About Chris
I’m a former marketing consultant, having worked with top Fortune 500 brands – and then everything changed, when I followed my heart into the world of the kitchen.
I became a chef, restaurant owner, author and speaker, having spoken on 2 TEDx stages and for companies, organizations and schools all over the country focused on leadership, career fulfillment and inspiring others to live their best selves.
Author
My first book, Making the Cut: What Separates the Best From the Rest an Amazon Bestseller profiled the world’s most acclaimed chefs and told their stories of success, failure, and what it takes to make it in the cutthroat world of restaurant kitchens.
Keep an eye out for my second book that should be released in late 2017, entitled Lead Like Chef: The 7 Principles That Guide Powerful, Successful and Humane Leaders.
Author
My first book, Making the Cut: What Separates the Best From the Rest an Amazon Bestseller profiled the world’s most acclaimed chefs and told their stories of success, failure, and what it takes to make it in the cutthroat world of restaurant kitchens.
Keep an eye out for my second book that should be released in late 2017, entitled Lead Like Chef: The 7 Principles That Guide Powerful, Successful and Humane Leaders.
Speaker
Having appeared on over 100 TV segments on stations across the Southeast, the natural next step for me was to take the stage and to share my message with a wider audience. My first TEDx talk in Norfolk led to another one in the town of my alma mater, Tuscaloosa, AL 2015.
Since, I’ve spoken with companies large and small and with brands well known and others that aren’t so much.
TEDx Talk
Latest Articles
Chef: Maybe You’re the One to Blame
Most of us want to know how we can get our staffs to be more engaged - to care a little more, work a little harder, complain a little bit less. I’ve been on both sides of the equation. I’ve been the one ripping my hair out asking for the thousandth time, “why can’t...
read more4 Steps to Getting Your Staff to do What You Want
How do you get people to do what you want? This is another way of saying, how can we get to the place where we can trust people enough to do the work that we want done so that we don’t have to actually do it ourselves. Based on my own experience and in hearing stories...
read moreThe Chef’s Journal – Why I Wrote it For You
If you follow me on social media, you've probably seen my feed blowing up over the last few days about The Chef's Journal: A Book of Inspiration for Chefs and Culinarians. I've been writing for and about chefs (and the culinary industry) for a half a dozen years or...
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