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About Cristina

Coach.

Advocate.

Connector.

Speaker.

Cristina is on a mission to empower leaders and professionals of color with the mindset, skills and confidence to succeed! 

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Cristina is a Certified Coach and also the Founder of Cristina Costa Coaching, a training and talent development company that offers 1-1 and group career, leadership and business empowerment coaching services to BIPOC professionals through all levels of their careers and professional journeys. Cristina has been officially coaching since 2015 but has been professionally coaching since 2020 – she has coached over 10,000 professionals of color throughout her coaching career. 

Cristina believes that inclusion and belonging is at the core of human connection and success. Because of this, Cristina creates inclusive and psychologically safe spaces for professionals of color and their allies through training that focuses on effective communication, increasing employee engagement through collaborative team building and community building in the workplace through inclusion and belonging training for HR leaders and organizations. She believes that psychologically safe and inclusive workspaces are the key to fostering equitable, productive and overall positive work spaces for ALL to grow and THRIVE in their professional journeys. This is also the KEY to developing and retaining your talent. 

Cristina has provided inclusivity trainings for organizations across the technology, nonprofit, healthcare, retail, agency and higher education industries with a special focus on recruitment, onboarding, talent development, employee engagement and workforce development with an inclusive and equity lens in mind.

When Cristina isn’t busy coaching her clients, she also serves as a Community Manager at Larnell Vickers Enterprises, where she leads The Career Journey -- a supportive online coaching community for underserved career transitioners along their professional journeys. Cristina is also a SHRM Facilitator for the Human Capital Institute where she teaches SHRM accredited courses to HR professionals across the globe on Strategic Talent Acquisition, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Strategic Workforce Planning and Onboarding. 

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Cristina has 15+ years of professional experience in the international education, higher education, technology, startup and non-profit sectors. She has worked at companies such as Google, PayPal and HubSpot as well as a variety of fintech and edtech startups and hyper growth startups. She has served as the Head of the Career Program at Outco, Inc, a San Francisco based startup that provides career coaching and technical skill sharpening for job seeking software engineers. Most recently, Cristina worked as a Diversity Recruiter and Culture Lead at Google Cloud where she sourced, hired and trained diverse talent and hired over 60+ employees of color. 

From 2015-2020, Cristina served as Chief Marketing Officer and Community Manager of Women With Purpose, an organization based in Boston that provides professional development training, workshops and training to women of color. Her organization served over 500+ women of color in the greater Boston area. serves as the Head of the Career Program at Outco, Inc, a San Francisco-based startup that provides career coaching and technical skill sharpening for job seeking software engineers.

Cristina is a Latina born and raised in Boston and is an outspoken advocate and speaker who works towards equity and inclusion for all. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, and is looking to break into her creative side of performing on the stage and building a community of coaches of color through her involvement in the BIPOC Coaches Collective, Coaching for Everyone, and United Latinas. 

She truly believes in the value of community and lives her life by the motto:

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Your Network is your Net Worth!”

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Cristina has worked with:

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Co-Author of: 

Extraordinary Latinas

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