Your insight to new heights.
Leaders with complex missions 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 really matters.
Your partner
Lauren Hansen-Armendariz
The heart of facilitation is in connection and communication.
Lauren creates clarity in complexity. Whether consulting for senior leaders in the Office of the Secretary of Defense or working with tactical teams, she guides organizations to design strategies, partnerships, and movements for change.
Lauren’s passion is in helping people build deeper connections with themselves, their partners, and their missions so together they can bridge strategy to impact. She loves to connect seemingly unlike ideas, people, and organizations - building partnerships across government, academia, industry, and multinational stakeholders.
1,000+
trained in leadership, design thinking, innovation, & culture change
200+
hours of workshop & offsite facilitation
98%
positive feedback
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mindset shift redefines what’s possible
Where expertise meets passion.
Meetings, messaging, and strategy sessions don’t drive change.
People do.
That’s why Crestview focuses on giving people across the organization the insight, tools, and support to move forward with confidence.
core areas of impact
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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 activate talent across your workforce to rapidly solve transformational problems at scale.
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Real change starts with people. Craft actionable and sustainable strategies and programs for your people, by your people with expert support.
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No one organization has it all - but you can together through strategic partnerships. Co-design the future of your partnership through an honest broker to facilitate genuine collaboration.
Make it happen.
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An independent, uncompromising perspective cuts through complexity. Get the insight you need, when you need it, while building your organizations’s capability for lasting impact (and without the overhead of an additional hire!)
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We put work back in workshops. Experience engaging, hands-on sessions that break down barriers, challenge assumptions, and create the momentum needed to reconnect and turn ideas into action.
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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
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"This workshop is the best way to address our organization's major issues."
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"I learned more about our problem topic in this workshop than I have across my entire career."
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“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.”
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"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."
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"We really bonded. I made more friends in the last few days than I have since I joined [this organization.]"
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"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 materialize 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.