Chris McConnell, Coach Profile
Chris McConnell is President and Founder of The McConnell Group, an executive coaching, organizational & business consulting firm. Chris is a highly respected and recognized executive coach, organizational and business consultant, valued for mastery in coaching senior executives and developing leaders, for transformational work with senior and emerging women, for facilitation
& public speaking, for her signature presence. Chris’s clients include top talent senior executives, senior and emerging leaders, private individuals, throughout the world, Entrepreneurs, CEOs and Founders, Presidents and Operating Executives, Board Chairs, Board Directors, Boards, and best in class organizations: Intellectual Ventures, TD Bank, TIAA-CREF, Fiserv, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, The Coca-Cola Company, Burberry, Time Warner, HBO, Heineken USA, Heineken, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, VisionSpring, Breakthrough, Global Fund for Women, Women's Refugee Commission, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Museum of Arts and Design, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Coaching Philosophy
Chris believes in the value and possibilities of executive coaching, the recognized outcomes of a trusting coaching partnership between coach and client, and its impact on the organization in which each contributes and leads. She is committed to her role
as accountability partner and deeply dedicated to her clients in their transformational journey to be great leaders and
individuals who are highly effective in their businesses and work, fulfilled and realized in their goals, in their purposeful lives. Chris is mindful of her own development, which includes feedback, learning, and growing through her work with leaders
and their stakeholders with whom she is privileged to partner.
Approach
Chris is skilled and thoughtful in supporting leaders to meet strategic plans and achieve effectiveness and excellence,
engendering self
and organizational awareness, coaching for senior leadership team alignment, facilitating organizational vision, and in human capital issues. She works with senior management and their organizations to enable successful change
in businesses through their leaders.
Particular interests include top talent senior executives, their successors, and emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, all desiring to become values based leaders, increase leadership competencies and leadership behaviors, develop their own coaching capability, and build, develop, and lead high performing teams and high impact businesses, senior women and their unique challenges, emerging female leaders, wealthy families and their generational heirs, and the building
of unified, performance-driven, feedback cultures
with strong values and competitive edge. Chris’s expertise includes broad
and deep experience with coaching, feedback, development and life planning, and 360 feedback and interpretation,
as part of leadership development and the development journey. NEXT>
