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Dr. Kristine MedyanikÂ
Dr. Kristine K. Medyanik, DBA is a professor, leadership strategist, and curriculum designer with deep expertise in business, organizational behavior, and leadership development. She serves as a full-time professor at Corban University, where she designs and teaches MBA and undergraduate courses focused on ethical leadership, strategy, and real-world application.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Medyanik is a fractional Chief People Officer and leadership facilitator with The Evolving Leader Fellowship. She partners with organizations ranging from 10 to 500 employees to strengthen leadership capacity through workshops, keynotes, retreats, and customized development programs. Her work centers on helping leaders build self-awareness, navigate complexity, and lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Dr. Medyanik is also the creator of several innovative leadership learning experiences, including the Leadershit UnCourse, which uses humor and practical insight to explore common leadership missteps—and how to grow beyond them. Known for blending research-based frameworks with approachable, human-centered teaching, she brings warmth, wit, and candor to every room she leads.
Dr. K's Speaker KitDr. Christine Fonner
Dr. Christine Fonner, PhD is a holistic leadership expert, keynote speaker, and educator with over 25 years of experience across nonprofit, government, corporate, and educational sectors. She integrates systems thinking, emotional intelligence, trauma-informed leadership, and relational communication to help leaders navigate complexity while building cultures rooted in both accountability and care.
Dr. Fonner holds a PhD in Organizational Leadership, a Master’s in Transformational Leadership and Change Management, and a Bachelor’s in K–12 Education. Her doctoral research explored the impact of toxic leadership on the safety, belonging, and esteem of women leaders, shaping her work in leadership development and the practice of Radical Care in the workplace.
With experience leading teams, coaching executives, and facilitating transformation in high-stress environments, she supports leaders and organizations in reconnecting to purpose, building trust, and leading with authenticity. Her approach bridges strategic thinking with human-centered leadership to create sustainable, resilient cultures.
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What Makes Our Keynotes and Trainings Different?
We Develop the Whole Leader.
Our keynotes and speaking engagements are built on the belief that how you lead is inseparable from who you are. The decisions you make under pressure. The way you show up when trust has been broken. The capacity you have to hold your team's wellbeing alongside your organization's goals. Those things are not management techniques. They are the lived practice of leadership and they require more than a productivity system to develop.
Everything we deliver from the stage is grounded in research and brought to life through the kind of honest, engaging storytelling that makes people lean in rather than check their phones. We work in the areas that actually shape how leaders lead:
- Ethical decision-making and the courage it requires
- Emotional intelligence and self-awareness as leadership tools
- Mindfulness and nervous system regulation for leaders operating under real pressure
- Psychological safety and accountability as two sides of the same commitment
- Bias, identity, and what genuinely inclusive leadership looks like in practice
- Sustainable motivation and what it actually takes to keep people engaged over time
Audiences leave with tools they can use the following Monday. Not someday. Not after three more workshops. Right away. That is a non-negotiable for us because we have spent too many years watching good leadership development get forgotten by Friday.
Whether we are on a conference stage, in a corporate all-hands, or speaking to a room full of educators and nonprofit leaders, we bring the same commitment every time. To shift something real. To send people back to their work with new language, new tools, and a new way of seeing what leadership can be.
A Learning Experience That Continues Beyond the Stage
When you bring us in, your audience gains access to more than a keynote.
Our work is part of a comprehensive leadership development ecosystem that we created from the ground up, The Evolving Leader Fellowship, which combines:
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Applied leadership education
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Community-based learning
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Ongoing monthly development
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Live workshops and retreats
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Peer learning and accountability
This approach allows organizations to move from one-time inspiration to sustained leadership transformation.
We are helping organizations develop resilient, reflective, and connected changemakers.
Most leadership speakers leave audiences feeling inspired for a moment.
We leave your audience equipped to lead differently the very next day.
Dr. Christine Fonner and Dr. Kristine Medyanik are nationally recognized leadership educators, facilitators, and executive development experts who bring a rare combination of academic rigor, real-world leadership experience, and practical application to every stage they step onto.
Together, they have spent decades teaching, coaching, and developing leaders across industries and helping organizations move beyond outdated leadership models toward cultures built on accountability, emotional intelligence, ethical decision-making, and sustainable performance.
Their approach is both thought-provoking and deeply practical, blending leadership theory, neuroscience, psychology, and lived leadership experience into presentations that resonate with executives, emerging leaders, and entire organizations.
Organizations don’t just hire us to speak.
Our clients hire us to change the way their people think about leadership.
Perfect For:
- Leadership conferences
- Corporate retreats
- Executive leadership summits
- Women in leadership events
- Organizational culture initiatives
- Professional development programs
- University leadership programs
Ready to Elevate Your Event?
If you're looking for speakers who will challenge thinking, inspire growth, and leave your audience with tools they can actually use, we would love to partner with you.
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