Gender

Female

Location

Chicago, IL

Birthday:

November 11

About me

González has more than 30 years of corporate and business experience with Fortune 500. She held many executive corporate positions in the US, Europe and Latin America in areas such as management, operations, product development and innovation; franchising and field service, training, learning and development; including her last position as Senior Director of global training, learning and development for McDonald’s Corporation. She led the strategic execution of the global training strategies, executive development and learning technology platform for the entire enterprise that supported 2.5 million employees, 30,000 restaurants located in more than 140 countries; in addition, she partnered with six corporate and local universities for curricula accreditation and alignment in 5 continents in more than 40 languages.

What is your current career title or dream job?

Marlene González is the founder and president of Life Coaching Group LLC. She is a leader in the cutting edge industry of executive coaching, consulting and training. She is dedicated to “developing leaders as a catalyst for corporate growth and a source of intellectual capital”®. She is co-author of the book “Latinization and the Latino Leader”; How to develop and advance Latino business leaders© published in Nov 2010. She supports Fortune 500 companies in areas such as multicultural leadership, cultural competencies, managing cultural differences and building cross-cultural teams.

Background/Education/Experience

González is a certified Executive Coach, Life Wellness Instructor, and is a licensed practitioner for the Insights Discovery personality assessment model. She holds BS, an Executive MBA/PAG from IESA Business School in Venezuela, and also holds a graduate diploma on managerial Issues in the global enterprise from Thunderbird University, the Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona. She is pursuing a doctorate degree on Natural Health and Nutrition.

Organizations & clubs

She serves as a board member for National Council of La Raza, member of the National Hispana Leadership Institute, and the National-Louis University school of business and management advisory board member.

What languages do you speak?

Spanish, English and basic Portuguese

Hobbies & interests

She resides in Illinois with her husband Carlos of more than 20 years; they enjoy traveling, and gourmet cooking.

Looking for:

networking