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mary@psg.us
Now in her fourth year with The Public Strategies Group, Mary Mead Lofy is a member of PSG’s Reinventing Government Network working with the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Agency. Mary led the team of consultants who designed and piloted FSA’s Performance Excellence Scorecards, a management tool that 110 frontline FSA teams use to measure and improve the cost-effectiveness and quality of the federal Student Aid program.
Mary is not a newcomer to the inner workings of government. She served as an elected member of the Mankato, MN City Council for eight years, chaired a |
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Housing and Redevelopment Authority in Minnesota, served on a Police Civil Service Commission and other advisory councils for local and state government. She has received many public service awards, including the YWCA Leadership Award for Women, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Pathfinder Award and the Nicholas J. Coleman Award for political courage.
In the non-profit sector Mary Mead Lofy served as chair of The Minnesota Project, which tackles economic and environmental problems in the states rural communities. In the private sector she was a director on the board of Norwest Bank in Mankato for 14 years and a partner in a retail business for nine.
With her husband Dr. Carl (Chuck) Lofy, Mary partners in a consulting firm, Lofy Associates, formed in 1987 to assist public and private sector organizations confronted with the challenges of change. Lofy Associates has consulted with municipal, state and federal agencies as well as Fortune 500 companies like 3M, General Electric, AT&T. The Lofys have authored a book that was published in August 2003: Vitality: Using Change, Trust and Leadership to Ignite Your Organization’s Spirit. The methodology they describe in the book and have used in the field for many years, guides clients from the inevitable chaos of change to fresh clarification of purpose, leading to revitalization – a process some participants have dubbed “the Lofy Loop.” Mary works with organizations in the area of change management, organizational restructuring, leadership development, trust building and team building.
Mary holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and an MA in Organizational Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Her BA is in English from Dominican College in Houston, TX. She and her husband, Chuck, have three grown children and, at last count, four grandchildren.
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