For nearly 40 years we've delivered leading-edge programs that help increase individual and organizational success and accelerate performance.  Our programs are powerful, practical, effective and fun for a wide variety of people.  We are experts in experiential education that leads to lasting results.  Our founders combined two things to create the impactful courses of Context International: 

1. Lifelong research into the factors that drive effective living
2. A unique, participatory approach to learning

The resulting programs:

• Are fun and fast-paced
• Take place in a trusting, respectful, environment
• Deliver a powerful combination of immediate results and lifelong tools

Transform lives for the good of individuals and the world

The mission of Context International is to strengthen the fabric of good will that exists in the world, through our commitment to life long learning and fostering meaningful connection in community.

Leadership-Team

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Leadership Team

Elisabeth Revell
Owner

​Elisabeth Revell relishes her role as a nourisher of potential and finds inspiration for that regularly not only as President of Context International but as a facilitator for Mastery I and II, the graduate classes that invite participants to take the culmination of their learning from the Excellence Series up to another level to reveal for themselves, “What is my Stand?”, “What is my life question?” and “What is my Calling in life?”

Elisabeth grew up immersed in the human potential movement as the daughter of Context International founders Randy and Judy Revell.  In the process of finding a calling for herself she acquired a BA in Business from Franklin and Marshall College and an MBA from Villanova University then worked in environmental consulting, project management, marketing and training.  After many years on the East Coast and a solo tour of Europe she returned to California to join her parents in their effort to strengthen the fabric of good will that exists in the world through Context International.

Elisabeth is also an accomplished gardener with a keen design eye.

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Kathleen Carie
Chief Executive Officer

​Kathleen Carie is one of the driving forces behind Context International as its CEO.  In addition to those responsibilities Kathleen is the co-author, in partnership with founder Randy Revell, of and facilitator for the third program in The Excellence Series, The Advancement of Excellence.

Kathleen is the founder of Accountability Circles, started in 2008 with a team of people dedicated to getting extraordinary results in their lives.  The teams have continued to meet twice a month thriving for 9 years with phenomenal success in each person's life.  

Kathleen delights in the exploration of human potential, lifelong learning and inspires participants to “Step up to Personal Stardom” as they actively take the principles learned in the first two classes, The Pursuit of Excellence and The Wall, helping them to make those principles manifest in the lives they live in the world.  

Kathleen has a successful and extensive background in business and personnel management, opening Seattle’s landmark restaurant and bar, Jake O’Shaughenessy’s and running another of Seattle’s iconic eateries, FX McRorys for 9 years as well.  Kathleen joined Context International as a facilitator in 1983 under the tutelage of founder Randy Revell.

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Facilitators

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Facilitators

Jim Sorensen
Pursuit of Excellence Facilitator 

​Jim Sorensen’s career facilitating transformational learning and heightened emotional intelligence programs has taken him around the globe working with small, start-up companies to multinational corporations and the governments of the United States, Canada, Russia and Uzbekistan.

Jim provides companies, and the people that work in them, tools to improve results, increase professional and personal satisfaction and enhance levels of effectiveness.

As a highly sought-after speaker, Jim’s witty and engaging style with his audiences creates a dynamic and inspiring environment for learning and growth.  Testimonials from participants and clients include words like:  insightful, relevant, provocative, engaging and very human.

 Jim has designed and facilitated workshops for over 30 years and has mentored and trained fellow facilitators for the past 20 years.  He is particularly skilled at creating tailored programs for business challenges including team building and co-operative work environments, undoing institutional racism, cross-cultural training and generational conflict, effective presentation skills, and accountability for results in the work place. 

 Jim is also an accomplished artist and illustrator with seven books to his credit.  He has also been interviewed on over 50 talk shows including programs on NPR and NBC .

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Carol Peringer
Mastery, Wall and Inside Passage  Facilitator

​Carol Peringer has been facilitating programs for Context International since 1986.  Carol is a trainer, guide and program leader who warmly creates space for everyone no matter where they are in life.  Keenly intuitive, studied, masterfully insightful as well as deliciously irreverent and engaging, Carol has a nurturing and evocative style that inspires participants to gently “dig deeper” as they seek to discover what drives them and to find their passions. 

Carol has inspired thousands in her role as facilitator for Context International’s second course in the Excellence Series, The Wall, as well as graduate programs including Mastery I, Mastery II and Presentation Dynamics.

