Marsha Petrie Sue, MBA, CSP

A former Fortune 100 executive who is irreverent, entertaining and focuses on real-time skills. Best-selling author of The Reactor Factor

Personal Accountability, Communications, Flexibility, Change 

Marsha Petrie Sue is the Muhammad Ali of personal development, leadership, communications and managing change. She can dance and look pretty, and she uses the entire ring, but she knows how and when to land a knockout punch.

Think of her presentations as charm school with live ammunition. She challenges every morsel of your beliefs while entertaining and enlightening. She dares people to take personal responsibility for their choices, success and life. Marsha is an original and one-of-a-kind professional speaker and author. Whether dealing with employee relationships, increasing productivity or pumping up sales, her guiding principles bring energy and fun to any meeting or event. Her clients include small and large corporations, associations, healthcare institutions and multilevel marketing companies. As a former corporate executive of Fortune 100 companies, Marsha understands what it takes to improve productivity and profits. Her latest book, The Reactor Factor: How to Handle Difficult Work Situations Without Going Nuclear tackles the entitlement attitude, making smart moves in tough times, obesity in the workplace and personal responsibility head-on. Toxic People: Decontaminate Difficult People at Work Without Using Weapons or Duct Tape, is a #1 Best Seller on Barnes & Noble, CEO Read and Bookscan. She is also the author of several other resources, including the award-winning CEO of YOU: Leading YOURSELF to Success.

Topics:

• Communications and conflict resolution
• Flexibility and change resolution
• Personal accountability
• Eliminating entitlement in the workplace

Content and Outcomes: Through keynotes and workshops, Marsha's profound solutions guide groups to make significant changes with the ability to take risk, be more flexible, make better choices and focus on important targets.

• Increased productivity and cooperation
• Maximized profitability
• Decreased expense and turnover

With personal accountability as a key component, retention, loyalty, trust and ethics are refined.

Sampling of clients:

• American Express
• The Doctors Company
• Society of Foodservice Management
• IPC The Hospitalist
• National Association of Realtors
• U.S. Army
• National Association of Dental Plans
• U.S. Census Bureau
• Law Office Management Association of Canada
• Harley-Davidson Motor Company
• The BONES Society, Inc.
• Association of Accounting Administration
• Cold Stone Creamery
• BounceU Franchisee Meeting
• Internal Revenue Service
• Wells Fargo Bank
• Association of Legal Administrators
• Society for Information Management
• LifeLock
• University of Illinois
• Unilever

 Occupational Highlights:

• President and CEO – Communicating Results, Inc., a speaking practice, executive coaching and training company
• Executive Vice President, Westinghouse Financial Services, American Directory Project
• Director, National Accounts, USWest/Qwest
• Regional Markets Manager, GTE Directory Company
• Visiting Professor, Arizona State University
• Advisory Board of Directors, Reliance Bank

 Recognition:

• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
• Featured in in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, Investor's Business Daily, The Boston Globe, Women's Media, AllBusiness.com, Human Resource Executive, Body Soul, USA Today and more.
• Recipient of the Women of Spirit Award from the American Red Cross and Morton's Steak House
• Chairman of the Board – AZ Magic of Music and Dance for Special Needs Children
• Telly Award Winner

 Education:

• MBA, University of Phoenix
• BA, California State University, Long Beach
• Darden School of Business
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator Certificate