About The Strategy Catalysts

We guide people and organizations through complexity, conflict, and change — with clarity, compassion, and strategy.

Through transformational coaching and culture-focused strategy, we help teams navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, and lead change from a place of presence and truth. Our work invites leaders to slow down, see clearly, and build environments where belonging, accountability, and purpose are lived every day.

Because conscious leadership isn’t just a skill—it’s a way of being.

Our Approach

The Challenge:

Organizations don’t struggle because they lack intention — they struggle because they lack alignment, ownership, and leadership behaviors that reinforce the culture they say they want. Without clear strategy, honest communication, and leaders who can navigate complexity consciously, teams stay stuck in the same patterns, and meaningful change doesn’t take root.

The Solution:

The Strategy Catalysts helps leaders and teams move from intention to aligned action. We work with organizations to clarify their goals, identify what’s getting in the way, and strengthen the leadership behaviors and communication needed to move forward effectively. Through culture and leadership consulting, thought partnership, and coaching, we support leaders in making informed decisions, navigating change with confidence, and creating workplaces where people feel valued and supported. Our work turns culture goals into practical habits, aligned leadership, and sustainable results.

Mission

Our mission is to guide leaders and teams toward deeper awareness, honest communication, and aligned action. Through conscious leadership practices and transformational coaching, we help organizations cultivate cultures where people feel seen, grounded, and empowered to create meaningful change.

Vision

Our vision is to be the trusted strategic partner for individuals and organizations committed to leading with presence, courage, and humanity—cultivating cultures where belonging, accountability, and conscious leadership become the norm, not the exception.

Our Services

Executive Coaching

 

We specialize in coaching rising leaders, mid-level managers, and early executives — helping them navigate career transitions, build confidence, and lead more effectively. Coaching packages are tailored to client needs and delivered through a trauma-informed lens.

Mediation & Conflict Resolution

We provide strategic mediation services, with a focus on academic medicine and higher education settings. Whether it’s resolving departmental conflicts, navigating leadership transitions, or facilitating difficult conversations, we bring neutrality, structure, and empathy to the process.

Trauma-Informed Strategy Consulting

We help organizations build strategy rooted in emotional intelligence, inclusivity, and long-term sustainability. Services may include organizational assessments, strategic planning, facilitation, and leadership team development — always through a trauma-informed approach.

Our Process

Consultation & Discovery

We start with a listening session to understand your organization’s needs, challenges, and desired outcomes.

Strategic Design

We co-create a custom strategy that may include coaching, mediation, and/or organizational consulting.

 

Implementation Support

We offer hands-on support through program planning, facilitation, and interim leadership roles as needed.

 

About the Founder

Christin Zollicoffer is a strategist, leadership coach, and facilitator who helps leaders show up with presence, courage, and clarity.

Known for her grounding energy and her ability to translate complexity into practical insight, Christin partners with individuals and organizations to strengthen culture, deepen self-awareness, and lead change with intention.

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience across healthcare, nonprofit leadership, community health, and DEI strategy, Christin brings a rare blend of executive-level perspective and relational depth. Her work centers the human experience of leadership — helping people see themselves clearly, communicate with honesty, and make decisions aligned with their values.

Christin’s approach is rooted in conscious leadership, context coaching, and her belief that people thrive when they feel seen, supported, and empowered to lead from their most authentic self. She works with leaders and mission-driven organizations to cultivate cultures of belonging, accountability, and purpose.

Her greatest joy is raising three empowered Black young adults — and creating spaces where others can rise with confidence, honesty, and dignity.

Media

Five Questions With: Christin Zollicoffer

Christin Zollicoffer is the new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Lifespan Corp. In this role, she leads Lifespan’s strategy for a “diverse, inclusive and culturally responsive health care system.”

40 Health System Diversity and Inclusion Executives to Know | 2022

Christin Zollicoffer. Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Lifespan (Providence, R.I.).

111 Hospital and Health System Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officers to Know | 2024

Christin Zollicoffer. Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Lifespan (Providence, R.I.).

Hospitals & Health Equity: What does it takes to bring about real change in healthcare systems?

It takes time, energy and financial resources to bring about change within an organization. Healthcare organizations are no exception.

Contact Us

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