HRLF Director

Mimi Mazarei

Managing Principal  - Merzad Culture Consulting

Mimi Mazarei is managing principal of Merzad Consulting. She has over twenty years of executive leadership, including two positions as Director of Operations - overseeing accounting, human resources, and operations. At every position, Mimi realized how the culture and lack of collaboration among different departments and individuals could create a stressful work environment and negatively impact the bottom line.

She decided to create a culture consulting company that would alleviate the stress felt by leaders and employees and help create a positive, collaborative, and innovative cultures where performance is high, and employees thrive.  Two of our main focuses are to help leadership team become more cohesive and managers lead with empathy and create accountability by providing training on Strengths finder, psychological safety, how to have hard conversation and listen more effectively.

Mimi has been recognized for her ability to bring bold honesty, curiosity, care, and compassion to every client engagement. She was a CPA, is a SPHR, SHRM SCP and has trained and worked as a Baldrige Examiner (national award for performance excellence). She has completed training in Narrative coaching, Crucial Conversations™ and is certified in the Team Coaching International coaching methodology.