Marcia Zidle
Marcia Zidle, the Smart Moves Coach, is a board-certified executive and career coach, business management consultant, and keynote speaker, with over 25 years of management, business consulting, and international experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, government and nonprofits.
She has expertise in strategy and alignment; executive and team leadership development; social and emotional intelligence; employee engagement and innovation; career and organization change management; employee relations and talent management.
Marcia has been selected as one of LinkedIn Profinder’s top coaches for the past 7 years. Check out the 200 + LinkedIn articles she’s authored on Leadership, Management, and Human Resources topics that have facilitated organizations to leverage their leadership and human capital assets generating greater effectiveness and profitability.
Marcia’s claim to fame is as a world traveler having a multi-cultural spirit and perspective. She has lived as an expatriate with her family in Scandinavia and Australia. In fact, one of her children is an "Aussie". She’s traveled to over 30 countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Far East, and the South Pacific.
Live Webinars
By: Marcia Zidle
Sept. 8, 2026
Unlock Employee Loyalty: Stay Interviews Will Keep Them Engaged Before They Start Looking Elsewhere!
Stay interviews are gaining ground as a retention tool. Instead of asking departing staff why they quit, a stay interview asks current employees why they stay, so you can strengthen retention befo…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes Time: 12:00 PM PDT | 03:00 PM EDT
By: Marcia Zidle
March 5, 2026
Stop Conflicts Before They Become Big Problems: Practical Skills for Today’s Busy Managers and Teams!
Most employees, 85% according to one recent study, have dealt with stressful workplace conflict, from disagreements with a colleague to co-workers who won't collaborate. Left unresolved, conflict …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
By: Marcia Zidle
Dec. 3, 2024
Is Your Culture Working For or Against Your Success? If You Don’t Get It Right, Nothing Else Matters!
Workplace culture is not a soft extra. It shows up in every daily interaction between leaders and staff, managers and their teams, and departments and customers, and it can drive a company's succe…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes Time: 12:00 PM PDT | 03:00 PM EDT
Chronicles
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Faster, Better Talent Acquisition: Leveraging AI & ChatGPT for Smart Hiring and Effective Onboarding!
AI tools such as ChatGPT are changing how recruiting and new hire onboarding work. This 60-minute webinar shows talent acquisition and HR teams how to bring these tools into their daily work respo…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Bootcamp for New Managers and Supervisors: Develop These Essential Leadership Skills & Be a Better Boss!
New managers, supervisors and team leads work on the front line with your employees, customers and markets, and some will become your future leaders. Yet most organizations promote strong individu…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Reduce Stress in the Workplace: Effective Ways to Handle Conflicts, Difficult People & Tough Situations!
Conflict is bound to happen when people with different backgrounds and work styles share a goal. A recent study found that 85% of employees have dealt with workplace conflict, which can disrupt wo…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
High-Impact Performance Management: Tools, Tactics & Coaching Skills For Busy Managers and Supervisors!
When managers and supervisors spend too little time managing performance, work slips, resources are wasted, deadlines are missed and customers complain. This performance management and coaching we…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
The Language of Leadership: Is Your Communication Style As Effective As It Could Be? Here’s How to Find Out!
In an interconnected, fast-changing workplace, leaders can no longer rely on position alone. Effective leadership communication depends on influence: the ability to shape the actions and opinions …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Retention Starts Here: Stop Losing Your Critical Talent and Start Keeping Them With Stay Interviews!
Turnover is expensive and disruptive, and much of it can be prevented. Stay interviews are an underused retention tool: a structured, informal conversation in which a manager learns what an employ…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Stressed Out: How to Handle Conflict, Difficult People and Challenging Situations
Poorly managed conflict costs organizations time, customers and good employees. A CPP Inc. study found that 85% of employees experience conflict and spend an average of 2.1 hours a week dealing wi…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
AI-Powered Onboarding: How to Personalize, Streamline the New Hire Experience for Maximum Impact!
Onboarding introduces new employees to your culture, values and policies and gives them the skills to succeed, so it has a direct effect on retention and productivity. This AI-powered onboarding w…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Quiet Quitting: How to Spot It! Stop It! Quickly Re-Engage, Re-Energize, & Retain Your Talented Workforce!
Quiet quitting happens when employees stay in their jobs but pull back their effort and emotional investment, doing only the bare minimum. Gallup's 2024 engagement research found that disengaged e…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Hybrid Workplace: 10 Best Practices to Manage Your Team’s People, Priorities, & Performance
Hybrid teams are becoming the main way work gets done, and a McKinsey survey found that nine in ten organizations plan to combine remote and on-site work. Calling yourself a hybrid workplace is ea…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Onboarding New Hires: How to Get Them Quickly Up To Speed, Engaged and Productive
Many organizations have some form of onboarding, but programs range from basic paperwork and meet-and-greets to helping people navigate culture and the informal organization. This onboarding new h…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Your Organizations Culture: If You Dont Get It Right,Nothing Else Matter
Fly Southwest, shop at Zappos, Nordstrom, Whole Foods or Costco, or grab a Starbucks espresso or an In-N-Out Double-Double, and you get a taste of each brand's culture. Yet organizational culture …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Stay Interviews: A Powerful Employee Engagement and Retention Tool
The most direct way to learn what keeps employees is to ask them. A stay interview is a one-on-one conversation between a manager and a valued employee about why they stay and what might make them…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Your Organizations Culture: If You Don't Get It Right Nothing Else Matters
Companies such as Southwest, Zappos, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, Costco, Starbucks and In-N-Out are known for their strong cultures. Yet culture is often written off as touchy-feely rather than a bott…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Your Workplace Culture 2022: If You Don't Get It Right, Nothing Else Matters
Culture isn't a soft extra; it shapes the daily interactions between leaders and staff, between departments and with customers, and can drive a company's success or its undoing. With teams now wor…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Your Organization Culture: What Stays the Same? What Changes During and After Covid-19?
COVID-19 forced employees to adjust to remote work, and their habits and behaviors had to change with it. This organizational culture webinar explains why leaders need retooled management practice…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Teamwork in Action: Turning Workgroups into an Outstanding Fire-Fighting Team
High-performing teams drive successful, sustainable organizations, but simply calling a group a team doesn't make it one. This 60-minute team building training shows managers and leaders how to bu…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Marcia Zidle
Recorded Session
Workplace Conflict: How to Handle Disagreements, Difficult People, Tough Situations and Be Less Stressed
Poorly managed conflict costs organizations time, good employees and even customers. A CPP Inc. study found that 85% of employees experience conflict to some degree, spending on average about 2.1 …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes