Author, Speaker, Consultant

Martha is President, CEO and founder of Fields Associates, Inc, which is located in Harvard Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and established in 1994. She has served as a consultant and expert on management, diversity and globalization for Harvard Business School.

A much sought-after keynote and motivational speaker, she is also the author of five books:

• Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them
  
• Love Your Work By Loving Your Life (LwL²)
  
• Dancing with the Sun, a novel
  
• Roadmap to Success, which she co-authored with Dr. Stephen R. Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and Ken Blanchard.
• Managing Diversity: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
  

Her company’s mission is to “connect Human Resources with business strategies to make a memorable positive difference within people, organizations and the world.” Fields’ impressive list of clients includes FORTUNE 500 companies, non-profits, and ivy-league schools ranging from:

Harvard University, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Journal of Medicine, Shell Oil, Fidelity Investments, NASA, National Grid, Social Security Administration, STAPLES, and Harley-Davidson to MITRE, an eight time winner of FORTUNE’s Best Companies to Work For.

Martha refers to herself as a “Corporate Cupid and a Citizen of the World.” She has traveled widely to places such as the Amazon Jungle and spent part of her childhood in Okinawa.

As an internationally recognized thought leader and expert in human resources, diversity/globalization and healthcare, she appears frequently on CNN, ABC, Fox TV, Facebook and has been quoted in such publications as FORTUNE, Kiplinger, Forbes and the Boston Globe. Prior to starting her firm, she served as a Vice President at a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. For six years, she chaired the prestigious Linkage Summit on Leading Diversity and worked with such icons as Maya Angelou and the late Coretta Scott King. Martha is a recipient of the John D. Erdlen Five Star Award, an honor she shares with the New England Patriots for excellence in human resources management.