Chris In Your Corner

Helping technical minds solve the people puzzle

I spent most of my career in environments where technical excellence was table stakes — nuclear submarines, cybersecurity, software engineering, management. What I kept noticing was that the people who stalled weren't the ones who couldn't do the work. They were the ones who couldn't navigate the people around the work. That pattern eventually drove me to this work. If you're a technical professional hitting a ceiling you didn't expect — not a skills ceiling, but a people one — you probably know what I mean. Your work is solid but it's not landing. Influence feels like a foreign language. You got into this field partly to avoid the politics, and now the politics are everywhere. I'm not going to tell you to become someone you're not. I didn't. But I did change how I show up. Now I often work outside my comfort zone. It's more rewarding than anything I was doing before. If that sounds like where you want to be, you're in the right place.