Chris brings expertise in designing and using information-based tools and collaborative processes to foster dialogue, promote learning and facilitate broader participation in community and organizational change efforts. Serving as facilitator, coach and trainer, he has supported the efforts of a wide range of national initiatives and organizations; a variety of local, state and federal government agencies; and diverse community-based organizations and coalitions.

Both as a consultant to and leader within non-profit organizations and government, Chris has embraced the challenge of building stronger, more authentic relationships that enable people to work together to realize their highest aspirations. His work continues to focus on creating opportunities for collective reflection and learning, co-discovery of shared values and meaning, development of distributed leadership, and, upon this foundation, organizational and community transformation.

Previously, Chris was a co-founder and Associate Director for the Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy (Montpelier, VT), served as a Senior Consultant with Sustainable Measures, Inc. (North Andover, MA) and was the Measures of Health Program Director for the Center for Whole   Communities (Fayston, VT). He was a co-founder of the Community Indicators Consortium and a founding member of the International Sustainability Indicators Network.

Chris is a graduate of University of California at San Diego and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, he has received training in the design and facilitation of collaborative change processes (Interaction Associates), the foundations for dialogue (Dialogos), celebrating diversity/dismantling racism (OpenSource Leadership Strategies) and principles for dialogue-based adult education (Global Learning Partners). He recently moved from Vermont to California where he lives, works, laughs and plays with his wife and two children.