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Mary Anne L. Graf is known for her passion for helping organizations and individuals; her ability to connect the disparate dots of current events, organizational concerns, strategy and business development, finance/economics, and marketing, always adding a sense of humor and perspective. Over three decades, mag has assisted organizations in the US and abroad to improve engagement, brand, share and margin, particularly in service and product lines that require successful team and multidisciplinary coordination.
Her work often involves change, dependent on forging alignment with all levels of leadership and staff, underwritten by her expertise in generational dynamics—particularly relevant during these chaotic times. During retreats and organization planning, mag builds on common denominators that attract and energize emerging leaders and partners, helping organizations reframe vision and strategy for a revitalized, exciting future. As a consultant, she has personally led over 900 projects in 48 states and 10 countries, allowing her to easily adapt to very different needs, cultures and communities. Extensive research and hands-on experience inform everything she does. Keeping overall organizational strategy in the forefront, her combined experience and diverse background enable her to connect goals and tactics, with innovative programs that speak directly to staff and customers. Her personal clients include organizations small and large, international and local, urban and rural. She studied healthcare, business and leadership at the Universities of Utah, Virginia, and Notre Dame, and at Northwestern, and has served as graduate level faculty at three universities. She has written two books, both published by a large international publisher, and speaks and presents extensively to audiences ranging from small departments workshops to keynotes with thousands of individuals. Mary Anne lives outside Charlotte, NC, with her husband, Paul, a recovering attorney, and assorted fur-eluting pets, which at various times included a gender-indeterminate tarantula and a 24-year-old one-eyed warrior diva cat. (The cat won.) Paul and mag have two adult sons, both Millennials, and a Gen Z grandson. She is a news junkie, reviewing up to a dozen very different new media sources daily. Her personal interests include almost any type of music, swimming, reading, and anything Notre Dame, Irish or Japanese. With over seven million total lifetime airline miles, travel is also in the equation. |
“Your generations presentations really brought home that our team is very different from those with whom we are communicating, both internally and externally with our customers. Cognitively, we understood that, but your data, examples, simple connections, and great humor brought it to life for all of us. What an eye-opener!” “Mary Anne Graf is not ‘theorist.’ She has successfully grown programs all over the United States.” --Jeff Goldsmith PhD, health futurist and economist “mag is the best that I have ever seen at connecting the dots...Nothing speaks to CFOs like using their own data to prove a point.” --SVP and CFO , health system "You have a way of getting to the bottom of everything, be it a children's hospital or the mind of our CEO." --Board and Foundation Chair of an eight-hospital IDS “With the relatively new focus on gender-specific diagnosis and treatment, health care is coming to the critical need for gender-appropriate communications as well. Mary Anne has done an outstanding job of translating between the world of gender-specific communications and the needs of health care to reach women in a way that has greater meaning for them, and for the health care of everyone they touch." --Marti Barletta,"Chief Rabbi of the Sheconomy" |
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