Someone on Your Team Is Living This Right Now
One in three women and one in nine men experience severe intimate partner violence. In a company of 500, that is not a hypothetical. Christy Martin gives your people language for something most of them have never been able to name.
The Problem with Most DVAM Programming
Every October, an email goes out with a hotline number. Almost nobody clicks it. The people who most need it are the least likely to open a company-wide message about abuse on a work computer that a partner may have access to.
What actually reaches them is a room. A speaker they didn't expect. A story that makes it safe to think about their own situation for forty minutes without having to admit anything to anyone.
Why a Boxer?
Christy Martin was a world champion who could physically defeat almost anyone. She still couldn't leave. Corporate audiences arrive with an unspoken assumption — that this happens to people unlike them, people without resources or strength or options. She takes that apart in the first ten minutes, and the rest of the talk lands on an audience that has stopped feeling exempt.
For managers, the practical value is different: she shows what it looked like from the outside during the years she was living it. The performance dips. The unexplained absences. The partner who called constantly. The bruises with easy explanations. Your managers walk out able to recognize a pattern they have almost certainly already seen and misread.
Programs That Fit
DVAM Keynote (October)
Flagship Domestic Violence Awareness Month talk tailored for all-hands meetings and company keynotes.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Safety planning and protective protocols when personal relationship violence leaks into the workplace.
Manager Recognition Training
Equipping team leaders and HR business partners to spot warning signs and respond with empathy and safety.
ERG & Women's Networks
Intimate fireside chats for employee resource groups, women's leadership networks, and diversity summits.
Wellness & Benefits Programming
Integrating survivor support awareness into annual employee mental health and wellness weeks.
Leadership Offsites
The high-impact grit, athletic comeback, and resilience session for executive retreats.
What Your Team Leaves With
- The ability to recognize coercive control, which is invisible on any incident report.
- Language for raising a concern with a colleague without accusing anyone or causing embarrassment.
- Awareness of what your EAP and HR policy actually offer, and how to point someone there safely.
- A reason to believe it could be someone they work with, which is the belief that makes the rest useful.
Format: 45–60 minute keynote plus moderated Q&A. Virtual and hybrid available. Half-day manager workshop on request.