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Dr. Mark S. Majors is a counseling psychologist with extensive psychometric experience that includes data analysis on the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory and the MBTI® Form M, as well as the development of the IRT scoring. He was coauthor for the MBTI® Form Q Manual. Mark is the developer of the Majors Personality Type Indicator, Majors Elements of Personality and the Majors Occupational Environment Measure, available at Leader’s Beacon.

Mark S. Majors 

How is a method of understanding personality differences developed in the early 1900s still relevant today? Personality types provide insights into the mental process for disseminating information about physical surroundings and mental concepts.

Why Personality Type Is More Relevant Than Ever

Mark is a facilitator, trainer and executive coach who has been working with clients world-wide since 1995.  Specializing in sales and leadership development, team development and managing personal change, Mark’s thirty five years of corporate experience includes being a thrice certified professional coach.  Mark has coached executives, sales professionals and leaders in the transportation, information technology, communications and financial services industries to name just a few. Mark is an acclaimed professional facilitator, speaker with five patents pending in the field of organizational culture transformation Mark established a sales training curriculum for professional hires coming into IBM’s Global Services organization.  This required hiring and training a team of instructors and staff to deliver an expanded and accelerated new hire curriculum that trained 1200 professionals annually. This resulted in over $55 million dollars of incremental revenue to the North America organization alone. He was also was the Leadership Portfolio Executive supporting IBM’s Global Services organization.  This entailed identifying, selecting and marketing a robust portfolio of educational offerings in the leadership and relationship fields and becoming certified as an executive coach with a number of IBM C-suite executive clients. As Client Relationship Manager for a leadership development organization, Mr. Meredith delivered an executive development curriculum for a number of different organizations companies including BellSouth, American Express Financial Services, Boeing - McDonnell Douglas, Emory University and the American Cancer Society. He also provided executive development for a number of senior executives ensuring that a multi-million dollar worldwide training budget was prudently invested and executed for over fifty-five thousand employees of a large IT services provider.   Mark was chosen by a large outsourcing provider to facilitate a major culture change initiative for over two hundred leaders and three thousand employees spread over seventeen states. Results to-date includes customer satisfaction improving seven points and employee morale increasing ten percent A graduate of San Jose State University, Mark is a certified Hay McBer executive coach and certified by the Coaches Training Institute. Mark stays busy with community and charitable activities as well as running a successful consulting and coaching practice located in the metropolitan Atlanta Georgia area.

Mark Meredith

Bridging the Skills Gap: Using Learning Opportunities to Address Current and Future Talent Needs examines the current and future skills gaps organizations are facing, as described by 356 talent development professionals. The 2024 skills gap whitepaper marks the eighth iteration the Association for Talent Development (formerly the American Society for Training & Development) has published.New this year is a section that focuses on the training needs of 522 working Americans, which provides insight into the thoughts of general employees in addition to TD professionals. Case studies, interviews, and examples from three organizations that have successfully addressed the skills gaps they face are also included. The whitepaper concludes with an action plan and resources for TD professionals.Key findings:74% of TD professionals said they had a current skills gap in their organization.75% of TD professionals said they expected a future skills gap in their organization.48% of TD professionals said managers, supervisors, and team leaders had a major skills gap in their organization.58% of TD professionals were recruiting for key skills.

Bridging the Skills Gap: Using Learning Opportunities to Address Current and Future Talent Needs

Mary Camuto ’s first book, Make the Most of Your Workday: Be More Productive, Engaged, and Satisfied as You Conquer the Chaos at Work, has been published by Career Press. While Mary did not plan to specialize in chaos, this subject became a major focus when the American Management Association asked her to facilitate a popular course in 2004 called “Managing Chaos: Tools to set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure.”Mary helps her clients build the connection between an organization’s goals and its culture, leader, and employee training. Her experience working at both the organization and individual levels has formed the basis for her approach to training and also for writing an empowering book for individuals. Make the Most of Your Workday was written to help any individual who longs for a better workday. This book will also benefit teams and leaders through collective strategies, tools, and common language to improve engagement and eliminate some chaos.Mary founded MC Consulting, a firm specializing in leadership and organization development, training design, and group facilitation services in 2002. Her clients have included individuals, teams, executives in the energy, telecommunications, and healthcare industries as well as nonprofit, legal, local, federal government organizations and government contractors. Mary has designed course material and facilitates for the American Management Association. She is passionate about helping organizations connect the dots between their results and collaborative work cultures, accountability, training, and development. Mary is also dedicated to helping individuals to take charge of their own workday happiness.

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