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Dovie Crouse

Director

A global executive with extensive experience in change management and preparing teams to execute complex projects, Dovie brings a strong record of achievement in leadership and business transformation to her role.

Dovie has a proven ability to guide international companies through ambitious growth while scaling processes, leading with empathy, and creating top-performing cultures at all levels of the organization. Mergers and acquisitions deal teams have relied upon Dovie for insights in pre-transaction cultural due diligence to underpin successful integration planning at all organizational levels. Notable experiences involve leadership alignment and coordination across operations in Calgary, London, Stavanger (Norway) and Houston to achieve ambitious strategic objectives and operational transformation.

Dovie earned a Master of Science in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston.

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EXPERIENCE

Dovie Crouse is a Director at FMG Leading, a team of advisors that helps organizations thrive at the intersection of humanity and high performance.  She is a global executive with extensive experience in change management and preparing teams to execute complex, multimillion-dollar projects. Dovie brings a strong record of achievement in startup operations leadership and business transformation to her role. She has a proven ability to guide international companies through ambitious growth while scaling processes, leading with empathy, and creating top-performing cultures at all levels of the organization.

Dovie’s client’s additionally benefit from her ability to help leaders and teams maximize their potential. She is able to synthesize data and observations into connections and insights throughout an organization that others may miss, uncovering root causes behind the pain points and business problems her clients are facing, resulting in accelerated performance and growth. Mergers and Acquisitions deal teams have relied upon Dovie for insights in pre-transaction cultural due diligence to underpin successful integration planning at all organizational levels. Notable experiences involve leadership alignment and coordination across operations in Calgary, London, Stavanger (Norway) and Houston to achieve ambitious strategic objectives and operational transformation.

Dovie works with clients across several industries, including hospital systems, health care services, and several investor-backed organizations. Dovie’s client list includes: OB Hospitalist Group, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Mass General Brigham, Altos Ventures, Syllable AI, RevHealth, HuFriedy, Dispatch Health, Community Based Care, Quartet Health, Southern Veterinary Partners, and Synapse Health.

Prior to joining FMG Leading, Dovie was a founding leader at Arion Blue, a Houston based multi-discipline service provider for the energy industry. Along with the CEO and COO, Dovie built the business plan over a 9-month period before launching the company in April 2018. In her role as Vice President, Corporate Services at Arion, Dovie established and scaled several back-office functions, including the HR organization enabling rapid growth of the organization.

Dovie also served as Department Manager, Organizational Effectiveness at Wood Group, a 38,000-person Oil & Gas company, where she built the organizational change management (OCM) department from the proposal stage to senior leadership to business plan development to infrastructure set-up.  As Wood Group implemented a global change management team, Dovie was appointed team leader of the western hemisphere. She also held various senior leadership roles within the Wood Group throughout her tenure.

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE AREAS

Dovie has developed a unique global perspective from years lived abroad in France and England, as well as her extensive international work in Canada, Norway and Malaysia.

In addition to her work with FMG Leading, Dovie is a guest lecturer at the University of Houston. She has non-profit board experience, and is also affiliated with 50/50 Women on Boards, the leading global education and advocacy campaign driving the movement toward gender balance and diversity on corporate boards.

Dovie also enjoys participating in FMG Leading’s philanthropic in-kind giving through FMG Gives. Through FMG Gives, Dovie has provided consulting and advisory services to Heroes and Horses and One World Surgery.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Dovie earned a Master of Science in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston. She is also a Prosci ® Certified Change Practitioner.

PERSONAL

Dovie lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two scruffy dogs. When not working, she enjoys hiking the many trails around the Cascade and Olympic mountains. She and her husband enjoy traveling to new places, anchoring trips across the U.S. and abroad around live music or hiking adventures.

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