Brief Career History
Austrian born and Swiss educated, Martina Willis studied Mechanical Engineering and completed her education in Texas gaining a Degree in Marketing and Management. The following years were spent in the IT sector, starting her professional career at Microsoft as the youngest Product Manager in Microsoft’s history. She then specialized in business development for multiple firms. In 2002 she became MD of an IT consultancy firm, a public company who were leaders in system integration and a 5 times Microsoft Gold partner serving large and renowned client’s world-wide. During her appointment as MD she proved that with determination and motivation a small firm can successfully compete with the huge multi-nationals.
Authoring and Teaching Background
Martina enjoys teaching and has 10 years experience. She started by growing the E-Commerce division for Houston Community Colleges, where she was responsible for the design of the curriculum and courses. In 2001 she started work as a consultant for Learning Tree International, one of the largest international training providers, and taught various subjects and recently has specialised in personal development and project management courses. She has also co-authored several Learning Tree courses and has acted as technical editor. After many years of training and teaching for others with great success, she has now set up her own training and teaching firm covering various subjects around personal development and “new” leadership courses, inspired by years of management and leadership training and consultancy. For more info please visit: http://www.themindmatter.com
Life experience is Martina’s main Qualification
She has spend many years integrating what she teaches into her own life and has shown success in areas many people would find challenging. In business she has been Microsoft Product manager with 21 years of age, leading 150 people. Recently she worked very successfully in challenging environments such as Saudi Arabia as the only female technology consultant. In sport she is the youngest aerobatic pilot in the UK and one of only 3 females competing. Furthermore she holds an Commercial Yacht Master qualification and loves diving, motorcycling and road rallies such as the Cannonball London-Rome 2006 coming in the top 10. Her life is never dull and she lives to her motto: Live life to the full and never regret a single moment”
A fulfilled mind
is in coherency with its identity, beliefs,
capabilities, behaviors and its
environment.
Martina Willis