Topf Senior Facilitators undergo years of intensive safety, presentation, behavior and coaching training before they can ever lead a team in facilitation of a  Topf Initiatives.

Each Senior Facilitator has been carefully chosen based on their work background, experience and  skills set to maximize the effectiveness of the training experience for our clients with the primary goal of taking the organization to the highest level of safety performance.

MARIANNE SLADZINSKI

Senior Facilitator, Topf Initiatives

 Marianne has been with Topf Initiatives for over 12 years and facilitating for at a senior level for over 5 years. She has led initiatives at Weyerhaeuser, Marshfield Door and Spectra Energy in addition to many others.

Marianne is a business and leadership consultant/coach with over 25 years experience, both national and international, in the areas of organization planning and development, organization/cultural change, leadership and team development, strategic planning, business process improvement, career development, and performance management.

Drawing upon her diverse international experience across a variety of industries, her extensive business and Human Resources background, and her in-depth understanding of human behavior, Marianne helps leaders to set inspiring business goals and successfully attain them while understanding and influencing the behavior of others.

Ms. Sladzinski has diverse work experience. She has been a consultant, coach, leader, team member, and facilitator (both internal and external) in several major organizational/cultural change initiatives that helped businesses transition from traditional to new ways of organizing around work and conducting business processes.

Marianne has successfully contributed to organizational and leadership change processes in major corporations (GE, New York Life, RCA, General Motors) as both an internal and external consultant/coach. She has partnered with business leaders to develop successful organizational/cultural change strategies, select change management team leaders, provide coaching and training to leaders and teams at all organizational levels (executive, management, and individual contributor), and monitor/measure success of the change efforts.

While an internal consultant of a large service company, Marianne partnered with business leaders as a member of the Strategic Planning Team and Transition Management Team in a major organizational change process. In cooperation with other team members and sub-teams, she helped develop strategic organizational, leadership, departmental, team, and individual change initiatives that were aligned with and supported the direction of the business.

Marianne was closely involved in some of GE’s cultural changes that have become a standard in U.S. business. She did that as a lead consultant and facilitator in a number of business units. She has teamed with business clients to facilitate many organizational/cultural change initiatives in a variety of service (e.g.: insurance, telecommunications, government health care, education, R&D) and manufacturing (e.g.: aircraft engines, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, electronics) businesses.  Her international experience has involved leaders from over seventeen countries in Europe and Asia as well.

Prior to establishing her own consulting/coaching business, Ms. Sladzinski had provided internal consulting/coaching services to executives, leaders, and individual contributors in a Fortune 100 corporation. She was one of three corporate executives leading a major cultural change with responsibility for strategy development and support for approximately 14 Major Operating Units. As part of this process, she and her team of internal consultants met with the MOU business leaders to develop the change strategy, determine the change leadership team members, identify development needs for leaders, individuals, and teams, and provide coaching/facilitation/training.

As a Divisional Director of Organization and Management Development, she was known as a strategic business partner (with the division’s president and his staff) whose membership on the Strategic Planning Team contributed to assuring that the organization was structured in the best way to support business needs. Projects included the successful re-organization of multi-million dollar product lines requiring the expansion of offices nationwide to meet market needs. She was known for contributing to profitable growth as well as assessing and developing leadership talent at all levels of the organization.

Marianne has earned Masters degrees in Educational Psychology, Applied Psychology and Spiritual Science as well as a bachelor's degree in Education and English. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Business- Advanced Human Resources Program with emphasis on organizational/cultural change. Additional education includes Organizational Theory and Behavior (Temple University), Improving Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (George Washington University), Leadership and Mastery (Innovation Associates), and many other business workshops and seminars.

All of her education relates to understanding and working effectively with people, providing organizational and coaching services that enhance understanding of oneself and others, developing effective and rewarding relationships, and contributing to business, leader, team, and individual success.

She has been actively involved in many business and professional organizations and is currently a member of the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society, the Association for Coaching Excellence, the American Counseling Association, and the Psychoanalytic Coaches Association.

Luis Felipe González

Senior Facilitator, Topf Initiatives

Initaitive teams in  provided all aspects of Full Initaitves to various fortune 500 clients in North America  including Tropicana, Wheelabrator and Waste Management.