Crystal Steen, PhD
Crystal has devoted her life's work to helping individuals, teams and organizations be awesome.
She grew up working hard and learning business on the family farm. By 18, she was speaking at high schools across Missouri. At 20, she was facilitating leadership camps and conferences across the U.S. Today, she has international experience that stretches across academia, business, non-profits and industry organizations.
Professionally
Dr. Steen left academia and enjoyed a successful and satisfying corporate career. She has been an internal talent development consultant, organizational researcher and change agent, enterprise leadership educator, people operations strategist, global human resources generalist, and led teams across multiple locations.
Crystal has done work in analytics and data visualization, created culture changes that resulted in increased safety and quality KPIs, and launched initiatives that cut attrition rates in half. She loves finding solutions that are good for people and the business.
Certifications
Birkman
The Etiquette Institute
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Crucial Conversations
Crucial Accountability
StrengthsFinder
DiSC
Personally
Crystal (née Mathews) grew up as one of five children on a cow/calf operation in Southwest Missouri. She served as a Missouri State FFA Officer, completed her student teaching at an inner-city Chicago high school, earned the Miss America Community Service Scholarship for her work in agricultural literacy, and served as the National Beef Ambassador. Crystal was honored to become a W.D. Farr Scholar while writing her dissertation on volunteer leadership in the U.S. beef industry.
Crystal and her husband Jeff stay busy and blessed by raising red angus cows and two red-headed boys in Southwest Missouri.
Education
University of Missouri - BS - Agricultural Education
Texas A&M University - MS - Agricultural Economics
University of Florida - PhD - Agricultural Leadership
See more of Crystal's background here
The art of leadership
is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair