Cris is an artful business coach. With over 25 years of business building experience, his approach to coaching combines the results orientation from his engineering background with his expertise applying the art of innovation. Clients value his collaborative style and ability to balance competing business stressors with an eye toward the company’s long-term health.Cris helps CEOs and business owners position their companies to thrive. He also unleashes their business and creative potential and helps them expand their sense of what’s possible. He specializes in working with executives in small and mid-sized companies who are new to their leadership role. Before becoming a coach, Cris helped brands such as Apple, Disney, Pepsi, John Hancock and AT&T create new products and services. He developed his innovation expertise early in his career, as a new product specialist at P&G and at Nestle. As Director of New Product Marketing at Lotus Development Corporation, Cris contributed to its sales growth from $53 million to $350 million in just four years.Cris has appeared as an innovation expert in national media including CNN with Wolf Blitzer and The Wall Street Journal. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University.Besides coaching, Cris serves as a Board Member for the technology firm, BostonLogic, and provides pro-bono guidance to non-profits. Cris’ hobbies include chess, tennis, hiking, and building and fixing things. He also likes to cook, and has studied cooking with Peter Kump in New York and Simone Beck in France.