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Charles Scott | Executive Mentor
Charles R. Scott is an Executive Mentor who helps people grow personally and professionally. After a 14-year career at Intel Corporation, he published two books and co-founded the nonprofit organization Team See Possibilities. He mentors CEOs and executive teams across North America, applying principles from endurance athletics to business. His endurance challenges have been featured in press around the world. Utilizing anecdotes from cycling over 7,000 miles with his young children across Japan, Iceland, Europe and the U.S., and from guiding the first blind runner to cross the Grand Canyon and back nonstop, he helps people craft a meaningful life in an intentional way.
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Lesson learned: Your enemy is stagnation.
Proactively create a life full of vitality.
This takes self-knowledge and a willingness to persevere through uncertainty. Finding others to join you in this work provides accountability, support and meaning. Charles offers this through his group workshops and individual mentoring.
As a mentor to CEOs and other leaders, Charles combines lessons learned from conventional business experiences and unconventional life choices driven by his desire to live full of vitality. He served in a variety of executive roles at Intel Corporation over 14 years, including International Business Development, Head of Marketing, Chief of Staff on the CEO's team, and Director in Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm.
Charles recognizes that we are much more than our professional title. He cycled over 7,000 miles with his young children across Japan, Europe, Iceland, and the U.S. These adventures represented a desire to live full of vitality, and an effort to offer legacy gifts to his children. He published two books about his family adventures and told his children, "After I die, whenever you miss your dad, I'll be waiting for you right there in the pages of these books."
After his friend Dan Berlin lost his eyesight to the disease cone rod dystrophy, they co-founded the nonprofit Team See Possibilities, providing scholarships and mentoring to college students with vision impairment. To challenge perceived limitations about "disability" and what each one of us is capable of doing, Dan and Charles (with the help of other guides) took on a series of endurance challenges around the world. These included running across the Grand Canyon and back nonstop, traversing the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in 13 hours, a speed ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro, an endurance challenge on The Great Wall of China, a nonstop 24-hour cycling challenge, and forming the first team of blind cyclists to complete the 3,100-mile Race Across America.
Press Coverage
Outside Magazine
“First Blind Athlete to Run Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim”
“First Blind Athlete to Run Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim”
Outside Magazine
“Blind Runner Completes 26-Mile Inca Trail”
“Blind Runner Completes 26-Mile Inca Trail”
The Wall Street Journal
“He Went Blind, Then Became a Distance Runner”
“He Went Blind, Then Became a Distance Runner”
