Chris Munro
Chris is passionate about professional growth and leadership, and the powerful role that coaching and a coaching way of leading can play in these. He has extensive experience of supporting and leading professional learning strategy, drawn from more than three decades as an educator and leader in Government and Independent schools, and in Higher Education.
As Executive Director of Growth Coaching International (part of the Instructional Coaching Group), he describes his role as supporting others (educators and members of his own organisation) as they grapple with the intersection of strategy, leadership, learning and relationships – helping them make progress, one conversation at a time.
Chris contributes to the conversational capacity of learning organisations internationally through his role in the design and delivery of coaching and mentoring training and consultancy projects. He regularly writes and speaks about coaching and mentoring, and is an active contributor to the field. Chris is the co-author of Growth Talk: A Coaching Way of Leading in Schools (Munro & Campbell, 2025) – written with GCI Founding Director John Campbell. He has also co-authored book chapters on Coaching Cultures for Learning (Munro et al., 2020) and Coaching for Teacher Agency (Andrews & Munro, 2019). Chris was a co-designer and author of a published research study investigating school leaders’ experiences of coaching as part of leadership development programs in Victoria, Australia (van Nieuwerburgh et al., 2020).
Chris is an accredited Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global), holds a Master of Research degree from the University of Aberdeen, and is a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders in Victoria.
An experienced and sought after facilitator, Chris has presented at major conferences in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the USA.
Special Interest Areas
- Leadership coaching & mentoring
- Instructional leadership & coaching
- Coaching as a leadership stance
- Instructional Coaching
- Teacher agency
- Coaching cultures
Education, Qualifications and Memberships
- Master of Research (Social and Educational Research)
- Bachelor of Technological Education (Honours)
- EMCC Global Accredited Coach at Senior Practitioner Level
- Accredited Genos EI Practitioner (Genos International)
- Everything DiSC Accredited Facilitator
- Member of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL)
- Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders Victoria (FACEL)
