Join Roosevelt University alumna, Christine Render (MS '04), Founder & CEO of ScaleUp Coaching & Consulting, LLC will share her top strategies for professionals transitioning into their first people leadership role. As a career and leadership coach, Christine has worked with first-time people leaders across various industries, company type, size, and complexity. She supports first-time people leaders through coaching, self-reflection, assessment, planning, and best-practice sharing. 

As a first-time people leader, you don't know what you don't know. Christine will help you design your roadmap by sharing strategies related to mindset shift, practices and techniques, relationships, self-assessment, and more. Whether you recently transitioned into your first people leadership role, you are preparing to do so, or you are returning to people leadership after a break, you will learn strategies for success.

Building on 20+ years leading people and organizational success, Christine Render established ScaleUp Coaching & Consulting LLC to deliver talent management strategies that elevate people and business results.

Christine brings a holistic talent approach to her clients. This includes macro strategies that optimize people’s work experience through talent development, engagement and workplace culture, and micro strategies that empower people to own their professional work experience.

Christine also serves as Business Leader Faculty® at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Lake Forest Center for Leadership, a facilitator for HerCSuite™ leadership development programs, and is an authorized partner for The Five Behaviors® assessments and workshops for building cohesive teams.

While attending Northern Illinois University to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration, it was a business internship that first peaked Christine’s interest in Human Resources. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Human Resources from Roosevelt University. Christine was inspired to attend Roosevelt University because it was founded on a dedication to social justice – what better place to get a degree in Human Resources? She enjoys connecting with fellow Lakers and giving back through the University’s mentor program.

Christine has worked for Fortune 500, local and multinational companies, including for- and not-for-profit organizations, ranging from 10K-50K employees.  As a human resources business partner, she supported operations, manufacturing, R&D, and corporate functions including finance, HR, marketing, communications, IT, customer service, compliance, and philanthropy. She has experience with leader transitions, acquisitions, and divestitures, starting up and shutting down facilities and teams, cultural transformation, new product development and launch, and function turnarounds.

Christine is trained in Ken Blanchard’s Coaching Essentials®, has over 15 years of leadership and career coaching experience, and a Professional Life Coach certification. This supports a balanced approach to coaching for professionals whose work and life are intertwined. Christine’s background in talent management and strategy coupled with the art and science of coaching gives her the ability to develop a clear path of discovery and meaningful exercises for each unique individual she coaches.

Christine received her Women in Leadership certificate from The George Washington University School of Business. Her expertise in this area enables her to help females and their allies consider the challenges women may face in the workplace and how to address them.

Christine brings a positive, energetic, growth mindset to every engagement. She seeks to understand first, before giving feedback and making recommendations. Christine is best known as a deep listener, uber collaborator, and impact multiplier. She is a results-driven change agent and a trusted thought partner.                              

This webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12th from 12-1pm CST. Please register below to be emailed the Zoom link.