Time to Take YOUR BUSINESS to the Next Level? 

RICHARD BATES

Founder & CEO Acumen Data

"I strongly recommend engaging with Chris if you are looking to build momentum in your business and kick strategic goals!"

Chris Winfield-Blum, MBA

MBA | PM | OPS | AGILE

Areas of expertise

Strategy

I am passionate about talking strategy and enjoy spending time with other leaders and entrepreneurs to talk to them about their strategies, strengths and weaknesses, of course over a coffee or three.

Leadership

I take pride in the leadership I have displayed in my relationships: professional & personal. Identifying, coaching & growing leadership qualities in others inspires me to be a better leader myself.

Team development

The teams I have built are effective, productive & supportive of the business and each other. They are truly my greatest accomplishments and I am immensely proud of what they have achieved!

Change management

At the core of what my businesses do and my coffee discussions with other leaders is a desire to inspire and motivate the community around me to change for the better.

Offshoring and BPO

Through my operational roles, I have been tasked with building a number of offshored teams, and the people I met, and the difference I made to their lives inspired Change Fox.

SDLS & agile

I have spent the majority of my career working in the software development industry and understand the complexities of delivering a product to market and servicing customers.

About Chris

Engaging with and positively influencing current and future leaders in technology businesses and community services. I have challenged myself to use my 15+ years of business experience and MBA education to further develop my network and engage with innovative and socially significant leaders and/or organisations in an advisory capacity.

I have many years experience in a wide range of professional fields including strategic planning & execution, team management, project management, entrepreneurship and leadership and combine this with an open, direct, straightforward communication style to add a tremendous amount of value to your organisation or projects through timely feedback and approaches

You can already read about my personal interests here

What people say
& ENGAGEMENTS

Having Chris there to guide me on constructing & providing feedback to my company helped me to progress my career through an actionable development plan.

Sarah Desierto

Undisclosed US based company

Working with Chris definitely helped my management team get more excited about their tasks and gave them innovative ideas how they can work more effectively. The strategic planning session and SWOT analysis are really helping out with the success rates of each line of business

Jeff Alonsabe

Solutions-101

I strongly recommend engaging with Chris if you are looking to build momentum in your business and kick strategic goals!

Richard Bates

Acumen Data

Agile Strategic Management Engagements

Many of my engagements started at the top; the implementation of agile strategic management processes for SME's. This is a great way to get your business focused on what is the most important results you need and increase the visibility of your goals, KPI's or OCR's

My Reflections is my passion project, the idea has been floating around in my head for many years; largely because reflection has been an important aspect of my life for many years— but for many years my reflection habits were primarily focused on my professional life; a tool to improve my work performance and outcomes as well as utilising “reflection-style” tools such as project reviews and sprint retrospectives.

read my articles

I was recently talking to one of my team members about his role and he was discussing the current levels of stress he's feeling on

Tips for effectively managing stress

This article is going to be a little different from others, but I think it will be fun to write and may be useful to

A Week With Chrome OS

One of the most effective forms of personal and professional development is through experience, but unfortunately this is often not leveraged to full effect. Most

Reflection is the power tool to personal & professional growth

When I was working with multiple teams one of the first workshops I would take them through was about productivity hacks. These are techniques, approaches

Mini-Productivity Hacks

Organisational leaders who preach and work long working hours but end up sick every other week are doing themselves, their teams and their organisation a

Are you working your business into the ground?

In a previous post titled “how to set your team up for success” I talked about your responsibility, as a leader, to set your team(s)

You have set your team up for success, so what is next?

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