Born from the experiences of one of the leading connectors in the world, Contact Mapping started off simply as a way of describing our co-founder Tom Chenault’s secret to success. Tom cultivated a thriving professional network of over 1 million individuals and embodies the term we call a Superconnector. He is an internationally sought after keynote speaker and a global leader in the worlds of business and sobriety.

No one has had a more up close and personal view of Tom’s success than his oldest son, Adrian. Tom instilled entrepreneurial values into all his children from a young age, and more importantly he modeled the importance and power of authentic connection in every area of his life.

Adrian absorbed those values and yet went in a completely different direction professionally than his father, first going into investment management and eventually into corporate finance. Much to both their surprise, Adrian found that the exact same principles that had created such astounding success for Tom were equally valuable in climbing the corporate ranks.

By 32, Adrian was Sr. Director of International Finance for Rackspace Technology, living in Switzerland and overseeing a global finance organization across 3 continents. 

It was during a family visit to Colorado for Christmas in 2016 that inspiration struck. The best ideas are often the ones that seem obvious in retrospect, and Contact Mapping is a prime example. 

Tom and Adrian were struck with a vision to take the same principles that have created dramatic success along two completely different professional paths and create a system and supporting technology to share that same value with the world.