Chris Thyberg
Leadership Coach
“Your desire to lead requires increased vision and agility, courage and purpose. Together, let’s build a coaching partnership that expands your capacities for creative, effective action in today’s ‘whitewater’ conditions.”
With 30-plus years of serving C-suite executives as an in-house strategist and change-agent, Chris knows firsthand that today’s leaders are under immense pressure to excel individually and grow their teams to create value that matters. Whatever challenges you face, you will gain clarity and conviction as a leader as you expand your range of skillful focus, energy, and influence.
Chris’s passion is to see leaders grow in emotional, interpersonal, and cultural agility as they create conditions of trust in which all contribute their very best every day. He has worked successfully with seasoned executives and rising leaders 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. Here’s the secret: you already have what it takes to reach your next stage of personal and professional excellence. With Chris as your trusted companion, you can achieve lasting positive change from the inside-out, break reactive patterns, and develop resilience and presence to become the kind of leader that others want to follow.
Chris loves partnering with clients to lead themselves well in difficult situations. Using a wide range of tools and approaches tailored to you as a whole person, Chris can help you build and sustain collaborative cultures in high-performing, high-purpose organizations. Clients consistently experience Chris as serious and light-hearted, results-driven and deeply relational, and challenging and compassionate. Above all, Chris honors each client’s life-experience and leadership journey. Clients, in turn, gain access to a broader range of ways to show up in service to their teams.
If unhelpful scripts such as the Imposter, the People Pleaser, and the Fixer are getting in your own way, Chris invites you to write a new story grounded in your purpose and passion. Let’s see where the conversation takes us!
Experience
- Before entering coaching, 30+ years of leadership experience serving as a senior director, intrapreneur, program creator and team builder, adjunct faculty, instructional designer and team lead for major universities and global nonprofits, 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 (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, Five Behaviors of Effective Teams, Personal Interests, Attitudes, and Values Profile, 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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