Meet the Coach
Executive Coach, Adult Development Practitioner, and Guide for Leadership and Life Transitions.
Education & Qualifications
Areas of Expertise
Executive Coaching
Helping leaders navigate complexity, strengthen their effectiveness, lead authentically, and grow their capacity to meet the demands of increasingly challenging roles. My coaching integrates practical leadership development with deeper reflection on values, purpose, identity, and long-term growth.
Leadership & Life Transitions
Significant transitions often involve more than a new role, promotion, retirement, relocation, caregiving responsibility, health challenge, or career change. They frequently invite us to rethink who we are and how we want to live and lead. I help individuals navigate transitions with greater clarity, resilience, and confidence while exploring what may be emerging next.
Guided Autobiography & Life Review
Our stories help us make sense of who we are, where we have been, and what matters most. As a Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor, I help individuals reflect on significant life experiences, transitions, relationships, accomplishments, challenges, and turning points in ways that foster insight, meaning, and intentional choices about the future.
Executive Summary
Throughout his career, Chip has been drawn to a central question: What helps people grow, adapt, and become more fully themselves throughout life’s transitions and challenges?
His professional experience spans human resources, talent management, performance management, learning and development, leadership development, and executive coaching. Across these roles, Chip has partnered with individuals and organizations navigating change, helping people expand their capabilities, strengthen relationships, deepen self-awareness, and realize their potential.
Chip coaches leaders facing a wide range of opportunities and challenges, including leadership transitions, increased responsibility, organizational change, career crossroads, and questions about what comes next. While grounded in practical leadership development, his approach recognizes that meaningful and lasting growth often involves deeper exploration of values, assumptions, identity, purpose, and personal aspirations.
Over the years, Chip has coached leaders across financial services, healthcare, technology, media, nonprofit, and humanitarian organizations. His experience as both an internal and external coach allows him to bring a practical understanding of organizational realities while creating space for reflection, learning, and thoughtful development.
Chip also brings significant global leadership experience, including an expatriate assignment in China, where he gained firsthand appreciation for cultural differences, global collaboration, and the importance of building trust across diverse environments.
