Summary
Chris is currently the Associate Vice-president of the FaithHealth Division at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health (part of Advocate Health) based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He previously served as the Director of the Center for Congregational Health (www.healthychurch.org), and FaithHealthNC (http://www.faithhealth.org), both programs of the FaithHealth Division of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. His career includes work as a leadership coach, consultant, educator, pastor, interim pastor, campus chaplain, and student worker in Taiwan, Republic of China. He has also taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels at various institutions. He has extensive experience helping individuals and teams improve performance, manage interpersonal and intergroup conflict, develop capacity and skill in utilizing emotional intelligence, create participative processes for decision making and planning, improve job performance, develop effective communication and dialogue processes, and improve individual and team leadership.
Key Skills
- Organizational Development and Consulting
- Leadership Coaching
- Teaching (undergraduate and graduate level) including:
- Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
- Essentials of Psychology
- World Religious Traditions
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Ethics in Management
- Foundations of Interpersonal Communication
- Human Motivation
- Personality assessment and team development (including 360 assessments)
- Emotional intelligence:
- EI assessment and skill development
- Conflict management assessment and management
- Decision-making processes
- Leadership training
- Grant design and writing
Education
2001 – 2008
Capella University
Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
1980 – 1983
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
M.Div.
1976 – 1980
Wake Forest University
BA in Religion, psychology, classics
Interests
Asian cultures and languages, systems theory, emotional intelligence, conflict management, hiking