Carol has been crafting curriculum since the ‘90’s and in 2001 introduced her course, Inside Passage, a program that invites participants to decide, declare, discover, and create the best of who they are.  Carol is regarded as a touchstone of authenticity and compassionately guides people toward discovering and owning the best of who they are as well as uncovering the gifts they contribute to the world.

 Carol is a Seattle area native, an artist and champion for people searching for what has meaning for them in life. 
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Trish Dyck
Pursuit of Excellence  and Wall Facilitator

​Training and Development Specialist / Leadership Facilitator and Coach / Professional Speaker.

Trish brings fun, energy, insightfulness, and passion to the program room. She utilizes her broad experience in management, entrepreneurship, facilitation and sales to assist others to get the results they identify as important. She enjoys laughter, experiencing joy in the moment, sharing good times with friends and expanding her horizons. A thirst for knowledge drives her to continually expand her comfort zone, and has completed her Masters in Leadership at Royal Roads University. Trish is dedicated to health and wellness, remaining active through her love of rock climbing, running, swimming, hiking, and sailing. An integral part of her life with her husband is spending time with their five children and four grandchildren.

Trish is committed to delivering training and coaching that inspires and motivates people, and produces concrete, sustainable results for organizations.

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Dan Sullivan
Pursuit of Excellence and Wall Facilitator

​Dan Sullivan has over 20 years designing, developing and delivering programs to enhance professional, personal and emotional intelligence skills.  Dan’s management and technical experience includes tenure with companies such as The Boeing Company, K2 Ski Corporation, Coors Ceramics and Context International.

 Sullivan’s presentation style embodies an empathic, intuitive nature and incomparable dry wit while his training schedule takes him to a variety of locations nationally and internationally facilitating programs that include leadership, emotional intelligence in the workplace, customer service and retention, motivation, personal accountability and responsibility, enhanced communication and performance coaching.  Dan also authors facilitator manuals and participant workbooks.

 An avid outdoor enthusiast and advocate for wildlife, Dan lives with his wife Elisabeth Revell outside Seattle.

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Larry Reymore
The Excellence Series and Mastery Facilitator

For over 26 years, Larry Reymore has had it as a personal mission to “make a heart-felt difference in people’s lives, contributing in significant, measurable ways to the life-satisfaction of individuals and the effectiveness of organizations.”  Larry has conducted countless corporate trainings and public seminars nationally and internationally for groups from 5 – 2,000.  Currently he facilitates all of The Excellence Series and Mastery Series courses for Context International.

Larry is an inveterate explorer who has trekked through Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer, lead Outward Bound climbing programs, skippered sailboats in the Caribbean, guided commercial white water rafting trips throughout the Northwest, and traveled to over 40 countries.  His love of teaching got started in Nepal where he taught math to Tibetan refugee children.

Larry’s humorous, engaging and compassionate style has guided participants in programs from Seattle to Uzbekistan to Hong Kong and to the Yukon all the while inspiring them to make personal breakthroughs, discovering new strengths and abilities and creating an expanded vision of their own potential.
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Matthew Fairfax
Pursuit Of Excellence Facilitator

Matthew Fairfax was introduced to The Excellence Series in the fall of 1995 through a close family member.  The impact the courses had on both his personal life and his professional life were powerful and life shifting.  After using the new principles and concepts in his role as Director of Human Resources with Washington Dental Service (WDS), he then ventured into small business ownership and consulting in order to demonstrate and educate.  Matthew sees himself as a “living lesson”, a work-in-progress on the journey of life-long learning and while continuing to learn for himself, is profoundly adept at inspiring and encouraging others to learn as well.

In addition to inspiring participants in The Pursuit of Excellence and providing corporate training through Context, Matthew is president/CEO of both Northern Torch Consulting and James Alan Salon.  A graduate of the University of Washington Executive Development Program and the UCLA Executive Salon Management Program, Matthew has combined and applied his Human Resources skills and his business acumen to the salon industry.  He purchased James Alan Salon in August 1999 and he and his team (now over 25 employees) have increased revenue by 200% with minimal stylist turnover.  For seven years, James Alan Salon was on Washington CEO magazine’s “Best Companies to Work For” list, selected as the top company in 2003 and 2005.

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Support-Team

Support Team

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Lynnea Jardine
Representative
Lynnea Jardine graduated from the Excellence Series in 1984, and has been a Context International Representative since Sept. 2014.

Lynnea completed her graduate degree in consciousness studies, MCSL, 2000. in 2009.

