Driven by experience. Defined by results.
Dale Foster brings decades of leadership, strategy, organizational development, labor relations, and modernization experience to organizations facing complexity, workforce friction, process breakdowns, and change. He founded CRE, LLC to help leaders strengthen workforce capability, redesign broken processes, restore clarity, improve alignment, and prepare for AI-ready modernization with discipline.
Founder
Dale Foster and CRE, LLC
Dale founded CRE, LLC to help organizations strengthen workforce capability, redesign broken processes, restore clarity, and achieve disciplined modernization. He brings executive-level insight and practical strategies grounded in decades of military, federal, and private-sector leadership.
Delivers strategic clarity
Builds resilient teams
Modernizes with discipline
Background
Leadership experience across sectors
Four command and four COO-level assignments
Retired Army Colonel
Infantry, logistics, maintenance, civil affairs, and operational planning
Federal Senior Leader
Air Force civilian leadership in sustainment, HR, and organizational transformation
Strategic Leadership Educator
Army War College faculty and Mercer University adjunct professor
Doctor of Strategic Leadership
Regent University with Army War College and Georgia College graduate work
Results
Measurable Impact Across Organizations
Grievance reduction and labor stability
82% grievance reduction
Led interventions eliminating arbitration cases
Operational bottlenecks removed
Cleared backlogs and increased throughput
700+ leaders developed
Trained and coached across organizations
Modernization without mission loss
Preserved jobs while improving performance
Hall of fame leader
U.S. Army OCS Hall of Fame inductee recognized for superior peacetime and wartime service.
Strategic doctorate earned
Doctor of Strategic Leadership from Regent University with graduate work from the U.S. Army War College.
Federal Contracting Ready
CRE, LLC is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and is SAM-registered with CAGE Code 7QF68 and UEI KBN9AJT9MPZ4
Operational methods certified
Theory of Constraints Jonah, Lean Green Belt, and MBTI practitioner credentials.
Foresight and networks
Association of Professional Futurists member bringing strategic foresight to organizational modernization.
Ready to move forward?
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