“For leaders, the first task in management has nothing to do with leading others; step one poses the challenge of knowing and managing oneself.” -Daniel Goleman
Welcome to Leisen Consulting!
Hello – and Welcome! I’m Mary Beth Leisen, Ph.D., and I provide leadership development and strategic facilitation services.
Leadership Development: I help leaders identify their sense of purpose and develop the emotional and social intelligence and the resilience skills needed to excel in today’s complex, fast-paced work environment. In differentiating outstanding leaders from average ones, 90% of the difference is attributable to these critical skills in self-awareness and self-management skills. Effective leaders must also be able to maintain energy, focus, prioritization, and presence to avoid overwhelm and burnout. I work with leaders to develop these skills so they remain at the top of their game.
Strategic Facilitation: I partner with clients to identify objectives and then develop an approach to deliver on them. Successful strategic facilitation requires attention to both the human and the business elements of the engagement. I work with clients to succeed on both levels. I facilitate strategic planning sessions, global meetings, leadership team development, team dynamics workshops, and many other types of meetings for diverse clients, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.
Transition Services: I help individuals, teams, and organizations leverage times of transition to their strategic advantage through: (1) skill-building and support, (2) team alignment and effective communication, and (3) transition management. In skill-building programs, I teach people to manage themselves and others more effectively. I help teams form around shared vision and operating principles and intervene to help challenged teams address issues and move forward. I also work with individuals and teams at transition points to maximize learnings, close the past, and powerfully step forward to realize a new vision.
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Testimonials
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“I have tremendous respect for Mary Beth, she is one of the smartest, most insightful people I’ve worked with during my career. I hired her to do leadership training and her work was widely admired by our teams. She has a remarkable ability to bring people together to identify challenges and solve problems with warmth and inclusiveness. She is an effective coach who knows how to assess an individual’s strength and opportunities and inspire them to grow and improve. I am confident she can help any team get smarter, more productive and more connected.”
- Tony, CMO, former CEO
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“I brought Mary Beth in to facilitate an all-day intensive reset meeting for 38 team members to build camaraderie, surface grievances, and help us work together to develop operating principals and gel as a team. I had worked with Mary Beth once before on something similar, so I knew she would be the perfect person to call to help me…
…and WOW! It was the best day. Everyone who attended had overwhelming positive feedback, not just for the day but also on what a wonderful job Mary Beth did. She certainly is gifted and has a unique skill set that I think many other teams could benefit from in this way. I received a lot of feedback from the group who were spread across the country. They said they wished that their other or previous accounts would do something similar, even once a year at least or at the beginning of ramping up a big large team. Everyone was so thankful for the time and effort that Mary Beth put into the day, the way she brought us all together and got us to think about each other, our work and our clients differently. At the end of the day, everyone was just so excited and energized to work on this account – and I thank Mary Beth for that!”
- Charity, VP, Client Management
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“Mary Beth is a best-in-class strategic partner. I have had the pleasure to work with her to tackle many complex global business challenges and uncover business and talent structural opportunities. Her key strengths are:
- Working well with clients to define issues and develop strategies to address them
- Broad consulting breadth and depth, developing relationships across departments and geographies
- Strategic thinking across of a variety categories
- Workshop facilitation and content creation – strong at leading a group through a process
- Able to quickly make an impact with high level thinking to influence key executive stakeholders
Mary Beth’s curious nature and strong intellect make her an excellent leader. Her compassion and unwavering patience are also value assets that truly set her apart as a stellar strategic partner and training/development facilitator.”
- Lucy, SVP Account Director