M. Parker Anderson, MA, CLC, PCC

M. Parker Anderson, president and founder of The Anderson Advantage Group (TAAG) is a certified executive coach and life strategist, who specializes in leadership coaching. Through TAAG, Parker and her associates "generate conversations that make a difference" by motivating and inspiring corporate executives, international leaders, organizational management teams, and others to identify and achieve their goals, in the expanding and ever broadening conversation of strategic leadership and demand for increased competency within the workplace.

Parker is multilingual (Spanish and French) and her early background is in adult education and professional development. She is a certified One Page Business Plan™ Coach and she also includes Shadow Coaching™ in her repertoire of skills. She is an elected board member for the International Association of Coaches (IAC) and an advisor to Coaching the Global Village. She is a member in good standing with the International Coach Federation (ICF); and The International Consortium for Coaching Organizations (ICCO). She is also serving on the North American Committee for the International Colloquium for Women in Leadership being convened by the Presidents of Liberia and Finland. TAAG has been featured through Forbes magazine online advertising and also with Fast Company, Inc, and the Washington Business Journal.

Parker has coached or facilitated teams at the U.S. Library of Congress, World Bank Group, U.S. Department of the Navy and Army, and the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as being the Coach for the United Nations’ Young World Leaders’ Conference. Parker works with clients across the globe including Europe and Africa and recently has returned from professional travel to China; Hong Kong; Paris, France, and Senegal, West Africa. Previous work includes being the Director of Training for the U.S. Peace Corps in Jamaica and in Barbados for the Eastern Caribbean; Director of Training for national membership organizations and as an adjunct professor for the University of Houston, University of Texas, and George Washington University. Parker is an active member of the Washington, DC and U.S. Chambers of Commerce.