About Involve Me
Involve Me is an independent consultancy specialising in a multi-methodology approach to helping organisations and individuals find their own certainty in uncertainty, using a contextual combination of frameworks in a holistic ecosystem including a foundation of teaching how to teach and learn, patterns including enablement, engagement of people and teams cross-culturally/intra-organisationally via ethnography, and retention of applicable knowledge to support understanding of Narrative, serendipity, and interaction. This forms the base for an adaptive, holistic ecosystem of frameworks including Cynefin/Complexity, Agile/Lean, Context-dowsing, strategic paradigms and much more to enhance management, innovation, disruption, value-delivery, collaboration and communication in organisations from start-ups/SMBs to SME/Global Enterprise/Civil clients.
About Chris
For over 42 years, I have been learning how to learn. For half of those, I have been developing a framework to help myself and others reach understanding. Whether transformation is Organisational or Personal, we are all on a journey.
As a global mentor, coach, and consultant, I can look back and see where my path here has led - through 22+ years of OpsDev experience, teaching and advising many from all walks of life from personal to leadership level, and developing a deep underlying comprehension of the teaching and learning patterns which underpin all human interactions, systems, and collaboration, as well as creating and understanding narratives.
We all struggle to understand where we are and how to move forward, especially in the complexity of today's world. My approach to resolving this has emerged as multi-methodology coaching and mentoring to enable others to sustainably discover and learn for themselves. For people, it's usually a paradigm shift that enables decision-making and applicable knowledge; for organisations, it's usually comprehension of how to become more of an adaptive, learning ecosystem whose value streams are made of individual, talented people.
I engage globally on a per-consultation agreed basis as well as speak at meetups and conventions, and also run single classes, workshops, and full courses. I am deeply passionate about mentoring, teaching and transforming people and organisations through "learning by doing" to achieve growth and fulfil potential.
I take these passions into every area of life and create new narratives; I am a 5* author in Fiction & Fantasy, Learning, and general humour amongst others, as well as a blogger and Tweeter. Other interests include archery, philosophy, truths and patterns, music (play, sing and listen), fitness and exercise training, scuba diving, climbing, gaming, and probably too many other things.
Everything I do, I commit to, with as much understanding as I can. Every day there is new context and new learning to give us more value. I welcome new challenges and organisations to coach.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been to three training courses led by Chris Bramley. Besides the obvious pleasant and fun laced way of leading these sessions, Chris stands out by not only knowing the products very well, but also being fully aware of the widest scope in which the product could be implemented. Maybe not directly obvious, but Chris is extremely astute in gauging the different levels of technical knowledge and understanding of people attending his courses, adjusting the tech level of his knowledge transfer seamlessly to a level slightly above the lowest common denominator where his playful and pop-quizzing style quickly draws the level high enough for it to be interesting and relevant to all. In short, a very well rounded person technically, personally and didactically.
I went to multiple different free evault training courses, all were presented by Chris. Funny enough, I found these courses far more useful and fun than a lot of other high paid courses. Chris is an excellent trainer and highly skilled professional, and brings this knowledge with a lot of enthusiasm and humor. Always fun to attend his courses!
Chris Bramley is a very talented Partner Enablement Trainer. I got to know him by last year May when he enabled me during his intense course for beeing a Pre-Sales Engineer for Carbonite EVault in the DACH region. I attended a lot of training courses in the past , but this is the only one I can still remember. It has to do with his special “style” of teaching. It must be very intense for him to teach with that style. But the very positive feedback of the course attendees gives him the pleasure he should earn for a very good training course. Chris was and still is my mentor and as thta a worthful resource for my daily work as a Pre-Sales Engineer. He’s very loyal to the company and I “love” to work with him. I wish there would be more persons out there with his special ability to train people.
I want to recommend Chris as an excellent trainer. As I went to the four day eVault Partner training course I expected (as with every training course) to have a boring time with difficulties to remember all the material offered. Although by the way the training was given, these four days passed by very quickly and were very pleasant. The most notable is that I can still recall most of the offered material, even after two weeks of holiday.
Chris ran a 5 day training course for a small group of people and he made the material accessible and understandable and it was delivered in a clear format that really engaged the attendees. Overall the training was of excellent quality.
I was lucky enough to attend E Vault training run by Chris, Technical training is usually a pretty “dry” endeavour, but Chris’ enthusiasm, coupled with his intimate knowledge of the E-Vault Platform (now Carbonite Backup) resulted in a very enjoyable training regime. Whilst Chris could be said to have deviated quite heavily from an approach of teaching to “pass the exam” – the roundabouts and backwaters we traversed filled in more gaps and provided much more practical training in how to actually use, manage and troubleshoot the product more effectively than, what might be considered a more direct route, through the training manual… Entertaining, effortlessly engaging, and enthusiastically committed, I would highly recommend Chris as a technical trainer – oh, and he has also managed to build a most impressive “Castle Greyskull” within Minecraft, viewable on YouTube (complete with theme tune) – which would further validate his “geek credentials” to any pre millennials out there… Read more
He is a top educator. It was a pleasure attending at his courses. His engagement rubs off on all attendees, which creates a good learning environment!
I’ve known Chris, and worked with him at EVault (now Carbonite), for close to five years. Having worked with a number of trainers in previous companies I’ve worked for, including a company that had a significant training business (at the time the 2nd largest in the UK for Microsoft), I can safely say that Chris is one of the best instructors I’ve ever encountered. He’s a complete natural, and has a unique approach to delivering training courses that really is a breath of fresh air compared to the text-book “I’m going to run through the manual” or “I’m going to get you the answers for the exam” approach that many other courses follow. His enthusiasm for the product he is teaching , his in-depth knowledge of the product, the rapport he builds with delegates, and the superb feedback he receives from customers and partners who attend his classes says it all. I can’t recommend Chris highly enough!
Christopher was our teacher for a 4 day Evault backup course. Nobody cares about backups, really. Nobody. also nobody cares about network-usage, as long as performance is acceptable. Christopher cares about both, and was able to make the 2 most boring topcis ever interesting, to a point where i still apply the tweaks he mentioned, and still consider to buy one of his books. Christopher has a pretty unique teaching style, where his goal is not to read the training documentation to us, but to genuinely attract attention, allowing his students to learn stuff. Being a parttime teacher myself (programmingskills to 9yr olds), i have adopted some of his techniques to keep easily distracted individuals on topic, and wanting more. He taught me Evault, and then some.