Christina Rosato began her career as a frontline child welfare caseworker, and that origin has shaped everything since. Over more than 25 years, she rose through practice and leadership to serve as Executive Director of Training and Professional Development at the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, and is now co-founder of Affinità Consulting. Her work centers on growing safe organizational cultures where teams can do their best thinking together, and she brings a practitioner's instinct to every system she works in.
Christina Rosato
Christina co-created AWAKEN™ for conscious decision-making, and focuses her work on helping individuals, teams, and organizations disrupt bias and move from reactive, conditioned thinking to intentional, values-driven action in public child welfare and human services. She has deep expertise in integrated learning and development, workforce transformation, and building the kinds of team cultures where real change takes root.
Christina holds a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she also serves as an adjunct professor, and is a skilled facilitator of IHI's Breakthrough Series Collaborative Model and LEAN (Six Sigma) Process Improvement. Her most fundamental belief is that we are always better together, and that each of us is more capable than we know.
Jordan Constantine
Jordan has over 20 years’ experience in practice, leadership, workforce development and system improvement in child welfare and human services in the United Kingdom and the United States and is the co-founder of Affinità Consulting. They co-created AWAKEN™ for conscious decision-making, and focus their work actualizing individual, team, and system change in public child welfare and helping organizations. They have expertise in applying and integrating safety science in workforce and organizational development to improve outcomes and build safety culture and are currently supporting residential providers in their quality improvement efforts with Colorado Department of Human Services Performance Management Outcomes Team.
Jordan a grief and trauma-conscious Yoga teacher and yoga therapist in training with a master’s level social work degree and Bachelors in Applied Community Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Post-Qualifying Diploma in Child Welfare from Chichester University, United Kingdom. Jordan is a trainer for Humane World for Animals’ Adopter’s Welcome program and a volunteer adoption guide at Denver Animal Shelter. Jordan enjoys native planting, building crevice gardens, and the unexpected gifts of connecting conversations with strangers.