Rave Reviews
“Mary is in the disruption business. She is guaranteed to shake up your thinking—in the best and most productive way imaginable—on strategy or how to dispel the sacred cows that are getting in your way.”
—Kaj Alhmann
VP General Electric
Board, GE Captial Services
Founder and President, Six Sigma Winery“Mary provided China insights that surprised me despite my long, successful business dealings with the mainland.”
—Norman Yuen, Deputy Managing Director
CITIC-Pacifi c Ltd.
“Inspirational and very insightful. We need you back for more.”
—Dick Clark, CEO
Merck & Co., Inc.
“You really disturbed my thinking. Thank you for letting me leap on stage to engage with you on what we need to do to bring this generation into our culture. We will never forget this presentation.”
—Greg Diekemper, CEO
Swank AV
“Navigating the Badlands offers a concise, coherent interpretation of globalization and its impacts on companies along with strategies to do something about it.”
—Harald Pressler
DaimlerChrysler AG
Berlin, Germany
“Your global forecast and China’s opportunities will help Chinese CEOs build innovative companies for the global marketplace and avoid the common problems and pains of their global competitors. We need your team in every Chinese strategy meeting.”
—Chen Zhangliang, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO of several Chinese private ventures
Member of the National Peoples Congress
President, China Agricultural University“This was just the kind of energizing, barrier-breaking keynote we needed to kick off our strategy session. Your insights about our future were enlightening and tremendous value-adds to our strategic thinking in this retreat. We want you back yesterday for the future of food.”
—John Lansing
President and CEO
Scripps Network
“Every region in State Farm needs to hear your talk on Gen Y before they put their strategy together to target this group.”
—Deborah Bobbit, EVP
State Farm Insurance
”There is no one who has put together a more coherent understanding of the future of higher education and how it must change than Mary. You turned our faculty and Board’s minds 180 degrees. You have shaped our future in a much different way.”
—Judy Kuipers, Ph.D.
Dean Fielding Graduate University
“An outstanding, cogent presentation and discussion on the future of jobs. Both the insights and data were immediately useful to us.”
—David Kiefer
Dell Computer
“Mary’s insightful analysis of the global economy is provocative and pragmatic. I could immediately put the strategies to work in my company.”
—Derek Van Eck, CEO
Global Financial Services, New York
“Your skills in framing the important and critical issues were impactful and meaningful. Thank you for building bridges of understanding and collaboration between leaders, cultures, generations, and points of view.”
—Lillie Richardella, CEO
International Women’s Forum
“Brilliant! Truly breakthrough thinking on the kind of leadership that we need to innovate.”
—Deborah Dagit
Merck & Co., Inc.
