Marge Combe
Wisconsin, USA
Marge Combe is a coach/consultant with Vernal Management Consultants, LLC (VMC), a firm specializing in the professional development and effective business practices of leaders and leadership teams (www.vernalmgmt.com). VMC currently coaches a number of leaders and business owners in the project management profession, in North America, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, and South America. Marge joined VMC in 2008 after more than 35 years in portfolio management, strategic planning and large-scale change management for Northwestern Mutual and Whirlpool Corporation. She has leveraged that experience and a passion for coaching and mentoring into a consulting and leadership coaching role with special focus on her roots: change management, strategic planning, and project management. Marge is a former PMI board director and Chair of the Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee. She was instrumental in shaping and leading a Fortune 500 Project Management Benchmarking Forum. She is certified in coaching through Lominger International and in emotional intelligence through the Institute for Health and Human Potential. She received the 2007 Woman of Influence Award for mentoring, and the 2010 Leadership Excellence Award from Marquette University.
Marge can be contacted at mcombe@vernalmgmt.com.
Articles and Papers
- Change Communication: More than You-Rah-Rah - Advisory Articles - Combe - August 2014
- Encouraging Comfort with Change – The Challenge for Today’s Leader - Advisory Articles - Combe - July 2014
- Are you Handling Change as an Event or as the Steady State? - Advisory Articles - Combe - June 2014
- Culture: The Iceberg that Sinks Organizational Change! How to Survive the Impact - Advisory Articles - Combe - February 2014
- “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch” – Assuring Your Strategy will be Digested - Advisory Articles - Combe - January 2014
- Successful Change: Good Implementation is only a Third of the Equation - Advisory Articles - Combe - December 2013
- Pre-empting Burnout: Imposing Sanity on Your Uncontrollable Work World - Advisory Articles - Combe - February 2013