Joel Chippindale's Coaching
Coaching CTOs to develop their skills, and build high-performing and inclusive software development teams.
I am Joel Chippindale. I am a CTO coach who has 20 years of experience building, scaling, and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, including CTO and COO roles at FutureLearn and CTO roles at Econsultancy and Unmade.
I believe in the importance and value of building inclusive, empowered, sustainable teams and have experienced the challenges of nurturing the cultures, skills, and practices that enable teams and individuals to achieve their full capabilities.
Joel ran the least dysfunctional engineering team I had ever worked in.
I use my experience, beliefs, and skills to help people overcome the challenges they face in building more effective and inclusive software development teams.
I can help develop engineering leaders by providing:
Contact
Please get in touch if you want to explore how we might work together.
Book a callOr your can email me at joel@monkeysthumb.co.uk.
What people say about working with me
As a first-time CTO at a growing tech-startup Joel’s coaching has been instrumental in helping me step up to my new leadership role and to work through some of the most challenging aspects of scaling a company. After only a few months I have seen really positive results. I couldn’t recommend his coaching any higher!
Adam Hurst, Co-founder & CTO, Log my Care 
Joel was the founding CTO and subsequently COO of FutureLearn from launch and laid the foundations for its successful fundraise at a valuation of £100m in 2019. He is not only a clear expert in his technical field but also one of the best managers and leaders I have had the privilege of working with.
The high-performance, supportive culture that we built at FutureLearn was heavily influenced by Joel’s leadership instincts and expertise. I strongly endorse Joel as an outstanding CTO and extremely valuable all-rounder in a start-up/scale-up company.
Simon Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, FutureLearn