A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
At CRV Consulting, growth isn’t a one-time achievement - it’s a journey of courage, clarity, and transformation. Our services are designed to meet you at every stage of that journey, from building a strong business foundation to mastering leadership, resolving conflict, and elevating your influence. Each experience is personal, purposeful, and rooted in our belief that progress begins when you lead with authenticity and heart.
Every service we offer is built on connection, courage, and growth - because leadership isn’t just about managing people, it’s about inspiring them. At CRV Consulting, we walk beside you as you evolve, helping you turn challenges into opportunities and vision into action. When you’re ready to take the next step, we’re here to guide you - with clarity, compassion, and belief in your potential.
CRV Consulting stands apart because we don’t just teach leadership - we transform it. Our approach blends emotional intelligence, strategic insight, and decades of real‑world, battled-tested experience to create lasting change. We help leaders, small business owners and organizations move beyond compliance to connection - building cultures rooted in trust, courage, and authentic communication. When you work with CRV Consulting, you don’t just grow your business - you grow your people.
Christine Riley VanDerVort
Founder & Consultant
ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM
Are You Experiencing...
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Lack of team cohesiveness or productivity
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Lack of confidence or control during difficult conversations
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Challenges with trust and cooperation between you, employees or among team members
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Conflict in your workplace
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Stress as a small business owner without the time/budget to attend a one-week leadership seminar
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Costly (time/budget/turnover) employee complaints, threats of litigation, or litigation
We Partner With You To...
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Not just manage your people, but inspire them
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Build stronger credibility as a business owner and leader
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Turn challenges into opportunities and vision into action
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Improve communication skills
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Minimize and resolve workplace conflict
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Create more productive workplace relationships between you, your employees and coworkers
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Minimize litigation risk and costs
OUR SERVICES
Customized Solutions
Leadership begins with self-awareness and at CRV Consulting, we help you build from that foundation with courage and clarity. Through personalized training, we equip you with the emotional intelligence and communication skills to lead with confidence, handle difficult conversations, and make sound decisions about team performance and conduct. You’ll learn when to coach, when to rehabilitate, and when to let go - always guided by integrity and purpose. Together, we’ll strengthen your strategic vision so you can move your career and business forward with confidence and heart.
At CRV Consulting, we meet you where you are - with honesty, insight, and a shared commitment to growth. Together, we assess your business operations and leadership approach to uncover opportunities for clarity and confidence. Through personalized coaching and mentoring, we strengthen your ability to lead teams, plan strategically, and navigate challenges with courage and grace. Our goal is simple: to help you build a thriving business grounded in resilience, purpose, and authentic leadership.
Conflict is inevitable - but how you respond defines your leadership. At CRV Consulting, we help you turn tension into transformation through 1:1 mediations, group facilitations, and customized trainings for leaders and employees. Our approach builds emotional intelligence, trust, and communication skills that strengthen relationships and restore alignment. Whether resolving a single dispute or reshaping team dynamics, we guide you toward clarity, collaboration, and lasting resolution that moves your business forward.
WHO WE ARE
Your Partner in Progress
At CRV Consulting, our mission is to empower leaders and organizations to build workplaces rooted in trust, empathy, and accountability. Through coaching, mentoring, and strategic guidance, CRV Consulting helps people lead with courage, communicate with clarity, and create cultures where both the business and its people thrive.
To redefine leadership by inspiring a movement of emotionally intelligent, purpose-driven professionals who transform challenges into opportunities and lead with authenticity, resilience, and heart.
Courage | We help business owners, leaders and HR professionals step boldly into growth, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Integrity | Every decision, conversation, and action reflects honesty and respect.
Empathy | We listen deeply, lead compassionately, and honor the human side of business.
Resilience | We turn adversity into strength and teach others to do the same.
Clarity | We bring focus and transparency to leadership, communication, and strategy.
Connection | We believe success is built through relationships - authentic, collaborative, and lasting.
WE DON'T JUST
TEACH LEADERSHIP
WE TRANSFORM IT
THE EXPERTS
Meet Your Partners in Progress
Christine Riley VanDerVort
Visionary leader, consultant and coach transforming business owners, leaders and workplace culture through courage, clarity and compassion.
