Mr. Chris J. McGoff, Founder of The Clearing, Inc., has spent the last 30 years helping governments and organizations to engender new, transformative possibilities for a better world. Through his work and research, Chris has developed a comprehensive approach to helping organizations drive to consensus and solve problems of consequence, those involving the highest levels of stakeholder and technological complexity. At the World Bank he helped the organization create a new formula for aid allocation that minimized the problem of corruption and renewed the World Bank’s power to address global poverty. Mr. McGoff is also the author of the recently published book for leaders, The PRIMES - How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem. Accessible and immediately applicable, the 32 universal phenomena identified in The PRIMES for the underpinning for The Clearing's consulting methodology.Mr. McGoff’s client list includes most of the agencies of the U.S. federal government as well as a wide range of organizations including IBM, AARP, Consol Energy, DuPont, the United Nations, and Boeing. Mr. McGoff has facilitated strategy sessions for over 10,000 government and industry professionals.Prior to launching The Clearing in 2009, Chris founded his first company, Touchstone Consulting, in 1991, which grew to $40 million in revenue and 200 employees and was bought by SRA International Inc. in 2005. Prior to founding Touchstone, he designed and built IBM’s Decision Support Center and initiated the commercialization of work group technology there. Mr. McGoff also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Public Policy.Personal Goals:To know God and To make Him known.To be a good husband and father.To make a meaningful contribution to society.To stand for excellence and integrity.To build and operate conscientious businesses.To help others play full out and fully self express.