Mary Jane Mapes

BS, MA, CSP

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Leadership, Customer Service, Communication Expert

Mary Jane Mapes

Mary Jane Mapes Quick Facts

Main Areas
Leadership Development, Sales & Service Excellence, Team Unity, Interpersonal Effectiveness
Career Focus
Management Consultant, Speaker, Author, Business Owner
Affiliation
Active member of National Speakers Association, SHRM, NSA-MI Chapter
Mary Jane Mapes, founder of The Aligned Leader Institute, a management consulting and leadership development organization, has been helping individuals and organizations awaken potential and ignite performance for over twenty years. Working with thousands of people annually throughout the United States and Canada, she has helped thousands of organizations build employee morale and commitment, increase employee retention, generate more sales, develop customer loyalty, and achieve business goals. Among her clients she includes such organizations as Duke University Medical School, Novartis Animal Health, Auto-Owners Insurance, Avon Products, Inc., Western Michigan University, the Defense Logistics Services Center, the USPS, AA&M, Lear Corp., Dana Corp., Kmart Corp., Blue Cross Blue Shield, and numerous associations, manufacturers, healthcare, education, and governmental organizations. Mary Jane is a past president of the National Speakers Association - Michigan Chapter, and is one of a small number of women worldwide to have earned the prestigious CSP, Certified Speaking Professional, designation granted by the National Speakers Association for excellence in the field of speaking. She is one of only three recipients to have been honored with the Charles Leadership Award from the National Speakers Association - Michigan Chapter for outstanding leadership.

Mary Jane is the author of the book, The Art of Fielding Questions with Finesse, numerous published articles on the subjects of leadership development, customer service, and interpersonal communication, audio/video learning albums, and a quarterly newsletter, The Aligned Leader journal.

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You know what blinders are - those black flaps put on the side of horses’ eyes to keep them focused on what’s straight ahead, undistracted by things going on around them. Blinders may keep a horse on task, but wear them yourself, and it won’t be long until your looking trouble in the ...

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A paper salesman for over 40 years, Frank remembers the day when he was selling paper to butcher shops. The meat wrapping paper his clientele purchased could be customized with a message of their choice. One of his clients handed him a paper with the message he wanted to appear on his wrapping ...

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Are You an Aligned Leader? By Mary Jane Mapes, CSP As an aligned leader, you are someone who acknowledges all four realms of existence: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. You choose to be guided by the invisible realm of the spirit. In other words, you live life in accordance with ...

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Do you ramble when you speak, packing in too many irrelevant details? Perhaps you skip from one idea to the next with no connection between them. The first conversation pattern makes you boring and the second makes you confusing. Either one can have a negative impact on your ability to influence ...

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Unfortunately, I’d heard the story before. A new CEO and COO had been hired to replace ineffectual leaders. They inherited a loosely organized and unfocused leadership team, and needed help getting the organization back on track. A vacuum at the top had resulted in disorganization, ...

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