Coach. Teacher. Therapist. I’m Here So You Can
Make Your DifferenceYou’re a change maker. You want to make a difference. A BIG difference.
Yet in today’s hyper-connected workplace your attention easily scatters. Not so great for making that BIG difference.
So how then?
By paying attention to what matters most while working with your energies in the moment.
It starts with a pause. Then taking action, focused action — on purpose.
If you’re ready to recalibrate your internal GPS and get moving, the Navigating Life Series will help lead the way. Learning to harness the intertwined threads of attention, awareness, and conversation you’ll be guided one action at a time to arrive at your chosen destination.
Then, you’ll open all kinds of possibilities to make that BIG difference.
I’m Dr. Chris Johnson
and I’m passionate about embodied learning and leadership, and I help cultivate strong leaders, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.
I’m passionate about You, making Your Difference.
Leadership Coaching
Our whole person approach to leadership coaching boils down to cultivating attention and sharpening practices where you live and work.
Teams & Culture
When leaders & their teams align around the organization’s purpose, energy ignites, cooperation increases, and commitment to a greater contribution in the world expands.
Mindfulness
Operating “mindfully” — in the moment an event occurs — enhances the ability to both identify and minimize sources of stress while enhancing competencies that build resiliency.
Speaking
Self-awareness is at the very core of what it means to powerfully lead our lives. And, it lives in the quality of our conversations, first with ourselves, then with one another.
We’ve enabled emerging and established leaders and their teams to:
- create cultures of trust via commitment practices
- develop embodied practices for transformational change
- become a stand for living their compelling vision into the marketplace
The intertwined threads of Attention, Awareness, and Conversation serve as the backbone of Q4’s customized consulting and leadership coaching practice.
Developing your Core Presence™ as a leader and step into great challenges, thrive in the process, and create real value in the marketplace and the world.
Engaging in the Core Commitment Cycle™ with your team will strengthen your culture as team members co-create pragmatic, actionable commitments for action.
Results? Work gets done, trust deepens.
Aware leaders embody an authenticity that makes others want to follow. They respond fully to each situation, moment to moment.
- They’ve honed their decision making amidst the day-to-day chaos.
- They’re engaged with their employees and colleagues and keep their commitments.
- They’re avid learners who increase the potential for stunning, sustained, and impactful success.
- They skillfully declare an effective path for the future.
As a leader, what kind of path are you creating?
Organizations strongly reflect their leaders—how they see the world, the actions they take, their way of being and working in the world.
Team members will follow your lead. When your actions are congruent with words, your very presence produces trust, engagement, and inspiration.
Challenging times, extraordinary results.
Transformation begins with you.
Exemplary leadership is a way of being, whether you’re leading others or leading your own life. Leadership can be developed: it’s a choice and an option. It’s a skill and an art that can be developed through commitment and practice.
-Richard Strozzi-Heckler
INFLUENCES
TESTIMONIALS
I’ve worked with Chris over the years, always a positive experience. Not only she was my executive coach, but also a facilitator to build our team dynamics on two different occasions. Given her classic training in psychology, mindfulness, and human-centered orientation, she proved skillful in addressing different challenges in variety of engagements. Personally, I felt Chris delivered a positive impact, and highly recommend her!
Harry ZhuIn the years that I’ve known Chris she has proven to be an exceptional coach and advisor. As a business owner it’s easy to get caught up in the details of the business and lose your perspective as to what’s really important in the long term. When I talk to Chris about what’s going on in my company and the issues I’m facing, I always seem to find the crucial breakthrough I need.
Paul BaileyFROM THE BLOG
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