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Rita Martell

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About Rita Burgett-Martell Expert

Rita Martell Quick Facts

Main Areas: International Executive Coach,Organizational Change Management Consultant & Author of Change Ready and Defining Moments
Best Sellers: Change Ready! How to Turn Change Resistance into Change Readiness and Defining Moments: Seizing the Power of Second Chances to Create the Life You Want
Career Focus: Executive Leadership Coach, Author
Affiliation: Strategic Transformations Consulting, Inc.

Rita Burgett-Martell is the author of two books: Change Ready! How to Turn Change Resistance into Change Readiness and Defining Moments: Seizing the Power of Second Chances to Create the Life You Want.

The practical guidance the author provides is based on her thirty years of professional experience as an organizational change consultant to Fortune 500 clients and career coach to more than 11,000 individuals, plus her own experience of embracing the unknown to completely reinvent her own life from that of an 18 year old uneducated housewife in Nashville, Tennessee to become an international change strategist and thought leader to C-level and senior executives.

Her clients include Cisco Systems, Chevron, Gap, Genentech, Symantec, Astra-Zenenca, Genentech, MedImmune, McKesson, Teague Design, Bank of America, California State Automobile Association, Kaiser Permanente, Pacific Gas & Electric, Detroit Edison, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Infonet, Quantum, Nissan, the City of Detroit and American Institute for Research.

She has worked internationally with clients in Australia, Manila, Bali, UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Switzerland, Singapore and the Middle East, and is currently a professor of Business Transformation and Innovation for Cambridge Corporate University.

Before establishing her own consulting firm, Strategic Transformations Inc., in 2001, she was the Senior Managing Director of the Organizational Change Practice at KPMG Consulting and Oracle Corporation in San Francisco, and the founder of A Woman's Place, Inc., a personal and career transition center for women in Nashville, Tennessee.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, a volunteer big sister for Big Brothers and Big Sisters in San Francisco and the proud mother of two amazing daughters, Regina and Renita, and one really amazing granddaughter, Rebecca.
Rita and her husband, Dan, spend time throughout the year at their homes in Sausalito, California; Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, DC.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Rita Martell

"Change can be disruptive and uncomfortable, but it is inevitable."

"The color you choose to paint change is up to you because the paintbrush is in your hands."

"The choices you see and the decisions you make in those moments of uncertainty redefine the future course and direction of your life."

"Change creates a second chance to become what you might have been if you had made different choices."

Perfection is based on fear. We somehow developed the belief that if we are less than perfect no one will love us. People who love us know our imperfections and love us anyway, and that’s a good thing since none of us are perfect.

Thoughts become behaviors that become habits.

Do you have a story to tell about how you redefined change to create a second chance to create the life you desire? Your story can be an inspiration to others. Please share it with me at rita@changeguru.com or coachrita365@gmail.com so I can share it with others in my next book.