Beth is a leadership development coach specializing in helping managers build and lead high performing teams. Driven to innovate, Beth was one of the founders of the Marketing@Microsoft Professional Development organization at Microsoft where she worked to improve the marketing profession through building organizational capability and talent development. In that role she drove many talent development initiatives for 7,000 marketers worldwide including programs for new hires, campus hires, managers and high potential marketing leaders. As a part of this strategic initiative, Beth became an internal coach at Microsoft with a focus on building management capability and career planning/advancement for high potential marketers. A marketing veteran, Beth has 20 years of experience working in marketing leadership positions in large corporations. Prior to starting the marketing professional development organization at Microsoft, she was the Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft’s Television Division in Mountain View, California where she was responsible for leading the acquisition marketing team in launching their new digital video recording product. Prior to joining Microsoft, she was Executive Director of Consumer Marketing Communications for AT&T (formerly SBC Communications) where she oversaw all marketing communications for Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell and Ameritech consumer wireline and data products and services – a $37 billion business unit with 30 million customer base. Beth holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA in Advertising/Business Administration from Western Kentucky University International Coach Federation – Associate Certified Coach

Beth's Recent Posts:

• 5 Steps to Changing Your Job While Staying in Role
  May 19, 2010
  
  Everyone I know wants to grow in their career.  Whether that means advancing to the next level, gaining a new skill or simply learning something new, it is a universal need.  Even those happy in their current job still want to learn something or do something different every now and then.  In our current economy
• Baseball’s New Coaching Approach
  March 23, 2010
  
  “Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical” – Yogi Berra This article about the Pittsburgh Pirates new mental conditioning coach really intrigued me.  I saw parallels to my coaching clients in the business world: the higher they go, the more stress they endure and the more important managing their mental condition becomes.