About Chris Pollitzer • Cofounder, INVERSELF
The experience behind my work.
The values I bring to it.
I am an entrepreneur, strategist, author, and mentor. More than twenty years of Army service and eight years of executive work have shaped how I think about responsibility, relationships, and the choices we make under pressure.
Today, that experience comes together in INVERSELF, the company I co-founded to offer a personal growth program. We are preparing The Passage, a one-on-one experience designed to help people understand familiar patterns, get clear about what they value, and practice making choices that reflect it.
The military taught me to take responsibility for my decisions and the people affected by them. Executive work tested those lessons in different settings. Mentoring brings that experience into everyday questions: what matters to you, what gets in the way, and what you want to do differently.
The Foundation
The military forged my standard for leadership and responsibility.
4 Months · 7 DaysUnited States Army service
I served for more than twenty years in the United States Army, beginning in the infantry before moving into Psychological Operations. I earned the Ranger Tab and Expert Infantryman Badge, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, built and rebuilt teams, redesigned assessment and selection programs, and modernized operational systems.
In the final five years of my career, I served with B Company, 9th Psychological Operations Battalion, directly supporting missions involving the 3rd Ranger Battalion, DEVGRU, and Delta Force. The trust earned through that work led to USASOC G3X-SA, and that command-level sensitive-activities experience opened further opportunities within the Intelligence Community.
Those years taught me to understand exceptional teams, complex human systems, competing narratives, and decisions made without complete certainty. They showed me how belief, trust, culture, identity, and communication shape what people do under pressure. That foundation continues to inform how I lead teams, assess capability, and approach complex decisions.
Eight Years of Executive Work
From military leadership.
To executive responsibility.
After retiring, I worked inside large enterprises, established mid-sized companies, early-stage startups, and investment funds. Over the past eight years, that work has taught me how organizations behave at different stages of scale. Enterprises exposed the effects of process, culture, and institutional friction. Established businesses showed me how to protect a working operation while changing it. Startups taught me about speed, scarcity, and building before systems are mature. Investment work sharpened my attention to capital, incentives, risk, and the difference between a persuasive story and a durable business.
Across those environments, I learned to test assumptions, make tradeoffs explicit, and connect strategy to the resources and people required to execute it. I take responsibility for my decisions, review the results, and apply what the work teaches me to the next decision. That discipline is central to how I lead today.
Chris Pollitzer · Producer & Writer
Service Through Storytelling
Seeds of Freedom.
A story worth bringing to light.
My work has also taken me into documentary filmmaking. I served as a producer and writer on Seeds of Freedom, a multiple-award-winning documentary from Round Table Film Productions about human trafficking and the people working to confront it.
The film brings together the experiences of survivors, those fighting trafficking, and those helping people rebuild their lives. It includes the work of Zera House, placing the people behind the issue at the center of the story.
The Last Three Years
Leo and I built Noble Team.
We chose the work and owned the execution.
Leo and I founded Noble Team to put our experience to work on our own terms. We chose the direction, committed our resources, and took responsibility for delivering it. Building the company meant making decisions about the work we wanted to do, the people we wanted to serve, and the standards we were prepared to uphold.
The last three years brought several strands of my work together: fractional executive leadership, serving as Chief Strategy Officer for Honor and Remember, executive education at Columbia Business School, and building Noble Team with Leo. Alongside those responsibilities, Dr. Kym and I examined how beliefs, values, relationships, and experience shape the choices people make. That work helped form the ideas behind The Actualization Effect and INVERSELF.
Building in the Real World
Turning strategy into working systems.
Fractional leadership placed me inside organizations when they needed clarity, change, or execution. Honor and Remember gave me responsibility for strategy inside a national mission with deeply human consequences. Noble Team required Leo and me to decide what the company would become, which opportunities fit, and how to keep building when the path was not obvious.
Working with experienced leaders, mentors, and collaborators expanded my perspective across business, entertainment, and veteran service. Those relationships created opportunities to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and put shared expertise to work. The value of that experience is in what we can build and contribute together.
A Second Education
Putting executive education to work.
