Ask David Crisp, BA/68, what you can do with a bachelor’s degree, and he’ll respond, “Anything you want.” He should know, having parlayed his Carleton psychology degree into a successful career that has spanned seven different industries and senior positions in the business and non-profit sectors.
Crisp attributes his success to five simple principles that he says anyone can learn to increase their personal and leadership effectiveness. And on February 12, he will return to Carleton to share those tips with students at the inaugural Career Connection Speaker Series.
A professional speaker and coach, Crisp founded his own company, Crisp Strategies Inc., to show people how to become more effective leaders.
“With studies showing more than 70 percent of so-called leaders don’t have the people skills required to be effective, they are just place-holders and are likely to become dead-ended-unless they get the insights they need to break out. It’s so easy, with just five skills needed to succeed, yet so difficult for people to see where they may fall short and how easily they could change that,” he says.
Crisp developed his own effective leadership skills through hands-on experience in the health, education and retail sectors.
He will share his experience and knowledge with current CU students and return to the university that taught him “some of the keys to understanding people and psychology.”
Crisp will kick off the first Career Connection Speaker Series on February 12 at 6:00 p.m. in C164 Loeb. For more information, or to register, please visit carleton.ca/cdce and click the Career Connection Speaker Series banner ad