with rigor and heart.
Today’s challenges are increasingly difficult.
Remote Work is Hard and Becoming a Necessity
Whether you’ve gone remote to help protect your team from COVID-19 or draw from a wider pool of talent, you’ve no doubt discovered that working remotely presents significant challenges.
How can you stay connected if you rarely meet face-to-face?
Knowledge Work is Increasingly Complex
As technology evolves at a breakneck pace, it’s becoming even more complex. Same goes for organizations as they scale: a 100-person team has over 26 times the potential internal connections of a 20-person team.
How can you manage complexity without adding to it?
Uncertainty is Growing Rampant
Uncertainty is a hallmark of complexity. Even the simplest organizations are subject to unprecedented risk in our increasingly complex and inter-dependent world.
How can you plan for the future without losing your sanity?
You have what it takes. I’ll help.
Agile Training and Facilitation
Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean enable continuous improvement of an organizations tools, processes, structure, and culture. With effort, practice, and support, you can deliver twice the value—in half the time—with far more joy.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Coaching
Managing complexity doesn’t have to be complex. In fact, many companies find that reducing the complexity of their organization improves their outcomes. Large Scale Scrum is a relatively simple way to coordinate work across multiple Agile teams, whether a few, dozens, or hundreds.
Workplace Mindfulness Training
Although it originated thousands of years ago among monks, mystics, and yogis, meditation has been rigorously studied by modern neuroscience and we now understand many of the mechanisms. Meditation can be deeply practical and requires no spiritual faith, just a willingness to give it a sincere trial. With skillful instruction, most people rapidly discover the benefits for themselves, finding improved stress relief, productivity, and well-being.
When you face remote work, growing complexity, and intractable uncertainty with agility and calm leadership under pressure…
You won’t just survive, you’ll thrive.
Enterprise and Startup Clients
Testimonials
Reid Lowery, Confidential Fortune 100
Chris and I spent time coaching a Fortune 100 client on Agile principles and practices. We helped organize the Scaled Agile Framework Release Planning Meeting, coached teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, the Release Train Engineer, and executive leadership. From working hand-in-hand with Chris, I’ve found him to be extremely knowledgeable and passionate about Agile. He is passionate about helping individuals and teams succeed. I learned a great deal from my time with him and recommend him strongly to anyone who is ready to begin their Agile Transformation journey!
Indeep Kaur, PagerDuty
I worked very closely with Chris to develop self-service Agile and Scrum training materials for my company. He put together over two dozen short, easy to understand, and approachable training videos for us. Chris also gave us a strong introduction to story mapping and release planning. Our teams found the training very helpful and pragmatic. Chris is extremely knowledgable and a good teacher, mentor, and coach. He is easy to work with and I look forward to working with him again soon.
Gary Kanazawa, StubHub
Chris coached the StubHub Labs team as we developed an Agile culture and Kanban process for Labs. During this process, Chris served as coach and mentor to functional groups from management to design, engineering and PM. I was very pleased with the results not just in significant productivity gains, but in helping to build a culture of empowerment, engagement and high morale.
Latha Swamy, if(we)
Chris is a stand for empowering people and teams such that they get to live a fulfilled life. Chris deeply cares about his own ongoing personal growth and development where he has the courage to confront any limitations and going beyond the status quo. Chris is brilliant, creative has a great sense of humor and a true delight to work with!
Tony Christopoulos, Velocify
Chris was the second employee hired at Leads360 and quickly became an essential cornerstone in the growth and success of our company (which he helped grow to 30+ employees). His rare combination of intelligence, creativity, attention to detail, and diligence made him a critical component in managing our most demanding, enterprise-level clients and in evolving our software solution into the leader in its market. I would highly recommend Chris to any potential employer or partner.
David Shackelford, Pagerduty
Chris’ fluency in agile software development is one of the strongest I’ve encountered— he not only has a comprehensive technical understanding of how to start and scale agile development practices, but also really gets the human side of it. Chris builds strong relationships, leads by influence, and takes people with him on a journey to a better way to work. It was an honor and pleasure to work with Chris, and I’d gladly do it again.