Judy Pace Christie

Judy Pace Christie is the owner of Judy Christie Consulting Services, with an office in Shreveport, La.

A journalist for 25 years, Ms. Pace Christie was the top editor of four newspapers: the Palladium-Item in Richmond, Indiana; The Jackson Sun in Jackson, Tenn.; FLORIDA TODAY on the Space Coast of Florida; and The Times in Shreveport, her hometown paper.  She started her journalism work as the editor of her elementary school newspaper. She worked as a reporter and editor in various news roles before becoming a top editor.

She left the daily news business at the end of 2002 to open her firm that works with individuals, newspapers and other businesses on strategies for meaningful life and work.   She feels strongly that we are called to live fully and not frenzied and that we can be more effective in our approach to work.

She works with clients around the country on strategic planning, goal-setting and training.  Clients include Tomorrow’s Workforce at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications, where she has helped with the launch of a health-care journalism project and a religion journalism program.  Her work carries her into a variety of newsrooms across the country, where she guides staffs as they wrestle with new approaches to their work to meet the changing needs of readers.

With her 1-on-1 consulting, she coaches individuals whose lives are too busy or who need help assessing and meeting their goals – business and personal. She has written a book called Hurry Less, Worry Less: 10 Strategies for Creating the Life You Long For, published by a division of Abingdon Press this year and in its second printing.
 
Ms. Pace Christei has a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport.  She is married to Paul Christie, an eighth-grade science teacher. She is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where she has chaired the Ethics & Values Committee and the High School Journalism Committee. She attended API’s Restructuring the Newsroom seminar in 1995.