Mary Simeoli is an organizational development leader and Title IX expert known for DEI transformations as nexus of strategy, policy, education, and culture. She is a constant study of evolving trends and best practices, with a commitment to data-infused narratives that resonate with key stakeholders. She has the unique ability to guide executives, board members, staff, and college students in highly matrixed environments with a focus on shared goals, operational efficiency, and compliance.

Mary is a member of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Bar, an experienced speaker and facilitator, and a certified Civil Rights investigator. She is prepared to engage in the tough conversations and trainings from compliance to conduct. She’s been given the gift of great mentors, she is passionate about leadership and development, and she’s a sister of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Why hire Mary?

Mary’s keynote offerings have been heard by thousands of students and professionals across the country. Mary’s keynote programming focuses on equity, empowerment topics with a focus on marginalized genders, and community values. If you are looking for a campus or community speaker, all of Mary’s programs are customized to the needs and culture of the client's institutions to insure relevance to participants and learners.

From process education for human resources and conduct teams to annual compliance training, Mary has got you covered. Let Mary take care of team-wide or individual training for employees, senior leadership, or divisions, as well as student educational programming. Mary can provide training to ensure your employees feel confident in facilitating alternative resolution processes, restorative justice circles, as well as Title IX/gender-based misconduct procedures. With extensive experiences in sexual assault prevention and response, Mary offers training for Title IX investigators, and adjudicators.

This programming is intended to engage and challenge network organization members such as student-athletes or FSL members to correlate their organizational or team values and commitments to sexual assault prevention. The workshop walks students through active consent, and requires students to define their values through active representation.

Target audiences: athletic teams, individual fraternity & sorority chapters, fraternity & sorority communities at-large or by council

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify institution-defined gender-based/sexual misconduct.
2. Demonstrate mechanisms for bystander intervention.
3. Illustrate active representations of values.
3. Describe how Greek/organizational values correlate to minimizing sexual violence.

What happens when mean girls grow up? They become mean women - women who enter the workforce and community and unless we interrupt bullying behavior, it does not go away. One in five children in the United States are bullied at school and an estimated 48.6 million Americans are bullied in the workplace.

Mean Girls No More: Life, Relationships, and Leadership is a narrative study that, with the audience explores where, when, and how bullying behaviors begin and the life-long impact they can have. While the use of the term "mean girls" is inspired by the 2004 movie, this program is appropriate for audiences of all genders. In this program we explore the socialization of women and how our social experiences and societal influences, including beauty culture, contribute to bullying behaviors.

The talk asks participants to reflect on styles of communication and moments of conflict and invites listeners to recognize their role in depleting mean girl behaviors in social and professional settings. Together we dissect healthy confrontation best practices and identify commitments for the future.

The essential learning outcomes of the program are:
1. Support self-awareness in participants so that they can recognize and code their own social behaviors in order to stop or correct bullying-type behaviors.

2. Empower attendees to engage in healthy confrontation by providing them with practice communication techniques.

3. Provide actionable means for a cultural reset within their local communities navigating cultures where bullying and/or exclusionary behaviors are prevalent.

With the ever-changing state and federal laws keeping institutional and organizational policies and processes up-to-date while ensuring efficiency and effectiveness has never been more challenging.

Mary is available for policy development, process review, and benchmarking work, including reviewing state and federal laws and identifying procedural gaps for institutions and stakeholders. Mary is available to support, edit, write, or develop Equal Opportunity policies, Title IX policies and/or gender-based misconduct processes.

Training programming for full-team, investigators, decision-makers, and panelists. Training for Title IX staff/team members cover: credibility assessments, process obligations and best practices, trauma-informed interviewing techniques, personal bias, question formulation, and document development/drafting.

Process and response training designed for student and professional residential life staff including trauma-informed practice and referral. This training incorporates institutional requirements for report submission and reviews reporting writing details.

Designed for faculty and staff acting as Campus Security Authorities or named as Responsible Employees to review sources and process obligations, objectives of referrals, and employee responsibilities.

Designed for campus safety officers, patrol, and departments giving a high-level overview of Title IX processes and best-practices for first responders relative to adjudicative processes.