Biography
Marie A. Westbrook, Ph.D.
Experience
Dr. Marie Westbrook has over twenty years’ experience in organizational leadership, executive coaching and leadership development. From 1993 until 2000 she served as an education consultant leading assessment teams for education reform projects in Armenia, Central Asia and Russia. In 2000, she joined the Department of State, where she was responsible for public/private partnerships supporting education reform projects in 14 countries. In 2004, Marie joined the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service where she focused her career on talent management and leadership development. In 2008, Marie accepted a position as Chair of the College of Leadership with the FDIC Corporate University and was later recruited by the Securities & Exchange Commission (2011), to serve a similar role as Dean of the College of Leadership Development. Dr. Westbrook is currently founder of Inspire Concepts, LLC, and provides strategies and solutions to support public and private sector clients facing change management, transition management, culture change and crisis leadership challenges.
