Client Perspective – Facilitation

Carey is always well prepared and therefore her input is highly relevant; while her facilitation appears effortless, I know this is because of the effort and care Carey has taken to prepare. Staff have invariably reacted well to Carey’s facilitation and are always keen to work with her again.  This includes some of our most experienced staff, who can sometimes be jaded and harsh critics of external consultants.

Client Perspective – Training

I recommend Carey for her capacity to work with a range of professional groups and bring them to successful training outcomes.  More than this, I am happy to recommend Carey because of her absolute reliability in complex matters.

I have watched Carey facilitate training workshops, listening and relating with issues and using different mediums to capture and communicate.   I have seen Carey use diagrams, colour and movement and sometimes just sitting and talking things through.  Carey has the ability to analyse the audience and know how to relate to them and help them absorb training or other perspectives. 

Client Perspective – Facilitation

Carey has worked with me to facilitate complex consultations and collaborations for community and technical groups.  Carey is a superb interface for difficult technical matters and the public. One of the reasons I have brought her into recent projects is Carey’s rare ability as facilitator to project technical understanding and, at the same time, have the skills to relate so well with technicians, politicians and the public.  This is unusual. 

I recommend Carey for her capacity to work with a range of professional and community groups and bring them to successful outcomes.  More than this, I am happy to recommend Carey because of her absolute reliability in political and complex matters.  I just know something is not going to explode when Carey is running it.   There can be different types of angry people from different backgrounds and Carey will solve it. 

Client Perspective – Executive Coaching

I worked with Carey Crimmins as my executive coach in 2013 and several other projects since.

Carey is very friendly, easy going and pleasant to talk to.  I looked forward to our sessions because I came away with something valuable every time I interacted with Carey.  

Carey is highly intelligent and particularly good at listening to what you say and reflecting it back so you see new perspectives.   Carey was patient and non-threatening and helped me see when I was talking rubbish.

For example, I am most grateful to Carey for helping me see the cracks in the mirror and my tendency to wear metaphorical ‘idiot goggles’.  Taking these goggles off changed my perspective and helped me lead my team much more effectively.  I swapped from seeing people as ‘needing remediation’ to ‘humans doing their best’.  My role changed from disciplinarian to coach. 

Carey has helped me put things into perspective, separate the do-able parts and realise I cannot solve everything.  Even when I arrived angry and frustrated, Carey let me vent and get things off my chest.  And then gently challenged me to see things differently and gave me the tools to deal with issues and make my life easier in the long term.  Especially in terms of managing difficult people and not taking things too personally.

Working with Carey to dissect my assumptions and habits has helped me come out as a better and stronger person. 

Client Perspective – Consulting and Organisational Development

I have worked with Carey Crimmins on a variety of projects for 15 years.   Carey has helped me as a training creator-designer and facilitator, as an executive coach developing individuals, teams and cultures and as an organisational development and project consultant.  

As a project partner, Carey is incredibly easy to manage.  Things get done on time and on budget with enough touching-base and transparency.  Carey is a pro-active consultant who identifies issues before I know they are there.  I trust to give a complex job to Carey and have complete faith it will be done and done well.

I am most grateful for Carey’s persistence in helping me resolve difficult matters. 

Client Perspective – Consulting and Organisational Development

Carey Crimmins helped YWCA Queensland with several projects from 2013 – 2016, including a comprehensive strategic reorientation project.  Carey worked with us as consultant, facilitator and executive coach.

YWCA staff and I really enjoyed working with Carey.  Her style is highly professional and direct when needed, yet also warm and empathic.  Carey has a good, sharp, analytical mind and focuses consistently on capacity building for our organisation – she is very clear about her intention to eventually not be needed.

Carey has high personal energy  and uses this effectively to keep people energised and focussed, both in group and individual work.  Carey does not ‘fluff-around’, but rather facilitates  people to get quickly to the most important discussions; Carey’s expert guidance provided us with both the courage and tools to have the conversions we needed to have.  

Carey’s work enhanced the functioning of our teams, helped us find clarity and contributed enormously to getting the whole team ‘on the same page.