Executive Coach | Leadership Consultant | Strategic Advisor
Learning Architect | Master Facilitator

Marni partners with clients to develop leadership that serves their vision, goals, strategy, and that of their organizations. She specializes in C-suite through high-potential leaders who face a trenchant challenge, increased responsibility, or transition. A deft systems thinker with a strategic-relational approach, she helps clients align their purpose and impact — empowering them to close the gap between current reality and desired future state.

Marni works at the level of mindset that underlies behaviors and actions. And she adeptly develops the practical behaviors vital to succeed. Informed by neuroscience and through a discovery process rooted in deep listening, keen insight, and steep expertise, she helps clients transform opportunities into breakthroughs and practices that catalyze growth. Aligning strategy, people, and culture to business outcomes, her work elevates communication, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, collaboration, and agility for leadership effectiveness.

Her steep cross-industry experience spans F200, private, and high-growth stage firms. She has design-delivered numerous acclaimed leadership development and coaching programs with consistently outstanding results, multiple executive renewals and referrals, and client-estimated ROI of $1B.

Background

Marni began her career as a Professor at the State University of New York, where she was granted tenure and promotion unanimously. She held several leadership positions, helped create a five-year strategic plan, led a comprehensive program revision, managed key faculty searches, and developed faculty. Later, as a Transformation Advisor at CA Technologies, Marni advised the CTO as to the company’s agile transformation–a role grounded in building relationships at all levels, root cause analysis, and systems thinking. She diagnosed organizational needs and synthesized insights and culture change solutions for key partners. Her 2017 LinkedIn article, “Agile for the Rest of Us: Transformational Leadership and the Road to Agility,” describes this experience and conveys her strategic-relational approach.

As faculty for the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado and the CU Leadership Studies Minor, Marni taught, “Business Applications of Social Responsibility,” and “Becoming a Leader.” An alum and graduate group leader of the Hoffman Process, athlete, yoga & meditation practitioner, parent, and former professor, Marni’s approach is holistic, and grounded in a growth mindset.

Certifications, Design-Facilitation, & Clients

Marni is fluent in the transformative inner and interpersonal work that breeds lasting success. She recognizes the strengths and patterns singular to each client that informs their next evolution. Certified and steeply experienced in Crucial Conversations^®, Establishing Collaborative Partnerships, and SAFe^® (Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise), Marni also has design-delivered Executive Presence & Influence, Emotional Intelligence, Trust, Holistic Leadership^®, Personal Mastery, Meditation for Leadership & a Growth Mindset, and more.

She has worked with executives and senior leaders at JLL & JLL Technologies, Vanguard, Northern Trust, Zayo Group, GrubHub, AllSaints, Athleta, Team Snap, CA Technologies, Newmont Mining, US EPA and HUD, Medical Group Management Association, and more.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.