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Donna Richards Muriel is the Founder and managing partner of Merge Leadership Solutions, LLC.  

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For as long as I can remember I’ve been passionate about awareness and growth.  I couldn’t get enough of it. I still can’t. To me, awareness is the key to well – everything. It’s through awareness of ourselves that we define our life and our success story. It’s through awareness of others that we create and keep strong relationships. And it’s through awareness of something bigger than us, whether it’s our family, company, community or the world, that we have the potential to make a difference and to do something that matters with our life. 

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I started my career working for Towers Perrin (Now Towers Watson), an international management-consulting firm. While there, I specialized in learning and leadership development, people performance solutions, change management and communication. My focus was on how to help business succeed by creating programs that enabled the people who worked at them to be more successful.

While I loved this, for me it was missing the one key ingredient, a focus on the development and growth of the individual. That passion led me to found Merge Leadership Solutions, LLC (Merge).  Merge is a boutique firm committed to teaching a new and different kind of leadership program where leaders are challenged to look within. We offer them the skills and tools to understand what causes them to act the way they do and the impact they have on others. We challenge them to take ownership for the current reality they are facing and the creator of the change they want to see. We empower them to do things differently for the ongoing good of the people, organizations and communities they’re leading.

My commitment to each individual, team, organization and community I partner with is that I will challenge their own status quo. I will meet leaders at the level of their head and their heart and challenge them to “get real” with themselves and with others. I will take them into deeper, more authentic conversations that will empower them to gain tremendous insight and achieve extraordinary results.

While my professional and educational background have been extremely important for my growth, the one most important and ongoing factor in my own growth and awareness is my incredible husband and two amazing boys. We live, play and learn together in Evanston, Illinois.