Keynote Speaker
Marlene González, Founder and president of Life Coaching Group LLC. She is a leader in the cutting edge industry of executive coaching, consulting and training. Her organization is dedicated to "developing leaders as a catalyst for corporate growth and a source of intellectual capital"™.
Marlene is a published writer and prominent speaker. She is coauthor of the book "Latinization and the Latino Leader"; How to develop and advance Latino business leaders©, and she is the Career Coach columnist for the Latina Magazine, the only English-language magazine for acculturated young Latinas in the US, a readership of nearly 3 million with 10 issues per year. She is a contributing Blogger for Haceonline.
Her client list includes government, non-profit, educational institutions and Fortune 500 companies; she supports them in areas such as Multicultural Leadership, Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Mentoring and Coaching programs, Career Development, Wellness Revolution, Managing Cultural Differences, and Building Cross-Cultural Teams. She serves in multiple boards and non-profit organizations. She serves as a board member for National Council of La Raza, National Hispana Leadership Institute, and the National-Louis University.
Her experiences in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France and throughout Latin America and her native Venezuela have equipped her with a true global perspective. González has more than 30 years of corporate and business experience with Fortune 500 companies. She held many executive corporate positions in the US, Europe and Latin America in areas such as management, operations, product development and innovation; franchising and field service, training, learning and development. She is the former Senior Director of global training, learning and development for McDonald's Corporation. She led the strategic execution of the global training strategies, executive development and learning technology platform for the entire enterprise that supported 2.5 million employees, 30,000 restaurants located in more than 140 countries; in addition, she partnered with six corporate and local universities for curricula accreditation and alignment in 5 continents in more than 40 languages.
González is a certified Executive Coach and Insights Discovery licensed practitioner. She holds BA, an Executive MBA/PAG from IESA Business School in Venezuela, and also holds a graduate diploma on managerial Issues in the global enterprise from Thunderbird University, the Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona.
González has been a recipient of many awards and recognitions such as Cambridge Who's Who among executives and professionals, President's Award for a Fortune 500 company, Team Awards, Manager of the Year, and was named one of the Top 100 Executives in Latin America by Dinero Magazine. She resides in Illinois with her husband Carlos of more than 20+ years; they enjoy traveling, and gourmet cooking.
