Chip Carter

Chip is the co-founder of Summit Business Growth.  With over 25 years of business leadership and coaching experience.

Chip has served as a business/leadership coach, technology leader, operations leader, strategist, executive board member, software architect, and meditation teacher. He has held senior C-level positions as a COO, CIO/CTO and CMO leading impactful transitions for complex stakeholder groups in both private and nonprofit sectors. He has coached executives and leaders from a wide array of disciplines and companies, including Sonos, IBM, Siemens, Food for Free, and others.

In 2007, he was awarded Manager of the Year in the IBM Software Group. While CIO/CTO and CMO at two global NGOs working in 30+ countries, he led sweeping infrastructure changes, overhauled business practices and culture, and drove dramatic improvements to mission alignment and productivity. More recently, he ran Harvard Medical School’s Institute of Coaching and serves as a Senior Advisor there. He has also served as the Chief Operating Officer for several education-software start-ups.

Chip is a certified coach with a BS from Davidson College in biology and an MTS from Wesley Theological Seminary (Summa Cum Laude, comparative religion, psychology, and philosophy). He has done PhD work at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and has given numerous keynotes and lectures on a variety of subjects: coaching effectiveness, leadership, business process, corporate culture, change management, and mindfulness.