With 35-plus years of serving executives as an in-house strategist, change-agent, and now facilitator and coach, Chris knows firsthand what it’s like to hit a growth edge in leadership. Those are the tough places where intense challenges, uncertainty, and constant churn require that ​
we find new ways to match the moment with presence, strength, and resilience. Coaching creates space to discover script-flipping insights, make wise choices, and focus your influence on shaping the conditions for folks to thrive at work and create lasting value in the world. ​

Chris is a skilled thinking partner for leaders as they develop their emotional, interpersonal, and cultural agility to create conditions of trust in which all contribute their very best every day. He has worked successfully with seasoned executives and rising leaders in all sectors. In every case, clients already have what it takes to reach their next stage of personal and professional excellence. Provocative support can be just the spark needed for sticky change as you increasingly become a leader others want to follow.​

Chris works with clients using a wide range of tools and approaches tailored to each leader as a whole person. Those who partner with him consistently experience Chris as serious and light-hearted, results-driven and deeply relational, challenging and compassionate. If you are ready to write a new story of leading with purpose and passion at work, let’s meet and see where the conversation takes us!​

Married for nearly five decades, Chris and Leslie are thrilled to be first-time grandparents! They renew with home-cooked meals, eclectic reading, music from ambient electronica to zydeco, outdoor adventure, supporting Liverpool Football Club, and traveling extensively for work and pleasure in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Chris and family have lived for nearly forty years in urban Pittsburgh as part of a vibrant, diverse community seeking equitable housing, meaningful employment, and life-long education.  

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