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Inspiring Business and Personal Development

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Personal Development, Leadership, and Business Coach

With valuable client relationships extending over more than a decade, I am a partner for the long haul, through thick and thin. Together, we will celebrate the highs and build insight from the lows. My coaching partnerships are built on the individual strengths of my clients, and I aim to bring the best of me to every fruitful encounter.

Strengths-based leadership development

Every great leader’s abilities are built on awareness of their extraordinary strengths, and the wisdom to know how and when to overwhelm a weakness.

My development philosophy aims to help every individual discover their unique talents, and build a thriving business, life or career that expresses these talents.

Strengths-based culture change and team building

The power of any team comes from leveraging the collective talents of every individual, and creating an environment where each person’s talents are encouraged.

Transformational and sustainable culture change is more likely to occur when it is built on the exceptional abilities of those creating the change.

Mentoring for CliftonStrengths coaches

There is a growing army of CliftonStrengths coaches and advocates around the world.

With more than 13 years’ coaching experience, and 10 years as a CliftonStrengths advocate, I am keen to give back to those just beginning their own Strengths journey.

Events

I offer virtual and in-person experiences

Featured Event

Strengths-Based Strategic and Covid Recovery Planning

This 1-hour interactive workshop will create a draft strategic plan for 2021 and beyond, and consider the key aspects of Covid-19 economic recovery that are likely to affect your business.

Two ways to attend:

Online webinar workshop: Tuesday 2nd February, 7:20pm to 8:30pm / In person breakfast meeting (Wellington CBD): Friday 5th February, 7:30am to 9am

Resources

Totally FREE, always – valuable resources for individuals and businesses

Visit my free resource library for businesses, individuals and for CliftonStrengths coaches:

Insights Magazine

Welcome to Insights magazine

Insights magazine features case studies in business and personal development, primarily across my wide range of clients.

With a background in marketing, business strategy, strengths-based culture change and coaching employee engagement and fulfilment, the stories contained here offer insights about the journey many of my clients experience along the way.

Enjoy your free downloadable PDF here:

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Testimonials

Kind words from my valued clients, past and present

Chris is a true thought leader in his areas of expertise. His intelligence and insights are impressive and he articulates brilliantly and succinctly. That’s brilliant. It’s a remarkable skill in a business coach and I respect that skill hugely.

Marcia PagePage Galleries

Chris is remarkably patient and tolerant. He will know the answer to a problem but quietly guides you to find the solution yourself which for me is a very effective coaching style. He also has great values including the importance of his wife, family and friends

Richard GreenwoodGreenwood Grincare

He has ‘travelled the road before’ my own, and his mentoring ability for my own coaching practice has been incredibly valuable. He has an amazing ability to deepen our conversations with thought-provoking questions and this is something I find admirable, and a skill that I learn from for my own coaching practice with my own clients.

Antonia MilkopAntoniaMilkop.com

Chris’s help in identifying strengths and discovering team values has given us a common language for planning and implementing our company strategy. This has shaped our future course, aided delegation and the establishment of a great leadership team around me. It’s made the business much more resilient and the operational dependency on me has reduced. Chris’s support has given me the confidence to make these changes happen. Chris has also helped me to focus on what I, as business owner, want from the business and my goals over coming years, and to set a clear direction for myself.

Stephen OgdenMarket Access Solutionz

In the last two months I have been receiving business coaching from Chris and, after only three sessions, I am already feeling the benefits, both professionally and personally. His advice and insights have given me some real “light bulb moments” in relation to both the big picture and my day-to-day administration. Chris coaches to his own values of work/life balance, something which can be elusive for small business owners. He is helping me to hone in on what I want from the business and how I can make it work for myself and my family.

Anna ReedMitchell Studios

The strengths-focus that Chris brought to his coaching and seeing me as a whole person, outside of just my sphere of work, was a real benefit. He worked with me on developing my own purpose statement – I didn’t have one before.

Paddy McCannHeart Foundation NZ

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