Phillips named executive director at CRC

Kristina Phillips was recently appointed executive director of Career Resource Center in Lake Forest.

Phillips has been an active team builder, development expert, and leader with several area nonprofit organizations. She works closely with CRC's board, staff, and volunteers to seek and cultivate relationships with strategic partners, individual donors, private foundations, philanthropic entities, government organizations, and community agencies. Her professional experience spans public policy, workforce training and development, program design and implementation, donor management, event management, and grant writing.

She holds a BA, MPA, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in business organization and management.

Since 1990, Career Resource Center's individualized counseling, career-skills workshops, and informational resources have restored confidence and accelerated the return to meaningful and productive career paths of nearly 13,000 job candidates. Clients come from Lake and Cook counties, and span a range of disciplines, professions, experiences, and compensation levels. More information can be found at www.careerresourcecenter.org.