About Chip

About Chip Low

Chip (he/him) is a Professional Certified Coach with an Advanced Certification in Team Coaching. Through Compass Coaching, Chip coaches individuals and teams in a variety of on purpose, vision, mission, and strategy; change and transition; organizational change and leadership development. Through Loaves & Fishes Coach Training he trains and mentors people to become certified coaches and grow their coaching skills.

In addition to his coaching certifications, Chip is also a Certified Mentor Coach and PCC Marker Assossor. He is trained as an Enneagram Accredited Practitioner and Core Values Index Assessment Coaching.

Chip is concurrently an ordained Presbyterian minister and professional coach. He’s served 15 years as the 20th pastor/co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown Heights, NY, an almost 300 year-old church in the Hudson Valley.

Chip and his wife, Tami, enjoy the musical talents of their three children and organize pilgrimages on the Camino and in Scotland including time on the Isle of Iona. Chip spends time exploring the wonders of creation, hiking and pilgrimages, cycling and yoga, and drinking coffee and scotch.

The Compass Coaching Philosophy

The compass invites us to work from our center, with all of the resources coaching helps us discover, so that we can find renewed strength for current directions and courage to take new and uncommon paths when they present themselves.

Chip’s coach approach with clients is to create a safe space where clients explore to their passions, resources, creativity, authenticity, and power to discover the next direction that will make them alive in their leadership, work, and life.

The mindset and presence of coaching has not only shaped Chip in his coaching work, but the way he works with people in ministry. Coaching starts with the idea that clients are creative, resourceful, and whole. Such an asset-based approach has transformed and empowered Chip personally and helps him support the explorations and learnings people want to do to align who they are with what they want to do and move forward in an embodied way.

“Why do we worship the straight lines, the most direct route, nonstop, leaving the past far behind? A circle is both diameter and circumference, compass and horizon, holding center and edge together, calling us to the heart and the wild borders.”

— Christine Valters Paintner

Experienced Coaching