Justin Christiansen

“Justin is an exceptional leader. I had the pleasure of working with Justin as a peer for many years at Intel, and most recently, I have been working directly for him as part of the Software and Solutions team. Justin can connect strategic trends and issues insightfully and uniquely, turning those insights into impactful and executable strategies and business outcomes. He challenges the status quo effectively and operates seamlessly across complex organizational boundaries to deliver business results. His open, candid, and transparent leadership skills and approach are everything employees desire in a strong, confident, and compassionate leader. He inspires others with a great sense of humor, being personally open and authentic, storytelling, and connecting current challenges with real-life examples that help employees see things clearly or in new ways. He gets results through others by showing that he cares professionally and personally about the people he works with and those who directly work for him. He is a role model for leading others (servant leadership) - balancing rigorous business skills with coaching, advice, inspiration, and creativity. He gets into the trenches with his team to solve complex problems, works tirelessly to achieve business results, and ensures the team gets credit. Good managers are hard to come by, but good managers who are superb leaders are even rarer. Justin brings superb management and leadership skills that make working with him and for him purposeful, inspiring, and enjoyable while delivering high impact business results.”

“Justin is truly a world class leader, combining all the skills that I personally look for in a manager, coach and co-worker. He has great vision with the ability to see the big picture and develop not only a strategy to capitalize on an opportunity, but build and execute an implementation plan for success. He works effectively at all levels from executive to individual contributor to align teams, get buy-in and deliver on a plan. He has a strong track record to meeting and exceeding goals as an individual as well as across the teams that he leads. He is tenacious with a "won't lose" attitude, but is measured and realistic in setting expectations. He is an excellent coach and mentor who absolutely cares about the personal and professional growth of his team. I have seen him go out of his way to find development opportunities and roles that are the best fit for people on his team, whether that is crafting new positions and responsibilities inside his org or helping people to move into new roles outside of his team. He is willing to spend time and effort to help people reach their peak potential in their current job as well as in their career. He is the sort of leader who builds highly successful teams, grows individuals and truly cares about people as much as business outcomes.”