Crucial Consulting
Whether you’re trying to reshape your company culture, improve performance and relationships, or get stalled initiatives back on track, our experts can help you address the human challenges standing in the way of results.
MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS & FLEXIBLE APPLICATION
We tailor our approach to your challenges, whether that means helping people speak up about problems, address missed commitments, or change behaviors that slow work down.
Practical Solutions
Our solutions teach crucial behaviors that have an outsized impact on success. Our consultants combine our established frameworks with experience across industries to help you address the specific behaviors and challenges affecting your organization.
Flexible Application
Integration and Design
Embed Crucial Learning content and frameworks into your existing initiatives, from expert advisory services to process, module, and job aid design.
Custom Delivery
Engage your people with learning experiences led by our experts and tailored to the challenges they face at work.
Coaching for Impact
Help individuals and teams apply proven principles through coaching focused on the behaviors and challenges that matter most.
Change that Lasts
Support adoption and sustained behavior change with strategies that engage leaders, reinforce new practices, and address barriers to progress.
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Consultant Bios
Our experts combine your insights, data from your organization, and our solutions to address the issues you face and foster organizational success.
Amy Daly-Donovan
Amy Daly-Donovan brings global consulting experience and a talent for collaborative facilitation to help teams build strategy, strengthen culture, and achieve lasting results.
Candace Bertotti
A dynamic Harvard educator and master facilitator, Candace Bertotti equips diverse groups with practical skills to improve communication, influence, and results.
Chase McMillan
Chase McMillan helps organizations navigate complex change with a people-first mindset, co-creating strategies that drive cultural change and sustained results.
Emily Gregory
With warmth, intellect, and deep expertise, bestselling author Emily Gregory helps audiences unlock powerful communication tools to transform relationships and improve results.
J.D. Taylor
From factory floor to executive suite, J.D. Taylor brings decades of leadership experience, storytelling, and authenticity to help organizations create meaningful change.
Mala Grewal
Mala Grewal is a consultant, trainer, and executive coach who helps leaders transform teams through accountability, change management, and communication.
Mark Carpenter
Blending professional polish with personal warmth, Mark Carpenter delivers training that’s practical, story-driven, and tailored to meet the needs of the group.
Maxine Hill
Fluent in three languages and experienced in education and business, Maxine Hill empowers teams with collaborative strategies, clear values, and the tools for lasting change.
Melanie Gao
With a global background and a gift for authentic storytelling, Melanie Parsons Gao helps leaders grow with courage, connection, and cross-cultural savvy.
Nancy Q. Smith
With a deep understanding of organizational dynamics, Nancy Q. Smith helps clients align behavior with strategy for high-impact performance and culture change.
Ray Linder
Blending energy with internationally recognized expertise, Ray Linder helps leaders and teams strengthen culture through practical, social science-based strategies.
Terry Terranova
Terry Terranova blends strategic insight with down-to-earth facilitation to help leaders strengthen culture, boost engagement, and drive change across the organization.
Tim Scudder
Tim Scudder is the coauthor of the Strength Deployment Inventory® and has spent three decades helping people improve relationships through increased understanding of personality.
Traci Chevraux
Blending theory and application with a warm, dynamic style, Traci Chevraux helps organizations shift behavior, strengthen culture, and achieve lasting transformation.
Wendy Arnott
With expertise in culture change and trauma-informed facilitation, Wendy Arnott creates brave spaces for deep connection, inclusion, and skillful transformation.
Success Stories and Case Studies
From small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, we’ve helped organizations around the world improve sales processes, increase compliance with health and safety protocols, overhaul educational practices, change culture, and more.
Lockheed Martin
Discover how Lockheed Martin transformed their organizational culture, improved employee engagement and performance, and ultimately secured a $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract.
Spectrum Health
Learn how Spectrum Health, a healthcare provider in Michigan, created a culture of accountability and communication that improved staff satisfaction, patient care, and safety across their organization.
Newmont Mining
See how we helped Newmont Mining, a global leader in gold and copper production, target vital behaviors and reduce accident rates by 32% and serious injuries by 73% within two years.