Our Workplace Consulting Team
Anna Ivey
Born and raised in Germany, Anna Ivey attended Phillips Academy Andover (Massachusetts) for high school, earned her B.A. in History from Columbia University in New York, spent her Junior year at Cambridge University in the U.K., and earned her law degree at the University of Chicago.
In law school, she served as an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review,worked as a research assistant to Larry Lessig with a focus on constitutional and cyberspace law, and took several classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Upon graduating from law school, she joined the Corporate Group at the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella, working with clients such as Disney, AOL Time Warner, Williams-Sonoma, Hewlett-Packard, CSFB, and Mattel in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and public and private financings. She later joined the Entertainment Finance Group at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, also in Los Angeles, where she worked on the financing of major motion pictures starring actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, and Renee Zellweger.
She next returned to the University of Chicago Law School, where at age 27 she was promoted to Dean of Admissions. She decided who got in... and who didn't. She read thousands of applications, visited colleges nationwide, educated tens of thousands of applicants about the admissions process, and conducted hundreds of admissions interviews. As part of a larger community of admissions professionals, she also met regularly with law school, business school, and college admissions officers from top schools.
Anna has been featured as an expert on CNN and Fox News Channel, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Business Journal, Fortune.com, and Smart Money. She speaks at colleges and workplaces around the country and publishes ‘The Ivey Files,’ a blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school.
Anna is currently at work on her next book, Gen Y @ Work, in collaboration with Marla Gottschalk (below).
Natively biilingual in German and English, her language studies have also included French, Polish, Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Mandarin Chinese.
Marla Gottschalk
Marla holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University, with a minor area of study in multivariate statistics. She has held varied roles on projects focusing upon job analysis, performance management, training, career coaching and organizational change. She focuses on helping individuals and organizations grow and excel through customized research, assessment, and coaching techniques. Marla has worked with a variety of small and large organizations in the automotive, hotel, mortgage, computer, and airline industries. She has held previous research positions at Sandy Corporation and Michigan Bell Telephone. She was also a management consultant for HR Strategies (now Aon Consulting). She lives with her family near Michigan State University.
