Executive Coaching

A good coach (Chip) will ask and trigger the right questions that open new doors in your head. Rather than solving your problems for you, they will help you arrive at your own solution.

Have you ever met one of those young entrepreneurs or business executives who see themselves as invincible?

Sure, they’ve done well at a young age, why can’t they be proud?
They’ve proven themselves (to who?) early in life.
But let’s face it - they are enormously aggravating and incredibly difficult to deal with.

When Chip entered my life, I was one of the aforementioned.  Chip gently but swiftly cut me down to size.
Not with tales of greater experience, ego or competition. No, not Chip.
  Chip’s insights showed me a whole new world - sans magic carpet.
He managed to hold up a mirror to my work that allowed me to make the necessary changes whilst reinvigorating my sense of purpose. I couldn’t have met Chip at a better time.

I became a CEO who could both listen and learn from others instead of forcing my ideas onto my team. My network expanded to an incredibly rich and diverse group of people from around the world. Our organisation grew tremendously, as did I.
Thanks to Chip. 
If you’re expecting someone to make you feel comfortable about where you are in life - Chip isn’t for you. But I’m comfortable saying that Chip will change your life - for the better. 
He certainly changed mine.

When faced with complexity and uncertainty, your landmarks are stripped away. The only thing that’s left is you and what sits at your core. Your center. In that space is where life takes its source, and expresses itself outwards.

My journey of working with Chip has been that of remembering this, reconnecting with my center and my life source, kindling the flame, and expressing it outwards in how I show up and contribute : my projects, my actions, my posture, my energy,…
Knowing who I am, reconnecting the pieces of myself, visible and invisible, luminous and dark, exhilarating and scary, familiar and unfamiliar, business and spiritual. And knowing in my bones that showing up in my integrity and authenticity is what sets me on my way, and opens up my path.
The impact of journeying with Chip has been fantastic: enhanced coherence, sense of clarity, focus, consolidation. Reconnecting with my “golden chip” has opened up fantastic spaces and concrete pathways that feel natural to explore, business-wise and spiritually. In fact, I believe that business and spirituality are closely connected, business being one of the expressions of who I am spiritually.
Chip’s multiple facets acted as powerful catalysts in our work: his vast experience in leadership coaching and his chiseled business acumen, coupled with his ability to sense and work with energy and guide the exploration of the more “invisible” aspects of situations. Chip also navigates polarities in a very constructive way: depth and lightness, fun and seriousness, visible and invisible, pragmatism and abstraction, energy and matter, past/present/future,…

Heartfelt gratitude for this experience, thank you Chip.

Chip is not only a great Master Coach; Chip is an enlightened human being.
Anyone who knows who he is, respects and admires him, his wisdom, experience and mostly, his passion for what he does. Chip was unbelievably helpful to me during our Coaching and Mentoring sessions. He encouraged me to discover, discern and change my mindset, allowing me to be more conscious and to grow.
Influencing my career and others around me. But don’t think it is easy: he is challenging.
That is why I cannot recommend him too highly or say enough good things about him.

Working with Chip was a excellent experience! I started my 12 month coaching relationship with Chip at a pivotal juncture in my career and personal life. His support and direction as a coach proved (and continues to prove) to be very valuable.

  His calm, considered and logical approach combined with his life experience, communication style and technical knowledge created an ideal environment to learn, develop and problem solve.

If you are considering and executive coach that understands the demands of corporate life and will improve performance, I highly recommend Chip.

Chip has changed my view on what I can achieve and how I tackle and grow from challenges. I have a far greater appreciation and understanding of what a growth mindset is in practice, and how to allocate my focus appropriately between transactional and strategic tasks.

My coaching journey has been a three year one, from 2018 – 2021; I was surprised to open my journal and see that it has been that long! What started as a completely untargeted opportunity, became a solid foundation for change in my organization, Amref Health Africa – Ethiopia, and also for myself on a personal level.

I have to be honest and say that I was dragged into this coaching and had no expectation as I was more thinking of it as an opportunity cost. I have had few coaching sessions in the past... This opportunity with Chip brought a more comprehensive approach – an approach that was actually very helpful to better reflect and understand my working environment and what I bring to the organization. The simplicity of this approach overshadows the importance of this strategic outlook, required owning AMREF’s vision, believing in our product and committing to our clients – our community, government, and donors.

[The]sessions with Chip were very essential to the team, but most importantly to myself. As a result, this journey has brought me to really take the risk and make the critical decisions to what I believe will transform the organization to better achieve its vision of making a difference in communities’ lives in Ethiopia.

Even if our engagement with our coach was minimal in 2020 due to our shift to the COVID19 pandemic; the foundation established in the start resonated without us realizing it to shape our organization’s future and who I am as a leader, and as a person. I would like to express my gratitude for Chip for committing to probing me with the right questions and approaches to think, to reflect and to share what I believed in and stood for.

Working with Chip McFarlane over the past 6 months has been one of the better time spent for me, both professionally and privately. Chip seeks to understand, before being understood. This process is a little like holding a mirror up against ones self - stage 2 is when the big questions come and answers reviewed in detail as you explore the drivers, stage 3 is a reset / rebuilding stage where we reached an understanding, appreciation and a plan. Highly worthwhile, advantageous and as I mentioned early some of the best time I have invested I can recollect.