Martha Blenkush, Marketing Coach and Project Manager

Martha's diverse background in multiple sectors of the professional services industry shapes what she has to offer PSM clients. She has over 20 years of experience in financial services, non-profit, education, and small business ownership.

Martha is a talented communicator who understands the big picture and can articulate complex ideas clearly and succinctly to others, both in writing and in speaking. She enjoys working with individuals and teams to define and achieve goals. She has developed an outstanding reputation for organizing projects, managing multiple levels of details, and seeing them through to completion.

Martha's areas of expertise include:

Personal and Group Coaching - Martha has completed the core curriculum in the Co-Active Coaching Program through the Coaches Training Institute based in San Rafael, CA, and enjoys coaching people toward their goals. She has successfully coached people through career and life transitions, and facilitated career planning classes. She enjoys motivating people to make changes and achieve their targets. She has worked with teams of many sizes in multiple settings to facilitate the achievement of team-driven objectives. She has also developed and revised curriculums on self-assessment and career transition.

Project Management - Martha has consistently demonstrated the ability to guide people and projects to the successful completion of tasks and accomplishment of goals. She enjoys managing the details while keeping the project vision in mind.

Meeting and Conference Planning - Martha has coordinated all aspects of a wide variety of meetings and conferences for staff and executive management. She has planned half-day to three-day events, both locally and out of state, for groups of 15 to 125. She has managed such details as transportation, lodging, catering, transcription and agenda development.

Previously, Martha spent eight years in a bank holding company, where she created and supervised multiple financial analysis and budgeting formats, worked on mergers and acquisitions, prepared regulatory reports, and planned meetings and conferences.

Martha also owned her own small retail business for two years, successfully guiding the business through the entire life cycle, from start-up and growth, through liquidation of inventory and sale of the business name and customer list.

Martha serves on the Board of Directors of Partners in Preaching, a national ministry of consultation, training and formation for the lay preaching ministry. She preaches bi-monthly in her home parish, and has mentored a class of lay preaching candidates. She also served as the project manager on the development of a book documenting the impact of lay preaching on the Catholic church.

Martha graduated from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, with a B.A. degree in Business with an emphasis in Accounting.