Mary Graham Davis

Mary Graham Davis founded the Davis Consulting Group LLC in 1996 to focus on the implementation of strategy through effective organization structure: the alignment of business units with the strategy, business unit mobilization and performance management to achieve annual operating plan objectives, and senior leadership coaching. Post-merger integration and strategic directional change are special areas of interest.

She previously served as managing vice president for PeopleTech, a division of Right Management Consultants, Inc. where she consulted to U.S. and global organizations implementing change processes resulting from restructuring, high growth opportunities or leadership transitions. Prior to the acquisition by Right, she served as the vice chair of Jannotta, Bray and Associates (Chicago), head of the Jannotta Consulting Group, and managing director of their New York Metropolitan Area Operating Group.

She began her career with CITICORP in the overseas equity investment Edge Act subsidiary. Relocating with her husband, she became a merchant banking partner with van Heyst and Company, Sydney, Australia. Returning to the United States, she founded her own management consulting business focusing on strategic planning and corporate finance. She joined Jannotta, Bray and Associates, focusing on senior executive coaching, corporate restructuring and change implementation in 1985.

She is currently chair of the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College (Trustee 1996-present). She is a senior managing director of Brock Capital Group LLC, New York City. Previous board positions include president, the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College (2006-2009), Graham-Windham Services to Families and Children, New York (President 1980-1982); The Board of Education, Winnetka Public Schools, Winnetka, Illinois (1985-1989), Jannotta, Bray and Associates, Inc. (1989-1994).

Her educational background includes a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in international economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Harvard & Tufts Universities. She spent her junior year abroad at the University of Geneva and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales.