Marla Ilona
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Marla Ilona is an Organizational Transformation Leader skilled in Facilitation, Team-building, Communication, Training and HRM, and Program Design and Management. She is a seasoned international and multi-lingual facilitator who helps business managers make strategic business and technology plans, and successfully implement them. Marla is skilled at diagnosing barriers to change and helping leaders overcome them.
Marla has 25 years of experience in consulting, facilitation, marketing, and business development in the US, Japan, and Europe. She was a Managing Consultant with Gemini Consulting, leading or involved in large organizational change programs in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and South Africa. As a Principal Consultant with Forrester Research, Marla continued to lead international consulting engagements while publishing articles on leadership, facilitation, communication, and human resource management.
Currently with Vitesse Solutions, she applies her change management skills to worldwide implementations of Knowledge Management. She facilitates Core Teams to build strong global Knowledge Networks and coaches Network Leaders on facilitation and KM governance principles. Marla also works with Corporate Communication managers to design and implement effective messaging in mixed-media communication programs that include webinars, townhall fairs, "happenings", print media, journalistic storytelling, video and audio components. As a personal hobby she hosts a bi-weekly podcast with a listening audience of 3000 (and growing).
Marla graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in Languages and Literature. She did graduate work in Communication at New York University and completed an intensive graduate business program at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and Sorbonne University in Paris. She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and is based in Houston, Texas.
Marla has 25 years of experience in consulting, facilitation, marketing, and business development in the US, Japan, and Europe. She was a Managing Consultant with Gemini Consulting, leading or involved in large organizational change programs in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and South Africa. As a Principal Consultant with Forrester Research, Marla continued to lead international consulting engagements while publishing articles on leadership, facilitation, communication, and human resource management.
Currently with Vitesse Solutions, she applies her change management skills to worldwide implementations of Knowledge Management. She facilitates Core Teams to build strong global Knowledge Networks and coaches Network Leaders on facilitation and KM governance principles. Marla also works with Corporate Communication managers to design and implement effective messaging in mixed-media communication programs that include webinars, townhall fairs, "happenings", print media, journalistic storytelling, video and audio components. As a personal hobby she hosts a bi-weekly podcast with a listening audience of 3000 (and growing).
Marla graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in Languages and Literature. She did graduate work in Communication at New York University and completed an intensive graduate business program at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and Sorbonne University in Paris. She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and is based in Houston, Texas.