Welcome! I’m Christine Hockman.
I’m endlessly optimistic and curious, love to bring joy to others, live with a sense of adventure, relish a challenge, feel most alive when swimming in the ocean, and have been dubbed the Energizer Bunny.
Each day I want to Live - Love - Matter - Grow so I can light fires in everyone I encounter.
But … I haven’t always felt so vibrant and on purpose.
I’ve had to work through the usual stuff that all of us in Club Humanity encounter, like:
Feeling stressed-out, burned-out, stuck
My head filled with negative self-talk, limiting beliefs, low confidence
Hiding my true self for fear of what others would think
I’m a Recovered People Pleaser, Control Freak and Perfectionist who now:
Serves others to the highest level while honoring her own needs and boundaries (bye-bye, People Pleaser)
Accepts “what is” instead of resisting, and pours that saved energy into finding the gift or opportunity in every challenge (see ya, Control Freak)
Seeks excellence, experimentation, iteration and continuous growth instead of the never-possible state of perfection (peace out, Perfectionist)
I’ve made these transformations with self-discovery, honoring the struggle, voraciously learning, having a coach to challenge my thinking, building new habits and staying committed to finding beauty in every day, no matter what happens.
P.S. I am still on a journey of self-improvement because we can always reach another level and don’t stop growing until our last breath on this beautiful planet.
Training & Tools
I’ve learned and trained under some of the best coaches in the world so I can give my clients the best, science-backed and holistic tools and programs.
As a Certified High Performance Coach, I’m part of an elite network and personally trained by Brendon Burchard, the world’s top High Performance Coach who has worked with Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic athletes and celebrities like Oprah and her leadership team.
I’m a partner coach with Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness, using the latest neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science to re-wire your brain for lasting change that fuels positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, love, gratitude, appreciation, innovation and calm, clear-headed action.
Completing numerous and varied leadership, emotional intelligence, meditation, innovation, education and self-growth programs allows me to bring out any tool or modality necessary to help my client through a challenge or sticking point.
Career Adventures
My degree is in marketing, business admin and entrepreneurship but I have worked in diverse roles because I love challenging myself to learn and expand. I learned about entrepreneurship and sales as a teenager, under my dad’s wing (with his business), and spent 13 years in leadership roles across public service and non-profit sectors. So I get the challenges and joys of leadership, team culture, strategy and marketing.
At Summit Metro Parks, I led the education team through a culture shift and to remarkable growth, started the district’s first paddling and archery programs, oversaw large-scale exhibit development, helped plan site development of the $3M Liberty Park Nature Center project, was responsible for visitors services at F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm and Liberty Park Nature Center and served on the Senior Operations Team.
I was a Co-Director of Great Lakes Biomimicry where I helped create self-sustaining sources of revenue for the non-profit. I also led business development and marketing, taught Innovation Services to companies, and collaborated with partners like schools, informal education institutions and NASA.
Love & Giving Back
My husband and son are my greatest joy and top priority. As a boy mom, I get in the dirt, wrestle, play sports, go fishing and cuddle. As a family, we love to travel, play games, hang with our dogs and create every opportunity possible to explore together.
Passionate about giving back, I’m a board member and Chair of the Governance Committee at Spice Field Kitchen, an Ask the Expert and Executive Coach volunteer for Business Volunteers Unlimited, founding member of Cleveland Women in Business for Good and volunteer for Citizens for Metro Parks.
I’m a recipient of the Champion for the Environment Award given by the League of Women Voters of the Akron Area and a previous board member of the Akron Public Schools STEM College and Careers Advisory Committee.
