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Maggie Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO
The Empowerment Experiment
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Maggie is an accomplished strategy professional with twelve years of legal, research, communications and business strategy experience. With a JD and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and as a former Strategy Manager and Speechwriter for C-suite executives at McDonald’s, Maggie is a respected leader in the Chicago business community. Previously, at McDonald’s corporate headquarters, she developed, presented, and implemented influential growth strategies and venture plans in the areas of diversity, emergent industries and global markets, market segmentation, communications, business intelligence, and corporate responsibility. As a strategy consultant, she has conducted due diligence, business intelligence, and competitive and market/industry research for corporate and private equity clients, as she helped them explore and execute mergers, acquisitions, product/market development, and new ventures. Maggie also has a strong track record within various political and government environments, including serving as the Mayor of Atlanta’s speechwriter while that city hosted the Olympic Games.
Maggie has demonstrated the ability to adapt to and thrive in different settings… from a drug-infested ghetto in Miami, to representing the Mayor of a world-class city, to revolutionizing a basement-based startup, and to the CEO’s office of one the largest companies in the world. To accomplish this, she has infused her business and legal experience, her world-class education, and her intelligence, creativity, and drive into all of her endeavors and projects.
Maggie’s parents emigrated from Cuba 40 years ago, with the clothes on their backs and carrying her two older brothers. The teachings of these “No welfare, no daycare…We’ll make it work…” parents, the awareness of her diverse ancestry, and the resultant belief in the harmonious capacity of different races, cultures and nationalities enables her to inject an inclusive paradigm to resolving Black people’s problems. Also, her family’s “American Dream” story demonstrates how a proud Black family can defy the statistics, stereotypes, and the stifling situation of their surroundings.
Her professional and personal success represents the intense work ethic, formidable expertise, extreme pride and passion for her community, and the intellectual fortitude she brings to The Empowerment Experiment.
Maggie has a MBA in Economics and Strategy from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business; a JD from the University of Chicago Law School; and a BA in Political Science from Emory University.
She has been married to John Carl Anderson for ten years. They live in Oak Park, Illinois with their two- and three-year-old daughters – Cori and Cara.
