"...A lot of your expressions were repeated throughout the week.  You have an extraordinary gift of making the complex simple. You helped our leadership develop their people while improving return on investment.

Vice President,

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“Wow! Congratulations on having the #1 selling tape at our national convention.

You were insightful, authentic, and powerful.”

Chris Clark-Epstein, Past President

National Speakers Association

Marcia Steele, CSP is one of the nation's leading experts on leadership, strategy, and workplace productivity.

As President of Strategic Realities, Inc, an Atlanta-based consulting and training firm, Marcia has 25 years experience as a consultant, trainer, and author helping organizations improve their people and profits through strategy, leadership and culture integration.

As a consultant and business speaker Marcia travels around the world from Madrid to Bangkok, Melbourne to Hong Kong, London to Tokyo, working with organizations such as Xerox, General Electric, Georgia-Pacific, Coca-Cola; associations such as The American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Women Transportation Seminar International, and governmental agencies like The City of Atlanta and NASA.

Her keynote speeches, seminars and workshops on leadership, change, and strategy will not just inspire you to raising the bar, but will also show you how to become a contender in the marketplace of the future.

Marcia is one of only 124 women worldwide, to hold the International Federations of Professional Speakers designation, of Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).

This Jamaican immigrant, author of Making it in America, has become the go to person for companies who want to increase productivity and stop wasting time and money

Her work on Leadership and Strategy has been adopted by some of America’s corporate giants. Fortune 100 clients include 3M, Coca-Cola, and General Electric.

Before founding Strategic Realties, Inc. a Management Consulting and Leadership Development firm, Marcia worked with the “best of the best” starting on Wall Street, moving to Xerox, spending nine years with American Software and ten years with General Electric.

As a consultant she is known for facilitating strategic outcomes. Specifically helping organizations improve their people, profits, and market share.

Recently a division of an international consumer package goods company engaged her to facilitate their leadership retreat. The 40+ executive team tackled the hard questions around re-structuring and consolidation of multiple international regions. With Marcia's guidance and expertise the resulting plan positioned them to significantly improve the group’s alignment with team objectives and to increase revenues in excess of 10% during the following 9 months.

Marcia developed and produced Executive Woman Power Track an audio magazine aimed at developing senior level women for executive level positions.
In her book Making It In America, Marcia says, “America is where ambition meets the free enterprise system,” and shows that with dreams, beliefs and actions, anything is possible”.
She was educated internationally as well as at Hunter College and Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She is an active member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) and International Federation of Facilitators (IAF) and Women Transportation Seminar International (WTSI).