Marcia D.

Leadership Transformation Speaker & Consultant; Author at Marcia Daszko & Associates

Management Consulting

Education: Santa Clara University - San Jose State University
San Jose, California, USA

Biography

Speaker, Author, Founder/CEO, Business Strategist and Management Consultant, Leadership Columnist, Board Member, Professor, and Marketing Communication expert.

A visionary entrepreneur and leader for 25+ years, Marcia Daszko is your Pivot Provocateur who passionately delivers keynotes and programs that inspire and spark new thinking and actions for bold results. A catalyst for strategic change and innovation, she navigates leaders and teams through chaos and uncertainty. They can adopt new strategies to improve, develop healthy cultures, and grow exponential profits.

Mentored by the world-famous Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Marcia co-founded two non-profits that taught his principles of management. She has taught MBA leadership classes at six universities. She is the best-selling author of the leadership transformation book: Pivot Disrupt Transform and Co-Author of Turning Ideas Into Impact. Marcia writes a weekly leadership Q&A column for the Silicon Business Journal. She serves on the Board of non-profits and universities.

Clients include: Apple, Boeing, Cisco, Honda, Intel, Intuit, PBS, Pepsi, Thrifty, Santa Clara County Medical Assn., the U.S. Army and Navy, Varian Medical, and hundreds of private companies.

Passion

Teaching through Questions! Achieve Continual Surprises with the Audience!
Challenging current thinking so people can pivot what they do and achieve their goals--like never before! Many popular management and leadership practices are not helpful and can lead organizations into struggle and demise. We can address issues to catapult progress and success--like never before!

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I am willing to travel

More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

Everything is negotiable

Topics

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Best Story

An executive called herself the Performance Appraisal Queen. She believed she had every right to judge, criticize, blame, rate, and rank her employees. She held individuals accountable. She instilled fear. Then she discovered the difference between accountability and responsibility. She was crushed that she was not a leader, but a bully! She pivoted and said, "If I was so wrong about this, what else do I need to learn?" It was her first step into her transformation.

Origin Story

As a Midwesterner, I've always been committed to hard work. but I was also excruciatingly shy. When I began a new position in Marketing, Dr. Perry Gluckman committed to developing my natural leadership. My mentors challenged me to deeply learn, think, and guide others to a new level of leadership. Beyond superficial or trendy management fads though, Dr. Gluckman and Dr. W. Edwards Deming taught me a theoretical foundation of management. That is what I speak about, helping executives discover the barriers that get in their way of success. They learn how to transform their organizations--sometimes to turn them around, others times to scale them times 10.