Chris Beale is a Chief Operating Officer at Leadingagile. He possess expertise in agile, management consulting, coaching, aerospace, organizational performance and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Plain and simple Chris understands how to build and enable high performance self-organizing software teams. He's an excellent leader, motivator and strategist capable of creating an environment within which individuals, teams and organizations thrive. He gave willingly of his own time to coach and mentor, and has an uncanny ability to perceive the right course of action, or illicit it from his team, even in the most challenging situations, Chris doesn't settle for good enough making him the kind of leader that the best people want to work for. It was a privilege to work with him and I'd do it again, and recommend it to others, if given the opportunity." and "Summer 2012. Farmington Hills Michigan. Meetings called by Chris Beale to rescue both the code and development process on a key Cengage Learning platform, CengageNOW. Data-driven. Test-driven. Disciplined. Chris was championing many changes to us, and there was some trepidation. Who would lose their job in this overhaul? But to my surprise, words like the following frequently flowed from Chris. "We value a teamful, disciplined approach. We do not value individual genius. But we will coach that. In coaching, our first response is compassion. If subsequent analysis shows no compliance, then for the good of the overall effort our responsibility is to remove." Over and over again he talked about coaching. What he was doing was LEADING us, showing us how to be so much better. He was firm that he expected better results, yet he took the approach of guiding rather than forcing. I left those meetings impressed with Chris's intellect, experience, and approach. Nearly a year later, CengageNOW is miles ahead of itself a year ago, and is getting better monthly. Chris had the vision to know that improvement was possible and needed, and the approach to inspire change beyond what a gun to the head would have achieved. Chris is an amazing asset for any company that wants to improve, while having its employee work satisfaction soar. Intelligent. Experienced. Visionary. Leader. Chris Beale"