Testimonials

“Chris and her team are super facilitators. Deep expertise in driving business, getting to the core issues, and getting everyone’s engagement. Very effective team sessions with the highest engagement I have ever seen. Over the year-long leadership sessions and coaching, I saw my leaders go from a disjointed and barely effective team to a confident, communicative, and skilled senior leadership team.” CEO |Global House of Brands

“Chris Brannen is an excellent facilitator/coach and my go to leader with many clients because of her professionalism, deep expertise in communication skills, cross-cultural business acumen, and management and leadership development. She is exquisitely direct and practical in her feedback which translates to immediately applicable results. Chris has an affinity for understanding very technical, complex communications and has provided training globally for PowerSpeaking, Inc. in world-wide organizational development programs. Chris excels in her effective development of senior leaders / executives as an executive coach and master communications, presentation skills facilitator.” VP Sales | Worldwide Communication Training

“Over the past twelve years, Chris Brannen has been a consultant I have been able to rely on for designing and delivering everything from a global rollout of a multiday management fundamentals workshops (UBS Securities, Japan) and custom team interventions (Gap Japan), to executive coaching for senior leaders (Coach Japan), to name just a few.” Director| People & Organizational Development | Japan, Korea, SEA & ANZ

“Chris brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on management and leadership to the table but is also very open to listening to my ideas and input. She’s flexible and able to adjust on the fly, and observant and capable of adapting her style to suit the audience. Chris’ experience brings credibility and results by building strong rapport with leaders of all levels.” Senior Director | Organizational Development | Luxury Retail

“I moved across from the Hong Kong office to Japan to head the Distressed Product Group, with the mandate to turn around a business which had suffered management instability and declining revenues. In the last two years, Chris helped me re-build the business in the most critical time by providing advice in training, mentoring, coping with changes, dealing with Japanese employees, changing management style, etc. She also conducted One-on-One's and multiple group sessions with the entire team to enhance effectiveness and reinforce the team’s efforts. These efforts were well received by the team and I was able to put all the planned initiatives in place on time. As a result, I was able to successfully re-build and stabilize the team. By doing so, I grew my business' bottom line revenue by 100% in while dealing with significant impairments and write-downs from the legacy problems. Also, I expect to grow bottom line revenue by 100% in to the following year to exceed USD100mn.” MD | Investment Banking

“I told Chris at my first interview ‘I have to choose between you, an American woman, and a Japanese man for my coach. What do you think?’ She said to me. ‘Choose who you feel most comfortable talking with.’ I choose Chris as my Executive Coach for the next year. I am very glad I did.” COO | Financial Services

“The Global Collaboration Assessment™ tool prepared me well for my first business trip to Asia. I arrived in Singapore much better equipped to adapt to local norms of decision making, communication, and information expression. The tools I gained from the Global Effectivenessclass helped me to effectively adapt to indirect communication, process-centric problem solving, and group-centric identity. The class boosted both my confidence and impact. The trip was a success!"

"The Global Mobile Manager is a very cool global effectiveness program. It makes all other programs like it look like kindergarten. It is way cool...a lot of interesting info on line with an instrument you take on yourself and that allows you to see how you need to personally style-switch from culture to culture."

“I was frustrated with my weekly global call where the ‘air time’ was split 80/20? That is 80% US team members and 20% Japanese. Of course, it is not a very productive virtual discussion when the input is so one sided. The Best Practices in the Managing Globally really helped. We posted the “Team Meeting Guidelines” in the video conferencing room in Japan and the US and it made a difference. I think we are now 60/40. Not good enough but heading in the right direction.”