S. Chris Edmonds is the founder and CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group.
After a 15-year career leading and managing successful business teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. Since 1995, he has also served as a senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies.
Chris has delivered leadership training to thousands of clients, facilitated strategic planning and chartering sessions for hundreds of executive teams, provided executive consulting and coaching to hundreds of executives, and presented nearly 200 keynotes to rave reviews from audiences of 100-5,000.
Over the years Chris has worked for clients in industries including automotive, banking and financial services, government, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, non-profit, pharmaceutical, retail, sales, software, and technology.
Under Chris' guidance, culture clients have consistently boosted their customer satisfaction by 40% or more, employee engagement by 40% or more, and their profits by 35% or more.
Chris is the author or co-author of six books, including Ken Blanchard's best selling revised and enhanced edition of Leading at a Higher Level. His ChangeThis manifesto, titled, "What? Your Organization Doesn't Have a Constitution?" is available free at drtc.me/chng.
He received his master's degree from the University of San Francisco in Human Resource and Organizational Development, and is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Business.
Chris has thousands of followers on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google + that look forward to his leadership, culture, and values quotes every day.
His blogs, podcasts, leadership and culture assessments, and analysis of his research findings are available at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com.
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