Chris Lipp is a executive coach, author, and professor who coaches Fortune 500 leaders and high-growth founders to influence and perform under pressure, offering them the tools and the the mindset to apply them in high-stakes situations.

Chris’s three books on power and persuasion are widely taught and leveraged across top companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Google, and Microsoft, and business schools such as Stanford GSB. The Startup Pitch introduced a modern framework for investment pitches that is now internationally recognized, and The Science of Personal Power, his most recent title, examines status and personal transformation.

Chris’s work appears regularly in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Newsweek. Based in New Orleans, he is the founder of SpeakValue and teaches power and persuasion as a professor at Tulane University.