THE UGLY TRUTH: Most organizations score horribly in equipping employees to work together and deliver on their collective potential, despite the fact that teamwork is more important in the 21st century than it ever was before. From over 63,000 hours observing leaders and teams in more than 30 companies located in 20 countries, Ross and Paccione identify how even well-intentioned leaders sabotage their own best efforts at developing high-performing teams – and what they must do differently to succeed.
THE PROMISE: Regardless of your position, or whether your team operates in person or virtually, during the first 10 minutes of your next meeting, you can start, transform, and accelerate productive teamwork. The proven, sophisticated, and practical method in ONE Team equips you to activate the brilliant potential your team possesses.
For over a decade, Craig has partnered with C-Suite executives, leaders and teams elevating performance within global organizations. His understanding of current business trends and needs, along with access to thousands of leaders in numerous industries, allows Craig to deliver innovative leadership strategies to Verus Global’s expanding client base. He works with inspired leaders serious about putting values into action.
Throughout each Verus Global process (from executive coaching to keynotes to the flagship Pathways to Leadership® Process), Craig has equipped many leaders and organizations to dramatically improve performance with sustainable breakthroughs. With Craig’s high-energy and dynamic approach, he assists teams in quickly creating alignment, communication and trust, so they can better achieve their strategic goals.
“There’s a lot at stake. People are giving their lives to careers and to organizations that have much to achieve. The key is equipping everyone with a means to live and lead the way they want to: Ensuring that inspiration and personal fulfillment isn’t only an outcome – but the way to excellence. Every second must be grounded in real-time applications so people can start making a difference immediately.”
Craig has a passion for partnering with leaders who truly want to realize and activate potential in every interaction of every day. These leaders know that when you change someone’s life, you change how they perform – and how they choose to lend their discretionary efforts. He believes what many of our client-partners do: emotionally intelligent leaders and high-performing teams aren’t just a goal – they’re an approach essential to building a better life and creating sustainable change.
Currently, Craig is co-authoring One Team with team member Dr. Angie Paccione. Craig and Verus Global Founder Steve Vannoy, are co-authors of the award-winning books Stomp the Elephant in the Office (Wister & Willows, 2008) and Degrees of Strength (Wister & Willows, 2012), filled with insights and practical tools to effectively influence and shape any work environment. The tools in these books equip everyone to be more productive, inspired and able to bring the best expression of themselves to work (and home) every day. Empowering and supporting educators is an additional passion of Craig’s. He currently serves on the board of advisors for the University of Colorado at Denver’s Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship. As well, you’ll find him regularly supporting K-12 educators in his local community by equipping them with 21st century leadership skills. He served on the Board of Directors for TP Mechanical (Ohio) from 2009-2012.
From Australia to Egypt to China and across the US, Angie inspires leaders at Fortune 200 organizations by unleashing the potential in each of them, providing tools to help them accelerate their business results and create even stronger work teams, families and communities.
Since joining Verus Global in 2007, Angie has served top leadership teams and organizations who are motivated to improve their capability and the culture of their workplace. Her energetic approach and library of compelling stories has helped her to build a worldwide network of amazing individuals committed to building people, partnerships and performance in every interaction. Her inspiring facilitation style and desire to serve others has led to her popularity as a keynote and motivational speaker.
“I have a passion to serve people by doing whatever I can to unleash their greatness.”
In addition to her transformational sessions, Angie supports our facilitators in accelerating their ability to serve client-partners even more.
More about Angie: Growing up biracial in New York City, Angie gained an early interest in diversity and earned her Ph.D. in Education and Human Resources Studies on that subject. Her dissertation, Multicultural perspective transformation: Developing a commitment to diversity, examined the experiences of individuals who developed personal commitments to diversity-related issues.
She was raised to believe you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. Her lengthy list of varied accomplishments proves she lives this philosophy. A college basketball player at Stanford University and professional basketball player in the 1980s, Angie became a high school coach, teacher and administrator before earning her Ph.D. and joining the faculty of Colorado State University. During her 9 years in higher education, she served as a teacher educator in the “Project Promise” program, a nationally recognized program of excellence in teacher preparation for mid-career professionals.
Angie was elected to two terms in the Colorado House of Representatives, rising to become House Majority Caucus Chair. She served on the Committee for Business Affairs for all four years in the legislature, helping to guide the business environment for the state of Colorado. In 2006, she was a candidate for U.S. Congress and came within 2.5% of unseating the incumbent. Angie left politics to join Verus Global.
When she’s not working, Angie can be found reading, traveling, enjoying theatre or films or gardening. She counts her family among her greatest blessings.
