Christi leverages 20 years of experience in corporate and academic global partnership development to connect emerging and established leaders to the world’s most dynamic instructors and thought leaders at University of California, Berkeley - one of the world’s top public universities and a leader in professional education.
After graduating with a BA in Business at Indiana University, and earning her MBA at UC Berkeley, Christi built her career driving complex projects across industries with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Target, The Gap, Apple, P&G, Amazon and Anytime Fitness. As a member of Target Corporation’s business partnership & negotiations team, she created and led Target’s first multi-channel cross-functional team, which became the blueprint for aligning interests and objectives across internal and external teams to incentivize success.
After a decade in corporate America, Christi’s passion for lifelong learning and executive development led her to the role of Director of Custom Programs at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. There she focused on leveraging UST’s reputation and proximity to the Twin Cities’ to build unique partnerships. She supported her clients through a process which included: conducting robust needs assessments, developing measurable, strategic learning objectives aimed at prioritizing client needs; integrating talented faculty to deliver programs; and quantitative evaluation.
Christi is excited to return to Berkeley in a role that combines and utilizes all of her corporate and academic experience to help foster the next generation of executives. She is a runner, reader, sports enthusiast and mom of three. She loves spending time with family as well as the wonderful humans and animals at the Marine Mammal Center where her husband works.