Christopher Avery

As the world's leading expert on how personal responsibility works in our minds, (how we both avoid and take responsibility for our lives, work, and relationships), Christopher offers the world's only "how-to" approach for taking, teaching, and inspiring personal responsibility. This information is changing how people live better lives; how leaders lead; how teams get built; and how teachers, coaches, and parents worldwide teach personal responsibility to their charges.

Best known for his cutting edge work to demystify and then develop practical team leadership skills for knowledge workers (engineers, geeks, and other technical professionals all of whom Peter Drucker claimed must be led rather than managed), Christopher Avery, Ph.D., is a popular speaker, author, and international business advisor on corporate and leadership responsibility, teamwork, and change. He wrote the popular book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for everyone at work who thinks they must put up with bad teams.

And now he's redefining responsibility. As the visionary force behind the Responsibility Redefined™ framework, Christopher applies groundbreaking research on personal responsibility and performance to support enterprise leaders intent on rapidly building highly reliable, agile, sustainable, and accelerating cultures.

Christopher is a Senior Consultant with the IT and Agile Project Management practices of the Cutter Consortium, a Boston area think tank. He cofounded the Agile Project Leadership Network dedicated to connecting, developing, and supporting great project leaders. Christopher earned his Doctorate in the Communication of Technology from The University of Texas at Austin where he occasionally lectures. He is a Visiting Scholar at Capella University.

The author of hundreds of articles and commentaries about individual and collective performance at work, Christopher is a popular source for the media and has been featured or quoted in Fortune, Investors Business Daily, the Chicago Tribune, Working Mothers, Training Development, HR Executive, NPR, ABCNews.com, HR.com and USAToday.com among others.