Carolyn Christie

ASCENDING Inc.

Director of Client Accounts

Carolyn Hawkins Consulting LLC

President

Addison Group

Addison Group is a leading provider of professional staffing and search services. Bringing the best to the best, Addison combines a national network and localized service for broad reach with a personal touch. Specialized practices deliver the right candidate at the right time in Administration & HR, Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Information Technology. Addison received Inavero’s 2014 Best of Staffing award for both Client and Candidate service.

Senior Internal Recruiter

Internal Recruiter

BSI Financial Services Inc

BSI is the premier business process outsourcing provider specializing in mortgage subservicing, default management, loss mitigation, due diligence, REO and quality control services to over 240 lenders and investors. Leveraging its unique global delivery model and 22 year track record of success, BSI provides its clients with unique, customized solutions to improve service quality, lower costs and make its clients' loans worth more. BSI has earned its name in the industry by consistently exceeding client expectations and being a true partner in our client’s business plans. BSI is an approved servicer with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, HUD, VA and several private investors, hard money lenders and hedge funds. 

Our clients rely on us to make sense of the array of choices they face while trying to make smart changes to keep their organizations, lean, focused, and profitable. The operating model here can be summed up in one word – trust. Our clients know that we are in partnership with them for the long haul and that we have their interests in mind at all times. As stated in our management principles, we commit to client satisfaction as our most important business objective. We are in the business of adding value.

Recruiting Manager

HireStrategy

HireStrategy is a full-service professional staffing firm providing contract, direct hire and executive search solutions for employers in the Washington DC area. Our diverse client base represents a wide range of industries, including technology and media, financial services, professional services, energy & green technology, federal services, education and non-profit organizations.

Our recruiters specialize in providing candidates with personalized career management advice and placement services in the Technology, Finance & Accounting, Sales & Marketing, Recruiting & HR and Administrative fields.

HireStrategy has been ranked the No. 1 staffing firm in the Washington DC area, honored by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing firms in the country and named a "Future 50" firm by Washington SmartCEO magazine. We've also been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by the Washington Business Journal, as well as a "Best Place to Work" by Washingtonian magazine.

Our executives are recognized thought leaders in their fields, regularly contributing their insights on economic, employment and workplace issues to the Washington Post, USA Today, the Washington Business Journal, the Wall Street Journal and major broadcast and cable television networks, including NBC, CNN and PBS.

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Director in Finance and Accounting

Medix Staffing Solutions

Personnel Consultant

The Mergis Group

Executive Recruiter

Comtech Mobile

Accountant Assistant

Founder- Are you hiring? My team can help!

Top Social Media Networker with a demonstrated history of thinking outside the box to find top candidates for hiring companies.  

Check out my content, open to collaborations!

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Chief Executive Officer

I'm looking for a Marketing Coordinator (Entry Level role) hoping the individual has an internship, and a marketing degree for Bethesda MD.

I'm also looking for 4 Inside Sales Reps (knowledge of financial services or mortgage industry a plus).  Bethesda MD.  

Interested candidates please send resumes to cchristie@templeviewcap.com

Would love if you could comment for reach! Let's get these filled.
No 3rd party, you will just get sent to me as the gatekeeper.  =)

I help founders avoid paying contingency fees. WAITLIST for new clients.

Churchil Creative Studio

Executive Leadership Coach | Customer Experience Consultant | Master's Candidate in Leadership and IO Psychology

Strategic advisor to healthcare and technology organizations, with a focus on workforce transformation, human-centered AI, and data-driven leadership. I partner with executive teams and business leaders to align people strategy with innovation, improve operational outcomes, and future-proof the workforce.

Key areas of work include:
– AI strategy and responsible implementation in healthcare and tech environments
– Workforce analytics, employee experience, and resilience initiatives
– Executive coaching and leadership development
– Organizational change management and culture transformation
– Thought leadership, keynote speaking, and content strategy

Engagements are designed to drive measurable impact through practical, human-first innovation.

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I advise healthcare and technology leaders on how to align workforce strategy with innovation. With deep expertise in AI, analytics, and organizational performance, I help companies implement practical, human-centered solutions that unlock value and accelerate growth.

My work spans:
– Strategic consulting for workforce and digital transformation
– AI adoption frameworks focused on augmentation, not replacement
– Leadership coaching and culture transformation initiatives
– Speaking and thought leadership on the future of work

Currently working with executives navigating growth, burnout, and disruption—and preparing to announce a new opportunity soon.

Principal

EnterBridge

Strategic Business Development, Automation | Program Management. I accelerate digital transformation, streamlines workflows, work to make organizations more profitable, flexible, and responsive. I work with a team of developers and analysts to unburden teams from manual, repetitive processes. We deploy the transformative power of automation to unleash the boundless potential of people. Our proven  framework, harnesses a digital workforce to eliminate roadblocks, freeing up the best minds to solve challenges only people can solve.

Director of Strategy & Market Development

Churchill Creative Studio

Led strategy, marketing, and business development consulting for clients ranging from startups to large enterprises.
Developed content strategies, sales training, and brand positioning frameworks to help clients accelerate lead generation.
Designed an incentive program for Blue Cross Blue Shield, setting performance metrics and coaching sales leaders to drive rep
motivation and engagement.
Built a business development plan for DialPad, including ICP development, market research, and messaging strategy to stand out
in a competitive landscape.
Delivered cross-channel content and positioning campaigns, significantly increasing client visibility and sales pipeline.
Regularly contributed to healthcare industry panels and publications, offering insights on market trends and analytics
innovations.

Founder & Managing Partner

Our people are our greatest investment. Liberate Genius.

Hello! I’m Chelsea Wood the founder of Chisel, an award‑winning Master Trainer turned Sales & Leadership Coach. Since 2007, I’ve been designing transformational programs in wellness, resilience, reinvention, and leadership that lasts.

I research—with rigor—the future of work, executive leadership, and the intersecting principles of positive psychology and neuroscience. I combine theory with practice, drawing on emergent fields like positive organizational behavior, neuroleadership, and positive neuroscience to build high‑impact programs that are both evidence‑based and transformative.

Over the last two decades, I’ve built a network of over 30,000+ professionals, facilitating outcomes in sales performance, leadership innovation, and workforce mental fitness. I’m known for bringing energy, clarity, emotional intelligence, and evidence-based insight to every engagement—whether coaching a sales team, keynoting on resilience, or leading transformation across executive suites.
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My specialty? Helping high achievers, founders, and bold builders shift from surviving to surging. I don’t just inspire—I activate sustainable momentum.

What I’ve learned in my research and practice:
👉🏽 Even the strongest leaders benefit from a reset—and need a partner who understands both the science and the soul.
👉🏽 Neuroscience shows that optimism, emotional regulation, and neural resilience support adaptive decision‑making and sustainable leadership under stress 
👉🏽 Psychological safety is the essential infrastructure for team learning, innovation, and trust—and I embed that in every system I co‑create 

If you're feeling stuck, scaling rapidly, or reinventing your trajectory—I help you get clear on what matters, go deep in your strengths, and move fast with integrity.

I deliver:
💥 Story‑Driven Sales & Messaging Workshops grounded in behavioral science
💥 Women’s Leadership Intensives & Keynotes built on positive psychology frameworks
💥 Resilience Coaching for Teams & Executives that integrates brain-based interventions
💥 Community‑Based Reinvention Experiences that align narrative, neuroscience, and strategy

People bring me in to reignite fire and build systems that endure when things get hard. I’ve lived it. I’ve led through it. Now I teach it.

If you’re seeking someone who combines heart, humor, academic rigor, and operational horsepower, and isn’t afraid to dismantle what’s “always been”—let’s connect. I’m a lifelong learner—actively building in brain, body, and soul. I would love to work with you!

Chelsea Wood 🌊

I don't really want to be exceptional. I’m not front row. I'm not sure if I want my life to be this way.



She meant it. 

Her eyes could barely contain her pooled tears. 
Woozy, wilted, and somewhat worse for wear, 
she grabbed me.

Half wince. Half whisper. 
Fully depleted and full-hearted.

Her face was nearly purple from exertion. 
Lips trembling and barely able to form words, 
she shared something that left me gutted, 
but I hope, forever changed. 

Just one hour before, she was face-down on the bathroom floor when a friend called to invite her to the bootcamp I led. 

In an inexplicable tragedy, she had recently lost her only son. 

She did not expect to ever feel joy--or anything apart from pain--ever again. 

Blindsided by the blunt force trauma, 
she was drowning in sorrow and longed for that call—

*Any call.

