Mary Boone is president of
Boone Associates, a consulting firm located in
Norwalk, CT (www.maryboone.com). She
speaks, coaches, and consults to individuals and
organizations about how they can improve their
performance through innovative approaches to
communication. Boone's fascination with
communication in organizations is a 20-year
passion. As the head of her own consulting firm,
she not only coaches individual executives on
their personal approaches to communication, but
she also helps them achieve enhanced
organizational results through her consulting,
speeches and training.
Boone's
latest book, Managing Inter@ctively: Executing
Business Strategy, Improving Communication and
Creating a Knowledge-Sharing Culture. (McGraw-Hill,
2001) sets forth her innovative theory of
interactive management and communication and
includes insights from top executives such as
Bill Esrey, CEO of Sprint; Gerry Laybourne, CEO
of Oxygen Media; and Steve Kerr, Chief Learning
Officer of General Electric.
Throughout
her career, Boone has been an integrator of ideas
across disciplines. Managing Inter@ctively draws
on wisdom from interviews with over 80
communication, information technology,
organizational development, sales and marketing,
human resource, and knowledge management
executives and professionals.
Boone's
ideas have received widespread attention.
Leadership and the Computer (Prima Publishing,
1990, 1993), was selected as required
reading for Congress by the Speaker of the
House in 1995, and Successful Meetings Magazine
selected Boone as one of the top 25 speakers for
1996. Among those quoting from and praising her
work are Tom Peters, The New York Times, CNN,
CNBC, National Public Radio, The Financial Times,
Investor's Business Daily, Computerworld,
Information Week, CIO Magazine, Chief Executive
Magazine, and Industry Week.
While
Boone's work always incorporates a focus on
technology, the human communication issues are of
primary interest to her. Boone's previous book,
Leadership and the Computer contains compelling
case studies of CEOs, chairmen, and presidents
who use information technology to change
corporate cultures, coach people throughout the
firm, manage organizational transition, and
enhance their personal effectiveness.
Currently
serving as a regular columnist for Sales and
Marketing Management Magazine, Boone also hosts a
regular segment on FMN, a video series for
financial executives. She has authored over 100
articles for a wide variety of general business
and information systems publications.
Boone
lives and works in Norwalk, Connecticut where she
tries to spend as much time at the beach as
possible.
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