Liberation Leadership Coaching & Consulting

18/01/2026

Meet Cristina, your Liberatory Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Consultant. ✨

With 18+ years of experience in nonprofit leadership, advocacy, and community organizing, Cristina blends real-world expertise with social work training to help leaders, entrepreneurs, and teams redefine their leadership identity.

As a daughter of Mexican immigrants, her work centers identity, liberation, and reclaiming your full power—helping you lead from your whole, multidimensional self.

The Liberatory Leadership Lab was born to disrupt outdated leadership models and create a values-aligned, human-centered way of leading.

💡 Cohort 3 is enrolling now • Starts January 2026
DM or schedule a call via the link in bio to learn more.

17/01/2026

Not all leadership programs are for everyone and this one is intentionally designed for leaders who are ready to grow with depth, integrity, and alignment.

The Liberatory Leadership Lab is for high achievers who have historically overdelivered and are ready to lead without self-sacrifice. It’s for introspective, intentional leaders who value reflection as much as results. It’s for intellectual leaders who know how to think strategically but want to lead with more heart, presence, and humanity.

This space is also for leaders who have experienced burnout and want to heal while learning a more sustainable way to lead. For mid to senior leaders seeking to position themselves more strategically. For senior leaders ready to transform their organizations or businesses from the inside out. For those at a career crossroads. And for leaders preparing for a promotion who want to step into their next role with confidence and clarity.

If you see yourself here, this program was built for you.

The Liberatory Leadership Lab Cohort 3 is now enrolling and begins January 2026.
DM me to learn more or book a call through the link in my bio.

06/01/2026

The Liberatory Leadership Lab is for nonprofit leaders who know they’re sitting on more skill & growth than their current role allows.

If you’ve ever built a program from scratch, managed people, facilitated hard conversations, or led teams through uncertainty—

you already have business-ready skills.

You may just not know how to translate and position them outside of nonprofit systems.

This is especially true for leaders who’ve been conditioned to stay loyal & grateful, —even when your body is telling you you’re ready for more. 🧠🔥

✨ In the Liberatory Leadership Lab, we take what you already know and I help you:

🔥Clarify what you actually offer
🔥Name your leadership and expertise with conviction
🔥Organize your talents into a body of work that reflects your unique skill set
🔥Explore what’s possible without forcing you to quit your job before you’re ready

You are not “starting from scratch.”

You’re simply claiming and amply what’s already within you.

You’re using your inherent gifts & talents and reapplying them towards what YOU want to be doing.

💫 The Liberatory Leadership Lab (Cohort 3) is currently enrolling. Details here: https://lnkd.in/gTJ97Kp9

If this spoke to you, I invite you to take the next step to explore what and how you can pivot & begin to create the business you’ve been dreaming about.

👉🏽 You can schedule a consultation to explore whether the Lab is the right space for you in 2026!

https://lnkd.in/gET2_suB

With love,
Cristina

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Please share so that it may reach other leaders who also need to hear this.

11/04/2025

Are you aware how Cultural Humility is undermining your authority as a WOC in Executive & Emerging Leadership? 👇🏽

For women of color in executive roles, cultural humility can manifest in ways that subtly (or explicitly) undermine your authority, impact, and career progression.

➡️ Do you feel the need to work twice as hard to validate your expertise, even when your qualifications & experience speak for themselves?

➡️ Are you deferring to others because you feel you feel you “don’t have enough “expertise?”

➡️ Are you struggling to take credit for success, often redirecting praise to the team or downplaying individual contributions?

All of this is what’s keeping you unseen and invisible. You are hiding your talents & diminishing your authority, and naturally, others are seen as more assertive leaders.

Cultural humility is helpful as a concept in Liberatory Leadership but it is NOT to be applied equally across identities. As a woman of color, staying humble harms you while allowing for others with less knowledge to receive all the visibility & praise.

You can become a Powerful Leader who knows how to use your voice; position your ideas powerfully & impactful, and get comfortable being seen & taking up space.

Join me for this workshop on Thursday, April 24

@ 3 - 4:30 pm PST
@ 4 - 5:30 pm MST
@ 5 - 6:30 pm CST
@ 6 - 7:30 pm EST

“How Cultural Humility Harms WoC in Leadership”

👉🏽 Register HERE https://www.liberation-leadership.com/howculturalhumilityhurtswocinleadership

👋🏽 I am Cristina, a Liberatory Leadership Coach & Consultant with 17+ years in NonProfit leadership. I work with Executive & Emerging Leaders & Nonprofit organizations to help you to more powerfully position your leadership & shift internal cultures so that you have more impact & authority as a Visionary.

03/12/2024

Leaders, Executives, Directors & Entrepreneurs:

Is there something that you keep grappling with and it just keeps living rent free in your head❓

You keep questioning why you can’t bring yourself to have that much needed conversation with your team❓

Maybe you want to implement new changes at your organization but unsure what the first step is❓

Or perhaps you have a passion for guiding and teaching others and you are wondering if this can turn into a paid offer❓

👉🏽Usually when this happens it is because we have a DESIRE on our heart. In my Liberatory Leadership Lab, I teach on the difference between a "desire" and a "want." A desire is something that will keep coming back... something that you find yourself dreaming about...

⭐️A desire is POTENT, it will keep persisting because it is speaking to your CORE VALUES... Values that likely have not been fulfilled or entirely explored. When we let a desire go unexplored and unfulfilled, it weighs heavy on us & can impact other areas of our lives.

Do you want to finally explore what this is all about? To start to take action on it?

✅This is what we can do in a 3-Session 1:1 Coaching Bundle*.

✅ This is a great way for you to experience my coaching and begin to set your plan in motion this year end/early next year.

In 3 sessions you can make some great progress. You can:

✨Gain clarity around a decision or a pivot you are trying to make.
✨Think through a leadership problem & develop a strategy approach.
✨Create an offer that's been on your mind & heart for some time. (I.e. workshop series?)
✨Develop and practice a pitch to an employer or potential client. (w/ my editing support)
✨Craft your unique mission and vision and value proposition. (w/ my editing support)

👉🏽When we align our desire with our values, we can see our VISION more clearly. That's at the core of what I help folks do. I've become highly skilled at being able to see this in you precisely because I've learned to see it in myself.

Want to start working together? Grab a bundle here ⬇️ & schedule your first session!!

https://liberation-leadership.systeme.io/3sessionminicoaching

With love & solidarity,

Cristina

*This offer is for NEW clients ONLY**
* Offer good through December 8

3-Session Mini Coaching Bundle with Cristina Garcia

11/11/2024

So many emotions were felt last week and many may still be going through it. That is completely understandable, there’s a lot happening, and it feels like it’s all at once.

In spite of everything going on, as leaders you still have to show up with your teams & lead… but you may be wondering…

“How do I support myself & my staff through this?”

“What is appropriate & what is not?”

“How do I navigate all this upheaval?”

Leaders may be feeling the burden of trying to ground themselves while they help support their own teams.

This is the perfect moment to take a small pause and think about how we want to show up for our teams and staff.

What can we be doing differently?
What is needed right now?

📢 Join us this Friday, November 15 at 12:30 PM PST for a timely workshop:

💻How to Support Your Staff During These Times.

We’ll look at:

- Grounding Tools for your practice
- Cultivating safety among your team
- Creating spaces for processing
- Curating listening circles & dialogue

Free workshop💫

Come for a part of it or for all of it. Invite others. Listen 🎧 & watch on your lunch!

🔗 Register HERE: https://lnkd.in/gVfFBHMv

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06/09/2024

📢 Dear Executive Directors, CEO’s, HR Directors, Business Owners, & other Decision-Makers & Leaders:

➡ Do you need a skilled facilitator grounded in Liberatory Practice who can help curate and lead your Staff Trainings, End of Year Retreats or Board Meetings?

➡ Is your organization, business or company looking for a facilitator who can bring conscious leadership and collectivized leadership models to your team?

Here are just a few of the topics that I’m very well versed in and can guide your team through in-person or virtually. 👇

💫 Identifying Your Unique Leadership Style & Identity

💫 The Creative Process: Curating Your Own Process & Space

💫 Deconstructing social/ cultural narratives & how these impact you as Leaders

💫 Interrogating the Sovereign Self & Understanding your Value System

💫 The Energetics of Leadership: understanding body somatics

💫 Building Conscious & Reciprocal Relationships

💫 Cultivating Deep & Attentive Listening

💫 Defining your Leadership Voice & using it more assertively

💫 Leading with Emotional Intelligence & Self Awareness

I facilitate conversations using thought-provoking questions, engaging my audiences in critical thinking exercises & understanding body somatics as a way to bring both our heads 🧠 & our hearts ❤️ to the work!

My framework consists of a 4-part approach: 1️⃣ Identity Consciousness; 2️⃣ Somatic Awareness; 3️⃣ Decolonized Leadership; and 4️⃣ Systems Thinking. I use a trauma informed, anti oppressive & healing justice lens in all of my work.

I’d love to get on a call with you to see if my work aligns with the vision and goals of your organization or business.

