Laura Markos WrittenHouse: Coaching Compelling Written Voice
Laura Markos is an independent organizational consultant. Her practice focuses on cultural change. She has worked with organizations in manufacturing, financial services, food, pharmaceuticals, retail, consumer products, infrastructure, education, nonprofit and government, drawing on 30 years' international experience as a consultant, change agent and corporate executive. Dr. Markos has served on state and municipal blue-ribbon commissions, in advisory roles to several universities, and as an Olympic organizing committee citizens' advisory commissioner. She has served in leadership and directorship roles on local, national and international trade associations and nonprofit boards, published academic and professional articles and manuals, taught graduate-level professional courses, and is a frequent speaker and facilitator at local, national and international conferences. Her work has earned a number of service and excellence awards.
Dr. Markos earned her PhD in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Graduate Institute. Her dissertation examined gender as class, and the glass ceiling as an issue of social class mobility. She also holds an MA in organizational development, an MBA with emphasis in marketing and a BA in business administration and psychology. Current research interests include individual and organizational learning and transformation, organizational culture, risk, social stratification and reproduction, gender, class, power, identity and presentation of self, and feminist, postmodern, qualitative methods.
