Chris Thyberg
Leadership Coach
“Your call to lead requires increased vision and agility, courage and purpose. Together, let’s build a coaching partnership that expands your capacities for creative, skillful action in today’s ‘whitewater’ conditions.”
With 35-plus years of serving executives as an in-house strategist, change-agent, and now facilitator and coach, Chris knows firsthand what it’s like to hit a growth edge in leadership. Those are the tough places where intense challenges, uncertainty, and constant churn require that we find new ways to match the moment with presence, strength, and resilience. Coaching creates space to discover script-flipping insights, make wise choices, and focus your influence on shaping the conditions for folks to thrive at work and create lasting value in the world.
Chris is a skilled thinking partner for leaders as they develop their emotional, interpersonal, and cultural agility to create conditions of trust in which all contribute their very best every day. He has worked successfully with seasoned executives and rising leaders in all sectors, from wealth management to advanced technologies to chocolate making, from medical practices to senior officers in the US Army to directors of regional and international nonprofits. In every case, clients already have what it takes to reach their next stage of personal and professional excellence. Provocative support can be just the spark needed for sticky change as you increasingly become a leader others want to follow.
Chris works with clients using a wide range of tools and approaches tailored to each leader as a whole person. Those who partner with him consistently experience Chris as serious and light-hearted, results-driven and deeply relational, challenging and compassionate. If you are ready to write a new story of leading with purpose and passion at work, let’s meet and see where the conversation takes us!
Experience
- Building on four decades of frontline experience as Senior Director, inhouse entrepreneur, adjunct faculty and instructional designer; creating services and building partnerships for major universities, a global nonprofit, and two executive consultancies; providing successful change management, strategic design, and program delivery.
- Over a decade developing leaders at all levels across a wide variety of corporations, educational enterprises, professional services, nonprofits, family businesses, and public sector agencies.
Education, Certifications and Training
- Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (summa cum laude, Wheaton College)
- Graduate studies in Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh)
- International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching (Georgetown University)
- Foundations and Practices of Servant Leadership, The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
- Assessment Certifications: Leadership Circle Profile 360, Gallup StrengthsFinder, EQi2.0 / EQ360, M•CODE (the Motivated Abilities Pattern), Everything DiSC, VIA Character Strengths, PIAV (Personal Interests, Attitudes, and Values Profile), MyWorldView and Three Vital Questions: flipping the script from drama to empowerment.
Personal
- Married for nearly five decades, Chris and Leslie renew with home-cooked meals, eclectic reading, outdoor adventure, and traveling extensively for work and pleasure in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. They are thrilled to be first-time grandparents!
- Enjoys cheering for Liverpool FC with his two sons over whiskey and cigars; fancy coffee and ice cream with his daughter; and exploring music from ambient electronica to zydeco.
- Chris’ family has lived for over forty years in an under-resourced Pittsburgh neighborhood as part of a vibrant, diverse community seeking equitable housing, meaningful employment, and life-long education.
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