Margie Warrell

Margie (born Margaret Mary Kleinitz) grew up on a dairy farm in near Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia. The second eldest of seven children to Raymond and Maureen Kleinitz, she attended Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a Bachelor of Business (Marketing). After a corporate career working for organisations such as BP and KPMG, Margie went back to college to study psychology at Deakin University before beginning a new career in coaching and leadership development. She is currently completing her PhD at Fielding Graduate University.[1] She is also on the advisory board of the Forbes School of Business & Technology.

Margie writes a column for Forbes and her expertise has been quoted in numerous media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Psychology Today, Fox News, Today Show, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera. People she has interviewed for Forbes include Sir Richard Branson and hotelier Bill Marriott.

Margie is also host of the Live Brave Podcast. She has interviewed numerous guests including Steve Forbes, Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, Marianne Williamson, Kathy Calvin, Layne Beachley, Kristin Neff, and Harvard University Professor Tal Ben Shahar.

Margie has worked with a host of organisations globally including NASA, Salesforce, Deloitte, Berkshire Hathaway, Oracle and the United Nations Foundation. She has also been a guest lecturer at various universities including Columbia, Georgetown, SMU and her alumni Monash University in Australia.

Margie has lived in multiple countries, including three years in Papua New Guinea (1995-1998). In 2001 she moved to the US where she resided until 2012 when she returned to live in Melbourne, Australia. Margie has been living in Singapore in 2017.

Margie married Andrew Warrell in 1993 and together they have four children Lachlan (1998), Madelyn (1999), Benjamin (2001) and Matthew (2003).

In 2016 Margie climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with her husband Andrew and their four children.

Margie was appointed by the Australian government as the first Ambassador for Women in Global Business in 2016. She is also a Women's Economic Forum honoree, a member of UN Women National Committee in Australia and on the advisory board of Forbes School of Business and Technology, Ashford University.

Margie is an Ambassador for Beyondblue and passionate about removing the stigma surrounding mental illness. She is also an Ambassador for Google's WomenWill initiative.