Christopher Thompson

Christopher Thompson is an executive advisor, leadership coach, and keynote speaker who helps leaders strengthen how they show up in the moments that matter most. As the founder of CORE Inclusive Consulting, he collaborates with organizations across industries to develop leaders who can navigate complexity, build meaningful relationships, and lead with clarity under pressure.

His career spans finance, healthcare, higher education, technology, and religion, including senior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase. Over three decades, Christopher has coached, trained, and spoken to thousands of leaders, from football fields to leadership offsites, and has seen firsthand what happens when strong talent operates with a weak core, and how different the story becomes when that core is strong.

Christopher is the creator of the CORE Leadership Framework™, a proprietary leadership model built around Courageous Connection, Outcomes Driven Leadership, Relationship Mastery, and Emotional Agility. His work focuses on helping leaders strengthen the inner foundation that sustains lasting influence and leadership.

Christopher’s work focuses on the inner foundation of leadership: helping individuals grow not just in what they do, but in who they are becoming while they do it. It’s a message shaped as much by his own experience as by his clients’ — including the moment a torn Achilles tendon forced him to rebuild from the inside out and rethink what real strength requires. In Strong CORE: Inner Work That Grows Lasting Leaders, he distills that message into a four-part journey, CORE, ROOTS, FRUIT, and SOUL, that shifts leaders from performing to becoming.

Christopher resides in Ohio with his family and continues to call leaders into the kind of strength that lasts.