Chris
Eisinger
Founder, Christina Eisinger Coaching | ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
I work with high-performing senior leaders at critical inflection points — when succession readiness, stakeholder confidence, and enterprise trust matter. In these moments, perception and influence are as important as capability.
Early in my career, I learned there is a way to be fully seen and heard at work — to receive honest, challenging feedback and still feel like someone is completely in your corner. That moment changed everything for me.
I was a graduate student when I first understood what coaching could actually do.
A guest speaker came to class — an executive coach. She didn't lecture. Instead, she provided context for her work and then began asking us questions. At first the questions were surface level. Then as the conversation evolved, she picked up a thread, and the questions became deeper - more powerful. By the end of that class we were all changed because she coached us. Right there, in a graduate school classroom, she created a space where real things could be said and heard. I remember thinking: this is it. This is what I want to be part of.
What struck me wasn't just the technique. It was the experience of feeling genuinely seen at work — not in a therapeutic way, but in a direct, honest, this-is-what-I-observe-and-here's-what-it-means way. That combination of clarity and care felt rare. It still does.
That conviction deepened as I learned to conduct 360 feedback debriefs. I discovered I could create a safe space quickly, deliver difficult observations directly, and make the person feel we were in it together. People I trained told me I had a gift for it. I believed them — not out of arrogance, but because it felt effortless in a way that told me I was in the right work.
I am, at heart, a one-on-one person.
I am more introvert than extrovert. I do facilitate groups, and I do coaching demonstrations — and those moments are often the highlight of the group's experience. But what I love most, what feels most natural, is the 1:1 space. The conversation that can go somewhere real because it doesn't have an audience.
In that space I am direct. I notice things quickly. I name what I see without softening it into uselessness, and I hold it alongside genuine investment in the person across from me. My clients tell me that combination — honesty and care together — is what makes the work actually move.
Over two decades as a corporate organization development executive, I watched what made leaders effective and what quietly derailed them. I brought that knowledge into my coaching practice and built something I believe in: rigorous, diagnostic, deeply human work that changes how leaders show up and how they are experienced.
The gap I kept seeing became the work I had to do.
The skills that earn someone a promotion are rarely the skills that make them exceptional at the level they just reached. And almost no one tells them that directly. They're expected to figure it out — through observation, through friction, through feedback that often arrives too late to be useful.
That gap — between where a leader is and what their next chapter actually requires — became the work I wanted to do. I became a coach because I wanted to be in that conversation earlier. Before the derailment. Before the missed opportunity. When a leader is ready to do something intentional with their growth rather than simply reactive.
Today, Christina Eisinger Coaching is built around a conviction I've held since the beginning: leadership development shouldn't be left to chance or circumstance — especially when the stakes are high and an organization has made a real investment in a person's trajectory.
Across industries. Across organizational contexts.
Chris has coached leaders and designed leadership programs across a wide range of industries — from global enterprises to growing mid-size businesses.
Education
- M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Hofstra University
- B.S., Psychology, Drake University
Previous Leadership
- CA Technologies
- Nestlé Waters
- DOMA
Coaching Credentials
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), ICF
- Certified Professional Coach (CPC), iPEC
Assessment Certifications
- Leadership Circle Profile (LCP)
- Hogan Leadership Forecast Series
- Hogan 360° Feedback
- Energy Leadership Index (ELI)
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Herrmann Brain Dominance (HBDI)
- Total SDI 2.0
Outside the work
Chris lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband and two children. She is a Long Island native who loves the expansiveness of nature — especially the beach, the garden, and wherever travel takes her next. She brings the same curiosity and attentiveness to her personal life that defines her work.
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