Annie Marks, MBA

Annie Marks has over twelve years of consulting experience in the areas of organizational development and change, executive development, coaching and organizational learning. She has worked in a wide range of industries, including media, financial services, non-profit education, high technology and pharmaceuticals, and within a wide spectrum of business contexts, including the implementation of new technologies, organizational restructuring and company-wide business process change. She has also worked internationally with large multi-national organizations, having spent four years living and working abroad.

Annie applies her knowledge of organizational systems, dynamics and groups and her advanced facilitation skills in supporting executives and teams though handling particularly difficult conversations and situations, enabling her clients to develop new solutions to recurring organizational barriers and dynamics. She works with individuals and teams to uncover important and often conflicting assumptions, information and thinking that can block learning, a fundamental process in healthy organizational life. She is particularly interested in helping groups function when faced with important, multi-layered decisions, complex authority structures, competing interests and interpersonal and group dynamics. She has designed, implemented and led teams through comprehensive change programs to support change at the individual, team and organizational levels.

Annie worked for Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting ‘Strategy, Organization and People’ practice for eight years in New York and London. For the past five years, Annie has been working as an independent consultant and coach in New York.

Annie received her MBA in Management/Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1994 has recently completed the coursework for an MA in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College. She is Associate Faculty for Action Design, a consulting and training organization based on the work of Chris Argyris and regularly trains and coaches individuals and groups on how to have more productive conversations. She is a graduate and faculty member of the Organization Program at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She is co-teaching a graduate class in Reflective Practice at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service in Fall ’07, and is regular guest faculty in the Columbia Business School MBA and Executive Education programs.