As founder and managing partner, Christina Colton is the primary point person for L2. Tina assesses each client’s needs and, when appropriate, builds custom teams made up of trusted colleagues who have a depth and range of expertise in leadership and organizational development.
Dr. Christina Colton
Christina has spent the past 20 years advising organizations on how to effectively drive transformation by focusing on the human dimension of change. Drawing from her doctoral work on adult learning and leadership transitions at Columbia University and her experience as a global executive coach and consultant, Christina has supported clients in effectively addressing the following key questions:
- How can we more effectively lead others through change by creating the best cultures for learning and innovation?
- How do we accelerate the development of our internal leadership capability to meet succession needs and market goals?
- How do we better support women leaders to excel?
Clients report that Christina’s leadership development expertise has enabled them to:
- Move through changes with better clarity, leadership alignment, and success
- Improve the quality of thinking, communication, and decision-making.
- Build their teams’ competence and confidence during transitions.
As a former Director of Learning and Development at Fidelity Investments, Christina brings first-hand management experience to her leadership consulting work with senior executives from around the world. She has served leading firms in financial services, technology, e-commerce, media, marketing, healthcare and public service organizations including Meta, eBay, Nike, PayPal, WPP, McKinsey Consulting, Nielsen and the BBC.
Christina’s educational background includes:
- Ed.D. in adult learning and leadership, Columbia University
- MBA, Northeastern University
- BA in interpersonal and organizational communication, Northeastern University
Volunteer Experience:
- Executive coach for The Commit Foundation, a nonprofit focused on supporting veterans transitioning to the professional civilian world.
Christina has changed my career trajectory. I went from unsure if I could succeed and almost quitting to dramatically transformed and thriving. Christina propelled me forward and gave me the confidence to ask for and land every role as the scope of my work increased.
Jenny
Senior Tech Leader
Trusted Colleagues
Allison Dunn
Allison is an organizational consultant who specializes in coaching individuals, helping them to clarify their goals and achieve their strategic objectives. She also works with teams, facilitating the improvement of their capabilities in both the task and interpersonal realms, and with organizations, enabling them to become more effective and efficient by overcoming the technical, interpersonal, and organizational barriers to change.
In her work, Allison builds on a systems perspective to understand the underlying, interconnected factors that shape outcomes in complex organizations. Before becoming a consultant, Allison spent seven years in the financial services industry at Wachovia and Capital One, working in brokerage, credit services, and online banking, where she focused on marketing, analysis, and operations management. She has been an independent consultant since 2002.
Her educational credentials include:
Tina M. Richards
Tina is the person senior leaders and executive teams call when they need to scale their leadership, build stronger, more aligned teams, and lead with clarity as AI and accelerating change reshape how work gets done. She sees what others miss, says what others won’t, and gets leaders and teams unstuck and moving.
With over two decades in talent development and coaching, Tina is recognized for reading people and systems with equal precision and helping leaders shift not just what they do, but how they think, lead, and show up. Her work spans big tech, Fortune 500 retail, and high-growth startups including Meta, Lyft, TransUnion, Chief, Nokia, Deloitte, and Gap. Passionate about empowering female and AAPI leaders, she is sharp where it counts and human where it matters.
Accreditations: ICF ACC Accredited Coach; AI and Agentic Workflows Certification (Maven, 2025); Interactional Coaching Mastermind; Leadership Circle Profile 360 Assessment; Hogan Leadership Assessment; Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Leader Coach; The Birkman Method; Inside Out Coaching; Immunity to Change; DiSC; Situational Leadership II.
Erin Bric
Erin is an executive coach and leadership consultant who brings more than two decades of experience as a change catalyst for iconic global organizations and as a trusted advisor to senior leaders navigating complexity, growth, and transition. She founded Bric and Co. in 2021 after a long in-house career leading Organization Development and Learning functions, and she works today with C-Suite executives, VPs, directors, and senior technical leaders across technology, gaming, entertainment and media, consumer products, and retail.
Her style blends the rigor of scientific models and frameworks with genuine warmth and presence, whether she is in a one-on-one coaching session or designing and facilitating a leadership program, offsite, or team intervention. Clients describe being challenged and supported in equal measure, pushed to look beneath the surface at the patterns, beliefs, and habits in their way, and held to a standard of growth that is real and sustainable. She specializes in executive and group/team coaching, team effectiveness, leadership development, and organizational culture.
Erin’s coaching clients include senior leaders inside MAANG-tier technology companies, global media and entertainment brands, iconic consumer products and lifestyle companies, Fortune 500 retailers, and hypergrowth startups. Working from a systems perspective, she meets leaders where they are, integrating insights from assessment data, lived experience, and organizational context, and helping clients move from insight to action without losing the depth that makes the work matter.
Her in-house experience grounds her consulting in operational reality. She served as Head of Learning and Organizational Effectiveness at Snap Inc., where she built the company’s first L&OE function from the ground up to support a hypergrowth business, designing the talent philosophy and moving the needle on global leadership and culture. Prior to Snap, she led L&OE for VF Corporation’s Vans, Reef, and Eagle Creek brands, where she was deemed top talent and built a learning culture recognized as best-in-class across VF’s global portfolio. Earlier in her career, she held progressively larger People Team roles at Mattel, spanning leadership development, global diversity and inclusion, onboarding, employer brand, and internal communications. Her global perspective is further shaped by having lived and worked in Italy’s Piemonte region, where she designed corporate language programs and translated business communications for international firms.
Erin lives in Culver City, California with her rescue dog. She is a passionate Italy enthusiast and frequent traveler, with many more passport stamps in the works.
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