Pastor Kris Thornton is a Sessional Lecturer at Alphacrucis. Kris enjoys a bivocational career as a Business Consultant, Life Coach and Pastor. She has unique and diverse experience over many years in business, leadership and ministry. Her areas of particular interest are personal and organisational conflict resolution, healthy communication and creating organisational culture. Her first professional career was in Corporate Accounting and Financial Accounting Systems Consultancy. Kris then transitioned her focus into the consulting, coaching and organisational development space. She is passionate about equipping people with practical wisdom in whatever their context. Kris has served in pastoral ministry and church leadership capacities for many years. From a ministry perspective, she is committed to personal discipleship and strengthening the local church. In her contexts, Kris' gives her attention to equipping leaders and pastors with sound theology, realistic expectations and wise professional practice. She has been a lecturer in the Theology Faculty for the past 5 years.