Margie Warrell
Margie Warrell is a best selling author, international speaker on courage in leadership, and media commentator. She is also an advocate for gender diversity in leadership.
Biography[edit]
Margie (born Margaret Mary Kleinitz) grew up on a dairy farm in near Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia. The second eldest of seven children to Raymond and Maureen Kleinitz, she attended Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a Bachelor of Business (Marketing). After a corporate career working for organizations such as BP and KPMG, Margie went back to college to study psychology at Deakin University before beginning a new career in coaching and leadership development. She completed her PhD in human development at Fielding Graduate University in 2020.[1] She is also on the advisory board of the Forbes School of Business & Technology, within University of Arizona Global Campus.
Margie writes a column for Forbes and her expertise has been quoted in numerous media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Psychology Today, Fox News, Today Show, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera. People she has interviewed for Forbes include Sir Richard Branson and hotelier Bill Marriott.
Margie is also host of the Live Brave Podcast. She has interviewed numerous guests including Steve Forbes, Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, US Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson, UN Foundation President Kathy Calvin, Layne Beachley, Kristin Neff, and Harvard University television personality Dr Phil McGraw, Columbia Professor Tal Ben Shahar among others.
Margie has worked with many enterprises globally including NASA, Salesforce, Deloitte, Berkshire Hathaway, Oracle and the United Nations Foundation. She has also been a guest lecturer at various universities including Columbia, Georgetown, SMU and her alumni Monash University in Australia. Margie holds a PhD in human development from Fielding University, Santa Barbara California.
Margie has lived in multiple countries, including three years in Papua New Guinea (1995-1998) and Singapore (2017-2020 as well as in the USA where she currently resides in Northern Virginia (2001-2012, 2020–present).
Margie married Andrew Warrell in 1993. Together they have four children Lachlan (1998), Madelyn (1999), Benjamin (2001) and Matthew (2003).
In 2016 Margie climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with her husband Andrew and their four children aged 13–18 years at the time.
Ambassador & Advisory[edit]
Margie is a member of the International Advisory Council and was appointed to the advisory board of the Women's Democracy Network, an initiative to advance more women into public office in developing democracies. In 2016 she was appointed by the Australian government as the first Ambassador for Women in Global Business in 2016. She is also a Women's Economic Forum honoree, a member of UN Women National Committee in Australia and on the advisory board of Forbes School of Business and Technology, University of Arizona.
Margie is an Ambassador for Beyondblue and passionate about removing the stigma surrounding mental illness. She is also an Ambassador for Google's WomenWill initiative.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Margie Warrell | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
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