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You want to play a bigger role, contribute more, sort things out. But others are less comfortable with shaking things up.
You're delivering — better than most. And the reason isn't just drive or skills. You're wired differently. Where others see complexity, you see connection. You can hold the strategic, the operational, the human, and the financial simultaneously — and find the thread that runs through all of them. This is where you do your best thinking. It's also where you create most of your friction.
Because not everyone around you is built this way. For many of your peers and leaders, a complex situation is something to be simplified, deferred, or reassigned. Which means the very capability that makes you valuable — seeing the whole system and knowing what needs to move — can make you hard to comprehend, difficult to manage, and even quietly challenging.
You hold back from the internal game for a reason. Politics feels like a distraction from real work — and often, you weren't wrong. But the cost is real: your insights aren't reaching the rooms that matter, the decisions that shape your organisation are being made without your voice. That's not just a personal frustration. It's a loss — for you and for the organisation that needs what you can see.
This is what Planet B is built to address.
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Thirty years in the software industry — Oracle, Finastra, MuleSoft, DigitalRoute — building teams, hitting demanding targets, and driving change while keeping the business running.
He has sat in the same rooms, navigated the same internal dynamics, and faced the same pressures that his clients are currently experiencing. Which is why they find it easy to connect with him, and the work quickly gets to the real issues.
Having operated in global corporations to scrappy start-ups, through acquisitions, restructures, and high-growth pivots, across Asia Pacific and beyond — Chris has seen enough different versions of success and failure to know there is no single playbook. What he brings instead is range: illuminating stories, fresh perspectives and actionable solutions.
Now in his mid-50s, he has transitioned to full-time coaching because this is where he believes he can have the greatest impact — developing the leaders that AI-first organisations are beginning to call for. Transformative Catalysts.
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Every engagement starts with painting a shared picture — your situation, your organisation, and the specific gap between where you are and where you need to be. Not a programme off the shelf. A clear view of what is actually going on, built together before anything else happens.
From there the work operates at two levels simultaneously. On the outside: the practical moves that will shift your influence, strengthen your key relationships, and make your impact felt in the rooms that matter. On the inside: the patterns and beliefs that have served you well — but may now be the thing quietly capping what is possible.
Both levels matter. Tactics without the inner work produce changes that don't stick. Inner work without the practical moves produces insight that doesn't land. The work that creates lasting change does both — and keeps them connected.
The method is iterative. Prepare, act, reflect — turning clarity into behaviour, and behaviour into impact. Not a linear programme with predetermined outcomes, but a rolling series of real experiments, grounded in live situations, tested in the work itself.
Clarity
Cutting through the noise to name what matters most.Coherence
Aligning your inner stance with how you show up.Courage
Staying open to challenge and experimentation.Care
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Every engagement is outcome-focused. The entry point depends on where you are and what the situation calls for.
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WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME?
"I feel that I'm really growing into the person that I want to be professionally. I can see my own development, and I appreciate that I can do my work better and help improve situations — because I have a self-knowledge that I simply didn't have before."
HOW WAS THE EXPERIENCE?
"Really rewarding and at times really challenging. It's not an easy pathway. It's very challenging because Chris prompted me to do things completely outside of my comfort zone. But in doing so I am learning things that I would not have learned alone."
COACH CHRIS' STYLE?
"Many times I'm having a conversation with myself and Chris is facilitating it. He's not really interfering. He's really helping me just reflect and summarise and reorganise things that might not be super clear to me. So it really feels like I'm having a conversation with a better version of me — because he's not imposing his ideas, he's just helping me reorganise my own."
— VICE PRESIDENT, IT COMPANY
If this resonates, the next step is a 30-minute chemistry call.
No commitment — just a conversation to see if there's a fit.
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