Christian has over 31 years as a non-profit Executive with the YMCA from Upstate New York, to the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic and most recently in Birmingham, Alabama. Throughout his YMCA career experiences, he has provided leadership from small to large YMCA’s comprising over 17,000 members with seven figure annual budgets.
Christian’s first YMCA Executive Leadership position was in Manchester, Tennessee where he had the opportunity to start a small-town YMCA from the ground up.
In Fort Wayne, Indiana Christian served as Branch Executive Director at two of their facilities. He was charged with opening their flag-ship and largest branch, the Parkview YMCA. At Parkview, Christian developed the branch’s first volunteer Advisory Board team, staffed-up the facility, held their first Annual Campaign, and positioned the branch for a capital expansion campaign within the first 14 months of operations.
In Birmingham, Alabama he held the position of the Downtown Branch Executive Director and the Association’s Director of Development. Christian utilized his skillset of Board Development, Financial Development, Capital readiness, and Community Development to take the branch to a new level of community engagement and service.
Currently, Christian is retired and volunteering on a number of nonprofit boards, as well as being a founding partner with Higher Expectations Consulting group.
Christian has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire, as well as a M.Ed. from Springfield College. His interests include gardening, hiking, fishing, and spending time with his wife of 30 years, Robin, and 28-year-old son Graham.
