Maggie Weiss and the Pacific Edge Institute

Maggie Weiss and the Pacific Edge Institute Quick Facts

Maggie Weiss has spent her entire career developing effective team building programs, directly managing training organizations, and consulting with individuals, projects, and organizations to maximize performance through the development of people. In both a consultant and management capacity, she has pioneered programs for performance in both the not-for-profit educational and for-profit business arenas.

Maggie has devoted her professional career to the study and realization of exceptional performance on an individual and organizational basis, and then applying those applications in the workplace and for social change. Her commitment is to people working joyously and powerfully together and that each individual's unique contribution is fully expressed. For the last eight years she has focused on developing integral leadership in adaptive situations in two broad arenas: cultural change in global corporations for the care and concern of people and the environment and work with the UNDP to develop leadership response to HIV-Aids in Bombay and Nigeria. Always at the center of what she does is taping into the collective intelligence and heart of people for the often surprising, always profound accomplishments that come as a result.

1997 to 2005 as a senior consultant worked with range of engagements, ranging from major capital project execution to difficult strategic planning initiatives with the executive managers of large service, construction and manufacturing organizations in situations that called for leadership and collaboration often with several cultures and languages in companies such as Bechtel, Fluor Daniel, Intel, and BP. Translating the distinctions found in the work of Ken Wilbur, Ron Heifitz, Robert Kegan, David Cooperider, Diana Whitney, Jim Collins and others into relevant interventions. See www.jmj.com for results.

2003 as a consultant worked with a joint project with the UMP (Urban Management Program), UNPD (United Nation Development Program), and UN Habitat with the Municipality of Mumbia (Bombay) to develop leaders in the Medical, Education, NGO, Government, and Business for local response to HIV-AIDS. Which resulted in the group qualifying for a 4 million dollar Bill and Melinda Gates Grant. She designed the program with the UNDP parameters of Integral (Wilber) Linguistics (Flores), Transformation (Erhard) and Developmental Levels (Lickert).
See hq.unhabitat.org/ump/newsletter/issue7/umpstory3.html.

2004 as a consultant work UNPD (United Nation Development Program) and the UN Nigerian Country Office to develop leaders in the Medical, Education, NGO, and Government for local response to HIV-AIDS. She designed two programs for Northern and Southern Nigeria based on the same design parameters as above.

1995 to 1997 President of Workweb supplying workflow server services over the web to small entrepreneurial and non-profit organizations. Based on the workflow and linguistics distinctions of Fernando Flores. Also became a mother.

1989 to 1995 as President of Human Performance Technologies, Inc. DBA SportsMind,

Maggie not only directed the development and delivery of programs with management in Fortune 100 sized companies but her leadership resulted in a tripling of the company's revenue in four years. In her work inside of AT&T she produced "statistically significant" results on their internal Stanick Survey for both employee satisfaction and business results in three business units ranging from 325 to 8,000 people. Other clients included Cargil, Sky Chefs, James River, Nike and Microsoft. During this time she was a student of Fernando Flores and Will Schutz and licensed both their materials to translate into her work.

1982 to 1988 as Director of the Youth at Risk Program for the Breakthrough Foundation she licensed the retired est 10-Day Teen Training and brought it to inner-city youth and the agencies serving them. Launched East Oakland, San Jose, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Boston, and Honolulu as independent Non-Profit Organizations that are still functioning today.

Maggie lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and son.