About Mary Holevas

From Fortune 500 corporations to small/midsize companies, Mary Holevas transforms leadership and inspires teams to greater success.

Her company, Cornerstones of Leadership, offers professional leadership development and training that sharpens leadership skills, maximizes team effectiveness, and improves individual performance.

An engaging speaker, Mary is known for her professionalism and humor. Through her keynotes, and training, Mary shows executives how to create a work environment that ignites passion, greater commitment, and accountability. By implementing the cornerstones of leadership, your leaders are inspired to greatness while discovering how to bring out the best in their team.

Her unique insight comes from serving years in senior management in “Corporate America”, as a business consultant, and as a strategic business partner in her husband’s dental practice. Additionally, Mary developed a real understanding of corporate culture with over 19 years experience in organizational development and human resources. Under her direction, Mary transformed the way her company approached HR by moving the department from the first floor, to the executive floor suites and renaming the department "organizational culture". The switch, helped the company better focus on maximizing human potential. The result was that the company went from good to great.

Other industries Mary has served in include work in telecommunications, medical supply manufacturing, financial, food & beverage industries, and the health and dental care industries.

Mary lives in Elgin, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelors in Business Administration and earned a Masters of Science in MSIR Organizational Development and Human Resources from Loyola University.