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Consulting Specialty: Executive Coaching, Other, Process Improvement, Small/Family Business
Business Improvement & Operational Effectiveness Consultant Mary Beth (a.k.a. “The Geek Who Likes to Write”) provides business and technical consulting services with an emphasis on business improvement and operational effectiveness. She serves as an advisor for small and medium sized businesses and as a team member on large projects.Mary Beth is a technologist who can communicate the technical understandably to the non-technical individual. She has great skill in writing and believes that businesses need to create and maintain written policies, procedures, and processes for operational success and growth. When analyzing existing workflows, she continuously asks "why?" to find a better, more streamlined way to operate.
Mary Beth holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Chicago and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in Finance and Behavioral Science. Over her career she has worked in a variety of industries including education, software development, health care claim processing, publishing, and distribution. Companies include the University of Illinois, Booz, Allen and Hamilton, and Year Book Medical Publishers. Mary Beth is editor of the book “Fire in the Corporate Belly” authored by Tom Fitzgerald.
A member of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) since 2010 she is active in the Chicagoland Community as board member, facilitator of the 2nd Friday Challenges meeting and Communication Chair. She is co-author of the Chicagoland IMC White Paper – “Technology and Innovation” written with three other Community members.
Mary Beth has been active in the professional community with leadership roles (including secretary and treasurer) for Society for Information Management (SIM), University of Chicago Women’s Business Group (UCWBG), and Barrington Area Professional Women(BAPW). She is past president of BAPW and a long serving Coves Property Owners Association member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer since 1991.
Product: CMC Candidate