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Christine Dillard
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Speaking · Workshops · Podcasts

Coercive control doesn't bruise. It erodes.

Christine speaks about the abuse that hides behind the most admired front doors: how it works on a nervous system, why capable people stay, and what it actually takes to leave and rebuild. The survivor's voice and the executive's clarity, in the same room.

Christine Dillard in a pink blazer

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Director, Fortune 500MBA2026 EMBES nominee30+ podcast conversationsSioux Falls, SD

Formats: Keynote (30 to 60 min) · Panel · Workshop (90 min to half day) · Podcast or media interview · Corporate DV-awareness sessions

  • Coercive control: the abuse that never leaves a mark
  • Gaslighting, and how reality erodes one explained-away moment at a time
  • Why "just leave" is the wrong sentence
  • The facade: high-achieving survivors hiding in plain sight
  • Financial abuse inside a two-income home
  • Motherhood in the middle of it
  • The body as witness
  • Sovereignty after: forgiveness is not required for freedom

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