Chris Schiavone is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist, executive coach, and management consultant with more than 20 years of experience helping leaders and organizations navigate complexity, change, and growth. She brings a rare blend of analytical rigor and emotional intelligence, shaped by work across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
Chris has built and scaled enterprise leadership initiatives, led organization-wide transformation, and partnered with C-suite executives navigating significant change. At the Public Service Leadership Institute®, she expanded the executive coaching practice by more than 500% in three years, coaching senior leaders across Cabinet-level agencies. She also led a multimillion-dollar, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation–funded initiative supporting leadership, innovation, and engagement for a 5,000-person organization, contributing to its recognition as the most improved mid-sized federal agency.
Throughout her career, Chris has designed and facilitated leadership development programs, led strategic offsites and executive retreats, and partnered with organizations to strengthen team effectiveness and culture. She is known for her engaging, experiential approach to coaching and facilitation. Grounded in curiosity, trust, and candor, her work helps clients build self-awareness, confidence, and clarity. She specializes in working with senior executives, high-potential leaders, professionals in transition, women leaders, and working parents. Her clients span global manufacturing, technology, healthcare, higher education, private equity, global nonprofits, and the federal government.