Chisa Christian is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran with 20 years of service, the founder of New Pattern Solutions (Inspiring Women To Excel, LLC), and the creator of The Interrupt Framework™. Through consulting, speaking, training, and facilitation, she helps people recognize their patterns, take ownership of their choices, and create different results.
During her Air Force career, Chisa served as a Flight NCOIC and Supply NCOIC, leading teams of Airmen and overseeing supply, vehicle, and radio maintenance operations covering thousands of items of equipment. That same discipline, diagnosing the real problem before acting on it, now shapes how she works with organizations, government agencies, and individuals.
She brings together leadership, coaching, training, facilitation, and career development to help individuals and organizations look past the surface problem to what’s actually contributing to it. She holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship, a Bachelor of Business Administration, and an Associate of Applied Science in Logistics, along with five coaching certifications, including Transformational Coach, Mastery Coach, and CIG Clarity Catalyst Teacher (emotional intelligence).
Why I Do This Work
There was a point in my life when I realized I had accepted unhappiness as normal. Following an 11-year marriage, I began examining the beliefs and patterns I had come to see as just the way things were, and I had to ask myself a harder question: What part am I playing?
That question wasn’t about blame. It was about seeing my own choices, beliefs, and responses clearly enough to recognize what I could change. It’s the same question at the center of my work today, whether I’m working with one person or an entire organization.
Why The Interrupt Framework™
Most recurring problems aren’t caused by a lack of information. People and organizations usually have expectations, procedures, and capable people in place. Chisa built The Interrupt Framework™ to answer the harder question: what’s actually contributing to the result, so the same story stops repeating. It moves through five steps, Define, Discover, Diagnose, Disrupt, and Develop, and it starts with diagnosis, not assumptions. Not every problem is a mindset problem. Sometimes it’s leadership, expectations, communication, or systems.