Dianne Crampton

Dianne Crampton is one of America's leading experts on corporate team culture and is a sought-after executive leadership coach, business consultant, speaker and author.

Crampton is the founder and president of TIGERS Success Series, Inc., a trademarked team and work culture development system that tracks, measures and trains to 6 Principles required for high performance work group collaboration and cooperation. TIGERS stands for trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success.

In her many years of comprehensive research, Crampton discovered that these six principles are necessary for building ethical, quality-focused, productive, motivated and successful groups of people. Her company URL is http://www.corevalues.com .

For more than 20 years, Crampton has used her TIGERS Success Series to work with motivated leaders and their employees. She helps committed leaders build work cultures where cooperation among employees and collaboration between departments drive growth and revenue.

Through consultation, the 360 TIGERS Workforce Behavioral Profile, team improvement activities and online micro-training and development, Crampton teaches companies of all sizes how to evolve from being adequate to exceptional. She was instrumental in the effective merger of warehouse club giant, Price/Costco, and played a key role in northwest health care and emergency response mergers.

Crampton has helped scores of companies and organizations, from big businesses and nonprofits to small start ups, improve their productivity; worker satisfaction and bottom lines.

Becoming TIGERS, Leading Your Team to Success is Crampton's fourth book. She has also published TIGERS Among Us - Winning Business Team Cultures and Why They Thrive.She is a contributor to the 2010 Pfeiffer Annual: Consultant (Wiley, 2010). She is also a contributing author in the business anthology, Working Together: Producing Synergy by Honoring Diversity (Berrett Koehler; 2001), which includes essays by thought leaders interested in building more collaboration and cooperation in business and globally.

Her work with Native Americans was featured at a United Nations sponsored conference highlighting a business model that promotes cooperation and excellence in the workplace. Tribal leaders honored Crampton with eight eagle feathers for her work. It made her cry.

TIGERS Success Series, Inc. was nominated by Merrill Lunch for Inc. Magazine's entrepreneurial awards.

Crampton received a bachelor's degree in Communications from Washington state University, and a postgraduate degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. It was at Gonzaga where Crampton's core research in leadership and group dynamics was conducted.

In her spare time, Crampton is an avid organic gardener who enjoys exploring the world with her husband, Bill. They like to hike in the high desert near their home in Bend, Oregon, and spend time with grandchildren.