Doug Crandall

“You were the perfect thing at the perfect time for me in my development as a leader.”

—Cody Granrud, Customer Service Manager, Amazon.com

Leader. Teacher. Author. Coach.

Doug Crandall is an associate consultant at McKinney Rogers with a primary focus on the leadership development programs at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. He is also a student in Gonzaga University’s Doctoral Program for Leadership Studies. A graduate of West Point and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has led multiple units in the Army, and spent time as an executive at Amazon.com. For five years, Doug taught leadership at West Point, where he won the Excellence in Teaching Award and exceeded the academy average in every area of teaching feedback during each semester he taught.  Doug also transformed the academy’s core leadership curriculum (the first revision in nearly 20 years), and co-authored and edited the internationally-released book Leadership Lessons from West Point.  He recently co-authored Hope Unseen (with Captain Scotty Smiley).

While at Amazon, Doug created and taught Amazon Leadership Foundations (ALF), a leadership development program for front-line leaders.  In addition to teaching at West Point and Amazon, Doug has lectured for Stanford, Duke, The Wharton School, Columbia (a graduate-level course in leadership development), Cornell, JPMorgan Partners, GE, Citigroup, IBM, National City Bank, and Pittney Bowes.

Doug also serves as the Director of Leadership Programs and Corporate Education at Columbia Basin College and teaches associate degree classes at Coyote Ridge Correctional Center.

Doug Crandall is a husband and father of four, former volunteer youth group leader with Young Life, and long-time youth soccer and basketball coach.  He currently coaches his daughter’s soccer team and his son’s AAU basketball team and serves on the boards of  United Way of Benton and Franklin Counties, Tri-Cities Young Life, and the Three Rivers Soccer Club.

You can contact Doug directly at doug@bluerudder.net.