Lynnea founded the Spiritual Care Institute, a global not for profit  specializing in spiritual care, chaplaincy, and counseling.
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Lynnea designed and facilitated courses in spiritual and cultural diversity, as well as various complimentary healing modalities, licensed in Washington State, CC, LMP, LRCP, consults with businesses, has a private counseling practice, facilitates  memorials, funerals, weddings and commitment ceremonies.

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Teresa Woods
Representative
Teresa Woods graduated from the Excellence Series in May 2016, and has been a Context International Representative since August 2015.
 Teresa also works for Renton Technical College as their Event Manager and for LifeSPAN as a facilitator for three disabled adults.

Prior to Context International, Teresa worked more than 12 years at Girl Scouts of Western Washington – most recently as their Director of Events and Corporate Partners.

To support Teresa’s need to be creative, she sells her art (jewelry, dream catchers, and more) at Northwest Pow Wows and various local events.

​Through her work with Context International, Teresa has honed in more deeply with her own spiritual energy, and looks forward to helping others discover their own special gifts.

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Pat Ford
Operations Manager
Born in California, and raised in Saudi Arabia, Pat was extremely fortunate to travel around the world to many different countries before she was sixteen.  These experiences led to her developing a healthy curiosity about people (including herself) and what makes them “tick!”   This curiosity led her to a lifelong career in education, quickly realizing that “you teach best what you most need to learn.” 

She started her career as a classroom teacher in California, Oregon and Washington.  After experiencing their programs, she became Area Manager for Context International. After 11 years, she chose to bring her talents to the Girl Scouts of Western Washington where she was responsible for managing the Volunteer Learning Department, writing curriculum and preparing and supporting volunteer facilitators.

​Not being able to stay away, and because of her respect for the organization and its incredible work with people, she rejoined Context International after retiring from the Girl Scouts. In addition Pat, along with two partners, has launched a Bed and Breakfast in Woodinville, Washington. In that role she gets to meet a variety of people in a totally new way.  
 

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Marvel Hansford
Volunteer Coordinator

Marvell attended the Excellence Series in the late 80’s, has assisted numerous times and is herself a top notch volunteer. We are excited to have you on the Context team Marvell. 

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Founders

Founders

Randy Revell - Co-Founder
Practical Visionaries with a Life Purpose
Over 35 years ago, Randy and Judy Revell became pioneers and leaders in the field of self-awareness education. One of Randy’s distinctive qualities was his ability to apply diverse experiences and knowledge to his own life.

This integration is a cornerstone of The Excellence Series and was also a driving force behind Randy’s personal, professional, and financial success. In other words—he practiced what he preached! He knew from his own experience that his ideas about abundance, effectiveness and creating excellence could generate amazing results for people across all aspects of life.  Randy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, followed by graduate work in mathematics and communications.  Before founding Context International, he was in the Air Force, served the U.S. government for 11 years as a specialist in communications and education, worked as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and was a consultant to Fortune 500 executives.

His personal stand in life (something our graduate students learn in Mastery I) was to be a Champion of Good Will.  Randy believed good will in relationships creates safety. In safety, people are more likely to show up as themselves. From this willingness to show up as one is, miracles occur.

Randy believed Context International’s exceptionally effective programs had a purpose beyond himself: that they could inspire people to move forward, get great results, and contribute to others, creating a better world for everyone. Although he passed away in 2004, his legacy continues through his  daughter Elisabeth and a host of facilitators and graduates around the world.

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Judy Revell - Co-Founder
Judy met Randy while he was in the Air Force. After three dates, they were engaged to be married. This extraordinary, integrated partnership continued until Randy’s death in 2004, and the work they began continues today.

Born into a military family in California, Judy spent her early years traveling the world. Educated in Germany and Virginia, she earned a B.A. in History and a teaching certificate in secondary education. In 1968, she and Randy moved to California following the birth of their daughter, Elisabeth. It was here that the Revells became involved in the science of human potential and designed the courses that became The Excellence Series. Judy is particularly respected for designing the content of the second course, The Wall.

Judy served as Chief Financial Officer of Context International until her stroke in 1991. She remains a vigorous and dynamic leader, known as a woman who combines dignity, elegance, and grace with a hunger for mental stimulation and deep laughter.  Judy’s “can-do” attitude is motivated by the quest for joy and achievement. “Yes I can” was her personal motto long before it became a political slogan.  Judy passed away in 2013.

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