Christina Blacken

Chief Narrative Strategist, The New Quo

New York City, NY

Christina Blacken is a public speaker, performer, writer, and founder of The New Quo, a media and leadership training company. She creates transformational workshops, events, and educational content that helps people use the wisdom and leadership lessons within their own life stories, to build deeper trust in their relationships and achieve socially impactful goals. She's trained 17,000 people across 9 industries with her Tell it Proud communication framework that uses neuroscience, inclusion principles, and narrative techniques to help people identify key life experiences, the meaning of those experiences, and the messages to tell from those moments to inspire action.

“Science shows stories shape everything we think and do, and leadership is the practice of sharing stories to inspire others towards action.”

She's been featured in the NY Times, Forbes, Business Insider, and Nasdaq.com among other outlets. As a Utah native and resident of NYC for the past 15 years, she knows far more uses for jello than she’d like to admit.