Christine Riley VanDerVort is the Founder of CRV Consulting, a people-first HR consulting practice supporting leaders, small business owners, organizations, and emerging HR professionals. A battle-tested HR leader and labor and employee relations expert with more than 20 years of diverse experience, Christine specializes in HR strategy, manager and leadership coaching and training, conflict resolution, mediation, mentorship, workplace culture, and practical employee relations guidance.
Christine’s career reflects a wide-ranging foundation across legal, human resources, public sector, private sector, nonprofit, and renewable energy environments. Before building her work in HR leadership, she developed a strong legal and paralegal background rooted in facts, process, accountability, and sound judgment. Her experience later expanded to supervising labor and employee relations professionals and supporting program management for organizations including the United States Navy and Stanford University. This blend of legal discipline, HR expertise, and cross-sector perspective shaped her practical, balanced approach to helping leaders navigate complex workplace issues.
Featured by SDVoyager, Bold Journey Magazine, and The Enterprise World, Christine is recognized for her commitment to employee relations excellence, workplace culture, and leadership grounded in fairness, integrity, accountability, and human connection. Through CRV Consulting, she helps clients strengthen communication, resolve conflict, improve decision-making, and create healthier workplace cultures where people feel heard, respected, and supported. Known for bringing “grit and grace” to difficult situations, Christine is also a passionate advocate, mentor, and proud Vegas Chamber member committed to helping leaders bring out the best in themselves, their people, and their businesses.
Melanie A. Andrews
Facilitator, Conflict Resolution providing legal insight with human understanding to prevent and resolve conflict and strengthen workplaces.
Melanie A. Andrews works with CRV Consulting to help leaders and small business owners navigate workplace challenges, strengthen employee relationships, and create positive, productive work environments - before issues become costly legal problems. Combining her decades of legal and employment law experience with CRV Consulting’s human resources expertise, they provide practical, proactive solutions tailored to each organization’s unique needs.
Ms. Andrews has advised senior leaders within the United States Navy and represented federal agencies in employment matters before the EEOC, MSPB, FLRA, and federal courts. She also led litigation staffing at a national employment law firm, giving her firsthand understanding of how workplace issues can escalate - and how many can be prevented through effective communication, sound policies, and early intervention. She is certified by the Department of the Navy as a mediator and mentor mediator, a certified Conflict Coach trained in the Jones and Brinkert Comprehensive Conflict Coaching Model, and a member of the International Association of Facilitators.
Together with CRV Consulting, our goal is to provide trusted guidance that helps leaders resolve issues early, reduce organizational risk, strengthen workplace relationships, and foster healthier, more productive workplaces. For decades, Ms. Andrews has also mentored leaders, trained supervisors, and helped organizations address complex workplace challenges with professionalism, respect, and practical solutions. Ms. Andrews and Ms. VanDerVort bring together the legal and human sides of workplace challenges to help organizations - and the people within them - succeed.
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Meaningful improvement
begins with a person's willingness to change.
- Christine Riley VanDerVort
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TESTIMONIALS
What Our Clients Are Saying
“You helped me by giving me the tools and framework to arrive at my own clear, confident conclusions about employees and situations. Rather than telling me what to do, you guided my thinking in a way that empowered me as a leader. You also provided valuable support with document guidance, email formatting, and connecting me with an attorney who was very helpful. Throughout the process, you were readily available, responsive, and never dismissive, which made navigating challenging situations feel much more manageable.”
How did this training make a difference for you/your business? “It made a meaningful difference by allowing me to make clear, non-emotional decisions and reach conclusions much more efficiently than I had in the past. Having that clarity and structure improved my confidence as a business owner and strengthened my leadership, especially in navigating complex or sensitive situations. Overall, it helped me lead with greater intention, consistency, and assurance.”
Charlotte Etesse, Owner
(Etesse Holistic and Cosmetic Dentistry)
When I was green in the Labor/Employee Relations world, I had the privilege of working with Christine. She was the team lead and really helped me learn the concepts of LER. When I would get a new case, she took to the time to have one on one sessions to go over the case specifications and really helped me analyze a case. She would cover potential risks/liabilities of the situation and help me create a defense on the "why" of a decision. She was a great mentor and taught me a lot which I attribute to getting me to where I am today.
