Ed Chaffin, PCC

Ed Chaffin is the CEO and Founder of The UnCommon Leadership® Institute. He founded the Institute to live out his passion for changing the world one life at a time by helping leaders and their teams be the best version of themselves that they can be!

Ed is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation. Also included in Ed’s credentials, he is an SEIP Certified Coach from The Social and Emotional Intelligence Institute, a Senior Birkman Certified Consultant, and a Certified Brain Based Leader from the Academy of Brain Based Leadership.

Ed has affiliations with three major universities. He taught leadership at a Master’s and MBA program for Louisiana State University and the University of Missouri. He also coached at IMD, the International Institute of Management in Lausanne, Switzerland, in their #1 Executive Development program High Performance Leadership.

Originally a native of Georgia, Ed grew up in Charleston, SC, where he studied business administration at the College of Charleston. In addition, he completed an Executive Development program while attending the Wharton School of Business as well as the High Performance Leadership program at IMD.

He and his wife Eva have a daughter who resides in Carmel, IN. Ed also has two additional children, one who lives in Santa Fe, NM and the other that lives in Springdale, UT.