Chris Cappy

Chris Cappy founded Pilot Consulting Corporation in 1994, a firm specializing in leadership development, action learning, executive coaching and implementation of strategic objectives for companies throughout the world. The Pilot network currently associates with over forty senior consultants, thought leaders and educators with extensive Fortune 500 and private enterprise experiences.

Chris has thirty years of consulting, teaching, coaching, and speaking engagements in the areas of change management and design/implementation of Work-Out processes that support execution of strategy and cultural change. This includes many customized, ROI-assessed skill-building interventions under the banner of Leaders Teaching Leaders.

For four years he was a principle in the award-winning Executive Challenge Program at Boston University's School of Management, an innovator in experiential team development.

Between 1984-1995, he was a faculty member at General Electric's Crotonville Institute and served as lead consultant with Work-Out for the GE Appliances business, assessed by Jack Welch as being "the most culturally transformed of all GE Businesses via the Work-Out process."

Between 1994-2001, Chris architected and the Pilot team implemented IBM's worldwide adaptation of Work-Out methodology. From 1996 to 1999, nearly five-hundred ACT (Accelerate Change Together) initiatives were successfully conducted in twenty-five countries proving its power and utility for strategic problem solving via extraordinary collaboration across boundaries. Several billion dollars of measured returns coupled with simplified, faster and more consistent execution results were realized through this focused, cross-culturally valid engagement process.

Current Pilot engagements are being conducted for American Capital, BHP Billiton, Cisco, Duke Corporate Education, Kimberly-Clark, McKesson, Novartis and Yamana Gold. Chris is active as one of the founding members with Marshall Goldsmith's Learning Network and has published articles on the topics of leading accelerated change and action learning. He is currently completing The Driving Leader's Handbook which applies high performance driving and racing disciplines to improving executive and entrepreneurial leadership performance.

Professional education includes a Bachelors of Science in Production Management from Rochester Institute of Technology and graduate work completing Boston University's Management Development Program and Columbia University's Advanced Organizational Development Program.

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