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MARISA SANTORO, a former Wall Street IT executive and the founder of the career learning platform In Our Shoes (www.InRShoes.com), is a keynote speaker, career coach, corporate leadership trainer, diversity and inclusion consultant, and author of Own Your Authority (McGraw Hill).

Her expertise in leadership and professional development, as well as effective business communication, has been brought in to support business leaders across clients in diverse industries such as Merck, American Express, UBS, Anheuser-Busch, Allianz Global Investors, Sony Music, S&P Global, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), New York Council of Nonprofits, Women in Tech International (WITI), Aetna Healthcare, New York University (NYU), NYU Langone Medical Center, New York and New Jersey city governments and many more.

She is a TEDx speaker, and honoree of the Woman of Influence award from New York Business Journal and BizWomen.com for her years of mentoring and coaching midcareer leaders, executives, healthcare professionals, and sales leaders to achieve higher levels of influence.

She also writes a career column for American City Business Journals, covering their how-to career and business strategy sections, with articles published across 44 cities in the United States. Her TED talk, “Speaking Without Apology,” guides on how to detach from language that feeds into the “Sorry Syndrome” and make subtle tweaks in your speech to springboard you from diluting your value to spotlighting your assets immediately.

She guides professionals how to reclaim their confidence, tap into their instincts and embrace their inner dialogue using proven tactical tools, and strategies in proven step-by-step career leadership programs coaching on ways to authentically build trust as leaders and advance in their careers.

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To empower and motivate professionals to advance in leadership and embrace their fullest potential so they can thrive and drive for success.

In Our Shoes is a corporate leadership development training provider and learning partner. 

We deliver curated, content-rich, experiential programs that help professionals lead confidently with clear, concise communication to increase their impact at work and in their careers.

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In Our Shoes LLC ® is a professional development and career workplace training and career leadership coaching practice based in the New York City tri-state region.  We deliver management and staff development training, team development training, keynote speakers for women's leadership events, career coaching services, career leadership coaching, career coaching programs,  resume services, leadership training, communication skills training, soft skills training, people skills training, career leadership skills, presentation skill training, people-skills, career counseling, leadership classroom workshops, career seminars, leadership webinars, women's leadership keynote events, diversity and inclusion programs, Disc assessments, networking events, keynote speakers, Wiley Everything DiSC assessments, facilitated trainings and certifications. We are an authorized partner of Wiley Everything DiSC.
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