Leadership Development Facilitator & Executive Coach
Organizational Culture & Whole Systems Change specialist Cultural Transformation Tools trainer
Chris is an experienced international leadership development facilitator, executive coach and Cultural Transformation Tools® trainer. He specializes in coaching leaders and facilitating teams to help them connect through discovering their core values and deeply held purpose. Going a step further, Chris believes that synergistic levels of performance can be achieved through the creation of a unifying, energizing vision.
Chris served for 19 years in the British Armed Forces receiving a commendation on leaving as being ‘the driving force behind a visionary and groundbreaking coaching initiative which has led to significant culture change while maintaining world-class operational effectiveness and highly respected standards’.
Chris’s passion today is supporting leaders and change-agents on their life adventures to help inspire the creation of an abundant, synergistic world.
Chris is excited by the possibilities for inspirational leadership through incorporating modern Quantum Physics principles and traditional wisdoms. He is particularly interested in exploring and sharing the leadership lessons that we can learn from our most traumatic or tragic life experiences. Working with the ‘shadow’, challenging assumptions and taking different perspectives are some examples of the way that he operates.
Professionally, Chris is an Ashridge Business School accredited Executive Coach, International Coaching Federation (ICF) member, and Certified Transformational Presence Coach. Chris uses the Cultural TransformationTools® with teams and organizations, and a range of individual psychometric instruments including the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). Academically, Chris has an MBA from the Open University Business School and is an NLP Master Practitioner.
When relaxing Chris enjoys mountaineering, running, boating and golf. Living in Devon, UK, Chris is married to Lynn, and has a grown-up daughter, Emily.
Connecting with his inner wisdom, with others around him and with nature; walking along his life’s journey with the spirit of adventure required to guide leaders into a new paradigm; and the desire to create dialogue and synergy within teams and organizations are important elements in Chris’s life and work.