About Open Pivot

Helping you build the tools, team, and motivation to flourish.

Building Better Leaders

Who We Are

We’re unlike any other corporate training or leadership coach you’ve ever worked with—and that’s intentional. Empowering emerging and established leaders like those at your company is our passion, day-in and day-out. We thrive on relationships, meaning we don’t just sell you assessments that promise to build better teams—and then walk away.

Certified with Center for Creative Leadership Assessments, we have access to cutting-edge research, assessment tools and content—including 360 tools, leadership gap inventory and work-life balance indication tools. The resources available as a part of the Hogan Independent Consultants network are proven to accelerate your company’s growth. The result? Best-in-class coaching and real results for companies of all sizes.

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What Drives Us

We believe every person has the power to lead, inspire, and contribute in meaningful ways. It’s this unshakeable belief that drives every client conversation we have and every recommendation we make. Seeing you succeed? That’s what makes us excited to get up every morning.

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Our Mission

To coach, train, and strategize with leaders so they can have lasting impact.
Our Vision

To see every leader in Indianapolis flourish and succeed.

Proudly Building Leaders at

Chris Bittinger has been where you are.

Chris has come home from past jobs and thought, “What am I doing?” He’s asked himself, “What is my cause?” He’s wondered, “Is this the best use of my time and talents?”

From a simple, self-commissioned initiative to meet with 50 people in 90 days, Chris discovered what he really wanted to do with his life—help every leader in Indianapolis flourish and succeed.

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Professional Experience

Through Open Pivot, Chris has coached, trained, and consulted with more than 750 executives, managers, and leaders across financial services, non-profit, accounting, legal, mechanical contracting, education, and recruiting industries.

His certifications with Center for Creative Leadership Assessments, 360 tools, leadership gap inventory, work-life balance indication tools, Hogan Leadership Assessment, F.A.S.T Meeting Facilitation Training, and Strong Interest Inventory allow him to serve clients of various backgrounds with a wide range of services.

Chris recently earned his Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in Education and Learning. His research focused on the influence of executive coaching on leaders’ ability to manage stress and mitigate burnout.

Family

Chris lives in Carmel, IN with Tricia, his wife of 21 years, and their daughters Margaret and Claire. He loves treating his girls to daddy/daughter dates, whether at the movies, out to eat, or for a talk-and-walk around the block.
Community

As a graduate of Cathedral High School, Chris now takes pride in serving on the school’s board of trustees. The founder of Cathedral’s Emerging Leaders initiative, Chris has also helped more than 100 alumni reconnect with the school to contribute through mentoring and volunteer initiatives and is the proud recipient of Cathedral’s "Service To Cathedral Award" given to distinguished alumni.

What Our Clients are Saying

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"When you invest in strategic planning you really need to find someone who cares. Someone focused on your success and your goals beyond their own clients stats or fees collected. That is absolutely Chris Bittinger."

Dan Mattingly VP of National Construction Workforce
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"Chris is very engaging and connects the use of leadership skills directly to improving business results. He is beyond prepared, and he consistently exceeds our high expectations."

Greg Hiatt Director of Training Stonegate Mortgage Corporation NYSE: SGM
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"The enlightenment and instruction I have received from Chris will stay with me a lifetime. It has made me a more effective manager with greater potential and given me the tools to properly coach and develop those under my leadership."

Brandy Walton SVP, Operations Stonegate Mortgage Corporation
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"I have found Chris to be results driven, consultative in nature, adaptive to changes along the way, and he operates with the highest-level of integrity and ethics. I count Chris as one of my "go to" people."

Ginger Rice SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer
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"Chris is like my psychologist. He helps me boil down each challenge and create a roadmap to my desired outcome. I always leave our meetings with action items and a commitment back to Chris to keep me on track."

Bob McKinney President, Johnson Melloh Companies
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"He was able to help us take a good, fresh look at where we are. He found ways to help us see that all of us share the same fate."

Kim Smith CEO of Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.

About Open Pivot

Helping you build the tools, team, and motivation to flourish.

What Drives Us

Our Mission

Our Vision

Proudly Building Leaders at

Chris Bittinger has been where you are.

Professional Experience

Family

Community

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Dan Mattingly VP of National Construction Workforce

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Greg Hiatt Director of Training Stonegate Mortgage Corporation NYSE: SGM

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Brandy Walton SVP, Operations Stonegate Mortgage Corporation

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Ginger Rice SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer

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Bob McKinney President, Johnson Melloh Companies

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Kim Smith CEO of Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.

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