What Our Clients Have to Say
Charlene Grabowski, General Manager, GE Healthcare - retired
When we were evaluating companies to assist us with our coaching and leadership program at GEHC, we assessed many organizations and products. We kept coming back to Marilyn Thiet and her solution that was customized to meet our needs. She was willing to adapt her work to meet our competency model and growth traits. She is an industry expert, a competent Learning and Development Consultant, and a person of integrity. She will always be considered for our training needs.
Kimberly Kleiman-Lee, Principle Human at A Working Human
Marilyn is instantly intuitive. Her ability to assess talent and zero in on the root causes that
limit a leader’s ultimate potential is exceptional. She is a truth teller, an agile strategist, and
a courageous leader whose sole intention is to always leave her clients’ work worlds better
than she found them. She is a valued confidant, thought leader, and business mentor to me
and the senior leaders who work with her. I would highly recommend Marilyn as an executive
coach and business strategist.
(Ms.) Tucker Miller, Esq., AVP Client Consulting, ELI, Inc.
Marilyn is a highly competent, ethical, and forthright professional who puts at the heart of all that she does her passion for excellence and action. I have had the pleasure to work with Marilyn over the last year, experiencing her as colleague, coach, facilitator, and sales strategist. In every role, she has provided candid and direct feedback, as well as sharing generously of herself and her broad experience. Without hesitation, I would recommend Marilyn to companies and individuals looking to optimize performance. Importantly, Marilyn works effectively with members at every level of the organization, garnering trust, and providing support and vision.
Dean Johnson, Chief Commercial Officer, Kindred at Home
I have been extremely impressed with the outcomes of our engagements with Marilyn and EDGE Performance Acceleration. This is the second organization I have worked with Marilyn on improving our leaders’ skill sets and her approach and expertise has had a meaningful positive impact on both. As a result, we recently hired EDGE to work with my other division’s leadership teams and are experiencing similar favorable results. EDGE has become an integral part of leadership development within our organization.
Cristy Henson, Former Director Learning and Development, Aesynt
Marilyn and the team from EDGE Performance Acceleration was instrumental in developing a leadership program for our Sales Leaders, that incorporated a new competency model and helped them embrace new techniques and best practices. Marilyn’s experience with coaching and leadership programs were a great fit for our organization and her willingness to customize the program to fit our culture really impacted the adoption of the program. We have had so much success with her sessions, we are continuing to expand out scope of work throughout our organization as our Executive Leadership Team views this work as a best practice.
Marilyn is not only an industry expert, a competent Learning and Development Consultant, but also someone who is committed to excellence and the end result of her client’s success, and is not afraid to take risks and challenge her own programs to meet their requirements.
Mark Melzer, President, Nassco Inc.
Marilyn has been working as a consultant and advisor with our family owned distribution business for over 5 years. She has provided help with executive coaching, strategic planning, team dynamics, and projects associated with our sales and customer service teams. She has taken time to understand our business and build trust within the organization. She focuses on helping us improve our outcomes and truly cares about the success of our business.
Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq. President and CEO ELI, Inc.
Marilyn Thiet has been a trusted advisor to ELI for the past 4 years. We engaged EDGE Performance Acceleration to help us analyze our sales structure, our processes, and our staffing configuration. We were facing a market, which was rapidly changing, and we needed to adapt how we sold to best serve current and prospective clients. Marilyn took the time to understand our business, our culture, our practices, and our teams. She helped us adapt to internal and external business challenges working with our leadership team and also individual contributors. She has demonstrated competence, credibility, intelligence, and wise business and leadership judgment. She is an extraordinarily competent and devoted professional. Marilyn’s work has helped us reinvigorate our sales processes and team and as a result, grow our business.
Executive Coaching Client Testimonials:
"One of the top highlights of my healthcare career has been the opportunity to experience professional coaching with Marilyn. Her direct but compassionate style, combined with her experience and expertise have been truly life and career changing for me. I am a better leader, better mentor, better friend and better spouse today because of the coaching I've experienced. I value Marilyn's insights, her wisdom and her willingness to both champion and challenge me - and would give my highest encouragement to anyone considering coaching to choose to work with Marilyn. Your life and your career will be amazingly better for it. "
Healthcare Executive, Midwest Based HealthCare System
"As a member of the executive team in my company, I was given feedback about behavioral changes I needed to make to reach my goal of CEO. While I tried to make those changes on my own, I wasn't successful. I engaged Marilyn as an executive coach. She helped me expand my self awareness and gave me tools that finally allowed me to make the necessary changes especially as it related to my ability to influence and hold others accountable. Today I continue to work with Marilyn both as a coach and a consultant. I trust her instincts and judgement as it relates to both me and my business."
Chief Executive Officer, US Division, Global Corporation
"I met Marilyn at a point in my healthcare career where I was transitioning from clinical practice to adding an administrative position. She took the time to really understand who I am as a person, a talent not always present in coaching and only obtained from experience and wisdom of someone truly committed to helping better others. Her style is unmatched, her efforts and outcomes beyond my highest expectations. Today I am a Director of an Emergency Department and Chief of Staff. I would recommend anyone looking to become a leader to choose Marilyn to achieve the goals one has in mind for themselves and their future."
Director of Emergency Services, Chief of Staff, Midwest Hospital
"As a physician leader I had come to a crossroads in my career and needed help to navigate my next career move. Marilyn's coaching was invaluable in helping me find my true passion and forge a path forward that has re-invigorated my love of clinical medicine. With Marilyn's help I was able to grow into a role that allows me to bring my best self to work each and everyday and to influence and inspire those in my charge to do the same."
Chief Medical Officer, National Healthcare System