Crystal Schaffer
Crystal Schaffer is a learning and development leader, strategic consultant, and executive coach with three decades of experience helping people and teams get unstuck, level up, and prepare for what’s next. She specializes in the messy problems that sit where leadership, learning, and change intersect—designing data-driven solutions to align leaders around strategic goals and build future-ready capabilities.
Crystal founded Nu U Consulting, LLC in 2007 on a simple principle: nuance matters—because it’s the small, subtle shifts at work and in life that can make all the difference. Since then, she has partnered with clients from the U.S. Navy to early-stage startups to help leaders and organizations navigate growth, change, and most recently AI—teaming with Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute (D^3). Previously, she spent 14 years with the Harvard Business School Publishing family of companies and 13 at Capgemini Group, where she designed and delivered enterprise-wide development programs for Fortune 500 firms, coached executive teams through disruption, led functional teams and workforce research, and equipped thousands of experienced leaders with next-level skills.
Crystal is a graduate of Rutgers University and a Master Certified iLead™ Individual, Team & Project coach and a New York University-trained life coach. Her workplace passions include trend and signal scouting, design thinking, and keeping the coffee and curiosity flowing.