Marie R. Miyashiro is an internationally recognized business consultant, facilitator, writer, keynote speaker and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practitioner, with over 28 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, nonprofits, universities and government agencies throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, Asia and India, and with clients from Japan to Indonesia. A student of Compassionate Communication, Marie has dedicated most of her professional career to end the workplace culture where human needs are unmet in the name of profits and productivity. This body of work has made a clear connection between the vitality of organizations and workplace systems where all needs matter, including those of the business, employee and customer.

Marie authored her first book, The Empathy Factor—Your Competitive Advantage for Personal, Team and Business Success, with the foreword written by Jerry Colonna, one of the best-known financiers for the new economy, published by PuddleDancer Press in fall 2011. In 2007, Marie co-authored a chapter that appears in the second edition of The Change Handbook—The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems with Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., developer of the NVC process.

Marie is the President and founder of Elucity Network, Inc., an empathy-based consulting training firm based in Tucson, Arizona. Elucity provides business outreach services, organization development consulting, strategic planning facilitation and consulting, leadership and work team development and communication training for businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, universities and industry specific associations. Her firm has received over two dozen awards for communication and partnering programs.

She holds a degree in communication studies from Northwestern University and has studied with noted organization development consultant Sam Kaner, Ph.D., of the international consulting firm, Community At Work. She is accredited by the New York-based Public Relations Society of America and is also certified in planning by the International Association for Public Participation.