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Marybeth Fidler is an independent consultant.
She is nationally respected for her skills as
a facilitator and specialist in
leadership and group process. Her work with national
associations, societies,
foundations, local governments and for-profit businesses includes
keynote presentation, facilitation, and consultation. She is a facilitator for the
Foundation
for Community Encouragement, and she works with individuals as executive coach
and by offering sanctuary to leaders.
Fidler is the past Executive Director of a
190,000 member international charitable
organization based in New York City. As
Executive Director, Fidler was instrumental in
strengthening the association's financial health and stability and rebuilding
constituent
relationships. She has also served as President of a 30,000 member
professional
association.
Fidler served as Senior Vice President of
Commercial Lending and Financial Services at
Sovran Bank/DC National in
Washington, DC. She completed her 14-year banking career
in 1987, declining two bank CEO positions in favor of association management.
A published poet and acrylic abstract artist,
Fidler co-authored ASAE's best-selling book,
Successful Association
Leadership: Dimensions of 21st Century Competency for the CEO,
published in
August, 1993. This book formed the basis for her facilitation of ASAE's
Annual Future Leaders Conference. She has also written articles on women,
organization,
and leadership published in ASAE’s Leadership Magazine
and other business publications
and has appeared on the TODAY Show discussing
access to business credit.
A graduate of
Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Fidler has served on the Board of
Directors of the National Assembly of National
Voluntary Health and Social Welfare
Organizations, Inc., and the Give Five
Committee of the Independent Sector. She has
also served as a Board Member and
President of Big Sisters of Washington, Inc., and as
a Board Member of the
Washington Urban League.
In 2004, she returned from Maui to
Lancaster,
Pennsylvania to be near her elderly parents.