutheran University and undergraduate ethics courses for California State University at Channel Islands.
Christine had major management roles at both the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Games. As an NCAA National Championship Referee for competitive swimming she will officiate at her twelfth championships in March 2008. She was the Competition Director for the highly successful 2004 USA Olympic Team Swimming Trials managing both the field-of-play and a staff of over 400 volunteers serving 800 swimmers, 300 coaches and 10,000 attendees at each of 15 sessions.
