About Chris Steely
As a top rated business facilitator, NCAA national rowing champion, U.S. Marine Corps Officer, corporate vice-president, business owner, MBA, world traveler, inspirational author, renowned global business coach, and devoted husband, Chris Steely has a vast array of life and leadership experience.
As the Director of Coaching for the world’s top business coaching company, Chris has traveled, training and coaching the business leaders who train and coach over 12,000 business owners per week in 26 countries. He toured with Tony Robbins, serving as one of his top international business consultants. Chris owns his own business consulting and facilitation company, working with a team of prolific leaders to optimize business performance across the globe.
He has the ability to extract business and life lessons from his experiences, leveraging them to inspire and invigorate the lives of others, which sets him apart from so many other speakers, educators, and leaders around the world.
Chris' Mission

Chris’ personal mission is to positively influence others through open communication, empathetic understanding, idealism, and contagious commitment to success. Chris is a certified business coach and facilitator who has created and developed two executive coaching and search firms. He currently travels the world, coaching, inspiring, empowering and facilitating teams of hundreds in areas of business success, strategic vision development, and cross-pollination of ideas and ideals.
“Hoist your sail, and fly! If not now, when?” As sail is a simple, elegant, powerful device that leverages the force of the wind into forward motion of a vessel; converting force and power into motion and momentum. A sail might look flat when lying on the ground, but once it’s hoisted, it becomes a three-dimensional, curved surface; in essence an airfoil, designed to facilitate “flight.”
Life Metaphor
The dichotomy of the storm is stillness, and no wind—a condition of peace and quiet, letting it be, being aware, and understanding through experience that I am here on this journey for a reason. My metaphor of sailing— letting it be, and trusting the process—has facilitated my perspective. I’ve learned that paying attention, being aware, and being present are powerful states of being.