Chris Gagné
Founder & Principal at Approach Perfect
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Gagné is an organizational architect and executive advisor with 12 years guiding large-scale Agile transformations across startups, Fortune 10 enterprises, and regulated industries. He specializes in converting functional silos into feature teams and teams-of-teams using Org Topologies™, flow economics, LeSS, and Cynefin, while mentoring C-suite leaders through behavioral and systemic shifts via Aletheia coaching. Notable outcomes include a rapid 3-month transformation of a ~100-person tech division, a probabilistic portfolio forecasting system recognized by industry peers, and measurable speed-to-market and retention gains during complex M&A integrations. Equally comfortable with portfolio prioritization and hands-on product leadership, he has driven novel quantitative decision frameworks and co-invented patented operations tooling earlier in his career. Based in Nelson, New Zealand and an Edmund Hillary Fellow, Chris blends deep product, coaching, and systems-thinking expertise with an appetite for hard organizational problems few advisors take on.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship and International Management, MBA, Entrepreneurship and International Management at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementBA, Economics for Business and Management, BA, Economics for Business and Management at Occidental College
English
Github Skills (33)
brave10
brave-browser10
jira9
homebridge9
linux9
chromium9
browser9
windows9
private-repository9
deprecated9
macos9
android8
homekit8
ios8
siri5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisgagne/ColorCyclingLEDs
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
chrisgagne/grounded-forge
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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