About the Author

Marnie E. Green, Principal Consultant of the Management Education Group, Inc., is the nation's go-to expert in the development of public sector leaders. She has spent the past 25 years providing valuable step-by-step programs and facilitation services that create more confident government leaders. Along the way she has served as an executive coach to local leaders at the highest levels.

Green is the author of the award-winning Painless Performance Evaluations: A Practical Approach to Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance.

Her consulting and training clients include public agencies from coast to coast, including the US Bureau of Land Management; the states of Alaska, Arizona, and Montana; the county of San Diego, California; the cities of Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Jose, and Honolulu; and various special districts and authorities, including Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Salt River Project, and West Basin Municipal Water District.

Green holds a bachelor's degree in Personnel Management and a master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, both from Arizona State University. She is a graduate of Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government's Art and Practice of Leadership Development residency program.

Active in several professional associations, Green is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the National Speakers Association and has served on numerous boards and committees for the International Public Management Association for Human ...

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