About Chip

About Chip Low

Chip Low (he/him) is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with an Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC). He is an educator, trainer, mentor coach, and ICF coach certification assessor.

Chip is also a partner of Loaves & Fishes Coach Training, and educates, mentors, and develops coaches at every stage of their journey. He is a Mentor Coach Specialist (PCC), an ICF PCC Marker Assessor, and Enneagram Accredited Practitioner, bringing a commitment to excellence, ethical practice, and transformational development in every role he serves.

Chip is concurrently an ordained Presbyterian minister. He’s served churches for over 25 years and is currently 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.

For Chip, coaching is more than powerful questions—it is a way of being grounded in presence, curiosity, respect, and deep listening. He partners with leaders, teams, and organizations around purpose, vision, strategy, leadership development, and change. His coaching style is collaborative, reflective, and thought-provoking, creating trusted spaces where people feel seen and heard. Through partnership and trust, Chip honors clients as the experts in their own lives and contexts. He helps individuals and teams uncover their own wisdom, take purposeful action, and create meaningful, lasting change.

This coaching mindset extends beyond Chip's work with clients. It shapes the way he teaches, mentors, evaluates, and leads. Grounded in the belief that people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, Chip seeks to help others align who they are with how they live, lead, and serve.

“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