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Decisive
Hardworking
Deeply Involved
Excellent Problem-Solver
People defer to your judgment
Seek your permission before acting
Become over-reliant on you
You become indispensible
Tied down
Stuck in the weeds
Unable to focus on strategy and growth
You own a job instead of a business
The 3-Discipline Leadership System® resolves the paradox with teachable step-by-step strategies that create self-reliant, proactive, and accountable teams.
Clients include CEOs, NFL Coaches, Executive Directors, four-star generals, police and fire chiefs, and cabinet-level secretaries who measure their results in tens of millions.
When you break the bottleneck, you create prosperity for your employees, customers, partners, and communities.
Set your goals and action plans; get the advice and tools you need to succeed.
Address your critical challenges and opportunities to build the leaders, culture, and strategy that win.
In 20 years of war in Afghanistan, only one unit ever convinced the enemy to lay down their weapons and become allies. Chris led it.
Today, he works with leaders who want that same kind of team-powered momentum, so they can stop fighting today's fires and focus on tomorrow's prosperity.
That track record is why cabinet secretaries, four-star generals, and Fortune 500 companies all call the same person when they need leaders to close the gaps that are costing them.
Dependency creates a host of related challenges, such as low engagement, high turnover, burnout, and sluggish execution. His 3-Discipline Leadership System® provides simple, straightforward, and highly effective processes that leaders use to create unbeatable positioning, build an unstoppable workforce, and lead with unwavering inspiration.
Chris combines real-world leadership experience and deep research with practical business insight. His approach is grounded in the idea that you are the hero of your own transformation. Rather than offering generic leadership advice, he uses the 3-Discipline Leadership System®, which provides a complete, practical way to end dependency and create the depth you need to ignite deep, enduring prosperity.
Business safety is not the absence of danger; it is the presence of capacity. Organizations operate in environments shaped by complexity, disruption, and constant change, and you need leaders with the capacity to meet these demands and thrive. Strong leadership creates bench strength, leading to better cultures, better decisions, and better outcomes for people and the business.
You are the hero of your own story. Chris only works with leaders and organizations who WANT advisory support. When you work from a place of need, you risk creating dependency and a savior-saved energy that does not get results. When you work from a place of want or desire, you are the hero who is looking for new ways to build capacity and soar to new heights.
The beauty of working with Chris is that you define the results you want to achieve and coordinate on a game plan to get there. Unlike most subject matter experts who serve you narrowly, Chris has the depth and range to support you as you evolve from an organization dependent on you to one that builds bench strength and thrives toward deep, enduring prosperity.
Chris helps leaders improve the internal conditions that drive business performance: alignment, trust, accountability, strategic clarity, and execution discipline. When leaders strengthen these fundamentals, teams move faster, collaborate better, innovate more effectively, and deliver stronger results. For example, the average company loses 8 hours per week per employee due to miscommunication. That’s 20 percent of your entire payroll down the drain. If your payroll is $10m, you are likely losing $2m of that due to the miscommunication tax. Getting half of that productivity back is simple, but not easy. How would reducing that tax affect your company?
According to Gallup, only 30 percent of American employees are engaged at work. Seventy percent are unengaged (getting by) or disengaged (undermining your company). That’s like having 3 people rowing the boat while 6 admire the scenery and 1 tries to put a hole in the bottom. That’s a massive tax on your payroll. Imagine how much faster you would go with seven people pulling the oars?
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