ABOUT STATUS GROW

WE HAVE EXPERIENCE AND WE HAVE VISION!
We are trained to help diverse groups build consensus and align toward a common goal for non-profit, for-profit; boards and bosses; hefty budgets or shoestrings. After helping to create your “roadmap” we can plan mega events for thousands or cultivation events for a select few.
We are creative and we understand the marketing mix. We know how to combine a variety of strategies (special events, pr, and promotion) to make the impression you want, raise the money you need, or to cultivate the relationships that you’d like to have.

WE ARE FLEXIBLE!
We can handle almost any event or marketing challenge for you as if we were a member of your staff, but without the usual employee overhead costs. We can be available on site each day to troubleshoot and problem solve as the project or campaign progresses, or we can assume a truly behind-the-scenes role working from our offices to get the job done.

WE KNOW OUR WAY AROUND!
While we know our hometown the Baltimore market best of all, we have worked for clients in most major US markets as well as key European and Carribean cities. Travel is no problem for us!

Locally we know "who's who” and “what's what" in and around town - and for what we don’t know, we have the resources and partners in place to help. Together we can create a vision, find answers to your questions, execute your event, make connections, recruit the right committee members or generate a positive news story.

Mary Sue McCarthy - Principal

Mary Sue McCarthy is a seasoned manager with hands-on experience and an aptitude for strategic visioning, events planning, and marketing and project management. Inspired by the realization that clients come to her with expectations of positive change and growth, Mary Sue named her new endeavor “Status Grow: Communications Consulting Above and Beyond the Status Quo.“

After 25 years in public relations and events planning, Mary Sue has become a firm believer that successful group process involves finding common ground while honoring individual diversity and dissent. This belief, coupled with her natural inclination to build alignment, make connections and help parties work toward a common goal, prompted Mary Sue to become a facilitator of the strategic visioning process and the transformative approach to conflict resolution.

A “perennial student” of strategic visioning facilitation, Mary Sue received her initial training from Grove Consultants and continues her professional development as a member of the International Facilitators Association. She has also completed 80 hours of accredited mediation training from the transformative approach with Louise Phipps Senft, Founder of the Baltimore Mediation Center. This training has improved Mary Sue’s communications skills and taught her to be a more engaged and active listener.For more information on the BaltimoreMediation Center please visit www.baltimoremediation.com

Additional expertise is avalableto Status Grow Clients and is provided by:
Deirdre Crowley, Grove Consultants International
Joan N. Davidson, Principal, JND Marketing
Louise Phipps Senft, Founder Baltimore Mediation Center