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Marie Conley
Marie Conley is a consultant focusing on engagement and stakeholder strategies and fund development for a variety of clients through her company Conley Consulting, LLC.
During he...view moreMarie Conley is a consultant focusing on engagement and stakeholder strategies and fund development for a variety of clients through her company Conley Consulting, LLC.
During her tenure in politics (1994-2009), Marie was a trusted advisor to top-level government officials and private sector organizations beginning in 1994 as the scheduler to Governor Tom Ridge. In 2009, as a senior level fundraiser, strategist and event planner, she made a successful transition from Pennsylvania’s highly competitive political landscape into the equally challenging field of non-profit development as director of Penn State Hershey’s Children’s Miracle Network. Since 2012, her focus has been working with Sue Paterno, wife the late Coach Joe Paterno, to assist with a number of initiatives around the issue of prevention and awareness of child sexual victimization.
Marie never takes any professional or personal task at face value. She is always looking for ways to improve efficiencies, outcomes and most importantly calls upon herself and those around her to do the right thing for the right reasons. Her accomplishments in such a short period of time at Children’s Miracle Network are only one example.
Marie serves as the Vice Chairman for the Board of Governor member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. She is Chair of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee and has spearheaded significant changes in policy regarding the recruitment and hiring practices for university presidential and chancellor searches and has re-evaluated and changed the policy for university presidential evaluations. Marie was first nominated in 2002 by Governor Mark Schweiker; was re-appointed by Governor Ed Rendell in 2004 and re-appointed by Governor Tom Corbett in 2012. From 1997 to 2011, Marie served as a Council of Trustee for her alma mater, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Marie volunteers at St. Joan of Arc School.
In 2012, Marie was diagnosed with a rare disease called Cushing’s disease. Cushing’s disease is so unusual that it affects less than ten people per million each year. On July 17, 2014, The Conley Cushing’s Disease Fund was established and is a project of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, fiscal sponsor. The funds raised will be used in part to create awareness materials for loved ones who are suffering from this disease as well support institutions and organizations focused on issues surrounding Cushing’s disease. She has committed her talents and gifts to raise money and awareness for those with Cushing’s disease and complications from the disease.
Marie hails from Bucks County, Pennsylvania; she lives outside Hershey, Pennsylvania with her husband, Chris Lammando, and their ten year old son, Carter.view less
Books by Marie Conley
A Cushing’S Collection: A Humorous Journey Surviving Cushing’S Disease, Diabetes Insipidus, and a Bilateral Adrenalectomy