Marsha is a pioneer in Business Anthropology. Three decades ago, reflecting on commerce as an inescapable dimension of human life, she also began to view it as an unnecessary source of suffering. People are made to exchange, society is built on that. But the timeless patterns of those exchanges are invisible to most people - including veteran business leaders. Armed with that insight, she began her consulting practice.

Working with professionals and service providers as well as Fortune 10 executives, she forged a unique and far-reaching approach to the questions that every enterprise faces. Her Master Moves™ reveal how to structure valuable trading relationships, no matter what may be happening in the marketplace. Her models have powered profitable strategies, boosting productivity and loyalty and creating new markets, products and services. She's known for using Game Theory to enable enterprises to win a game that only they can see, in which others must compete.

Marsha founded The BestWork® People in 1980, introducing a new way of catalyzing peoples' best work. Over three decades, her work has guided leaders from many industries to deepen competitive gaps and sustain market leadership.

Sustaining inquiry into biology, anthropology, business, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, the martial arts, and somatics, she partners with colleagues from multiple disciplines. Her work has included 15 years of teaching leadership through courses, and 29 of consulting, coaching, and facilitating.

Marsha's education began at Reed College, and includes doctoral study at UCLA and UC Berkeley.

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