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Marguerite began her professional career in 1985, when she was graduated from Boston College Law School. She practiced law privately in Boston, specializing in complex commercial litigation. In 1992, with the birth of her first child, Marguerite began an academic career. She taught law at both Suffolk University Law School and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she lived with her family for six years. Marguerite currently teaches in the Women’s Studies department at Merrimack College. She has written and spoken widely on a variety of issues related to women, and in particular on the need for women to take control of the colliding demands on their time and energy. Marguerite is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and lectures on success strategies for managing complex lives. As the mother of two teenage daughters (and one enlightened son), Marguerite believes passionately in each individual’s power to create a life of optimal achievement and balance.
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, and she is an Apprentice Affiliate Member of the National Speakers Association. 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.
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.