Credentials

Professional Experience

• Business owner of management consulting firm since 1980.
• Award-winning author and business journal writer.
• Professional speaker and Hall of Fame member.
• Board of Directors, National Speakers Association.
• Producer of the radio commentary “Celebrating the Human Spirit”.
• Nassau County, Florida, Educator of the Year.
• Directed marketing for major resort/real estate company.
• Director of communications for national healthcare company.
• Public relations and communication behavior consultant for multinational companies.
• Senior manager for major U.S. Navy installation project.
• Affiliated with the The Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College
• Board of Directors, National Alliance TAKE BACK YOUR TIME.
• Top 100 Thought Leaders – Executive Excellence Magazine.
• Top 30 Communication Gurus – Communication Gurus.net
• Member of:

American Society for Training and Development
Alliance for Work Life Progress
International Federation for Professional Speakers
National Speakers Association
Society for Human Resource Professionals

Eileen McDargh’s certifications

• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)—the highest international accreditation for professional speakers
• Council of Peers Award of Excellence (CPAE)—Selection into the National Speaker Association’s Council of Peers Award of Excellence Hall of Fame. Fewer than 3% of speakers internationally hold this designation.

Since founding McDargh Communications in 1980, Eileen McDargh has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. Eileen has worked with organizations going through changes such as leadership challenges, mergers and aquisitions, coporate buyouts, reorganizing, downsizing, layoffs and bankruptcies.

She draws upon practical business know-how, life’s experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranks her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development.

She authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance-a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain’t Cheap… It’s Priceless – Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations and her newest book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life’s Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in 2008. This book has been adapted for a training film scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2010.

As a business author and commentator, she’s appeared on network news, on radio programs and in business journals and in major metropolitan newspapers.

Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame’s former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith, William Bridges, and boardroom poet, David Whyte.

Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of speakers in the United States. She recently completed two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association and also currently sits on an advisory board for Take Back Your Time, a North American initiative for work/life integration practices. She’s also listed as a recommended expert through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College.

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