Chris McCann

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

I ran a Hooters in my 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 be the reason everyone's faking it through the Monday stand-up.

I spent years perfecting the quarterly review, the forecast call, the metrics nobody questioned and the energy everybody ignored. Then one Tuesday I watched a rep close the biggest deal of the quarter and the room felt dead. The number was right. Everything else was off. And I realized the thing that was off was me.

That sent me somewhere I wasn't expecting. 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.

The Field Assessment

Twelve questions. Five minutes. Measures the two things your quarterly review doesn't: what you're carrying into the room, and what the room is doing with it.

Take the Assessment

What I'm noticing. What I'm questioning. Twice a month.

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 what happens when people stop performing and start noticing what's actually in the room. Park Street Press, spring 2027. Field Notes is where I'm working it out before I have the answers.