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.”
I am a skilled thinking partner as leaders develop their emotional, interpersonal, and cultural agility to create conditions of trust. I especially love working with folks in tough transitions. Coaching creates space to discover script-flipping insights, make new choices, and focus your influence on shaping the conditions for folks to thrive at work and create lasting value in the world.
You may be a well-seasoned executive who, after years of leadership success, is now struggling with past approaches that are no longer producing system-wide results. Through our work together, you’ll harness powerful presence for courageous vision and build a team of rising leaders throughout your enterprise.
Or you may be an experienced leader needing to grow from the expert achiever to the orchestrator of a high-performing team. Our partnership helps you generate and innovate with confidence in your adaptability for the future while still harnessing your technical acumen and expertise.
With 35-plus years of serving executives as an in-house strategist, change-agent, and now facilitator and coach, I know firsthand what it’s like to hit a growth edge in leadership – the tough places where constant challenges, uncertainty, and churn require that we find new ways to match the moment with presence, strength, and resilience. Leaders ranging from wealth management to advanced technologies to chocolate making, from healthcare to higher education and the arts, from senior officers and public servants to directors of regional and international nonprofits have received the provocative support needed for sticky change to become a leader others want to follow. I use a wide range of tools and approaches tailored to each thinking partner as a whole person. Those who work with me consistently experience our partnership as serious and light-hearted, results-driven and deeply relational, challenging and compassionate.
Experience
- Building on four decades of frontline experience as Senior Director, in-house 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 (your fitness for complexity) and Three Vital Questions (flipping the script from drama to empowerment.)
Personal
- Married for nearly five decades, Leslie and I 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. We are thrilled to be first-time grandparents!
- Enjoys cheering for Liverpool FC with my two sons over whiskey and cigars; fancy coffee and ice cream with my daughter; and exploring music from ambient electronica to zydeco.
- Our family has lived for nearly forty years in Pittsburgh as part of a vibrant, diverse urban community.
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