Marcella Vail: Empowering People is the Foundation for Organizational Success
Marcella Vail is an experienced corporate leader with success spanning eight different industries. Her passion for successful business operations has always been rooted in her commitment to both the people on her teams and the world beyond the workplace. With this personal mission informing her professional endeavors, it was a natural fit for her to take on an executive leadership position with a non-profit, after many years in private industry. Last fall Marcella stepped into her current role as Chief Operating Officer of ALSO, a non-profit dedicated to the full inclusion of people experiencing disabilities into the life of their community. In this episode, we chat with Marcella about early experiences that shaped her leadership style, the entrepreneurial spirit that she was raised with, and her beautiful thoughts regarding what constitutes a successful hire. It was a privilege and honor to interview Marcella. We know you’ll be inspired by her generous, intelligent insights into leadership, organizational growth, and giving back.
Marcella’s Bio
As an executive leader and cultural strategist, Marcella Vail lives to build purpose-driven, people-powered workplaces that deliver stellar results. She designs and drives scalable people operations and engagement strategies to achieve organizational goals and deliver on the vision, mission, and core values.
Marcella is a visionary, strategist, executor, communicator, and collaborator. She brings big ideas, refines them, and leads them across the finish line. She cares deeply about continuous improvement, linking activity to performance, and balancing operational excellence with customer and employee experience. She also loves being a people leader herself, building community, developing her teams, and recognizing their great work. Her purpose is to connect people to a greater purpose--at the end of the day, we should all contribute to organizations that make us feel valued, energized, and proud.
When she’s not working on the work she loves, she’s outside running, hiking, skiing, or golfing with her family and then celebrating with a NW IPA!