About Marion Langford, M.Ed
Marion is an experienced leadership coach, facilitator and organizational development specialist with over 30 years experience.
She is the founder of Creative People Solutions, a coaching and consultancy company providing services in the how-to of transformational conversations and workplace relationships since 2003.
Her strength lies in working with leaders who are committed to building innovative and sustainable organizations that are founded on values of respect, integrity and empowerment.
Her areas of expertise are: leadership development, team collaboration and dynamics, performance conversations, and the cultivation of healthy emotional and empathic skills at work.
Marion has 18 years experience as a senior manager, leading teams that varied in size from 10 to 30 direct reports, and budgets from $1.0 million to $40 million. During her employment career, she led services focused on improving employment prospects for high school drop outs, services for improving literacy skills (at work), and facilitated programs to improve diversity and equity in the workplace. She has also won awards for her innovative work as an organizational change leader, and was the senior manager responsible for the formulation of human resource strategies and policies for a 63,000 person organization, working successfully with both unionized and nonunionized staff.
Marion has a Master’s in Education and holds certificates in coaching (career, life, mind-body), Narrative Therapy, Personality Dimensions and Emotional Intelligence, as well as being a licensed Trainer and Consultant in Dynamic Emotional Integration.