Martha Borst is a Senior Organizational Consultant and Trainer with over 26 years experience in Personal and Professional Leadership Development. During this time, she has conducted consulting projects and development programs for over 15,000 executives, managers and corporate employees nationwide. She has also received media recognition for her influence and successful work with high profile senior executives and community leaders.

Ms. Borst's extensive development and training background is grounded in personal experience. As the Founder, Co-Founder and President of four successful start-up companies, she has had first hand experience of the human dynamics and organizational challenges that every senior executive and manager faces. Having worked with Fortune 100 companies as well as start-up organizations, she is familiar with the requirements, differences and demands of a variety of corporate cultures. As the President of Avista Consulting Group, her expertise and skills are focused on consulting and training efforts on major corporate projects that develop strong and effective leadership teams, establish organizational vision, support culture change for enhanced performance and one-on-one senior executive coaching and leadership development.

Although Ms. Borst is a no-nonsense, results oriented person who doesn't like to waste time on the unnecessary, she can be entertaining and fun and enjoys having a good time while working hard. Her extraordinary human interaction skills, as well as her humor, can lighten up any tense moment and move difficult discussions to effective conclusions. She is pragmatic in her approach, expects nothing short of the very best from herself and her client companies and believes that results don't lie. Having earned the deep respect of the countless thousands who have worked with her, her reputation remains irreproachable.

As a CEO of a multi-hundred million dollar company recently said of her: "Martha's insights are at times astounding!" I have met many consultants and facilitators over the years and she is without a doubt, one of the best I have seen. As a result of her coaching, we were able to move our executive staff out of a stalemate situation into alignment and enthusiastic action!".

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