Val helps companies improve productivity and grow their bottom line by elevating employees from tactical thinkers to strategic leaders. With extensive corporate experience including founding the Oxygen channel and InterActiveCorp (parent company to Expedia, Home Shopping Network and TicketMaster just to name a few), and senior leadership roles in NBC Universal and Rolls-Royce, she can translate complex skills such as leadership, inspiring accountability and motivating others into actionable steps that resonate with new managers to senior executives. In her keynotes and training programs, she covers topics such as strategic thinking, developing next gen leaders, finance for non-financial managers, building a culture of accountability, leading change, managing managers and many others-in short, the skills, knowledge, and capabilities that are key to successful leadership. Her presentations are highly interactive: rather than talk at her audience, she invites them to participate in an extended conversation. Described by one client as engaging, humorous, insightful, and inspiring, Val has a confident, easygoing, and intelligent style that enables her to build a strong connection with her audiences that helps them get the most of their time with her and leaves them well-positioned to follow up on what they learn. Valerie is certified as a Marshall Goldsmith Executive Coach, and she is an Everything Disc and Patrick Lencioni 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team authorized partner and facilitator. Valerie is also a skilled moderator, helping to elevate company-offsites and senior leadership meetings to achieve goals and elevate outcomes. Valerie graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and obtained her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, the Institute of Politics at Loyola University, the Council for a Better Louisiana (CABL) Leadership Louisiana program and the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute (NORLI). Valerie has published two books: Planes, Canes, and Automobiles: Connecting with Your Aging Parents through Travel (Greenleaf) and Clash of the Generations: Managing in the New Workplace Reality (Wiley).