Teacher seeks student.
When you are ready to stop coping and start owning your life — really owning it — you may be who I’m looking for.
Where you might be
Stuck · Overwhelmed · Anxious · No joy · Trapped · Resentful · Burned out · Facing a big decision · Life/career transition · Relationship challenges · On autopilot · Under-performing · Business/team issues · Self-doubt · Blaming · “I have to” · Spiritual/existential crisis · Successful but something’s missing
What you might be a candidate for
Responsibility mentorship — if you want to change the way you think, not just what you do.
Not generic coaching. I’ve spent 34 years living and practicing this work. I know the territory because I’ve walked it.
Senior leadership work — if you want your team to build a culture of shared responsibility, solve real problems, and lead from freedom, power, and choice rather than obligation and control.
Private workshops — if you want this for your whole organization, in-house, online, or at your place:
- The Responsibility Process: Leading and Coaching
- The Responsibility Process: Powerful Teams
Speaking — keynotes and seminars for organizations and events.
What does it cost? — I’m open to conversation. Including for people without the funds.
About Christopher
I’m Christopher Avery, Ph.D. For more than three decades I’ve studied, practiced, and taught the kind of thinking that transforms how people lead, work, and live.
My career changed when I encountered a behavioral science framework being developed by Bill McCarley — a man I consider the father of The Responsibility Process®. Bill gave me permission to take his work into the world and advance it. That became my life’s work.
I built The Responsibility Company around it, wrote two books, and spent decades consulting to organizations including IBM, Whole Foods, PayPal, eBay, DTE Energy, and Motorola.
In late 2025 I passed the operational reins to a new CEO, retaining my role as Founder and, now, Ambassador.
What I kept was the work I love most — going deep with people who are ready.
Along the way, a long illness shifted something in me. My work had always been grounded in behavioral science. It still is. But I’ve come to understand that owning one’s life means owning one’s mind — the crazy, patterned, deeply rutted mind that runs most of us without our knowing it.
And I’ve come to understand that the mental state of responsibility — real responsibility, not obligation — is also where clarity lives.
Where intuition opens.
Where something larger becomes accessible.
I’ve spent years studying consciousness and discernment seriously, including the work of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. and his Map of Consciousness. That study informs how I work and how I live.
The Responsibility Process
The model itself is simple. Deceptively simple. You can learn it in ten minutes.
What isn’t simple are the mental ruts — the deeply worn patterns of justifying, blaming, and obligation-thinking that we’ve built up over a lifetime. Those ruts are where most people get stuck, often without knowing it. Seeing the model is easy. Navigating your own mind is the work.
That’s where 34 years of daily practice matters. I don’t just teach this — I’ve walked every inch of it.
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The books
The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead with Power (2016)
The definitive guide to understanding and mastering The Responsibility Process — for leaders, coaches, and anyone ready to stop coping and start owning. Buy on Amazon →
Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility (2001)
Fortune magazine called it the only book on teamwork you need to read. Still true. Buy on Amazon →
What people say
“I would work for this man for free. It’s hard to log 20 years of professional experience and not become jaded. You see it all and after a while even great becomes the norm. And so, perhaps unknowingly, you search for someone who can prove to you that there is a next level and that the game of business can be played better. That search is over. Christopher and his Responsibility Process has been, in a word, a game changer for me.”
— Dino Dogan, entrepreneur, engineer, author, speaker
“The Responsibility Process changed my life. You are a genius.”
— Anette Weiß, entrepreneur
“A year ago, I was struggling. I was overwhelmed by problems and demands, I wasn’t happy with the direction my job was going. In the last year of working with Christopher, I have worked out what matters to me and what I really want. I give the team space to take responsibility and ownership for their delivery. I found a different way to inspire people in their work, and I am enjoying it so much more.”
— Ian Brockbank, Manager of Software Engineering, Cirrus Logic, Scotland
“The material Christopher guided us to experience has proven to be quite sticky for DTE’s internal operations. Personnel originally exposed to the material as supervisors or managers are now directors driving big parts of our company. The Responsibility concepts they learned to apply remain in use when we refuse, for example, to accept being motivated by obligation. From the executive level down to the teams, we value Responsibility as a core competency that creates the right context for performance.”
— Steven Ambrose, VP & CIO, DTE Energy
“With Responsibility-thinking, my life and career transcended to a new level. The business went into hyperspeed. We have simply become one of the top-performing companies in our industry.”
— Thomas Houdeshell, Entrepreneur/CEO
“I could not figure out how to be responsible and still do what I wanted to do instead of doing the things I am obligated to do. I now recognize that I have the choice, the freedom and the power to practice The Responsibility Process where my actions align with who I am and what I stand for. It’s liberating!”
— Kimchi Chow, Creator/Producer, Asian Women of Power Podcast
“Having a Responsibility practice is like having a treasure map that actually works — you find so much more gold than stumbling around in the dark.”
— Craig Dial, ScrumSensei, cPanel, Houston, Texas
Let’s talk