Hi, I am Joel Chippindale

I am a CTO Coach. I support talented CTOs to accelerate their development and grow with their businesses.

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I work 1-1 with CTOs. I also coach and run workshops for groups of engineering leaders.

In addition to my private practice, I facilitate Circles and work as an Associate Coach for CTO Craft, an Associate Coach for Foundology, a Coach-in-residence for Luca Rossi’s Refactoring community, and have worked as a Success Coach for Cambridge Judge Business School’s CTO Programme. I am also a founding member of the Founder Coaches Network.

I speak and run workshops about leadership in technology at conferences, including Agile Cambridge, C3 Fest, CTO Craft Con, LDX3, LeadDev, and LeadingEng. I have also been interviewed for a number of podcasts episodes including Refactoring and Maintainable.

Before becoming a CTO Coach, I spent over 20 years 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.

Coaching was essential to my own development as a leader. If I could only give my younger self one piece of professional advice, then it would be, “Get a coach”. I chose to become a CTO Coach, in order to support other engineering leaders who were on a similar journey.

My office in sunny North London

I have had the privilege of coaching over 100 talented founders, CTOs and senior engineering leaders from around the world. The core of this work has been to support them to develop their capacity to lead with wisdom, skill and confidence, and to enable them and their teams to be able to do their best work and have a greater impact.

Of course, the success of my clients speaks louder than anything that I could say about my work.