Meet Chris Coward, an Executive Coach and Facilitator with over 12 years experience managing and leading people working in organizations.

Chris works with leaders and teams to leverage their strengths and tackle their challenges to boost productivity and engagement in their organizations. 

In addition to Executive and Leadership Coaching, Chris is an experienced seminar and training facilitator who brings her unique blend of fresh content, humor, energy, and engagement to help participants transform their leadership to new levels. 

She also facilitates group team coaching in organizations for leadership development which allows individuals to bring real management situations to the group, try new skills and behaviors, and use the group to process new learning and results. 

People working with Chris report that they achieve more clarity, confidence, productivity and have more fun.

Her expertise comes from years of studying human behavior, positive psychology, and habit change and integrating this information into her leadership development practice.

Education and Credentials

Chris is the VP of Coaching Services for AHNP, a new company in the healthcare space engaging patients in lifestyle medicine with coaching support to succeed in transforming their health. Leading up to the emergence of this new company, Chris had a similar position with HabitChange Company and co-created a 125 hour coach training program delivered in partnership at the university level and virtually.

Chris has presented to several organizations on topics such as: Motivating Employees and Holding them Accountable, Staff Retention and Employee Engagement, Stress Management Program for Leaders, Engaging and Leveraging Employee Strengths, Coaching Skills for Managers, Managing Your Priorities Not Your Time, and Team Building.

Chris is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), served on the board of ICF Philadelphia and currently serves on the ICF CO board. She received her coach training from MentorCoach. Chris earned a Masters in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Bachelor's degree from Duke University.

Despite the ACC rivalry, Chris roots for Duke. For fun, Chris plays bass guitar in local music groups, spends time outdoors hiking, running and cycling and enjoys spending time with her husband and dog.

LeT’S Chat ABOUT YOU

Become the person who you always wanted to be — and is there ever a better time than now. No question about that if you haven’t completely reached the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and a personal state of self-actualization (and desire to get there). The question is, who is that person and how are doing with the whole pyramid level concept thing.

You don’t need a pyramid or even a cube to become geometrically acclimated on the

Let’s say you were hired for your current position because you were skilled, successful, savvy, and you occasionally outdid yourself at your last job.

Like the food pyramid demands, it appears that now your level of responsibility is high and performance expectations have increased. You know you can excel and you will find a way to do your best.

But… You may find yourself bouncing from task to task, never feeling like there are enough hours in the day! You barely have enough time to take care of work priorities, much less actually taking care of yourself and spending time with your loved ones.

Or maybe you're lacking confidence in your leadership, managing a team that is doing fine, but you know they really should be knocking it out of the park. 

Deep down you know there must be a better way to achieve your goals without killing yourself! That is where effective coaching comes in!

Partnerships

Chris partners with individuals and organizations to deliver executive and wellness coaching, training, and team coaching.