Trusted Leadership Experience

I’m Chris Williams,
sometimes known as CLWill.

I’ve had a lifelong fascination with organizations and how they work.

With over 40 years of organizational experience, ranging from the smallest startups to the Fortune 100, I’ve seen a wide range of ways to build and manage teams. I have been an individual contributing member of project teams, a middle manager of substantial parts of major projects, and the leader of some huge teams — as many as 1,000. I’ve written code, run my own businesses, lead teams of technical and business professionals, and been the VP of HR at Microsoft at the height of the dot.com boom.

Today, I advise senior leaders, from Directors to the C-Suite executive. I bring practical, everyday solutions to the problems leaders face every day.

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Experience and Clients across the spectrum

Rich Experience

Written award-winning software run by millions of users around the world. From the factory floor to the board room.
Lead a team of 500 to build Microsoft Visual Studio, which sold $100m in year one. Today it’s the most widely used software development tool in the world.
Lead HR for Microsoft at the peak of the dot com boom. A team of over 1000 pros supporting over 30,000 employees worldwide.
Owned / Co-Owned two small businesses in and out of the tech world.
Board member and President of a non-profit board for almost 20 years
Lead strategy for a security software startup. Now an advisory board member for two startups, one in employment, the other in hardware.

Diverse Clientele

Clients include Owners, CEOs, C-Suite, VPs, Directors, and individual contributors.
Clients from small businesses, startups, government agencies, mid-sized business, and the Fortune 500
Clients from all across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia
Clients facing challenges of career progression, team disfunction, leadership scaling, internal politics, employee development, and on.