Chris McCann

Twenty-five years leading teams.
Now paying attention to what moves underneath the metrics.

I ran a Hooters in my early twenties. Fifteen years later I was running nine-figure go-to-market orgs in SaaS. Same job, different dashboards. Read the room. Set the tone. Try not to screw it up.

A few years ago my team closed the biggest deal in our company's history. The room felt dead. No one was celebrating, just exhaustion. The number was right. Hell, it impacted our company's valuation significantly. Everything else was off. And the thing that was off was me.

I started paying attention to what I was carrying into rooms before anyone said a word. What my body already knew that my calendar didn't. The gap between the version of me running the meeting and whatever was underneath it.

That's what Field Notes is about.

The Field Assessment

A quick read on where you are right now, how closely you're paying attention, if at all. Takes two minutes.

Take the Assessment

Leadership, presence, the stuff between the metrics that nobody tracks but everybody feels. Every couple of weeks.

Recent Writing

Your Body Knows Before You Do

The hyper-vigilant Sunday night dread that meds and sleep can't fix. Your body noticed months ago.

You Don't Need Ayahuasca. You Need to Pay Attention.

Executives fly somewhere expensive to find themselves. Then they jump on the 405 and nothing changes.

The One-Minute Test

If you had sixty seconds to give someone feedback that could change their career, could you do it?

All Field Notes →

I'm writing a book with Dr. Carlos Warter, a physician who's spent fifty years studying consciousness and what it actually means to pay attention. Park Street Press, spring 2027.