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Marguerite began her professional career upon graduating from Boston College Law School in 1985. She practiced law privately in Boston and – with the birth of her first child in 1992 – she began an academic career. Marguerite taught in the field of international law and human rights for 16 years, at Suffolk University Law School in Boston and at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. During this period, Marguerite learned first-hand of the colliding demands that challenge working mothers. Through The New Having It All, Marguerite focuses her research on the unique needs of women in the workplace and the success models available to women who aspire to have it all. Marguerite works with young professionals, working mothers, and women returning to the workforce after a hiatus at home, to devise strategies for optimizing personal and professional success. Marguerite is a consummate speaker and teacher, and she brings to her students and program participants the belief that each individual has the ability to create a life of optimal achievement. To view Marguerite's resume, click here.
Carol began her legal career in Baltimore, Maryland in 1987, after attending New York University School of Law and graduating from Boston College Law School. She relocated to Boston in 1991, where she continued her business litigation practice. In 1994, Carol moved with her husband and family to Los Angeles, where her second child was born. Though she enjoyed raising her children, Carol missed the personal and intellectual fulfillment of her professional life. She began a writing career, formed a writer’s group, and participated in professional writing workshops, conferences and associations. Carol is a published writer and frequently contributes to blogs and publications on the topic of work and family balance. She is an accomplished and engaging speaker, and she works with recent college gradates, young professionals, working mothers seeing career change or work-life balance adjustments, and women returning to work after raising children. Carol works with groups and mentors individual clients to help them identify and achieve their individual goals. Carol relies upon continual and thoughtful planning to negotiate a balance between her professional and family lives, both of which are essential to her sense of personal fulfillment and achievement. Click here to view Carol's resume.
Marguerite and Carol have been colleagues, and friends, since practicing law together as young attorneys nearly two decades ago. Their early friendship was forged out of shared aspirations and frustrations in navigating paths that combined fulfilling family lives with challenging careers. Thus began their quest to identify and create tangible strategies for balancing complex lives. They have invented and reinvented themselves many times over, as they have continually reassessed their own personal priorities. They have spoken with hundreds of women, one on one, in small groups and large auditoriums. With the benefit of their hard-earned wisdom, Marguerite and Carol have developed a program that guides women in devising their own mission statements, operating values and life objectives. Each woman must optimize her choices in order to compose her best life; Marguerite and Carol are there to guide her along her way.