Christine Nielsen
Founder and CEO of Contrast Consulting
With over 20 years of experience in transforming and driving a variety of businesses forward, Christine is a master coach and an expert at helping organizations and individuals achieve greater levels of performance and success.
Christine’s experience spans a variety of senior executive positions. She leverages her professional history to serve as a consultant with a focus on organizational transformation, performance management and culture change. By partnering, coaching and working closely with senior leaders and their teams, Christine is able to transform organizations and effect positive and measurable change. By creating a chain of influential leaders and mid-level managers, Christine is able to deliver greater levels of performance, effectively alter employee behaviors, and create cultural cohesion, leading to teams delivering significant and sustainable business results.
Her international clients span the forestry and mining, healthcare, telecommunications, oil and gas, engineering and financial services industries and include Lasmo, Weyerhaeuser, Inco Mining, Boehringer Mannheim, Rogers Communications, and BP.
Christine holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Queen’s University in Kingston. She is a proud mother of three beautiful and talented children. She also played competitive hockey for 18 years and continues to be an avid hockey player, and when she isn’t supporting her daughter at dance competitions, she can be found at a rink cheering on her sons.