Overview and Strengths

As a Leadership Coach, Chris partners with leaders seeking to increase performance, encourage teamwork and spark innovation. She’s coached leaders and their teams through high-stakes challenges, from role expansions to performance leaps, and she’s guided many companies on their journeys toward adopting and embracing changes in corporate culture.

With more than 15 years of experience, Chris integrates her knowledge and experience of system and design thinking, group dynamics, and organizational culture to inform the contextual landscape of coaching conversations.

Chris leads powerful team-building processes for executives, teams and boards and regularly facilitates creative retreats. Believing in the impact of “helping others help themselves”, Chris mentors high-performing women in tech transitioning into leadership roles.

Coaching Philosophy

Known for her candor, humor and enthusiasm, Chris is a natural relationship builder, easy to connect with and trust. Working from initial assessments, Chris partners with clients to incite curiosity and creative open exploration to close the gap between current reality and desired state. She listens deeply, asks the right questions to help gain insight into the impact of behaviors, to examine personal and professional goals, and existing resources and strategies. Chris partners with clients as a responsible guide and navigator in the observation, analysis and diagnostic process of “system” evaluation. Committed to helping others transform and overcome challenges, Chris blends her organizational insight and strategic thinking to a comprehensive coaching engagement. In June 2019, Chris was thrilled to be trained by Dr. Brené Brown to become a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator.

Coaching Highlights

Executive Coaching and consulting highlights include working with talented high-achieving leaders to accelerate their influence and impact and foster growth into higher levels of inspired and authentic leadership, helping them to experiment with new ways of thinking and stretch behaviors as well as building skills and new capabilities.