Marilyn Laverty, CPA, specializes in improving organizational efficiency and profitability through strategic plans, corporate vision, and business process excellence. She is a master facilitator, leadership coach, workshop leader, and business consultant, with a passion for supporting business in achieving productivity and results through people.

Marilyn was the Vice President of Finance and Operations for a nationwide $12 billion lending firm headquartered in Denver. During her tenure at this national lender, Marilyn was a team leader on a number of merger and acquisition task forces that resulted in growing the organization by $10 billion in assets in a period of seven years and adding the international lending component. Prior to her corporate operations experience, she was in audit with a Big Six public accounting firm and has owned her own retail business.

One of Marilyn's strengths is her 20 years of experience in reducing cycle times applying process improvement, which involves building process teams that achieve results on time and under budget. A balance between the customer, employees, quality products and services, and profitability are at the heart of her work.

Clients continue to work with her because they value her commitment to their ROI and appreciate her ability to transfer her skills to managers in their organizations. Constantly researching and customizing her workshops, Marilyn focuses on the unique needs of executives, managers, and their staff, and the culture of their organizations. She cares about the transfer of skills to the organization's teams and applies participatory methods to innovative curriculums that accelerate the shift from information into action.

Marilyn focuses on simplifying business processes to save money, decreasing delivery time to internal or external customers, and engaging employees to own and continually improve the processes they deliver. Organizational change, leadership, and communication are the essential elements in Marilyn's consulting and coaching work.

Marilyn employs assessments and observation to a values-based coaching approach, supporting executives to align behaviors with their values. The results executives report include a professional life that is more meaningful. They state they feel in control and are realizing their most important goals.

As a facilitator, she has led more than 48 process improvement initiatives and more than 38 strategic planning retreats. She designs and facilitates strategic planning sessions, complex group decisions, off-site meetings, and critical post-merger integration. Marilyn emphasizes shared "buy-in" on decisions, plus measuring the results of the implementation plan that tracks the group's decisions.

Marilyn is an honors graduate of the University of Denver Business School and earned her CPA with Touche Ross & Co. She designed the Executive Leadership Program for the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the co-founder of The Women's Leadership Institute and teaches and lives team leadership in all her work. Perhaps the most important trait she has is her refreshing and straightforward manner and vibrant energy.

Marilyn has provided services to organizations such as Xcel Energy, Women's Leadership Institute, Seagate Technologies, Mile High United Way, Gates Rubber Company, Health Sciences Center-CU, University of Colorado, Denver Chamber of Commerce, The Denver Foundation, Roth, Gerber, Appel & Johnson, P.C., Gerald H. Phipps, Inc., Intel Corporation, American Institute of Banking, NLP Comprehensive, Inc., HealthOne Alliance, Qwest, TIAA-CREF, Coors, McData, Colorado Department of Transportation, Edgewater Fire Department, Women' Vision Foundation, and Provant (Educational Discoveries).

Areas of Expertise

• Process improvement
• Strategic planning
• Change management
• Leadership
• Team building