Continuously improving is the only way to thrive, in order to do this, you need clarity.
Agility / Continuous Improvement Consulting
Continually improve, experiment, innovate and enhance value delivery from within your teams.
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Inspect, adapt, continually improve and make it part of your culture
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Agility & Team diagnostics to discover, evaluate and create a continuous improvement plan
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Learn how to scale your teams and organisation sustainably without needing a transformation programme
LEGO®
Serious Play®
Workshops & Facilitation
Elevate your outcomes with LEGO® Serious Play® - Build ideas into reality through engaging, hands-on workshops.
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Team building and alignment, using metaphors to reflect at individual, group and systemic levels
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Brainstorming, innovating and problem solving in a variety of settings to drive the best outcomes
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Strategy and roadmap creation to improve processes and create organisational change
Clarity Coaching
Coaching on any areas that are a known or unknow blocker in you achieving or feeling what you want to. Facilitated through a series of workshops
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A personalised set of workshops, facilitated by me, structured to give you clarity on how to take the next steps
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Become aware and work through any challenges that are limiting you.
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Create actions and stay accountable in creating the outcomes you want.
About me
"Whether you are a start up, scale up or globally established organisation, I will help you increase agility and build a culture of continuous improvement and consistent, value delivery from within your teams."
I have 18 years lived experience in the technology and product sectors, enabling continuous improvement and increasing agility, enabling collaboration, communication and increased value delivered.
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My strengths are rooted in creating a better culture, transparent and collaborative environments within teams and organisations, and making them not only more productive but happier places to be.
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I am really curious by nature, and I love building / making things, travelling and exploring new countries and cultures and especially south east Asian food! Safinity
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Safinity - a mix of the Greek word "Safinia" meaning clarity, and the English word for clarity.
Kate Rudland
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I’ve had coaching in the past that felt valuable at the time but didn’t extend beyond the session. This was different: Chris’ personable and open coaching style and techniques helped me reframe my perspective and reignite my confidence.
Raina Malik
Chris is an exceptional coach whose strategic guidance has profoundly influenced my professional growth. I highly recommend him to anyone seeking clarity in their business or personal life. Chris has a unique ability to combine his agile experience with his coaching skills, making him a very effective and inspiring coach.
Nasir Ghulam
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From the moment I met Chris, I knew I had come across someone very special. His ability to see diagnose, the problem and get to the bottom of how to solve it, isn’t something you come across everyday. Chris has an immense personality and such a likeable character to go with his talent and honest approach.
LEGO® Serious Play®
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a facilitated methodology that uses LEGO® bricks as a tool to help individuals express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings in a tangible and visual way. It's a way to safely enable deep reflection, fosters creativity, and promotes effective communication in a collaborative environment.
"I've attended many workshops, but nothing quite like this. The hands-on approach made complex concepts so much more accessible."
Joel M, Team Leader
Individual Models
Team members build models independently.
Coaching
Values & Behaviours
Idea Development
Individual Development
Leadership Development
Shared Models
Team members build models independently and then bring them together, or the team builds a model collectively.
Team Alignment
Team Building
Team Mission/Purpose
Ideation & Innovation
Team Process Improvement
Brainstorming/Problem Solving
Value Stream Mapping
Agility Coaching/Training
System Models
Team members build a large model made up of multiple interconnected parts.
Strategy Development
Organisation Process Improvement
Organisational Change
Disaster Planning
Future Scenario Mapping
"LEGO, SERIOUS PLAY, the Minifigure and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this website”.
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The LEGO Group developed the LEGO® Serious Play® method and now allow anyone to use it under a creative commons licence. The training material on this site uses, modifies and extends the LEGO® Serious Play® method as outlined in the The LEGO Group Open Source Guide.
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LEGO encourage people to get trained in the LEGO® Serious Play® method to ensure sessions are delivered to a high standard. They don’t run any official LSP training programs themselves and have chosen not to endorse any particular external training provider. As such the training material on this site is not sponsored or endorsed by The LEGO Group.
Workshops & Group Sessions
Bespoke Workshops
Every workshop is a unique blend of my experience and understanding of you as a client. All my workshops are crafted to align precisely with your goals, outcomes and needs.
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My approach involves designing customised workshops tailored specifically for a diverse range of clients using the appropriate techniques including (LSP) and tools that is best suited to the client.
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This includes businesses of various sizes, non-profit organisations, government entities, educational institutions, associations, and groups organizing events that gather people together such as quarterly / annual team and company days, conferences and exhibitions.
Workshop design will vary depending on topic, number of participants and duration, and can be in person or virtual.
Workshop Co-Creation
Are you a trainer, a consultant, a practitioner or anyone that could or wants to deliver a workshop to other people looking for a workshop co creation partner, get in touch, I have built over 50 bespoke workshops that are being used to teach, engage and share knowledge for others.
Agility / Continuous Improvement
Agility / Continuous improvement is looking from within at what you are doing and if it can be done better. Continually inspecting and adapting creating the most value from within your teams.
"Chris is an excellent Agile Coach/mentor - he has taken many teams on journeys to reflect and improve their ways of workings. The way Chris approaches teams is to make them feel welcome, comfortable and ensuring participation from every team member so all voices are heard. He definitely runs awesome workshops and sessions!"
Syed Rahman, Transformation / Product Consultant
Strategic Agility:
Implementation & Training
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Product led experimentation
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Project to Product pathways
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Agile methodologies guidance, introduction and implementation
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Continuous improvement & optimisation
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Internal Innovation
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Scaling sustainably
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Training & Education
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How we can work together
Agility Diagnostics
In today's fast changing world, staying ahead means not just keeping up with your product innovation but also ensuring your teams are operating at peak efficiency and agility. The Agility Diagnostics service is a comprehensive analysis and continuous improvement tool designed for forward-thinking organisations.
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Through interviews and interactive workshops tailored to your teams, it begins with mapping the:
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current operational landscape
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processes
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culture.
Using a mix of data driven and actual human evaluations, a clear diagrammatic state of play is created highlighting Opportunities, challenges, collaboration patterns and agility levels.
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The value lies in the actionable outcomes: a prioritised backlog and a strategic roadmap tailored to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
The diagnostic creates a clear starting point to work from and allows your teams to be actively guided on a continuous improvement journey aligned with the organisations goals.
Workshops &
Group Sessions
Engaging in person or remote facilitated workshops. LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitated workshops can be used effectively across all of the below too, get in touch to find out more
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Value Stream Mapping
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Goal Setting & Defining At All Levels
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User Story Mapping
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Agility Diagnostics
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Problem Mapping & Problem Solving - Identify & Address Challenges
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Ways of Working for Product/Engineering/Business Teams
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Team Building & New Team Setup
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Project Management
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Strategy & Roadmap Building & Practical Implementation
Clarity Coaching
My 1-to-1 career clarity coaching programme supports you in discovering how to identify your skills, interests, and strengths that align with your career goals. You'll learn about different career options and explore your own values. By the end of the workshop, you'll have a clear understanding of your career direction and resources to help you achieve your goals.
"These sessions with Chris were an absolute game changer for how I approach levelling up in my earnings and my work life balance. He helped me identify my options, work through them and helped me put a realistic plan together on how to actually make them happen. It was really refreshing to have honestly, support and someone to enable the options and encourage me to go get them at the same time."
Alex Crawley, Fractional CTO
