Make Your Meetings Matter With Mary Abbajay | 2019 Session

Mary Abbajay

Everyone attends them, most people hate them, and few are done well. Whether you sit in an office or work from home, meetings are a part of your world. The ability to effectively lead and participate in meetings is a necessary and indispensable skill.

In this session, leadership and organizational development expert Mary Abbajay offers essential tools and techniques you can immediately put into practice to foster positive, engaging and efficient meetings that get results.


MARY ABBAJAY is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and government. As a sought-after author, speaker, consultant, and trainer, Abbajay helps clients develop the strategies, skills, and sensibilities needed for success in the 21st century. She is a frequent expert contributor for television, radio, and print publications in the greater Washington area where she provides practical leadership and career advice. Abbajay currently serves on the Market President’s board of BB&T Bank, and is a past chairman of the board for Leadership Greater Washington. In 2010, she was named as one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business, and she was a Smart CEO Brava Award recipient in 2017. Abbajay is the author of Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss published by Wiley in March 2018. @maryabbjay