Mary Abbajay,President of Careerstone Group, LLC and author of Managing Up. A must read for surviving and moving up in organizations.

Mary currently serves on the Market President’s Board of BB&T Bank and is past Chairman of the Board for Leadership Greater Washington where she also chaired and led the adult Signature

program, the Youth Leadership Program and the Rising Leaders Program. She was a volunteer mentor for Mentor’s Inc., an urban youth mentoring program and served for six years on the Board of

Directors of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre and was president of the Adams Morgan Business Association.

Mary earned a master’s degree in organizational management from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA. and a degree in organizational development from Georgetown University’s Organizational Development Program and the Coaches Training Institute. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Kenyon College.

In 2010, Mary was named as one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business and was a Smart CEO Brava Award Recipient in 2017.