Thought-partner | Keynote Speaker | Author
Supporting self-aware leaders
to live, love, and lead
with unusual insight and impact.
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Thought-partner
This is where lasting change begins — for you or for your team. Schedule a single session to help you think differently about a pressing challenge or engage in ongoing, transformative coaching.
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Keynote Speaker
Chris has inspired audiences from South Central LA to rural Canada. His keynotes challenge perceptions and change lives. Then he brings it home in his intereractive “Yeah, But” sessions.
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Author
Chris has authored more than 800 short-form reflections, two books, and hundreds of customized weekly emails, reaching readers in 12 countries, from New Zealand to South Africa.
About Chris Trout
For five decades, Chris has worked at the intersection of self-perception, personal transformation, and leadership. He has developed innovative approaches with developmentally challenged children, teens facing adversity, families in crisis, professionals in transition, and business and nonprofit leaders.
Throughout this diverse and fascinating journey, he has been sought after as an inspired speaker, trainer, and founder — one who has repeatedly helped organizations reimagine what’s possible. An innovator and creator by nature, his work has always focused on transformation and real-world impact.
Since stepping onto the national stage in 2005, he has shared his message with diverse audiences ranging from educators in inner-city Los Angeles to mentors in rural Canada and business professionals in Europe. His writings extended that reach globally, engaging readers from New Zealand to South Africa.
His greatest teachers have been an endless stream of resilient individuals who have faced adversity and not only survived, but thrived. The profound lessons they offered have application across the full spectrum of human experience, from leadership to relationships, parenting to personal growth.
As a thought-partner, writer, and keynote speaker, Chris now brings this wisdom to his work with progressive leaders and other self-aware professionals who are striving to live, love, and lead with greater courage, insight, and impact.
"Chris is real - not sugar coated. This is not about methodology or a set of techniques. It is the way he lives. His abilities come from a life lived a certain way.”
Anomymous audience member
""I feel ready to own my brilliance and now have the confidence to take my leadership to the next level.”
Shirar Patterson, CEO,
Heart of Maine United Way
“Rarely have I attended a program that has so strongly impacted me, both personally and professionally."
Anonymous audience member
(chief executive)
“He says it's about kids, but it’s really about life.”
These were the words most often spoken as the first edition was passed from person to person. In this second edition, Chris has added 14 new reflections that will inspire and challenge you — personally and professionally.
Reflecting Strengths is an inspired collection of 35 stories and reflections on fostering resilience through a strengths-focused perspective. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or any other leader, you’ll see yourself and those you care about in each of these messages. Discover fresh insights that will change the way you see and what you do next. Each reflection is followed by questions and exercises that can be used for meditation, discussion, and study.
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