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While attending Alamosa High School, at the age of 17, Margaret was a paid motivational speaker for many businesses, organizations and clubs, both locally and state wide. Earning several scholarships, she attended Adams State College and earned her BA in Business Administration, graduating Suma Cum Laude, and the Top Female Business Graduate.
Starting her professional career in Denver in the high tech arena she worked different positions in training and development, human resources, and sales support training. She then moved into the pharmaceutical trade beginning in sales, later specializing in military and government accounts. She had the honor of working with personnel stationed at bases such as the United States Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, the USS Nimitz, a fleet of Trident Submarines, and with other military installations and groups such as the US Special Forces and Rangers. During her tenure in the pharmaceutical business, she developed curriculum and wrote national specialized training programs. These programs became the standard for specialty training and education. Due to the success of these programs, Margaret was recruited into Sales Management. This promotion took her to St. Paul Minnesota, where she hired and developed a vibrant sales team.
As the pharmaceutical industry began a series of mergers and downsizings, Margaret decided to pursue a life long goal of working as a national speaker/trainer/educator. She was offered a consulting position with Franklin Quest-Covey Company. It was her pleasure teaching client companies such as 3M, John Deere, State Farm Insurance, NASA, ConAgra Foods, All State Insurance and Nabisco. She also worked with hundreds of small to medium sized businesses, as well as military clients such as Minot Air Force Base.
Inspired by her young son, The Reading Fairy began in 2003 and has been growing ever since. Because of her passion for literacy, commitment to education, and her love and dedication to children, Margaret is a member of New Jersey Association of School Librarians, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Old Farmers Road School Parent Teacher Association, International Reading Association, and belongs to a Long Valley children’s book critique group. She has also taught 6th and 7th grade religious education classes at St. Lawrence and St. Luke’s Catholic Churches.
Recently she finished writing her first children’s book, Saving the Reading Fairy, and is in the process of publishing the book. She is currently writing a sequel Brainrotter Returns, at the request of 200 plus children who previewed and experienced a first hand reading of Saving the Reading Fairy.
Margaret has lived all over the country. From Minnesota, back to Colorado, to California, Illinois and finally to New Jersey. This is where she, her husband of 17 years (Jim, a successful senior executive) and their two children have called home for the past 5 ½ years. She also enjoys reading, gardening, kickboxing, Broadway shows, and spending time with her friends! "My family teaches me more each day about love and joy than could ever be written”.
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