I supplemented practical work with executive education at Columbia Business School, completing the CEO Program and additional study in venture capital and private equity. I also deepened my work in artificial intelligence and organizational transformation, alongside continued study of belief systems, values, and how people learn through experience.
I used that education to test what fractional leadership, Honor and Remember, and building Noble Team were teaching me in real time. It strengthened how I connect practical experience with frameworks for leadership, capital, growth, and organizational change.
Learning the System
Enterprises, established businesses, startups, and investments taught me how organizations, incentives, capital, and execution interact.
Taking Responsibility
Noble Team, fractional leadership, Honor and Remember, and Columbia brought ownership, execution, and education together.
Building What Comes Next
Those experiences now inform INVERSELF and my mentoring, helping people put chosen values into everyday practice.
Who I Am Today
Building a personal growth program.
Grounded in human relationships.
INVERSELF is for people who are functioning well in much of life but recognize a recurring pattern they want to understand. They may be executives, athletes, cultural figures, or veterans. What matters is the question underneath: why does this keep happening, and what would it mean to choose differently? My role is mentoring, with a focus on conversations, boundaries, decisions, habits, and accountability.
Dr. Kym is INVERSELF’s cofounder and Chief Clinical Officer. My mentoring is non-clinical, and our roles remain distinct. Clinical care is provided by Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere, PhD, LCMHC (NC), LMHC (MA), LPCC (CA), to clients located in those states. Her Florida license is pending; clinical care is not yet available to clients in Florida.
The Passage is our one-on-one personal growth program, currently in preparation. The planned six months describe a period of support, not a deadline for change. Pyramis is being developed to help organize goals, reflections, and progress over time, with permissions and human review central to its design. Everyone’s path is different, and results vary.
Entrepreneurship & Strategy
Building ventures and organizational systems has taught me to connect ambition with resources, people, decisions, and execution.
Mentoring & Everyday Practice
My mentoring focuses on building skills and habits through practice. We work with the conversations, decisions, and commitments through which you want to live your chosen values.
Human Systems & AI
Within INVERSELF, we are developing technology to help organize context and progress, with human review and responsibility guiding how it is used.
Selected Digital Work
Strategy is incomplete until something works.
As Chief Strategy Officer for Honor and Remember, I took ownership of execution. I led the strategy and development of these platforms, translating national storytelling, fundraising, and public participation into working digital experiences.
declarationofremembrance.comDeclaration of Remembrance
A public signing platform connecting national remembrance with participation and recognition of America’s military fallen.
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donate.honorandremember.orgHonor and Remember Giving Platform
A giving and personalized flag sponsorship experience connecting supporters to remembrance, Gold Star families, and the impact of their contributions.
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Leadership in Service
The work matters because the mission matters.
Serving as Chief Strategy Officer for Honor and Remember connected organizational modernization, public awareness, fundraising, and digital execution to recognizing America’s military fallen and standing with their families. It reinforced a standard I carry into every project: strategy has value when it improves what the mission can accomplish.
What I Believe Now
Leadership means making decisions and owning the results.
The strongest leaders examine their assumptions, test their interpretation, listen seriously to what challenges them, and change when the evidence demands it.
I believe in clear expectations, informed decisions, and accountability that considers the conditions people are working within. Technology should deepen human understanding and help people act with better context. Experience earns its value through what you build, how you lead, and who benefits from the work.
That is the standard I bring to INVERSELF and the work we are building together.
The Actualization Effect • Coming Soon
The Actualization Effect brings together my lived experience and study with Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere’s work on beliefs and personal growth. It explores how values, relationships, environment, and experience shape the lives people build, and why understanding a pattern is often only the beginning of choosing differently.
That shared work helped shape INVERSELF. The book asks how people can retain useful context as their needs change, find appropriate support, and bring what they learn into daily life. It explores the place of mentoring, technology, and community in that work, while respecting each professional’s role and responsibility.
Learn about the book →The Passage • Applications Opening Soon
Your next chapter.
Start here.
We are preparing The Passage, INVERSELF’s one-on-one personal growth program. It is designed to help you become clearer about what you value, steadier under pressure, and closer to the people who matter. Join the waitlist for application announcements. Everyone’s path is different, and results vary.
Joining the waitlist is not an application or a commitment to enroll.