Earnest and exhausted, she showed up for class. 

She didn’t need exercise modifications. 
She needed an invitation. 
But she didn’t need a spotlight. 

She needed mercy and a quiet place to go through the motions.

Leading bootcamp brings me immense joy. Thrumming beats on my 🔥 playlist. People setting PRs. A room full of friends and strangers moving as one body, one breath. Choreography, cadence, rapture. Nimble movement. Clumsy lumbering. Propulsion.

But this session created a moment. Gripping. I felt the ground shift under me, a shock wave of reverence.

A mother who could have been any athlete any day was choking on grief. 

Kicking toward shore but ready to quit. 
Spiritual shin splints and soul fractures. 

I realized something powerful that morning:

Some people shine on stage. Leap for joy. 
Some part the crowd and march to the front row, cheering loudly.

Others—like my new friend—stand quietly in the back left corner.

And that is sacred ground, too.

We don’t have to burpee to the brink of failure or squat thrust until we’re vomitous to prove we gave it our all.

Life is that way.

Someone you know soaked her pillow with her own tears—and then got up anyway. She showed up for work. She rolled up her sleeves and shelved her pain all day. She may even have been smiling.

I aim to direct my work, my words, my worship, my whole purpose towards lighting life. Mine first, then others.

Can you hear it?

Genius is calling.
Pick up.

Compassion is calling.
Pick up.

Someone today will be so grateful for your light, your voice, your grace.

We are never too successful, 
too accomplished, 
or too Spanxed

to not long to be seen. 
Held. 
Tightly, and in high regard.


"We are here for what amounts 
to a few hours, 
a day at most.
We feel around making 
sense of the terrain,
our own new limbs,
Bumping up against a herd of bodies 
until one becomes home.
Moments sweep past.
The grass bends, 
then learns again to stand."
 -Tracy Smith


Friends--

Read the room.
Make the call. 
Join my search and rescue:

Every soul who laces up,
All rows, and in the back corners

Join me--
 In love and abundance,
 Chelsea, in the arena 🌊

The Art of Staying Curious: Why Love, Empathy, and a Growth Mindset Will Transform Your Leadership.

Hey there, I've been thinking about something that's been dancing around the edges of my work for nearly two decades now. Something I see in the leade

Open article: Stay Curious: Why Love, Empathy, and a Growth Mindset Will Transform Your Leadership by Chelsea Wood 🌊 • 5 min read

Stay Curious: Why Love, Empathy, and a Growth Mindset Will Transform Your Leadership

My latest article is live. It’s all about making people care before they calculate: the power of story.

Research is clear: people retain around 65–70% of information shared through stories, but only 5–10% of information shared through stats alone. 

If you lead with data instead of narrative, you are losing the majority of your message before it ever reaches its intended audience.

In the piece, I break down the three story structures I use constantly as a leader and communicator:

The Transformation Story (before → struggle → breakthrough → after)
The Challenge Story (obstacle → stakes → possibility)
The Lesson Story (mistake → consequence → learning)

Maybe stories are just data with a soul. -Brené Brown

I don’t want my insights to die as bullet points. I want them to be experiences that people can feel, remember, and act upon.

I'd love to learn how the power of story has impacted you.

I was taught to lead with data. Charts. Bullet points. Perfectly structured arguments. People nodded. But they rarely moved. Then I started telling st

Open article: The Story You're Not Telling Is Costing You Everything by Chelsea Wood 🌊 • 7 min read

The Story You're Not Telling Is Costing You Everything

Great leaders do not grow alone.

The data is clear. Coaching is one of the highest ROI investments you can make, both for individuals and organizations. But this piece is not just about numbers. It is about the person you become when someone skilled is holding the mirror and holding you accountable.

The question isn't whether you can afford to be coached. It's whether you can afford not to be?

Over the past two decades, I've coached executives, built transformation programs, and witnessed something remarkable: the difference between those wh

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The 10X Coaching Principle: Why Great Leaders Don't Grow Alone

We're getting so excited about what AI can do that we're forgetting to talk about what it can't do. #AI #HumanAI

Hey, Let me tell you something that keeps me up at night: we're getting so excited about what AI can do that we're forgetting to talk about what it ca

Open article: Leading with Empathy in an AI-Driven World by Chelsea Wood 🌊 • 6 min read

Leading with Empathy in an AI-Driven World

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