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Marlena Daryousef

Marlena Daryousef holds an MBA and Doctor of Management degree from Colorado Technical University with over ten years of business development and consulting across multiple business verticals. Marlena has a proven track record of helping both startups and established businesses improve their business optimization, stakeholder engagement, quality and risk management processes, and problem-solving.

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Healthcare Treatment Innovation, Medical Tourism, and Hospital Business Strategy for Global Markets

The United States is facing a growing crisis in the form of increasing medical care costs for both the insured and uninsured. One innovative strategy to address increasing costs...

Management Consulting in Healthcare as an Innovative Means of Addressing an Organizational Cultural Crisis

Maria D. Baez, Allison J. Huff, Darrell Norman Burrell, Quatavia McLester, Delores Springs, William L. Quisenberry, Elizabeth I. Omotoye, Marlena Daryousef, Kiana S. Zanganeh, Kevin Richardson, Laura A. Jones. © 2024. 18 pages.

An increasing number of reports of sexual harassment in the workplace and medical education is challenging the current state of medical education and healthcare. The trauma and...

Diversity Interventions and Healthcare Management: A Real-World Case Study

Kim L. Brown-Jackson, Darrell Norman Burrell, Quatavia McLester, William L. Quisenberry, Robert Statts, Sharon L Burton, Maria D. Baez, Marlena Daryousef, Emad Rahim, Aikyna Finch, Laura Ann Jones, Elizabeth I. Omotoye. © 2024. 25 pages.

Racial discrimination against employees, customers, and clients continues to be a pressing challenge in various organizations and industries, including the healthcare sector. The...

Barricades and Hindrances Concerning Women Managers in Healthcare Cybersecurity and Technology

Amidst the prevailing scarcity of personnel and leaders within healthcare cybersecurity and technology management, the demand for bolstering the ranks of professionals in these...

Coaching Cybersecurity Project Managers and Cybersecurity Engineers

Amalisha Sabie Aridi, Darrell Norman Burrell, Aikyna Finch, Sharon L. Burton, William L. Quisenberry, Laura Ann Jones, Marlena Daryousef, Danielle Gervacio Graf, Michelle Denise Espinoza, Maria Mondala-Duncan. © 2024. 22 pages.

This inquiry emphasizes executive coaching as an indispensable leadership development tool in cybersecurity project management, encompassing cyber engineering and offensive...

Marketing Innovation Responsiveness in the Food and Beverage Marketplace

COVID-19 had a devastating effect on the wine industry, decimating wineries' on-premise sales and forcing down projected industry revenue for 2020 by 14%. The decline in wine...

Organizational Dynamics and Complexities in Healthcare Organizations

Research shows that 70-90% of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) fail due to culture clashes. The number of mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry has been increasing...

Exploring the Strategies Needed to Successfully Migrate Ground Campus Instruction to Fully Online Higher Education Courses

The impact of COVID-19 has put immediate stress on institutions of higher learning to properly and successfully migrate their traditional face to face courses to fully online....