Discovery Shift

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ISBN: 9780976780403

Why Talking Less and Listening More Wins Business

Chris Holman

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Discovery Shift Press
23 September 2025

Business communication & presentation; Service industries; Advice on careers & achieving success

The discovery meeting isn't broken. It's misunderstood.

If prospects leave unconvinced, the issue is often the conversation-not your expertise. Discovery Shift shows what actually happens in real first meetings, and what to do differently.

Written by Chris Holman, executive coach and former financial advisor, Discovery Shift reframes discovery as the most critical moment in the advisor-client relationship. Drawing on real-world observation and coaching experience, the book challenges the idea that discovery is simply a fact-finding exercise.

The book focuses on discovery meetings for financial advisors and what helps, or quietly hurts, trust in the first conversation. It examines why advisors often talk through key moments, why prospects may not feel fully understood, and how small behavioral changes can significantly improve engagement and clarity.

Inside, readers learn how to:

Create emotional safety so prospects share more than surface facts Recognize and work with unspoken emotional cues Reduce conversational dominance and increase collaboration Ask better questions with clients to deepen understanding Adapt discovery conversations to different prospect types Move from insight to action after the first meeting

Discovery Shift is not a script or checklist. It is a practical mindset shift designed to improve financial advisor client conversations, strengthen communication skills, and support trust based financial planning.

By: Chris Holman
Imprint: Discovery Shift Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780976780403
ISBN 10: 0976780402
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 23 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHRIS HOLMAN, MCCChris Holman is the executive coach at Horsesmouth and a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. He began his career at EF Hutton in 1981, cold-calling strangers with nothing but a phone, a script, and the stubborn belief that someone on the other end needed his help. He eventually became national director of investments for a ten-billion-dollar firm, guiding advisors and shaping strategies, but his real curiosity lived elsewhere. He wanted to understand what made people trust, what made them open up, and why some conversations sparked connection while others quietly stalled.In the early 2000s, he launched The Prospecting Professor, one of the industry's earliest blogs dedicated to financial advisors. It was part classroom, part laboratory, and part confession booth for the realities of growth in a changing profession. By 2007, he had shifted fully into coaching, working with more than 2,500 advisors and refining a simple question that still drives his work: What actually happens in a discovery meeting when no one is pretending?That question led him to create the Discovery Meeting Workshop, the industry's only research-based program built from real recordings, behavioral patterns, and the lived experience of advisors in the room. It also inspired the Discovery Lab, where dozens of advisor meetings were wired, recorded, reviewed, and dissected to reveal the habits that build trust and the habits that quietly erode it.Today, Chris helps advisors rethink how they open relationships. He teaches them how to listen with presence, ask with intention, and create conversations that prospects remember for all the right reasons. His work blends decades of field experience with a coach's instinct for human behavior, turning everyday meetings into turning points.A San Francisco native and descendant of an authentic '49er, Chris moved ""temporarily"" to Minneapolis in 1979, where he still lives.

Reviews for Discovery Shift: Why Talking Less and Listening More Wins Business

""After 25 years in business and hundreds of client meetings, I wish I'd had Discovery Shift from the start."" -Debra Taylor, CPA, PFS(TM), JD, CDFA(R) Managing Partner of Carson Wealth ""Discovery Shift isn't about making a sale. It's about building relationships where everyone wins."" -David Treece, IAR, AIF(R), CLTC(R) Treece Financial Group ""Sharp, modern, and refreshingly free of sales clichés, Discovery Shift will transform your client meetings and your business."" -Connie Kadansky, MCC President of Exceptional Sales Performance LLC