As a professional speaker and writer, Mary offers timely and insightful advice related to modern workplace and family challenges:
   
      … balancing competing demands
      … managing conflict
      … communicating what you want people to hear
      … using power and leadership effectively
      … recruiting and retaining the right people
      … intentionally and effectively balancing work and family

Through highly interactive corporate, nonprofit and association programs, Mary uses appealing techniques that encourage growth, something that she says is not only good for individuals, but also holds benefits for the organization as a whole.

Her style elicits rave reviews.  With audiences that range from engineers, to chemical salesmen, to women’s groups, to civic leaders and association boards, Mary’s presentations strike a common chord with audience members… the desire to transform themselves into their personal and professional best.

“What people come to realize through my work,” says Mary, “is that the quality of their life is directly impacted by the questions they choose to ask.  Most of us tend to be stuck in the rut of our comfortable behavior until someone challenges us.”
“With every project I take on, I aim to make it transformational.”

Vitae-at-a-Glance

• Speaking and writing professionally since 1988; full-time since 1998
• Midwestern roots, with national client base
• Member of the National Speaker’s Association
• Certified Association Executive with more than a decade of hands-on management experience
• Author of two well-received books, The Mother Load:  How to Meet Your Own Needs While Caring for Your Family and How to Say No and Live to Tell About It
• Frequent media guest for national TV and radio, including Total Living Network, Crossroads Christian Communications, LeSea Broadcasting, North American Mission Board, Moody Broadcasting, & Trinity TV
• Quoted in Women’s Day, Parents & Organic Style
• Featured by State Journal Register, The Pantagraph and The Janesville Gazette
• Multiple awards for publishing and promotion

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