Meet the Team
Darryl Pure, PhD
Darryl Pure is a psychologist, educator, and leadership consultant with decades of experience helping individuals and groups understand and change the interpersonal dynamics that shape their relationships and effectiveness. His extensive background in group facilitation gives him a nuanced understanding of how trust, conflict, communication, and unspoken assumptions influence how people work together.
Darryl is a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches Interpersonal Dynamics, an experiential course that helps emerging leaders understand their impact on others and develop greater interpersonal effectiveness.
Darryl brings patience, perceptiveness, and thoughtful curiosity to his work. He has a particular ability to ask questions that challenge assumptions and help people see beyond familiar patterns. Combining genuine empathy with skillful inquiry, he creates opportunities for people to engage with difficult issues, reflect more deeply, and consider new possibilities. At DeepNorth Leadership, he brings this depth of experience to individual coaching and leadership team development, helping leaders navigate complex relationships and build more effective ways of working together.
Christine Carpenter, PsyD
Christine Carpenter is a clinical psychologist, educator, and leadership consultant with more than 25 years of experience helping individuals and groups understand the interpersonal dynamics that shape their relationships and effectiveness. Her extensive experience facilitating groups gives her a deep understanding of how patterns of communication, trust, conflict, and influence emerge and affect the ways people work together.
Christine is a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she teaches Interpersonal Dynamics, an experiential course that challenges emerging leaders to examine their impact on others and develop more effective ways of relating.
Christine brings warmth, candor, and a keen eye for the dynamics unfolding between people. She combines a playful sense of humor with a deft touch in navigating difficult issues, helping people feel safe enough to engage in challenging work. Particularly skilled at making complex interpersonal patterns understandable and actionable, she helps leaders recognize how their assumptions and behaviors affect others. Her approach creates opportunities for individuals and teams to engage in difficult conversations, experiment with new behaviors, and develop more efficient working partnerships.
DeepNorth was built on a shared belief: leadership develops most powerfully through authentic human connection. For more than a decade, we’ve designed and facilitated experiences that help leaders better understand themselves, one another, and what happens between them.
Christine Carpenter, PsyD and Darryl Pure, PhD met through national and local group therapy communities, and since 2019 have been professional partners. Together, they bring complementary strengths, a shared passion for real-time interpersonal learning, and a belief that leadership transformation begins with authentic connection.
As faculty members at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, we’ve helped shape one of the country’s most respected and sought after experiential leadership programs, teaching hundreds of leaders each year how to navigate feedback, conflict, trust, and interpersonal dynamics.
