Margaret Brake Biography

Margaret R. Brake is a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach for Bixler Consulting Group. She has extensive experience in leadership development and organizational effectiveness and has worked with a wide variety of industries including financial services, telecommunications, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, government, and non-profit. Ms. Brake specializes in helping executives and their teams develop the skills and strategies needed to improve individual, team, and organizational performance.

A highly effective workshop facilitator, consultant, and executive coach, she has coached managers and executives at senior levels. Her areas of focus include effective communication skills, political savvy, executive presence, motivating teams and individuals, and leading and managing change. She works with leaders to identify and leverage their strengths while minimizing potential liabilities and derailers to career success.

Ms. Brake has held executive-level positions in leadership development and organizational effectiveness at Bank of America, Bass Hotels and Resorts (now InterContinental Hotels Group) and MCI Telecommunications. In these roles, she has developed leaders at all levels of the organization and has designed enterprise-wide processes including performance management, talent planning, and training. She has also led major organizational changes to reduce costs, drive business growth and respond to changing customer needs. Ms. Brake has provided executive coaching and consulting to Fortune 500, private, and non-profit organizations including Hilton Hotels Corporation, First Horizon National Corporation, Turner Broadcasting, Cox Communications, Merck, ING, and Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Brake holds an M.B.A. in Management and an M.S. in Counseling from Georgia State University. She has a B.S. in Psychology cum laude from the University of Florida. Ms. Brake is certified to administer a number of leadership and personality assessment instruments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and the Hogan Leadership Series.

She is an active member of her community and has served as a mentor to mid-level businesswomen in the Pathbuilders® mentoring program.



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