Marshall Brown & Associates Team

Operations Team

Tya Bolton
Jan Carroll
Mary Stefanelli

Associates

Sharon Armstrong
Bruce Baxter
Anne Hull
Beth McDonald
Madelyn Roche
Mark Sachs

Tya Bolton - Chief Organizer & Business Manager

Tya Bolton is the Business Manager for Marshall Brown & Associates. Tya will be overseeing operations, special events, overall strategy and infrastructure. She has over 15 years of experience in the areas of Executive Administrative Support, Business Management and Human Resources.  She’s worked in the following industries: career management/ coaching, hospitality and mental health services – a great foundation for the type of work she does today.

Wearing many hats in the corporate world provided Tya with a very broad skill set and allowed her to be entrepreneurial and manage operations with full accountability.  Knowing she was always meant to run her own business, she wasn’t quite sure what that business venture would be until January 2006.  At that time she founded Exceptional Business Solutions – a full service administrative services firm, primarily providing virtual assistance.  With a niche in the coaching industry, she is extremely familiar with the operations, tools and equipment coaches need to be productive and streamline processes.

As a mother and entrepreneur, she realizes that every moment is priceless and should never be taken for granted.  Tya and her children reside in Howard County, MD.

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Jan Carroll - Website Expert & Creative Director

Jan Carroll, and her partner Bill Rodgers, are owners of JBCR Virtual Solutions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a Virtual Production Company they help entrepreneurs, small business owners and large companies build, and build up, their business. Jan provides Marshall Brown and Associates with web site design / redesign and maintenance, creative development (graphics, flash, products), search engine optimization, online marketing, ecommerce set-up, and affiliate program set-up.

Jan is a graduate of the I.T. Publishing/Web Design/Programming certificate program at the University of British Columbia. She has over 20 years experience in Project Management. When not doting on their cat, KC, and many fish, Jan and Bill spend their spare time gardening and immersed in Second Life to ensure the company will have the knowledge and experience to help clients move forward in the virtual web world of the future.

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Mary Stefanelli - Head of Support Services

Mary Stefanelli is the Virtual Assistant for Marshall Brown & Associates. She has over 20 years experience in Executive Administrative Support, Software and Technical Support, and Event/Meeting Planning. She has worked in the Corporate and Hospitalty industry.

Mary lives in Montgomery County Maryland with her husband and two sons. When not spending time on the football or lacrosse field, the Stefanelli family likes to spend time on their boat or at the beach.

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Associates

Sharon Armstrong

Sharon Armstrong has provided training and completed HR projects for a wide variety of clients in the profit and non-profit sectors as well as government settings. Sharon has designed and conducted workshops on Supervisory Skills, Sexual Harassment, Time Management, Delegating, Effective Meetings, Performance Management, Managing Your Boss, Motivating Employees, Effective Documentation, and The Human Side of Terminations.

Sharon is the co-author of a humor book, published by Random House. Heeling the Canine Within: The Dog’s Self-Help Companion was published in 1998. Her business book, Stress-Free Performance Appraisals – Turn Your Most Painful Management Duty into a Powerful Motivational Tool was published by Career Press in July 2003. She is working on a new book, The Essential HR Handbook, that will be published by Career Press in 2008.

Sharon received her Bachelor's Degree with honors from the University of Southern Maine and her Masters Degree in Counseling from George Washington University. She is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR).

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Bruce Baxter, MS, CPRW

As a Certified Professional Résumé Writer, Bruce writes résumés, cover letters, and other job search documents for individuals from all walks of life, circumstances, and stages of career development.

With a specialization in mid- to senior-level executive and CEO résumés, Bruce will create a high-impact document that will best showcase your particular skills and talents. Following a review of your questionnaire answers, current résumé, and any other supporting documentation, Bruce will conduct a personal phone consultation with you before starting the writing process. The phone consultation will be used to expand upon or clarify certain information as well as aid in the conceptualizing process of how to best capture within the résumé your style, attributes, qualifications, and accomplishments.

