Mary Calia

Mary Helen Calia is a published author of business novels, industry features, adult and teen fiction, and musical compositions and scores. Her professional career in business and international communications, investor and public relations spans more than twenty-five years. She is a co-author of the bestselling business novel, Ford and the American Dream: Founded on Right Decisions in addition to Great Leaders Listen; Results: Winning in Difficult Times; Legacy Living and other leadership books. She is the author of a new teen action book on school yard bullying, which has received kudos from the American Medical Association, Paulina Star.

Mary is a graduate of Grover Cleveland High School in Queens, New York, then continued her education City College of New York and Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. She began her professional career at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where she was awarded an honorable mention for her research assistance in total knee replacement as reported in the New England Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

She co-founded North America’s first full-service and award winning investor relations firm with the legendary communications’ innovator, Marcel Knecht of Marcel Knecht & Associates, Inc., servicing more than 500 pubic companies worldwide. Mary helped launch Europe’s first investor relations firm in Paris, France, and produced the first nationally-televised investment conference in North America. Her clients include Power Corporation of Canada, Alcan Aluminum, Elf Aquitaine, NASDAQ and others.

Mary provides counsel to government leaders, emerging growth companies, Fortune 500 CEO’s and political, business, celebrity, arts, culture and industry leaders. In international relations, she has collaborated in trade and industry, commerce and cultural communications with world and business leaders in the public and private sector. She has been featured as one of America’s top businesswomen in leading business journals including the Nashville Business Journal.

She has served on numerous boards including the Montreal Neurological Hospital and the Jewish General Hospital, and is a member of the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) and the Women’s Club of Nashville. She is a public speaker on ethics, transparency, and school yard bullying.

Mary has four sons and lives and works in both New York City and Brentwood, Tennessee.