Jonathan Montalvo, MSM, PHR, SHRM-CP (Dept. of Veterans Affairs)
It's been several years since I worked with Christine and she remains one of my most trusted advisors. As I navigated the challenge and excitement of leading a new team, she was an invaluable mentor. Good times or bad, she was right next to me with her sleeves up, solving critical problems, thinking outside the box, and figuring out how to develop and sustain a high performing team. She was both my most vocal cheerleader and my fiercest critic - which is exactly what I needed to grow and succeed in my leadership role. Every day was an experience that I will never forget! I'm always grateful for her honest advice, strategic thinking, and passion for her work. If you haven't worked with Christine yet, don't miss out!
Elise Magsarilli, HR Director (Dept. of Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command)
[Christine] is a professional and thoughtful collaborator that maintains a calm demeanor and treats everyone with empathy and kindness even under complex and difficult situations. Christine’s expertise in conflict resolution and conducting complex employee and labor relations investigations makes her a trusted advisor to her HR peers, people managers, and employees across any organization. She has a keen ability to identify business needs and provide swift solutions regardless of any complex situation she is presented with.
I highly recommend Christine. Her skills and passion for fostering engaging and productive partnerships makes her a great to asset to your team and organization. I am grateful we had the opportunity to work together and thankful for our continued connection.
Rima Hopkins, HR Knowledge Advisor (SHRM)
Christine, We will miss you and the professional advice you provided. From a personal standpoint, I thoroughly enjoyed working with you on our previous personnel issues. Most of all, I appreciated your candidness as I am a very direct individual as well. Thank you for that. It was a breath of fresh air to deal with amongst our current climate.
Commanding Officer, U.S. Training Wing Navy Component (Name withheld for privacy)
I must say, it was a real pleasure working with you – a true breath of fresh air knowing you cared about what was in the best interest of the organization and you worked diligently to achieve it. I thank you for all your support!!
James Alwyn, SLAC, Stanford University
I write this recommendation, wholeheartedly and unreservedly, on behalf of Christine Riley VanDerVort. A trusted advisor, Ms. VanDerVort has worked with various commands and components of the United States Navy; and senior executives, mid-level management and front-line supervisors at Stanford University and various companies in the private sector. She specializes in training management groups and employee teams, large and small.
Ms. VanDerVort coaches and advises on performance, conduct, and leadership. She uses her superior skills in communication, mediation, and strategic guidance in ways that drive leaders to achieve their vision, mission and goals. Ms. VanDerVort’s approach is direct (she tells you what you need to know), compassionate (she never forgets that teams are people, too) and honest (she is not afraid to speak the truth).
As a mediator, Ms. VanDerVort uses her knowledge of the issues and her emotional intelligence to help the parties understand and see the other side’s perspectives. Her approach is both empathetic and solution-oriented, ensuring that all parties involved feel heard and valued throughout the process. This approach allows the parties to recognize the paths toward resolution and, if needed, maintain relationships into the future.
Key to Ms. VanDerVort’s effectiveness are her communication skills. She fosters meaningful dialogue within teams and across stakeholders and she crystallizes ideas in her presentations, verbal and written. An effective facilitator, Ms. VanDerVort listens to participants and delivers insightful guidance and actionable advice that empowers individuals and teams to execute on their strategies and achieve their full potential.
Ms. VanDerVort is a consummate professional whose expertise in advising leadership at all levels, coupled with exemplary communication abilities and a strong, empathetic presence, makes her an invaluable asset to any organization seeking to grow and achieve operational excellence.
Carla A. Ford, General Counsel (U.S. VETS)
Just completed my HR Drumbeat meeting with Christine and our team. I wanted to let you know that she is doing a phenomenal job and making a real difference across the organization and our mission of training the future of Naval Aviation.
I’ve been in the COS [Chief of Staff] seat for three years and the gains she is making for our organization will last well past my time into the future. I can’t say enough good things about her and would rate her a “5” [outstanding] and recommend her for an award.
Chief of Staff, U.S. Navy, Naval Aviation Component (name withheld, privacy)
Culture is not a statement
on a wall, it is what people
experience every day.
- Christine Riley VanDerVort
