Fargo Women in Business: Christine Hoper Hovde,Technology

Christine Hoper Hovde - Technology
Born: Minneapolis, MN, 1969
Education: B.S. Public Relations, UND, 1993
Business: Interactive Services Manager, Spider and Company
is Manager
Community Volunteering: Habitat for Humanity, YWCA
On leadership, “... the ability to listen, a willingness to take chances in both safe and unfamiliar environments, the strength to stand firm in your convictions, the insight to recognize differences as simply differences, and the discipline to continually seek to understand ourselves well enough to be aware of the filters we put up when we seek to understand others.”

Guidance, advice and encouragement from others are valuable and precious to all of us. It helps us to overcome obstacles and come out successfully on the other side of challenges. Christine said that her mother is her best mentor and inspires her in business and otherwise. Christine said, “She has an amazing talent of making you feel like you’re the most important person in the world.”
Christine explains that her mother is good at the little things like remembering people’s favorite things or sending little notes for no reason other than she is thinking of someone. Remembering back on moments in her life as she was growing up, Christine said,” Now I understand it was my mother adding her special touch to an everyday situation.”
During her childhood, Christine lived in many places across the upper Midwest since her father is a pastor and has served many congregations over the span of his career. Christine is from a large family—one of five children, four of whom were adopted in to the family.
Early on, Christine worked as a junior high track coach and served as a camp counselor and a church youth group leader. In fact, outside of her current position at Spider and Company her favorite job was working as a track coach. All of Christine’s work experiences have combined to provide her with the keen listening and problem solving skills that it takes to successfully work with clients and surpass their business needs and expectations.
Years later as a very accomplished professional, Christine’s wide array of career experiences has culminated in to her position at Spider and Company. As the Interactive Services Manager, Christine is involved on the project management side of the company’s web and interactive services and works with a variety of businesses and oversees the creation of effective and successful interactive web services.
Previously working in tech support for Great Plains Software and Microsoft, Christine realized that her effectiveness had much to do with communications and asking herself and the person she was assisting,” Are we arriving at a solution?” Asking that same question today is key to Christine’s success.
Christine’s bio at www.spiderandcompany.com reads, “With an educational background in communications, public relations, English and psychology, the connection that brings it all together for Christine is her talent for listening and analyzing the ever changing needs and environments of team members, partners and customers...then streamlining existing systems and processes to create efficient solutions that work and grow with their business.”
After coaching track and before joining Spider and Company Christine’s business background has included work in non-profit organizations (Trollwood Performing Arts School, Northwest MN Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and small to mid-market business organizations. She recently spent seven years with Great Plains Software and Microsoft, where her focus spanned technical support, classroom training and online curriculum development, partner and customer event content management, online web production, and a global project with sites across 26 countries.
A typical day for Christine still includes many meetings and has her very scheduled throughout the work day. She said that every day is different and that she works with an amazing group of people. She said that co workers are fun, experts at what they do and create a lot of energy when working on projects.
Christine says that current trends in her area include interactive services that sell research and market the client’s services. Because technology leads the way, Christine said that it is important to keep personal contact with clients and she is always searching for ways to make a person feel sincerely appreciated.
Christine said that she really enjoys being at Spider and Company and that the company provides constant opportunities to expand her professional knowledge, learn more about business and how businesses use technology. Christine said that everyday brings new challenges with it and those add something more to herself. She feels that the more experiences you have the better equipped a person is throughout life.
Throughout the business day while using her listening skills, helping others find solutions and conveying her appreciation for people….I have a distinct feeling that Christine is a lot like her mother….
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