Leslie Marquard featured in NY Times article: Meeting on the Right Side of the Brain
From the NY Times article by ELAINE GLUSAC:
Meeting on the Right Side of the Brain
WHEN Leslie Marquard, an executive coach, holds strategy sessions for consulting firms or university administrators, she ushers her buttoned-up clientele into rooms full of Pogo sticks, ethnic art, hammocks, vintage furniture and a pillow “harem.”
“They are surprised and also endeared by it,” said Ms. Marquard, a co-founder of Marble Leadership Partners in Chicago. The “it” she referred to is Catalyst Ranch, an independent alternative meeting space in a former sausage factory near the Loop in Chicago. “They’ll say, ‘That table looks just like one I grew up with.’ It subconsciously releases the mind.”
CASUAL ZONES Teach for America, a nonprofit, at the Catalyst Ranch meeting space in Chicago;
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