Marlene Sholod has more than fifteen years of experience designing, marketing, and implementing conferences, seminars, training programs, and special events.

For three years, Marlene planned the national Power Selling conference, sponsored by Sales & Marketing Management magazine. Her leading edge speakers included Tom Peters and Dr. Michael Hammer. She also planned the standing room only tracks for the Field and Sales Force Automation Conference and coordinated two conferences with a Latin American focus.

Marlene's seminars for American Management Association were listed as a critical business resource by Success, Entrepreneur and Black Enterprise magazines and were promoted by American Express, Sprint, IBM, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, and Northern Telecom.

She served as the director of small business at the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In addition, she has provided a wide range of corporate training programs for all levels of employees, including a professional development program in its fifteenth consecutive year.

A popular speaker at conferences such as PC Magazine's Partners in Progress, Marlene has been featured in publications such as Training Directors Forum Newsletter, Nation's Business, and D & B Reports. She has served as an advisor to the National Minority Business Council, Ability Is Ageless, and Minority Enterprise Development Week.