voice, expression, creativity. and vitality
voice, expression, creativity, and vitality
I didn’t change my life.
I changed what I decided it meant.
Everything else followed.
"One of the most life-changing experiences I have ever encountered.” - Magano
KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND STORYTELLER HELPING AUDIENCES MOVE FROM NARRATOR TO THE AUTHOR OF THEIR LIVES
Narrator → Critic → Author
The Narrator tells you what happened.
The Critic TELLS YOU WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT YOU.
The Author decides what IT MEANS... AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
After years of working with stories, Christina began to see the same pattern again and again: what shapes us isn’t only what happened. It’s the meaning we made from it.
Christina’s talks helps audiences move from being shaped by old narratives to consciously authoring how they speak, lead, and show up.
meet christina
Christina Dunbar is a keynote speaker and storyteller whose work explores how the meaning we make from what we’ve lived shapes how we speak, lead, take risks, and show up.
But she doesn’t approach the stage like a traditional speaker.
For more than 12 years, Christina has worked inside story — writing and performing her own one-woman show, developing speakers, shaping personal narratives, and producing live storytelling experiences.
Her talks use the craft of storytelling — scene, character, tension, humor, vulnerability, and meaning — to create moments audiences can see themselves inside.
The result is a keynote that feels less like being told what to think and more like being taken somewhere.
At the center of her work is her signature framework, Narrator → Critic → Author, which helps audiences recognize the stories they’re operating from and consciously shape the way they lead and live.
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I am blown away by her creativity, audacity to speak her truth and her ability to create space for women to shine.
SHE'S THE EMBODIMENT OF VISIBILITy.
- TANYA PALUSO, FOUNDER OF SISTERSHIP CIRCLE
People don't underperform because they lack potential. They underperform because they're still operating from stories about who they're allowed to be, what they're capable of, and whether they're ready. Those stories shape who speaks, who hesitates, who takes the lead, and who holds back.
Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon confirm this at the team level: studying 699 people in small groups, they found a team's collective intelligence wasn't strongly predicted by how intelligent its individual members were. What mattered more was social sensitivity and how evenly people shared the conversation. When one person dominated, groups performed worse.
In Change the Story. Change the Room., Christina Dunbar — keynote speaker, story consultant, and founder of the Female Voice Project — gives audiences a practical framework for recognizing the story they're operating from, examining the meaning they've given their experiences, and authoring what comes next. Drawing on more than 12 years of story development work, including six years with The Plus Me Project and a CalMHSA-funded event that brought 450 people together, she shows how this shift moves from personal insight to organizational outcome.
This keynote is for organizations investing in leadership development, culture, and engagement — ready to stop treating hesitation as a confidence problem and start looking at the story underneath it.
Your audience will:
[BOOK CHRISTINA]
Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon confirm this at the team level: studying 699 people in small groups, they found a team's collective intelligence wasn't strongly predicted by how intelligent its individual members were. What mattered more was social sensitivity and how evenly people shared the conversation. When one person dominated, groups performed worse.
In Change the Story. Change the Room., Christina Dunbar — keynote speaker, story consultant, and founder of the Female Voice Project — gives audiences a practical framework for recognizing the story they're operating from, examining the meaning they've given their experiences, and authoring what comes next. Drawing on more than 12 years of story development work, including six years with The Plus Me Project and a CalMHSA-funded event that brought 450 people together, she shows how this shift moves from personal insight to organizational outcome.
This keynote is for organizations investing in leadership development, culture, and engagement — ready to stop treating hesitation as a confidence problem and start looking at the story underneath it.
Your audience will:
- Learn to become the Author instead of the Narrator
- Speak up sooner and make decisions with more conviction
- Navigate harder conversations instead of avoiding them
- Take meaningful risks and step into leadership before they feel completely ready
- Understand the research behind why an evenly shared room outperforms a dominated one
[BOOK CHRISTINA]
w to author your story, trust what you know, and use your voice to change the room.
Standard length: 45–60 minutes
Most women aren't operating from a lack of ability. They're operating from stories about who they're allowed to be, what they're allowed to want, and how much space they're allowed to take. Those stories shape who speaks in the meeting, who waits to be asked, and who quietly settles for less than she's capable of.
Most of those stories were never chosen. They were inherited — absorbed so early and so often that they stopped feeling like a story and started feeling like the truth.
In this keynote, Christina Dunbar — keynote speaker, story consultant, and founder of the Female Voice Project — draws on more than 12 years of helping women turn lived experience into stories that move a room to name what her audiences are living but rarely say out loud, and gives them a framework for authoring something different.
This keynote is for organizations ready to invest in the women who are already capable of more, and give them language for what's actually holding them back.
Your audience will:
Standard length: 45–60 minutes
Most women aren't operating from a lack of ability. They're operating from stories about who they're allowed to be, what they're allowed to want, and how much space they're allowed to take. Those stories shape who speaks in the meeting, who waits to be asked, and who quietly settles for less than she's capable of.
Most of those stories were never chosen. They were inherited — absorbed so early and so often that they stopped feeling like a story and started feeling like the truth.
In this keynote, Christina Dunbar — keynote speaker, story consultant, and founder of the Female Voice Project — draws on more than 12 years of helping women turn lived experience into stories that move a room to name what her audiences are living but rarely say out loud, and gives them a framework for authoring something different.
This keynote is for organizations ready to invest in the women who are already capable of more, and give them language for what's actually holding them back.
Your audience will:
- Name the story they've been living inside — and stop mistaking it for the truth
- Recognize the moment they're narrating instead of authoring, and make the switch
- Speak up sooner, ask for what they want, and stop waiting for permission
- Trust what they already know instead of waiting to feel ready
- Walk out with a framework — Narrator, Critic, Author — they can use immediately, not just admire
KEYNOTE TOPICS
CHANGE THE STORY.
CHANGE THE ROOM.
How to change the story you lead from — and shape what comes next.
Standard length: 45–60 minutes
How to author your story, trust what you know, and use your voice to change the room.
Standard length: 45–60 minutes
UNAPOLOGETIC WOMAN
Her keynotes are felt, not just heard — built with the same craft she brings to the stage as a performer, not just the podium. She brings together personal narrative, theatrical storytelling, meaning-making, and practical frameworks the audience can carry out of the room.
Her work is designed to help audiences see themselves differently — and leave with language and tools they can use after the room clears.
Most speakers tell you about a moment.
Christina was trained to build one.
Booking Christina means bringing in a speaker who does more than deliver a keynote — she builds the experience around your audience and the room you're trying to create. Reach out with your event, audience, and goals, and she'll shape the keynote to match the room you're trying to create.