Client Services
Speaking
Marilyn excels at communicating multi-disciplinary research into everyday language for a variety of audiences. She blends personal stories, provocative questions, metaphors, and cutting-edge research to engage and inspire.
Watch a 5-minute clip of her keynote at the 37th Annual Head Start Conference in 2010.
The following topics can stand alone as keynote presentations or be combined with participant discussion sessions.
Positive Youth Development
Drawn from research in positive youth development, particularly the research on initiative, purpose, and moral reasoning, including her own study, Civic Learning at the Edge: Transformative Stories of Highly Engaged Youth.
Some of Marilyn's articles that support this topic:
Mistakes Improve Children's Learning
The Fallacy of Good Grades
What Teens Learn by Overcoming Challenges? Initiative
Beyond the Classroom
Playing the Game: The Truth About Youth Sports
What is a Role Model? Five Qualities that Matter to Young People
3 Sources of Positive Youth DevelopmentAn interview with Marilyn on Positive Youth Development
- Audience: Educators, parents, community leaders
Youth Civic Engagement
Drawn from research on youth civic engagement , transformative learning, and identity development, including her own study, Civic Learning at the Edge: Transformative Stories of Highly Engaged Youth.
Some of Marilyn's articles that support this topic:
How Teenagers Become Passionate About Giving
Youth Profile: Eden Eskaros Helps Children Living in Poverty
Summer Service-Learning: Helping Teens Benefit Through Giving
Audience: Professionals and leaders in the fields of civic engagement, civics education, youth development programs, or school communities of parents, educators, and civic leaders.
Family-School Community Partnerships
Drawn from family engagement research, including her recent article: Price-Mitchell, M. (2009). Boundary Dynamics: Implications for Building Parent-School Partnerships, The School Community Journal, 19(2)
Some of Marilyn's articles that support this topic:
Family-School Partnerships for the 21st Century
Applause: Children, Music & Social ChangeMarilyn is the co-founder & president of the National ParentNet Association
Audience: Educators, parents, community leaders
Writing and Researching
Marilyn is a creative and engaging writer and researcher who enjoys learning. She utilizes technology, including mindmapping and complex database tools, to synthesize research across disciplines and bring it to popular or academic audiences. Her current work is focused in the following areas, but she is always open to new challenges:
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Articles on positive youth development, transformative learning in adolescence, youth civic engagement, servant-leadership, parent-school-community partnerships, systems-thinking, education reform.
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Materials that support a social or environmental mission, including research-based articles, website text, or reports to support foundation grant-making or nonprofit grant writing.
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Qualitative research and analysis, particularly narrative story-telling.
Coaching, Consulting and Facilitating
Marilyn has a 30-year background as an organization development specialist. She currently works with schools and nonprofit organizations, lending a strategic voice in discussions about purpose, mission, and current leadership challenges. She engages schools, parents, and civic leaders in conversations about how to develop partnerships that support youth. In her role as coach, consultant, and facilitator, she helps clients bring evidence-based research into practice. She particularly excels in:
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Helping nonprofits align their mission and goals with multi-disciplinary research that supports their programs.
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Helping executive teams or nonprofit boards develop, redefine, and articulate their mission and purpose.
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Facilitating a group's efforts to define and meet the adaptive challenges facing their organization.
- Listening, encouraging, and developing leaders from the inside out.
Marilyn talks with Allen Schauffler, Seattle news anchor, about parent engagement in schools.
What Other's Say. . ."Marilyn's research study, based on interviews with highly engaged youth, is a scholarly, insightful, and impressive contribution to the field of youth civic engagement." Peter Levine, Ph.D., Director of Research, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University
"Marilyn is an excellent writer and wonderful speaker. Her research will be of interest to every teacher, parent, and counselor who hopes to inspire citizenship and positive development in young people.She is a leader in this burgeoning field." Judith Stevens-Long, Ph.D., Professor of Human & Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University
"Marilyn weaves her gift for storytelling and her strength as a researcher to create a compelling and motivating speech. Her love and passion for her topic inspires me deeply. Her grace and authenticity are present whether one-to-one or in public speaking." Jennifer Waldron, Ph.D., Communications Coach
"Marilyn is a strong leader who is extremely easy to work with. She is exceptionally clear in all her communications; she is unusually engaging in both her writing and speech. She is a visionary ...and can help others understand that vision and want to come onboard. She's willing to do the hard work that it takes to accomplish any task....she's infused with warm energy and a generosity of spirit." Barbara Edmondson, Board Member, National ParentNet Association
"Marilyn is a very talented and creative facilitator, a quick study and very knowledgable about organizational development....Her ability to quickly grasp the key elements of our work and the issues we face was particularly helpful....Our board fully enjoyed working with Marilyn...her facilitation drew high marks from all involved." Jan Lambert, Executive Director
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