Marlene Chism (www.MarleneChism.com) is a dynamic business and motivational speaker, consultant, trainer and author and founder of The Stop Your Drama Methodology—an eight-part process for helping managers and small business owners identify the barriers that are holding back their teams—and has shared her processes and programs with companies like NASA and McDonald's.

Chism combines universal principles with sound business practices to bridge the inner and outer game of success. She also knows firsthand what it means to reinvent. For more than twenty years, Chism worked on the lines of the factory floor before quitting her blue-collar job to build a business as a consultant, trainer and professional speaker.