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Chris has all the personal qualities and professional learning and experience to be an outstanding coach. His personal presence, self-awareness and authenticity combined with his excellent academic background and his work experience all contribute to an impressive skill set and knowledge base.
Chris is a spot-on, genuine, and thoughtful leader who can balance the gifts of listening with offering solutions seamlessly. I've had the privilege of working with Pastor Chris and seeing his passion for people and gifted abilities to lead, guide, coach and execute on several platforms.
Chris has coached our four member executive team for the last year with great success. We were a new team working together to strengthen an organization that had survived significant turnover and some financial challenges. We are a team of intelligent, passionate individuals who didn't always agree on the ways to lead our organization. Chris helped us to identify our individual strengths and how to best use the strengths in the team dynamic. He also challenged us to acknowledge, accept and work through our challenges individually and as a team.
Chris has been a coach and professional partner for our team, helping us navigate team relationships and dig deeper into the motivation and behavior of each team member so we can find success together. What I appreciate most about the work we've done with Chris is his humble and open approach. He has a knack for getting each person to feel comfortable, participate, and commit to growth. While working with Chris, we have gained deeper insight to our team' members' work styles and needs as well a better understanding of how we can use those insights to achieve and maintain our goals, getting the best out of each person in our office. This is vital in a high stress, production-oriented industry like ours, and I highly recommend Chris for anyone who needs help connecting with and leading a dynamic team.
As my leadership coach, I appreciate how Chris can re-frame things, shoot things to me straight and pose insightful thought-provoking questions that help me to gain clarity and necessary introspection. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a leadership coaching relationship but have found my partnership with Chris to be a vital aspect of my leadership and personal development. Chris’s genuine and honest approach makes it easy to develop a fast rapport. More importantly, every interaction with Chris leaves me with action items or reflection steps that have translated to the accomplishment of some very important milestones for me both professionally and personally. I highly recommend Chris’s coaching services to anyone who is ready for the challenge of personal and professional growth. It's an investment in yourself that you will not regret.
I feel very fortunate to have met Chris Schoolcraft. He has been coaching me on donor-centric culture and organizational strategy and each time we meet, I walk away with actionable ideas to help me achieve my goals. Chris knows how to ask the right questions – not the easy questions – but the ones that lead me to new insights and ways of seeing things. He is also very easy to talk to and build rapport with which makes it feel less like professional coaching and more like chatting with an old friend…one who can give you a kick in the butt when you need it! If you are looking for a coach who listens well, cares personally and can also challenge you in new ways, Chris Schoolcraft might just be the right fit for you.
Chris helped coach me through a time of change when my immediate supervisor moved to another organization. He treated my time with great care by making sure he understood the goals for our coaching sessions. I could feel that it was important to him that he understood me accurately. I appreciated that he was professional and invested in my personal and professional success. Chris is insightful, sincere, passionate, intentional, and talented communicator, and he's one of the first people I think of when people mention they're looking for a coach.
Whether working with him on a personal or professional level, Chris is a dynamic leader who can maintain the rare balance of being able to approach partners on both cerebral and interpersonal levels. Chris is an outstanding listener who always brings a strong sense of humility to the table that allows him to put clients and partners at ease. His mission is to ensure every client becomes the best version of themselves and with Chris it isn't cliche. He invests the time and mental space to truly engage with clients and I've had the privilege to be able to receive his coaching firsthand. I highly recommend Chris to other professionals interested in improving their team dynamic and creating high functioning organizations fostered in ensuring employees feel valued and understood.
I had the pleasure of working for Chris for two years and learned more about leadership in that time. I was in awe how he was able to vision and to work with people one-to-one and move them forward. Regrettably, I only had two years to work for him. However, I’m lucky that we can continue to meet and he just naturally shares his wisdom and coaches me. I always leave with my brain continuing to work through our conversation and how to advance. If you are looking for a coach, I wholeheartedly recommend him.
All good leaders will eventually need some degree of coaching and assistance. Great leadership coaches first obtain a deep understanding of the person/leader that they are coaching. Chris has the ability to gain insight into a leader's makeup very quickly. As an experienced leader himself he also understands how to manage through challenging and difficult times. Experience in leadership plus intellectual and emotional insight allows Chris to provide coaching and recommendations that meet each individual leader's needs.
Chris' experience earned my trust, his frank honesty earned my respect, and his commitment to hold me accountable helped me earn a spot in the ministry field I now serve. I highly recommend Chris Schoolcraft as a professional coach to any person who needs a capable and committed guide who will help you discover your true potential.