IF ANGELA DAVIS, ROD STEWART & RIHANNA HAD A BABY...

You'd probably get someone with Angela Davis' intellect, conviction, and willingness to challenge the status quo; Rod Stewart's swagger, individuality, and rock-and-roll spirit; and Rihanna's beauty, business hustle, and badass energy.

In other words... you might get 

Christine Simmons.

Entrepreneur. Speaker. Strategist. Executive. Professor. Storyteller. Personality. Mom. Fashion Lover. Habitual rule-breaker.

And the woman behind the UNAPOLOGETICALLY® brand.

Christine has spent more than two decades building businesses and brands, tackling the complicated stuff, turning big ideas into actual results, spotting opportunities others overlook, and pushing organizations—and sometimes herself—beyond what's comfortable toward what's possible. Challenging the status quo has pretty much come with the territory.

Her career has taken her from Disney, NBCUniversal, and Magic Johnson Enterprises to serving as President & COO of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and COO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—the organization behind the Oscars. Along the way, she's turned around businesses, created new revenue streams, negotiated major partnerships, led through crisis, built teams and cultures, and worked at the intersection of sports, entertainment, business, media, culture, and impact.

And she never left the arena—she just expanded where she plays.

Christine is Co-Founder & CEO of 360 Impact Collective, an entrepreneur building businesses and digital products, an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, strategic advisor, thought leader, and global speaker. Since leaving the Academy, she has advised and collaborated with an eclectic mix of brands, businesses, and talent, including National Lampoon, Candace Parker's Go Genius, Cedric the Entertainer and Toni Braxton's Love & Laughter Las Vegas residency, Hidden Empire Film Group, and SFMA Alliance—bringing strategy, operations, business development, storytelling, and a little Christine to each.

And she's definitely not staying behind the scenes.

As a corporate influencer, creator, and brand partner, Christine has partnered with, promoted, or created content for nearly 30 brands and organizations across automotive, luxury, fashion, entertainment, media, beauty, and lifestyle—including Rivian, Lexus, Buick, LEGO, LVMH, Big Ten Network and Pac-12 Networks—with television and media appearances on ABC7/KABC-TV and CBS/KCAL. She brings brands something hard to manufacture: the business credibility of a seasoned C-suite executive, the perspective of an entrepreneur, a love of fashion and culture, and a personality that was never designed to blend in.

And yes, give her the mic.

Christine speaks, hosts, and emcees globally, bringing executive experience, humor, candor, and storytelling to the stage. She's taken the mic everywhere from LEGO's global headquarters in Denmark and National Lampoon's Sony Shorts premiere to a town hall with Congressman John Lewis, as well as corporate events, conferences, panels, and awards programs. Her topics span corporate leadership, operational excellence, business strategy, media, sports, entertainment, culture, and living UNAPOLOGETICALLY®. She doesn't just speak to an audience—she connects with one.

She's also a boardroom girl. Christine's governance experience spans public institutions, operating companies, investment and capital advisory, and nonprofit leadership. She served as a University of California Regent, with fiduciary oversight of the UC system and participation in Finance and Capital Strategies, Investments, and Public Engagement and Development, and she chaired the UCLA Alumni Association Board. Her broader board and advisory experience includes the UCLA Life Sciences Dean's Advisory Board, the National Black MBA Association Board, SodexoMAGIC, Next Play Capital, Urban Bridge Capital, and Spry Payment Services. She brings the same thing to the boardroom that she brings everywhere else: an operator's eye, a strategist's brain, an understanding of growth and capital, a healthy willingness to ask the question nobody else is asking—and zero interest in simply occupying a seat.

Because whether she's founding a new venture, advising a CEO, representing a brand, interviewing someone onstage, delivering a keynote, or walking into a board meeting, the approach is pretty much the same: Know your stuff. Be yourself. And don't be afraid to shake things up.

But titles have never been the whole story.

Christine created UNAPOLOGETICALLY® around a philosophy she actually lives:

Being Bold. Attacking Life's Challenges in Extraordinary Fashion. And Loving Oneself—Flaws and All.

What started as a personal mantra has grown into a brand encompassing apparel, speaking, workshops, content, and experiences designed to encourage other people to take up space, bet on themselves, embrace what makes them different, and live life on their own terms.

Because Christine believes you can be smart and sexy. Powerful and vulnerable. A serious businesswoman who loves fashion. A C-suite executive with a little badass in her. A leader who can talk strategy, revenue, and governance—and still laugh at herself.

She has spent her career walking into rooms where she wasn't necessarily expected, taking on challenges others might avoid, and refusing to let someone else's definition of who she should be become her own.

Bold. Brilliant. Badass. Beautifully imperfect.

That's Christine... 

UNAPOLOGETICALLY®.

And through every title, accomplishment, adventure, and crazy idea still to come, the role that will always matter most:

Mom to Christian.

Thanks for stopping by. Stay bold. Be you. And live, lead, and thrive UNAPOLOGETICALLY®.