Chris’s purpose is to help people reach their full creative potential. His vision is to enhance humanity’s creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. Today, his mission is to grow imaginative teams and ideas through empathy-driven design and the psychology of collaboration—placing him and his clients at the frontier of collective creation.At a young age, Chris was selected for a test program called Creative Learning Resource, designed to prevent elementary school children from losing creative collaboration skills—a formative experience that inspired his life’s work.After attending Art and Design School at Illinois State University, he worked his way up at Disney Parks, from serving ice cream to becoming a designer and art director in Theme Park Development. He noticed a persistent divide between creative and business teams, which he transformed into an opportunity for connection and collaboration. His impact eventually led to his appointment as Disney's Global Creativity and Innovation Director.In this role, Chris partnered with senior executives across Disney, applying a "learning through doing" approach to foster collaborative creativity and human-centered innovation. His trainings were paired with his leading of brainstorms, workshops, and innovation projects. His influence extended across Disney Parks, Walt Disney Imagineering, Pixar, Disney Studios, ABC Studios, and Disney Interactive. The teams he led spanned marketing, human resources, sales, finance, legal, operations, art, story, product, and experience design.After 15 years at Disney, Chris founded Imaginology to help companies collaborate more effectively in inventing together. More than consultants, Imaginology is a new kind of agency that develops both people and ideas through workshops and design sprints tailored to each business. His recent partnerships span a diverse range of professionals, from Oscar-winning producers and animation directors to Fortune 500 leaders, food and beverage, academic researchers, psychologists, and even surgeons.