Her Story
About Marjorie
My career path spans 15 to 20 years of diverse experience in public health, clinical work, and credentialing standardizations. I've spent this time working with people and learning from people, which has shaped who I am today. For the past 4 years, I've been focused on coaching and advisory work. During that time, I conducted over 2,500 one-on-one sessions with people of varying backgrounds and levels of work experience, which essentially paved the way for Apex Corporate Consulting, the advisory firm I now lead. Today, I provide advisory support services to leaders, founders, and executives who carry significant responsibility and are navigating complex decisions. My work is mostly one-on-one advisory support, where I meet with senior leaders 2 to 4 times per month. These sessions, which last anywhere from one to two hours or more, are structured but fluid. We carve out time to work through competing priorities and decisions that haven't been ironed out, providing these leaders the capacity and space to think clearly. I believe it can get lonely at the top, and the higher people climb, the less trusted space they have to sit down with someone and share what their day-to-day is like or the constraints they face. I know the qualities and skills, some of which are just innate, that I have, and I would be doing a disservice if I did not offer that support to people who have the ability to influence so many others.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Marjorie
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would say having the space to work on myself. I don't feel like a lot of people have that privilege, and I think that it is a privilege. If you have some dedicated personal time to tend to things, either for yourself or for your future self, your current self or your future self, I think that's an important part of growth, of development, and of success.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've received, which I think about often, is not to narrow yourself or box yourself in too much. Some people tend to go down a path, and that's the sole path they stick with for 10, 15, 20 years, specializing in one niche and nothing else. I've always been a little bit more broad when it comes to my interests and my education, and I think that has served me well. Not dabbling in everything, but just broad enough where you have enough experience to speak on a variety of different areas. I think that has helped.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would tell them to determine who they want to be, and I think that can change on a day-to-day basis, on a yearly basis. We all change every day, and so I think you can wake up and you can determine who you want to be that day, and that's the story you have to tell yourself first before you can tell the world.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The leadership advising space, I am just breaking into. I've had about 4 years coaching experience, working one-on-one, where I've had those 2,500 sessions, but the leadership advising piece, I'm just breaking into this field right now. I feel like one of the challenges is making sure that people know that I'm here and I'm available to them. I tend to look at it as me finding them, but I want to make sure that they're able to find me, too. I'm not a social media person. I'm not someone that's an influencer, I don't have this huge social media presence, so I tend to live a fairly quiet and private life. But I do want the people that resonate with the work that I do to be able to find me. And so, I think that's one of the challenges. But I also, you know, I'm a firm believer of divine timing, and so sometimes it's just a matter of just patience.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values most important to me are excellence, integrity, truth, and knowledge. I feel like knowledge is really important to me.
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