Christina Lynch is a Tallahassee-based business leader and award-winning consultant who promotes a holistic approach to helping clients build their companies. Lynch serves as founder and CEO of Trydent Consulting, a nine-person company that helps small businesses with financial planning, financial stewardship, business management, marketing, human resources and exit planning, among other specializations.

After graduating from Florida State University, she worked as an accounting consultant for Big Energy International and as business manager for iHeartMedia, among other positions. Lynch then fulfilled her dream of helping small businesses in 2014 when she launched CD Brown & Associates. Two years later, she took on an additional role, as director of accounting and human resources at The Gabor Agency, a Tallahassee-based insurance and retirement-investment company. Meanwhile, she continued to build her consultancy company, CD Brown & Associates, and in 2019 renamed it Trydent Consulting.  

Last year, she left Gabor as vice president of accounting and finance to focus on Trydent, where she works to “listen to my clients’ needs, understand their journey and provide support to create a plan to meet their goals and overcome their challenges,” she said.

In addition to her CEO responsibilities, Lynch is an herbalist and the founder of The Ginger Tea Company, which touts itself as a small company that focuses on “creating products based on herbal explorations.”

She serves as a consultant to the Small Business Development Center at Florida A&M University and won its Regional Consultant of the Year award in 2021. She’s also treasurer of the Red Hills Small Farm Alliance, founding co-coordinator of Herbalists Without Borders of the Big Bend and a committee member of the Florida Institute of CPAs.

Over her short career thus far, she already has served more than 200 organizations in the profit and nonprofit sectors.