Marnie Green’s goal, via her Management Education Group, is to guide organizational leaders through their workplace challenges. To accomplish this objective, her firm provides valuable step-by-step programs and facilitation services that create more effective leaders and team members. As a veteran human resource developer, she promises that participants will walk away from the programs she presents with practical ideas and skills.

Green is the author of Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day to Day Employee Performance, recently published by Pearson/Prentice Hall (2006).

Her clients include dozens of municipalities, counties, and government agencies of all types, including the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the County of San Diego, and the cities of Las Vegas, NV and San Jose, CA. Marnie also served on an international team of trainers, course developers, and medical doctors to create a system-wide change program for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Egyptian Ministry of Health. She continues to consult on an international basis, with clients on four continents.

Her accomplishments include establishing leadership development programs for the Best Run City in the World, Phoenix, Arizona, facilitating strategic planning and team building processes for successful, high growth entrepreneurial firms, and becoming a successful entrepreneur herself, serving clients across the globe. On a personal note, she recently reached the top of Africa’s highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Marnie holds a bachelor’s degree in Personnel Management and a Master’s degree in Business Administration-Finance, both from Arizona State University. She is on the faculties of the University of Phoenix and the University of Phoenix Online, facilitating courses in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Public Speaking, and Legal Issues.

Active in several professional associations, Marnie is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, the Society for Human Resource Management and has served on the board of directors for the Arizona Chapter of the International Personnel Management Association. She is a frequent speaker at local, national, and international conferences on workforce-related issues including Leadership Development, Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent, The Future Workforce, and Performance Management.

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