As a director of Playing Hamlet Ltd, Christopher works with executive and leadership teams to develop and implement strategy. He and fellow director Mary Gregory coach executive teams to create with them a compelling future and then support them to get there. 

Christopher specialises in establishing the relationships and communication skills that are necessary for powerful leadership teams to be effective, and has worked and coached in the methodology underlying Playing Hamlet’s Executive Team Alignment Process for eleven years. 

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and Chairman of CISI’s Wealth Management Forum. 

He regularly chairs and speaks at City conferences and seminars. He also runs workshops on business relationships and communication skills in the City. 

Christopher Jones-Warner commissioned into 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars in 1976-9 and worked with the Territorial Reserve for another twelve years. As a Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1989, he managed the private clients of Quilter Goodison Ltd before becoming Director of Investment Management, at Westminster lawyers Bircham Dyson Bell in 1995, setting up and running their fund management operation. He was also a director of the Association of Solicitors and Investment Managers. 

More recently, he has been a consultant to Defaqto Ltd and a Senior Adviser to the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment where he was responsible for designing their successful Masters Qualification in Wealth Management. 

Christopher’s client list includes: Fidelity International; Raymond James Investment Services; Brewin Dolphin Securities; Defaqto Ltd; MCF Corporate Finance; Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. 

Prior Professional Experience

·         Senior Adviser to the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment

·         Associate Director, then Consultant to Defaqto Ltd

·         Associate Partner, St. James’s Place Wealth Management

·         Director of Investment Management, Bircham Dyson Bell

·         Director, Association of Solicitors & Investment Managers

·         Associate Director, Quilter Goodison Ltd. 

Education, Memberships, Publications

·         University of Manchester Ba Econ (Economics & Politics)

·         Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

·         Landmark Education, Curriculum for Living programme, Introduction Leader, Seminar Leader

·         CISI Diploma 

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