Some would see him as half of the "odd couple." While Dan Apple has been the "front man," actively interacting with people all over the country (and in some cases around the globe), Karl Krumsieg has been the man behind the scenes who, through the years has allowed our company to stretch and diversify, allowing Dan and other event facilitators to focus on interacting and consulting with educators at their home institutions. Perhaps you have "met" Karl via email or phone call, or you have otherwise benefited from his role as a jack-of-all-trades supporting many different types of projects.

• Perhaps you have worked with Karl on custom publishing projects. Until recently, Karl has been our sole desktop publishing expert.

• He has authored, co-authored, or participated in the conception of several of our most foundational texts and institute handbooks, helping to get the emerging conceptualization of Process Education down in print.

• If you have ever attended one of our events, you have benefited from Karl’s behind-the-scenes work as our product fulfillment manager. He has seen to it that three-ring binders, texts, and other supplies arrived on site in time for institutes to take place.

• Until recently, if you have ever called our home office in Lisle, IL, you will have invariably heard the reliably polite, gentle voice at the other end, saying, "Pacific Crest, this is Karl Krumsieg speaking."

• Karl is our accountant who has handled all the financial issues of the company.

• He has served as our web master who has kept the company calendar straight so that any of us could access the calendar months in advance as we planned attendance at various Pacific Crest events.

• Karl is our human encyclopedia who can pull up names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers for a network of Process Educators around the country, as well as the historical memory for many diverse projects and goals.

Karl is a servant leader who will do whatever he can to assure that our customers are satisfied. He has strong convictions about operating with integrity, trustworthiness, and an aim to serve others. Karl epitomizes the image of the self-directed lifelong learner. Karl holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has built a whole cadre of skills that have nothing to do with his primary areas of study to perform a job for which there is no blueprint. Because of Karl’s quiet and unassuming ways, some people who don’t know him well may picture a bespectacled man who commutes to and from an office with a briefcase, leading a pretty humdrum existence. Well…he does wear glasses, but don’t be fooled. Underneath that polite, mild-mannered exterior beats the heart of an adventurer. Like many students, Karl worked his way through college—selling educational books door-to-door. He was so successful at it that, for a number of years after college, he was able to alternate between periods of book selling and extensive traveling.
	And when we say traveling we mean it. Karl has been all over the globe, through much of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and many countries in Asia and Africa, including Japan, Thailand, Singapore, India, Nepal, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and the Congo. And he isn’t finished! It is ironic that one of his most exciting and far-a-field trips led him to work for us. He met the woman who would become his wife while he was on safari in Africa. (Margaret, who is British, shares Karl’s love of travel and adventure.) Their union intensified his need to settle down at least a bit and find a "real job," and when he was offered this job 19 years ago, the size and nature of the company was a natural fit. Pacific Crest has benefited in a multitude of ways from Karl’s flexibility and willingness to tread unpaved paths, conforming his work to various and changing roles. As the company is growing, Karl’s roles are evolving into that of comptroller and the manager of the publishing side of the company.  Growth means giving up some of the latitude of the job while also becoming more proficient in some of the areas where he is most needed. Trust that he will always be finding ways to push the envelope.