Audie McCarthy

Speaker - Author - Consultant - Coach - Facilitator - Trainer

Audie McCarthy, President of The Marrek Group, founded the company in 2002. Combining her personal values of integrity, passionate commitment and goal oriented excellence with twenty-seven years of intense corporate training; Audie has succeeded in building strong relationships with clients and associates to attain a high level of success as an entrepreneur.

The experience that Audie brings to The Marrek Group includes designing and implementing the initial sales coaching program within Bell Canada. Her innovations and coaching significantly increased sales performance within the Phonecentres while simultaneously keeping Bell’s high standard of customer satisfaction.

Audie was instrumental in the amalgamation of Bell Canada Phonecentres and Bell Mobility stores (Now Bell World). Audie was in charge of developing and implementing a recruitment process that would put in place systems and programs to guide managerial performance in the advancement of positive employee relations.

At the national level, Audie managed and mentored corporate personnel in the design and delivery of course curriculum that would enhance sales results and customer service performance as well as management and interpersonal skills.

With an eye on developing strong strategic partnerships, Audie included Mohawk College ( Hamilton, Ontario) as an excellent fit for the goals of both the college and The Marrek Group. The result of this endeavour produced an impressive list of corporate clients. From providing training and coaching services for The City of Hamilton, The Hamilton International Airport, The Venetor Group, L-3 WESCAM and many other clients, to planning and facilitating “The Tools for Business Series” workshops Audie commits to a high level of professional involvement. Whether the client requires facilitating executive meetings or consultations on strategic planning Audie’s ability to anticipate corporate requirements brings results.

Using her many years of corporate experience, Audie took on designing and delivering customer service and interpersonal skills training projects for Bell World, Rogers and Telus Dealerships, Bayshore Home Health, The Hamilton Burlington SPCA, Town of Oakville, Scotiabank and World Vision. She has facilitated strategic planning sessions for HTAB (Hamilton Training Advisory Board) as well as FirstOntario Credit Union and Mohawk College.

Acknowledging her extensive knowledge of people and business training solutions, Audie has been invited to speak at various venues including; Employment Expo, Opportunity 2003, Hamilton Manufacturing Conference, Oakville, Grimsby, and Stoney Creek Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, Options 2008 and corporate annual meetings and employee conferences (Bell Canada, McMaster University, Scotiabank, Marchese Health Care and the PEI Women in Business Annual Symposium) and is emcee of the Annual Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Event every year.

Audie’s talent of imparting valuable advice through written material led her to co-author “Leadership-it is not Just for Leaders” (Published by Biz Magazine). Her bi-weekly newsletter allows her to keep in touch with her clients and offers pointers for new entrepreneurs. She is currently working on her new book ‘The Power of Networking”.

Audie generously shares her time and experience with her community. She has dedicated her involvement to positions such as; Chair of the HR Matters Steering Committee (Hamilton, Ontario), Member on the Board of Directors of Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce, Member of Brantford and Oakville Chambers of Commerce, Past Chair of Boost Your Business Committee (Oakville Chamber of Commerce) and Past Chair of Parent Council (Memorial Public School, Stoney Creek, Ontario).

She is also a long time canvasser for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Having a vision of successful commerce, Audie continues to invest time and experience in building The Marrek Group to foster ideals that not only benefit the company itself but that create avenues of growth within itself and within its partnerships, associates and clients. With this growth in mind, Audie has extended The Marrek Group services through licensing agreements in Atlantic Canada. Audie has taken The Marrek Group far within a very short time. How? In Audie’s words, “Take care of your people and they will take care of the bottom line”. Audie is and will always be the best at seeing the best in people.

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