Bruce’s résumé writing success has evolved from a background in journalism and copywriting. With years of writing, editing, and proofreading experience, he has mastered the craft of gathering the right information, writing to a particular audience with clarity, and presenting that message in an interesting and visually appealing fashion. His résumés have been chosen to appear in each of the last three years in the two nationally published JIST Works book series “Gallery of Best Résumés” and “Expert Résumés.” 

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Anne Hull

R. Anne Hull provides leadership and assists organizational changes through strategic planning, performance-based training design, development and delivery. Drawing upon models from the fields of organization development, performance management, instructional design and re-engineering, she has achieved results in a variety of industries and business functions. Anne has expertise in: Career Development for Organizations and Individuals, Change Management, Performance Management, Leadership and Management Development, Training Design, Delivery and Evaluation.  She has worked in several federal agencies, as well as private sector finance, technology, telecommunications, real estate, universities, and non-profit volunteer organizations.

Anne has served as adjunct faculty for Marymount University and as guest lecturer for Johns Hopkins University and University College, University of Maryland. She has the Organization Development Certificate from Georgetown University, a Masters of Education in Counseling, certifications in Performance Improvement Project Facilitation, Managing Organizational Change and many skills training programs.

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Beth McDonald

Beth McDonald provides public and private sector clients with a wide range of business consulting services, including organization development; change management; organization assessments; organization design and implementation; executive and leadership development; team building, process improvement; and large-scale project management.

Beth is also an adjunct faculty member and guest lecturer for several learning and development organizations, where she instructs the following courses: Strategic Planning, Building and Sustaining High Performing Teams, Conflict Management, Designing and Facilitating Dynamic Meetings, Process Improvement Strategies, Managing Change, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) workshops.

Beth earned her BA in Business Administration from the College of Mt. St. Vincent in New York City. She also earned a Graduate Certificate in Organization Development and Change Management from Georgetown University. Her Masters Degree is in Organization Development and Human Resources Development from The Johns Hopkins University. Beth currently resides in the Washington DC metro area with her husband and two children.

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Madelyn Roche

Madelyn Roche, a professional coach certified by the Coaches Training Institute, has a passion for helping people achieve progressive, life-enhancing breakthroughs in their personal and professional lives.  She believes that coaching is a powerful method that enables people to move forward and accomplish their most important goals.  She brings a positive, upbeat approach to coaching and life in general.

Madelyn is a graduate of CTI’s year long Co-Active Space Leadership Program and has developed and delivered experiential teambuilding workshops for a number of organizations, associations and the Federal Government,  Her clients have included physicians, nurses, administrators, marketing professionals, CFOs, CIO’s, association professionals, authors, and executive assistants.

She has spent nearly two decades in the Washington, DC association world holding various management positions.  Madelyn is a member of the International Coach Federation and is eligible for their Accredited Certified Coach (ACC) designation.  

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Mark Sachs

As an experienced executive coach and organization consultant, Mark Sachs believes that people are capable of doing a lot more than they often give themselves credit for. He also has a deep commitment to bringing out the best in people and improving the management of organizations.

His areas of focus include increasing communication among staff, developing effective teams, assessing organizational effectiveness, successfully managing change, and facilitating meetings and retreats.

Mark focuses on helping executives and managers develop their leadership skills, including inspiring a shared vision for the organization, communicating more effectively, fostering collaboration, experimenting, and taking risks.

He also conducts workshops that help people be more effective at work and happier in both their work and home lives. Topics include setting and maintaining boundaries with others; hiring the best people - interviewing tips for success; effectively managing change in organizations; building effective teams; and developing great leaders.

Mark earned his MS degree in Organization Development from the American University/NTL Institute. He also received MA and BA degrees in Sociology from Rutgers University. He is a graduate of Coach University.

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Contact Marshall Brown via email or by phone at 202.518.5811 and explore the exciting possibilities for greater success for you, your staff, your members and your organization!

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