Meredith Persily Lamel, MBA 5510 Trent St. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Tel: 301-­‐654-­‐5323 Email: meredith@mplpartners.com Academic Teaching 2013-­‐Present Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Key Leadership Program, American University, Washington, D.C. (http://www.american.edu/spa/key/) Courses: Transitioning from Manager to Leader, Leading Effective Policy Implementation, Action Learning (in development) 2010-­‐2013 Executive in Residence. Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, D.C. (www.american.edu) Courses: KSB 100: Business 1.0, MGMT396: Understanding Global Leadership: The Task of the Global CEO. I teach KSB 100 to 250-­‐300 students annually and taught MGMT 396 as an online course to 23 students. Business 2005-­‐Present President, MPL Partners, LLC, Bethesda, MD. (www.mplpartners.com) MPL Partners, LLC provides organizational consulting and leadership coaching services to individuals, teams and organizations. I designed and am delivering Leadership Development Programs to one of Washington DC’s largest, and most influential, environmental NGOs and to Chiefs of Staff and Legislative Directors in the House of Representatives. These programs include bi-­‐monthly two to six hour programs on a variety of leadership topics including: emotional intelligence, coaching your staff, performance management, understanding your leadership style, decision-­‐making, innovation and entrepreneurship, effective storytelling, managing stress, conflict communications, delegation, strategic planning, managing an inter-­‐
generational workforce, and others . I facilitate 10-­‐15 strategic planning and team development retreats annually for congressional offices (House and Senate). I provide individual coaching services to 5-­‐10 leaders 1 Meredith Persily Lamel annually, which include 360⁰ reviews from The Leadership Circle. I also founded Working MAMA (www.workingmamagroup.com), a group coaching program for professional moms. 2006-­‐2009 Director of Consulting and Training, Congressional Management Foundation, Washington, DC. (www.cmfweb.org) The Congressional Management Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to promoting a more effective Congress. As Director of Consulting and Training, I faciltated 30+ retreats annually, grew the consulting practice by 300%, designed and delivered management training programs for Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff in the House of Representatives, performed office assessments for Members of Congress, ran the orientation programs for freshman Chiefs of Staff, and wrote a monthly management column for Roll Call entitled, Chief Counsel. 2002-­‐2006 Director/Associate Director, Executive Education, Corporate Leadership Council, Corporate Executive Board, Washington, DC (www.clc.executiveboard.com) The Corporate Leadership Council is a membership of senior executives with a shared commitment to steward enterprise-­‐wide human resources management. This membership offers a set of unique services and tools designed to assist human resources leaders with their most pressing managerial, communications, and decision-­‐making challenges. As Associate Director and Director of Executive Education, I was responsible for teaching best practices research in the area of Human Resource Management. Over the course of three years, I presented to hundreds of companies in organizations throughout the North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Some of these clients were the EPA, IRS, Caterpillar, Philips Electronics, IBM, PepsiCo, Petronas, Canada Post, Sun Microsystems, Telmex, Toyota, Telefónica, and the University of Michigan. 2004 Private Sector Development , The Futures Group, Washington, DC The Futures Group is a global healthcare policy and consulting firm. I served as practice leader for Management Capacity Building and wrote strategic plan. I built organizational capacity of Bangladeshi social marketing organization and provided consulting services including executive coaching, strategic planning, corporate governance, and organizational development. I managed $3 million USAID-­‐funded HIV/AIDS prevention program in Brazil. Led consultants in project start-­‐up and implementation of programs targeting Brazil’s most vulnerable populations. 2001-­‐2002 Manager, Corporate Marketing and Corporate Development, Riverstone Networks, Santa Clara, CA 2 Meredith Persily Lamel Riverstone Networks was a manufacturer of routers for metropolitan area networks. In this role, I planned, launched, implemented, and managed corporate marketing programs and media strategy in Asia markets, which generated roughly $25 million in quarterly revenue (40% of total corporate revenue). 1994-­‐1999 Analyst, Senior Analyst, Research Director (Latin America), Deputy Director of Research, Pyramid Research, São Paulo, Brazil/Cambridge, MA (www.pyr.com) During the late 90s, Pyramid Research was the telecommunications market research division of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Since then, the EIU sold the company to private investors. I worked as a South America market analyst for three years, based in São Paulo, Brazil. As an analyst, I researched privatization/liberalization, market structures, carrier and supplier competitive strategies, and technology trends. I authored Telecom Markets in Brazil (1996), presented a paper at the 1996 ITU Americas Telecom conference and published articles in Latin Finance. As Deputy Director of Research, I managed Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe departments, including 10 analysts. I planned and edited three newsletters and nine telecom reports covering the three regions, which accounted for $2 million in revenues. Publications Chief Cousel column, Roll Call newspaper. July 30, 2009; June 25, 2009; May 21, 2009; April 23, 2009; March 26, 2009; February 26, 2009; January 29, 2009; November 20, 2008; October 16, 2008; October 2, 2008. Education BA Brown University (Providence, RI) MBA University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago, IL) Professional Certifications Associate Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation, Georgetown Leadership Coaching certificate, The Myers-­‐Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), The Leadership Circle Profile™, Appreciative Inquiry, the Hay Group’s ESCI tool, and the Team Diagnostic™ Assessment. Languages Portuguese and Spanish Revised May 2013 3 Meredith Persily Lamel