CrisMarie Campbell

Background

As a U.S. Olympic Rower in the 1988 Olympic Games and a silver medalist in the 1987 World Championships, CrisMarie has intimate knowledge of what makes a championship team versus simply a boat of champions. This knowledge carried her through her engineering career as a flight test engineer for Boeing’s 777 airplane, and helped her pioneer changes in the way Boeing builds airplanes through cross-functional teamwork.

Moving from engineering to business, she earned an M.B.A., and worked as a manager at Andersen Consulting where she was able to help leadership teams develop business strategies and processes to implement large-scale changes in organizations. With her strong leadership skills she guided teams through tough, turbulent, necessary and ultimately successful change. She provided insight and guidance to leaders as they moved their entire organizations through these changes, paying particular attention to how to embed them effectively throughout the company.

In the late nineties CrisMarie and Susan Clarke, M.A.B.S., teamed up to create a management consulting firm, focused on helping leaders, teams and organizations thrive and produce extraordinary results. In 2004, they were invited to become one of the original Table Group Consulting Partners.

CrisMarie received both her Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and her MBA from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. She has also completed post-graduate work in Coaching, Change and Transition Management, Leadership Development, and Team Effectiveness.

Clients

Experience

In 2004, CrisMarie was invited to become one of the original Table Group Consulting Partners along with Susan Clarke of Thrive! Inc. CrisMarie and Susan work as a team to provide a balanced experience, focusing both on the Smart side of the business as well as the Healthy side.

Working with Patrick Lencioni and the Table Group, CrisMarie has had the opportunity to work with many executive teams, as well as, leadership teams to facilitate team cohesion, develop organizational clarity, communicate effectively throughout the organization and build human systems to reinforce the organizational clarity.

CrisMarie and Susan have developed a reputation for supporting clients to become high performing by not only facilitating the initial two-day but also working with clients over a course of six to nine months to effectively and efficiently integrate the concepts, behaviors and systems into the team as well as the entire organization. This process increases the clients ROI on the two-day by increasing bottom-line results.

Endorsements

Microsoft

“The two days we spent with you two was terrific! The entire tenor and tone of the team has dramatically shifted. Their level of cooperation has increased significantly. They are now super quick to support each other and take ownership for work. The tension between people has been alleviated. They are working more together and really dealing with issues, and I am no longer in the middle of issues between people. We are focused and moving forward on our goals together and that is a big change”

—Peter Cullen, General Manager Trustworthy Computing & Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft

“Thanks a million Susan and CrisMarie! It was one of the most beneficial team off-sites I have participated in. Our meetings are going really well now. Biggest thing is we’re all still really committed to keeping them up and working out how we make them more effective. Thanks again for all your help during our time together—it was wildly beneficial!!!”

—Kim Hargraves, Director TWC Strategy Microsoft

“Illuminating! The time spent with CrisMarie and Susan is sure to have long-term, positive impact on our organization.”

—Robert Sinclair, Director of Accessibility, Microsoft

“Susan and CrisMarie provide insightful facilitation and keep the team honest! Thank you both!”

—Lori Serrano, PHR, Senior Human Resources Manager, Microsoft

Benton PUD

“CrisMarie & Susan did a great job of engaging my leadership team in discussions about pertinent topics. We have had many facilitators but CrisMarie and Susan were the best at helping us have the engaged discussions to establish our direction and build team cohesion.”

—Jim Sanders, General Manager Benton PUD

“Excellent investment in our time! CrisMarie and Susan were excellent—skilled, knowledgeable and fun to be around. I highly recommend it for any executive team.”

—Allison Walsh MOL, SPHR Manager of Human Resources Benton PUD

“I am recommending Benton PUD develop a long term relationship—CrisMarie and Susan are fantastic!”

—Gary Long, Assistant General Manager Benton PUD

Fresh Produce

“Don’t let your company exist another day without making this excellent team building and strategic planning seminar a must!”

—Mary Ellen Vernon, Co-President Fresh Produce

“Common Sense. When your team commits to what you learn, you will receive healthy dividends down the road.”

—Thom Vernon, Co-Founder Fresh Produce

“Powerful! CrisMarie and Susan were outstanding facilitators in getting the best out of our time and us. The two day off-site session was packed with terrifically practical, very easy to apply tools and content, and I was amazed at how much really good, hard work (that we have never been able to effectively address before) that we were able to document and get accomplished.”

—Sean Sweet, VP Operations, Fresh Produce

Theravance, Inc.

“A simple ‘great’ would not be good enough. ‘That was a good meeting!’ is now a phrase we are hearing after project teams meet at our company. After working with CrisMarie and Susan our project team members have gained insights on how each person's personality style and behavior affect team performance. We have begun to address some of the issues we now understand are counterproductive to being effective teams. Their direct facilitation style fostered dialogue between individual team members that has improved the approaches we take to reach our project goals. Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell model effective team behavior through their synergistic method of presenting challenging material for teams to chew on and digest.”

—Pat Singer, Senior Director Project Management, Theravance, Inc

Quadra Mining

“The session with CrisMarie and Susan has moved us forward significantly in our objective of putting in place a ‘Culture by Design.’”

—Paul Blythe, CEO Quadra Mining

Holiday Retirement Corp.

“The offsite met all my expectations! We had identified specific goals coming into the event and we went beyond them. It was a great teambuilding event, pulled everyone together. The team hasn’t been the same since...in a very good way! A month later everyone is still talking about it and working together.’

—Don Harris, CFO Holiday Retirement Corp.

Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center

“We engaged CrisMarie and Susan during a period of crisis during a critical project, and with their guidance, we developed into an effective leadership team (our ‘A’ team) and overcame some significant barriers. As a result, we have more leadership, clarity and alignment throughout the broader IS organization.”

—Patrick Dolan, Program Director-Clinical Information Systems, Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center

GSA Services

“What is unique about CrisMarie and Susan is their blend of business savvy and team dynamics. I found CrisMarie and Susan to be straight-shooters, easy to work with and professional. In terms of time and money well spent, I would highly recommend CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke. I really enjoyed working with them and have asked them to join our schedule of contractors. I will gladly call them up the next time I have a people, leadership or team issue.”

—Gary Casteel, Vice President GSA Services

Pacific Foods of Oregon

“The two day offsite we did with CrisMarie and Susan really helped pull us together as a team. We walked out of there with a goal that forced us to continually think and make decisions about how we could all get there together. The impact has cascaded through our organization, and we have made significant progress towards our goal.”

—Jon Gehrs, President Pacific Foods of Oregon

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