Marcia M. Hughes

Ms. Hughes is President of Collaborative Growth, L.L.C., and serves as a strategic communications partner for organizations . Marcia offers keynotes, workshops, leadership development and team building to provide organizations with strategic behavior alignment by bringing their values, intentions and behaviors into sync. As a master trainer, her focus is to provide training which results in lasting behavioral change. Marcia works with business as an international expert in emotional intelligence, leadership development, conflict resolution and communications through trainings, executive coaching, mediation, strategic design, and leadership and team development. As President of her company, she was the sponsor and chair of the international EQ Symposium which was held in Denver in October 2004.

Ms. Hughes offers emotional intelligence training and coaching and is a certified trainer in using the EQi ® and the EQ 360 ä . She is one of the few training partners for Multi-Health Systems in training on use of the EQi and EQ 360. She is a member of the National Speaker's Association and is author of Life's 2% Solution: Simple Steps to Happiness and Balance (January 2006) and lead author of Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers. Marcia practiced law for over 20 years, operating her own successful law firm, which focused on complex public policy matters. She has led efforts addressing numerous issues on matters such as controversial interpersonal, environmental matters involving numerous stakeholders including the intersection of governments at all levels together with businesses and the public.

Before entering private practice Ms. Hughes worked with governmental and public interest organizations. She served as a special assistant to the Executive Director of the Department of Public Health and the Environment and as an Assistant Attorney General. She clerked on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable William E. Doyle and served with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

    * Juris Doctorate with Honor - George Washington University, National Law Center

    * Masters in Psychology - University of Colorado at Denver

    * Bachelor of Arts - University of Colorado, Boulder

    * Emotional Intelligence – BarOn EQi and EQ 360 – certified practitioner and trainer

    * Practitioner Certificate - Neuro-Linguistic Programming

    * Mediation Training - CDR & Associates and Resolution Resources Corp.

    * Negotiation Training - Harvard School of Law

    * Spiral Dynamics Value Systems - National Values Center

    * Emergenetics ® Workshops - The Browning Group International

A sampling of instruments Marcia works with includes, CCL's Benchmarks, EQi, EQ 360, EQ Leadership Report, BOEI, MBTI, Emergenetics, Firo-B and Campbell Interest Inventory

VOLUNTEER ROLES:

Ms. Hughes has served in many public leadership capacities including:

    * President and Board member, Colorado Foundation for Families and Children

    * Officer & Committee Member, Several Sections of the Colorado Bar Association

    * Chairwoman, Public Access Subcommittee of the Multi-Disciplinary Committee to the Colorado State Judicial Department

    * Vice President, Kempe Children's Foundation Board

    * Senate-appointed member of the Task Force on Family Issues

    * Big Sisters of Colorado- Big Sister of the Year 1991

    * President and Board Member, Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods

    * Officer and Board Member – ARC of Jefferson County.

    * Visiting Nurse Association – Board member and officer.