Our Team: Chris Marcell Murchison, M.Ed.
Chris Marcell Murchison, M.Ed.
Vice President, Staff Development, Learning and Innovation
Chris Marcell Murchison guides HopeLab’s efforts to create an organizational culture that values learning and innovation. Since joining HopeLab in 2005, he has led a strategic staff expansion to support a focused portfolio of work. He also has led the development of principles and practices that guide staff and organization development and embed HopeLab’s values values into the everyday operations of the organization. Chris also has initiated an innovative, research-based health and wellness program uniquely tailored to HopeLab. The program emphasizes energy, engagement and personal fulfillment to significantly increase staff’s capacity for productivity and quality of life.
In his 25-year career in the public and private sectors, Chris has focused on staff and organization development. Prior to joining HopeLab, he was with Charles Schwab Corporation in San Francisco, where he was Director of Talent Management and Development after first serving as Senior Manager, Schwab Technology Education, overseeing the development of career development and management development programs. His experience also includes nine years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Academic Program Coordinator from 1991 to 1996 and Manager of the Staff Internship Program from 1996 to 2000. Chris began his professional career as the Director of the Residential Leadership/First-Year Program at St. Lawrence University from 1988 to 1991. Chris was also a member of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Board of Directors from 1997 to 2003, serving as Vice Chair from 1999 to 2003.
Chris received his B.A. in Biology, with honors, from Earlham College in 1985 and his M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, with honors, from the University of Vermont in 1988.
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