Mary McBride

Mary Mc Bride Ph.D. works as coach, communication strategist and consultant to enterprise leaders worldwide. She heads the leadership development practice at Strategies for Planned Change. Mary is also an educator. She designed and now leads the Creative Enterprise Leadership (CEL) international graduate programs in Design Management and Arts and Cultural Management at Pratt Institute. The CEL programs have been selected to be part of a G20 initiative focused on training creative and cultural leaders able to grow economies that cultivate well-being. Mary is a citizen of Ireland and the US and a poet. She earned her Ph.D. from NYU, specializing in the design of organizational systems and the development of leaders. Her work has been featured in the Design Management Institute journal and in Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate. Her most recent book is Leading As If Life Matters: An Invitation to Attend a Future Of Our Own Making with co-authors Xue Bai and Maren Maier. Mary is focused on the power of design to enable, engage and enliven.