Christina Yoder is a Consulting Partner with Vide Consulting Group. Her areas of expertise include leadership, management, organizational development, talent management, diversity and inclusion, and strategic human resources. Her research interests include gender and leadership, women leaders in the banking industry, leading across generations, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, and training and development for strategic planning.
Christina has consulted with organizations from the private and nonprofit sectors to increase leadership and management capacity. She has delivered leadership and management training and is regarded as one of the premier executive coaches in the region. Her coaching clients have gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to add the right value at the right level. The results of her work have translated into increased value delivered by organizations and their people.
Christina currently serves as a management professor at the Richard J. Bolte Sr. School of Business at Mount St. Mary’s University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in management, organization development, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. Before entering higher education, she was a talent development manager in the banking industry, where she was recognized as a visionary and transformational strategic partner who developed the workforce to drive business strategy.
She relied on research-based practices to inform organizational development initiatives, management and leadership development curricula, and coaching programs. Her ability to align the workforce with overall business strategy, including succession planning and development initiatives for high-potential employees, translated into an immediate competitive advantage.
Her contributions to leadership and management development have been recognized through the Central Penn Business Journal’s Women of Influence Woman to Watch Award in 2013 and her service as a Business Intelligence Board Member for Chief Learning Officer magazine from 2012 to 2016.
Christina is a member of the Academy of Management, International Leadership Association, Society for Human Resource Management, Association for Talent Development, and the FBLA-PBL Professional Division. She also serves on the board of the Chambersburg Community Theatre and is Chair of Penn State Mont Alto’s Development Committee.
Christina holds a PhD in Administration and Leadership Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Shippensburg University, and a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Management and Marketing from Penn State University.