Christopher von Baeyer began his research and developed his professional point-of-view on authentic human communication and executive coaching over 35 years ago as an undergraduate at Harvard University. He has since developed an international practice as a leader and educator in the field of Leadership Presence. Currently based Toronto, he has designed and delivered arts-based programming in leadership and professional communication for hundreds of clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including BASF, Dolby, Duke Corporate Education, Rogers Communication, Enbridge, Société Générale, Deloitte & Touche, Boston Consulting Group, the Canadian government and the Hearst Corporation.

Over the course of his career he has coached thousands of men and women in the art of leadership presence, emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication and voice. As a founding principal at The Ariel Group in Boston, he served as VP of Client Solutions where he managed the firm's highest revenue-generating clients for over 20 years. He has taught at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Columbia University Senior Executive Program in New York, and currently at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University in Canada. He has served on the faculty of the Banff Centre in Alberta and is now completing certification from the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute at the University of California with a focus on coaching leaders in the critical skills required today – including empathy, self-awareness, professional intimacy, leadership presence and effective virtual communication skills.

Chris is deeply committed to employing the arts as a creative tool for promoting dialogue on issues of social and civic concern. As a professional actor and teacher, he spent the first decade of his career fully immersed in the training and development of skills and techniques related to embodied awareness, voice, physical and emotional expression and stage presence. For 10 years he served as the Artistic Director for Toronto Playback Theatre, which he founded and led with the mission of providing improvisational and audience-interactive theatre for diverse communities the Toronto area. He now sits on the Board of the Dharma Centre of Canada, the oldest meditation centre in North America. He holds a BA in English and American literature from Harvard University and an M.A. in Theatre Arts and Vocal Communication from Lesley University Graduate School. He is the proud father of a university-aged son.