Mary Jo is president of Carpe Diem Coaching, a consultancy providing Leadership and Organization Development services. With over twenty years experience as manager, consultant, corporate educator and coach, she posts a consistent track record of helping a variety of organizations reach their strategic objectives by enhancing executive performance and creating a change-adept workforce. Client feedback and referrals consistently recognize Mary Jo as an influential leader with uncommon insight, enthusiasm, integrity and clear focus on superior performance.

Mary Jo’s forte is coaching powerful, results-driven executives who seek to enhance their corporate performance by sharpening their Emotional Intelligence skills. Successful coaching scenarios include:

• Coaching multiple technology partners in a consulting firm to shift the culture by being coaches in the workplace, not only managers. She utilized a coaching model of assessment, goal-setting, observation, feedback, and performance-based coaching. Once coaching was completed, partners gave unsolicited feedback during future client engagements on how effectively their learning impacted performance.
   
• Coaching a Chief Operations Officer in healthcare to address budgetary issues by forming strategic alliances with key groups of cardiologists. The organization is in the black for three months running for the first time in two years.
   
• Coaching a Chief Operations Officer in the energy industry to sharpen his emotional intelligence skills so that during a turnaround he was able to take action in more humane ways without his history of “bloodbaths”. He received acknowledgements from supervisors and direct reports and is enjoying greater fulfillment at work.

Executive clients span a variety of industries and include Accenture, Alltel, AT&T, Diamond Consultants, Equity Residential, Exelon, Follett, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard, HSBC, International Truck, KPMG, Legg-Mason, Marsh, Northern Trust Bank, Northstar Aerospace, Northwestern University, Right Management, Toyota Motor Sales, United Technologies Corporation, University of Michigan, US EPA and US Postal Service.

A certified professional coach credentialed by both the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC) and the International Coach Federation (MCC), Mary Jo earned an MS summa cum laude in Management and Organization Behavior from Benedictine University. She is a qualified interpreter of the Myers-Briggs, FIRO-B, Team Management System’s 360 assessment, and the Hay Group Emotional Competence Inventory.