Plexus Worldwide, a leading direct-marketing weight-loss and health-supplement seller that was recently named #8 on the 2014 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies, announced that Mary Ann Luciano will join the company as Vice President of Ambassador Education. She will report directly to Chief Marketing Officer, Alec Clark. In her new role, she will guide the education, recognition, culture and training of more than 200,000 Plexus Ambassadors from across the world and will help build sales training tools and personal development plans to help Ambassadors achieve their individual goals.
“As Plexus continues its phenomenal growth, we’re very excited to add Mary Ann’s extensive Network Marketing sales and talent management experience to our team,” said Tarl Robinson, CEO of Plexus Worldwide. “Mary Ann will play a significant role as Plexus Worldwide continues to grow and expand.”
“Mary Ann has a history of success at organizations like Avnet, Estee Lauder, Avon and Mary Kay,” said Alec Clark, Chief Marketing Officer at Plexus Worldwide. “We are very excited that she will the lead efforts of further educating, training, recognizing and supporting our amazing Ambassadors.”
“I am very excited to join the Plexus talented team,” said Mary Ann Luciano. “The more than 200,000 Plexus Ambassadors have shown their passion and excitement for the products, and I look forward to working with them to grow their individual businesses and enhance the organization’s culture.”
Mary Ann Luciano has extensive experience leading Talent Management and Leadership Development initiatives targeted to corporate leaders, sales organizations and field operations with particular expertise identifying opportunities for organizational improvement.
She is the former Director of International Sales and Product Training at Mary Kay Cosmetics where she was a member of the New Market Development Team responsible for the identification and development of strategies for penetrating all new global markets as well as improving the company’s performance within existing markets. Prior to becoming a part of the leadership team at Mary Kay, Mary Ann held management leadership positions at Avon Cosmetics where she created Avon’s first College Recruiting program at leading undergraduate and graduate universities to identify high potential candidates to fill roles in marketing, finance, and engineering.
Most recently, Mary Ann was Vice President, Executive Talent Management at Avnet where she successfully led the talent management project targeted to the organization’s top 300 global leaders to create comprehensive executive development plans to create a strong leadership succession bench. Prior to Avnet, she held the position of Vice President of Client Services at Right Management where she represented a diverse portfolio of talent and career management services to leading companies in Arizona and Nevada. Mary Ann has also served as Director of Learning and Development for Tokyo-headquartered Itochu International, one of the world’s largest global trading companies, where she was charged with strategizing and executing initiatives in leadership and management development with the presidents of Itochu’s 20 US subsidiaries. She led the company’s effort to create and successfully implement programs such as multi-level management development, succession management, competency development, leadership pipelines, performance management, 360-assessments, developing high-performing teams, executive coaching, and customized programs for high-potentials and high-professionals. She also directed the activities of Itochu’s ethics and compliance training programs and in this capacity was interviewed by Training Magazine and was a featured speaker at an annual industry conference that recognized the breadth and innovation of her programs.
Mary Ann graduated from Saint John’s University with a BA in History and attended the MBA program at Pace University. She holds numerous professional certifications, including MBTI and Lominger. She has also completed management and certificate programs from CCL, Cornell, Achieve Global, and been active in the Conference Board and the Human Resources Planning Society. She has delivered keynote motivational and sales leadership speeches globally. Mary Ann is currently the President of the Arizona Chapter of the Human Resources People and Strategy organization (HRPS).
