About Our Team

Gerry Tabio began his media career as a Promotions Director back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But it wasn't until a few years later that Gerry, already a General Manager, took on the challenge of adapting the process most people know as Creative Problem Solving, to a real-world marketing application. The Creative Resources Process emerged out of the pursuit to develop a repeatable process to generate marketing ideas that create value for media companies and results for their advertising clients.

Gerry founded Creative Resources in 1990. Since then, he and the rest of our team have trained and consulted for thousands of managers, sales people, and facilitators in many of the largest and most respected media companies in the world.

Sally Beamer learned very early in her sales career that every client is unique, and that the best way for her to succeed was to focus her energies on helping her clients grow their business. From the moment Sally joined Creative Resources, she brought that real-world perspective into the Creative Resources System. Sally’s extensive background as a successful sales person, Sales Manager, and General Manager helped her develop a finely tuned sense of empathy for the managers who are ultimately expected to adopt and execute new systems. 

Whether she is consulting with one of the clients for whom she has direct responsibility, or advising the other members of the Creative Resources consulting team, Sally's approach is always to understand what the individual sales leader is attempting to accomplish and then create a custom plan to help them get there.

Crystal Hardy is a cum laude graduate of Tulsa University. She majored in Marketing with a specialization in Integrated Marketing Communications. Before joining Creative Resources as Business Manager, Crystal worked at the IdeaStudio advertising agency, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Crystal's contributions to our clients' companies go far beyond the scope of her day job as our Business Manager. As the person who leads our Sales Analytics effort, Crystal does the number crunching that helps our clients stay focused on the activities that make them the most money.

If you've been to one of our workshops in the recent past, then you have benefitted from Debbie Kennedy's talent for logistics and for making things run smoothly.

Debbie joined our team after relocating to Tulsa from Memphis, where she spent 30 years working for one of the largest McDonald's franchisees in the country. Debbie’s experience coordinating the support staff for a large team of executives has been a boon to our company and to our clients, as she makes sure that everyone and everything is exactly where it needs to be at the right time.