Mailing Address:
PO Box 360669
Decatur, Georgia 30036

Telephone: 800-325-5269
Email: lasonya@mcphersonberry.com
Fax: (404) 241-5795
Website: www.mcphersonberry.com
                  www.mbableu.com
                  www.getpoised.org

Books:

Becoming the Professional Woman
Customer Service and Professionalism
The Young Woman's Guide
A Young Man's Guide

Expertise:

Corporate Coaching
Professional Development Consultant
Generational Diversity
New Managers

Seminars and topics offered:

• Generational Leadership Transitionª™ - Addressing the various generations in the workplace
• Personal Corporate Branding
• Managing Change
• Women in Leadership or Management
• A New Window on Diversity

Additional Services:

• Get POISED Leadership for Life®: Youth Leadership Development
• Distance Learning through MB&A's BLEU (Business Learning eUniversity)

LaSonya Berry has an exceptional track record of helping businesses and individuals achieve their full potential. A dynamic human resource professional, she has lent her expertise to a wide array of government agencies, nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, a Leadership Award recipient, and General Electric for over 15 years. In 2000, she founded McPherson, Berry & Associates (MB&A), a multifaceted consulting firm dedicated to providing first-class executive coaching, leadership training, and human resource solutions to diverse clientele. As President and CEO of MB&A, LaSonya draws on her broad-ranging experience to design effective, growth-producing organizational development strategies for companies of all sizes. The company was recognized in 2006 with the coveted Trailblazer Award by GWBC, a region of the Women Business Enterprise National Council.

LaSonya possesses a distinctive blend of business acumen and social consciousness. She is as skilled at grooming young people for success as she is at managing multimillion dollar contracts. She has worked as a South Carolina Department of Social Services counselor, as well as a director for Operation Dignity's Bankhead Courts Initiative in Atlanta, Georgia. Inspired by her experiences as a Welfare to Work Program trainer and her passion for working with youth, she established GET POISED, a nonprofit organization offering leadership and life skills training to adolescents and those in transition.

A two-time Clemson University alumna, LaSonya holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Human Resource Development. She will complete her PhD in Educational Leadership in 2008. She also serves as the International Advisory Board member of the renowned PWN, Director of Community Relations for the Southern Crescent SHRM, United Way's Women Legacy Council, a South DeKalb Business Association board member and adjunct professor at DeVry's Keller School of Management and University of Phoenix.