Why we exist.
We understand that technical teams face unique challenges when it comes to collaboration and cohesion. Our approach helps leaders in tech fields build trust, align goals, and foster accountability in ways that stick. Through our targeted Leadership Operating System and Professional Development Masterclasses, we provide the tools to transform technical expertise into effective teamwork.
How we help.
Leadership Operating System for Technical Teams
Empowering leaders with the consulting, coaching, and tools to ignite trust, drive alignment, and boost team results—in just 12 months.
What You’ll Achieve:
Trust in the Trenches: Foster psychological safety, so your tech team feels empowered to innovate and speak openly. We help your leaders leverage diverse work styles, manage conflict constructively, and provide feedback that fuels growth.
Strategic Alignment: Unify your team around shared goals and a clear playbook. We guide leaders in crafting purpose, behaviors, roles, and priorities that resonate with technical talent and align with broader organizational objectives.
Effective Communication: Build a communications playbook that cuts through complexity, helping your technical leaders energize their teams and rally stakeholders around the mission.
Accountability That Drives Performance: Establish systems to track goals, manage performance, and provide feedback that keeps your technical team focused and engaged.
How It Works: Each month, our program delivers insights, tools, and coaching specifically tailored to technical environments. Leaders engage in quarterly offsites and monthly sessions, gaining the confidence and skills to align their team’s technical expertise with your organization’s larger vision.
Our Founders
Chris
Chris has enjoyed a 30-year career in technology, culture and business transformation.
He has served as the Chief Information/Innovation Officer in four different companies; has been recognized for his leadership by publications such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company; and is the best-selling author of People Before Things. He’s done the work!
Chris holds multiple board positions and is a private investor. So, in addition to leading teams in a corporate environment, he has relevant experience developing and growing new businesses.
Combining practical tools from his professional “toolbox” with concepts from positive psychology, Chris is ready to help leaders diagnose challenges and implement solutions.
“Chris’ approach to change is not theory. It’s clearly based on hard-won wisdom through years of experience. We challeneged our assumptions about our behaviors. Our customer engagement, measured by Net Promoter Score, improved 500%.” —Jeff Cann, Chief Information Officer
Kristine
Kristine has led and supported technology and change initiatives for over 20 years. After college, she enjoyed being a software instructor, but later decided to apply her professional and classroom learnings to positions focused on Business Analysis and Project Management.
Over the years, she fine-tuned her facilitation and problem-solving skills, and developed an effective toolbox for change. She brings a wide range of experience to the projects she serves. Kristine has worked as a grassroots leader all the way through executive leadership, in various industries and environments and on all sizes of teams.
“There is a feeling of increased organizational maturity and elevated leadership that is felt in the room when Kristine has a seat at the table that is unparalleled from many I have worked with in my career.” —Julio Garcia, Director of Information Technology.