J.Marie is a nationally recognized communications strategist, facilitator, leadership trainer, and presenter. Founder and principal of J.Marie & Associates as well as Ideal Communications, she brings more than 25 years of experience helping organizations, teams, and leaders build strong, purposeful relationships. J.Marie is a trusted strategic advisor with a national reputation for positive results. As a facilitator, J.Marie has worked with community and agency stakeholder groups, citizen committees, governing boards, public forums, focus groups, administrative teams, and business management groups. She balances the need to attend to the relationships in the room with the need to move the meeting agenda forward. She is well-versed in working with groups holding diverse and even competing interests and is accustomed to working in situations where strict confidentiality is a must.Her style as a consultant is understated; she brings a joyful heart into the room and encourages leaders and groups to own their processes and grow in the skill of self-management. Well-versed in systems thinking and systems dynamics, J.Marie understands the nature of change and the stages people go through to make change possible.Learn more on the J.Marie & Associates website: https://www.jmarie.associates/