Margie Warrell

Margie Warrell is a best selling author, speaker, media commentator. A mother of four children, she is also an international advocate for gender equality and women's empowerment.
She has written 3 books: Find Your Courage, Stop Playing Safe and Brave.

Margie (born Margaret Mary Kleinitz) grew up on a small dairy farm near Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia. The second eldest of seven children to Ray and Maureen Kleinitz, she left home at 18 to attend 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.

Margie has a column on Forbes called Courage Works and is also a sought after expert commentator for media such as the Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Psychology Today, Fox News, Today Show, Sunrise, ABC News Breakfast and Al Jazeera. People she has interviewed for Forbes included Sir Richard Branson and hotelier Bill Marriott.

Margie has an online video channel focused on empowering women called RawCourageTV. On it she has interviewed a host of people who have demonstrated the courage she hopes to inspire in others. These include Kathy Calvin, President of the United Nations Foundation; Saba Feniger, Holocaust survivor; Layne Beachley, seven times world surfing pro; ThankYou founder Justine Flynn, publisher Lisa Messenger, entrepreneur Emma Isaacs and many others.

Margie has worked with a host of organisations globally including NASA. She is also a guest lecturer at various universities including Columbia, Georgetown, SMU and her alumni Monash University in Australia.

Margie has travelled widely around the world through over 70 countries, including three years living 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 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 Ladies America.

Margie is an Ambassador for Beyond Blue and passionate about removing the stigma surrounding mental illness. Her youngest brother Peter (1979 - 2010) suffered with schizophrenia.