Please schedule a consultation call via my Calendly. https://calendly.com/cristina-liberation-leadership/consultation-for-coaching-or-consulting

Below is just a glimpse of what past participants have said about my work.

To learn more and to read my testimonials, visit my website:

www.liberation-leadership.com/testimonials

25/06/2024

❓What needs mending in your leadership?

Leadership can often be a lonely road. It doesn’t come with a manual and we often find ourselves not knowing whether we are “doing it right.”

➡️ Leaders are expected to “have the answers”, to “lead the way” and can often feel the weight of it all, finding themselves in an impossible place of indecision and trepidation., and inevitable exhaustion. Add to that the expectations of others & it can feel like A LOT.

How can leaders begin to dream into new possibilities for themselves?❓

➡️ It starts with the Mending Process. It starts by mending our relationship with our own leadership by entering into a process of Self Repair... one in which we see all parts of ourselves clearly, with compassion and care, and then allow ourselves to move from “what is” to “what could be....”

We’re in a critical time where we need leaders to undergo their own mending process so that they can fully see themselves & be able to fully see others.

Join me at my next workshop:
Mending Our Relationship with Leadership

🗓️ Thursday June 27
12 PM PST / 1 MST / 2 CST / 3 EST

💫Free workshop

I’ll provide some strategies that you can lean into to able to:

1️⃣ Make sense of what you are feeling & going through, you aren’t alone in all of this!

2️⃣ Begin to ease up these burdens by adopting just a few things you can do today to begin the mending.

REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/gQXEgGjj

🙏🏽 Please help me reshare & help reach others who may need this.

30/04/2024

We’re in a pivotal moment where we need leaders who can lead with a renewed vision of collective liberation, rooting into values of justice & guided by their unique voice & self expression.

A lot is happening around the world and right here at home. Some of us are not okay with the social injustices we’re witnessing that often make their way back to our own lives and in our own workplaces.

How can we lead differently in this moment?

How can we use this moment as leverage to propel us forward into a renewed vision of collective Liberation?

We need a different way forward.

Join Jorge Vidal of and I to discuss how and why this moment is so momentous for those of us who see ourselves as the Cultural and Revolutionary Leaders of our time.

The event is FREE, Donations are appreciated but not required. Zelle: [email protected] or Venmo at Cristina-Garcia-19

RSVP: https://lnkd.in/etuV4Bj3

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21/04/2024

Want to get clear on your Vision?

Tired of second guessing yourself?

Of going to other people to get your ideas validated & “approved?”

Let’s work together. I help my clients:

➡️ Cultivate their inner gifts, develop a stronger relationship with Self and learn to truly trust themselves more deeply

➡️ Grow their confidence and affirm themselves, without fear of “being too much” or feeling they’re “showing off.”

➡️ Use their Voice more assertively and improve their delivery.

28/12/2023

Hello all, stopping by to reintroduce myself before we close the end of 2023!

My business has slowly evolved from mentoring younger leaders to now coaching executive teams, directors of non-profit organizations and supporting individual entrepreneurs. I have a liberatory leadership lens & use an anti-oppressive healing justice approach to cultivate trust, visibility & collective care among the leaders & teams I coach.

I also tailor custom workshops, presentations & trainings to the needs of each individual leader and their organizations. I hope you will think of me for your staff training needs and for individual executive coaching. Please email me directly at [email protected]

In 2024, look out for a ew website coming + a fresh Liberatory Leadership program!! Please add yourself to my mailing list here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCqFv7k7Bd9fTFB0ZhO7WOYdhWyseC8ad4uYVI7KWVOyEYYg/viewform

For Organizational Leaders & Entrepreneurs:

I offer your organization or business consulting on culture shifting; organizational/leadership development; training staff on conscious & liberatory leadership practices; facilitating liberation and healing conversations among your teams; and integrating these new frameworks within your organization/business. I also support you in developing an anti-oppressive, trauma informed & liberatory facilitation approach, providing team coaching; and helping you identify and realign unbalanced power at your organization or business.

For Individuals:

I offer 1:1 coaching, supporting you with cultivating your voice, developing and strengthening your leadership style, and fully embracing your identity so that you can show up more powerfully in all areas of your life. I utilize a holistic and anti-oppressive healing justice approach in helping you work through identity issues, developing a stronger, more affirmative & unapologetic presence that brings forth your whole Self. After working together you will feel more powerful, assertive, and secure in who you are, along the way you will implement new behaviors and techniques in your personal and professional life, strengthening your relationships and your identity as a leader and professional.