Your insight to new heights.

Defense leaders have to play two games at once. They work at the intersection of urgent priorities, constrained resources, and complex systems—all while driving toward the future the mission demands. Win today and build for tomorrow.

Together, we’ll create the space for you and your organization to invest in the future, inspire action, and design and align on what truly matters.

Your partner

Lauren Hansen-Armendariz

The heart of facilitation is in connection and communication.

Lauren creates clarity in complexity. From the tactical to OSD level, she designs experiences, strategies, programs, partnerships, and movements for change.

Lauren has facilitated hundreds of hours of design thinking workshops and trained over a thousand military service members as a certified instructor.

Her passion is in connecting seemingly unlike ideas, people, organizations. She builds partnerships across government, academia, industry, and multinational stakeholders.

Where expertise meets passion.

Meetings, strategy sessions, and publications don’t drive change.

People do.

That’s why Crestview focuses where people, passion, and expertise intersect.

  • You have to be ambidextrous - execute the mission today and innovate for tomorrow. This is especially difficult in rigid top-down organizations. Crestview will help you design programs that can leverage talent across your workforce to solve operational problems.

  • Transform your organization from the inside out with strategies and programs that align culture, processes, and people to achieve meaningful, sustainable outcomes. With a focus on empowering those closest to the problems, I help build systems that drive long-term impact.

  • Real change starts with people. Craft actionable strategies and programs for your people, by your people with expert support.

  • The most meaningful learning comes from collaborative, hands-on experiences. Assess and design learning programs with clear outcomes.

  • No one organization has it all - but you can together. Co-design the future of your work with strategic partners, from multinational initiatives to ecosystems across government, academia, and industry.

Make it happen

  • We will put the work back in workshop. Experience engaging, hands-on sessions while aligning your organization towards actionable outcomes.

  • Sometimes you need more than a workshop. You need a partner who can expand your vantage point, uncover clarity in complexity, and help you inspire a movement towards impact.

  • You can’t afford to check boxes when it comes to your most valuable resource. Equip them with experiences that help them reimagine their role in the organization.

workshops that work

  • "This workshop is the best way to address our organization's major issues."

  • "I learned more about our problem topic in this workshop than I have across my entire career."

  • “After the workshop, I taught my team one of the exercises and the next day, they used it to solve a huge problem without me and it worked.”

  • "This was the best work event I've ever been to. I feel like all of our voices were heard and we could actually make a difference."

  • "We really bonded. I made more friends in the last few days than I have since I joined [this organization.]"

  • "It encouraged critical thinking and distilling down of group ideas to create tangible plans."

principles in motion

transformation > talk

We’re tired of talking about the right things. We’ll drive action with evidence that we’re moving the needle.

connection > “comms”

Top-down guidance doesn't cut it. Together, we’ll activate the people closest to the problems by connecting them with the right resources and a meaningful vision they can see themselves in.

evidence > expectations

You have significant experience and expertise, which drive expectations… But expectations don’t always work in constantly changing environments. By applying the scientific method, we’ll root our strategy in reality, adaptable to change, and designed for meaningful engagement.

principles > process

Processes are tools. Principles are the fabric of what matters. We’ll use a tool belt of lots of different methodologies and tailor our approach to the unique needs of the people and the problem.

Let’s go.