Mary Coussons-Read, PhD
Please
contact
Dr. Coussons-Read directly:
drmcr@comcast.net
Areas of expertise: Leadership, conflict
management, change management, work/life balance, stress
and health
Contact Data:
Company name: Powerful
Mind Consulting and Coaching, LLC
Email: drmcr@comcast.net
Web site: http://powerfulmindcoaching.com
Phone: 303 601 0748
Mailing Address: 4595 W Lake Circle S, Littleton, CO
Past
audiences:
University of Colorado
Women, Succeeding Symposium
University of Colorado Research and Creative Activities
Symposium
Mensa Annual Gathering
University of Colorado School of Nursing
Numerous International Scientific Societies
Started
speaking to audiences: 1993
Awards
received: CU Teacher or the Year,
CASE Professor of the Year Nominee
Language:
English
Passion,
how I got started:
Speaking combines my love
of performance and connecting with audiences with my love
of supporting people and working with them, either in large
or small groups, to develop a new skill, gain new
knowledge, or look at a situation through a new lens. It is
a great opportunity to meet a variety of people and learn
from them as well, which is at the core of my love of
speaking.
Bio
for the
meeting planner's programme brochure and platform
introduction:
Mary
Coussons-Read, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Psychology and Health and Behavioral Science at the
University of Colorado Denver, and the founder of Powerful
Mind Consulting and Coaching, LLC. Mary is committed to the
co-creative work of coaching, and enjoys making genuine
connections with her clients to help them meet professional
and personal challenges on their own terms. Mary brings her
own experiences as a working mother, adult daughter, and
spouse, to her life coaching partnerships with compassion
and a sense of humor. In addition, Mary is a seasoned
psychology and behavioral science professional who has
worked as a formal and informal coach and mentor to young
and mid-life adults, students, and professionals for over
15 years. Her professional background is concentrated in
human behavior, stress management, and mind-body
relationships, and she has extensive personal and
professional experience in deepening communication,
enhancing dynamic leadership, and working with individuals
and groups to seek out and achieve goals and meet the
emotional and behavioral demands of life and career
changes. In addition, Mary is a recognized scholar in
behavioral science and an experienced leader in
organizational development and communication. Her academic
background is concentrated in human behavior, stress
management, and mind-body relationships, and she has
published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in behavioral and
health science. A special focus of her expertise is stress
management and effective communication, and she brings a
combination of on-the-job experience and scholarly
background to her work with clients that allows Mary to
help clients craft creative and positive strategies to
improving performance and communication in the most
challenging situations.
Book:
Spinning the Plates: Creating Success as a Professor
and a Parent e-book
(work-in-progress)
Lecture
Titles:
Painting
Your Big Picture: Meet the Challenge of balancing Parenting
and Professional Roles - Discusses and presents
strategies for prioritizing and time management for working
parents
Picking
Your Battles: Living and Working with Difficult
People - Identifies the 5 primary
types of difficult people and uses schearios to illustrate
strategies fo dealing with them
Taking the Long View: Compartmentalizing and Managing
Stress - Presents research on the
impact of stress on health, the role of individial
difference in the effects of stress, and decision-making
processes that can help alleviate these effects.
The
Constant of Change: Reframing Unexpected Events to Your
Advantage - Discusses the role of
reframing in change management and the importance of
operating from one's center of integrity for dealign with
unexpected events
Seminar
and Workshop Titles:
Don't
Let Them Get You Down: Conflict management at home and in
the workplace - Uses a case study
approach and small-group work to illustrate and test out
strategies for conflict management in a variety of
settings.
Getting
in Touch With Your Inner Leader - Discusses types of
leadership and uses role-playing and case-study to
illustrate the role and manifestation of leadership in both
expected and unexpected places.
Desired Audiences:
Upper middle-class working
moms and parents
University faculty
Graduate students
Small business owners
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Non-profit organizations focusing on leadership,
girls, or women
6/22/2008