About Us

Star Maker Enterprises is an executive coaching company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia focused on executives, professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs. Clients represent a broad cross-section of industries. Visit Our Clients for a snapshot view .

Mariette Edwards, Executive Coach
Before starting the company in 1996, Mariette Edwards was in senior Human Resource management for more than twenty years in New York and Atlanta where she served as executive advisor and principal talent relations strategist for financial, manufacturing and high tech companies that included SuCrest Corporation, Robinson-Humphrey, Wang Laboratories, Quadram Corporation and TechSOUTH, a BellSOUTH Enterprises company.

After leaving the corporate world, Mariette spent eight years working in small business, serving first as Business Manager and Coach to the CEO of an L.A. based entertainment marketing company and later as President of a small engineering design and manufacturing business where she took the company from bricks and mortar to a virtual operation while developing hands-on strategic and tactical skills in every aspect of small business management from raising venture capital to product build and ship.

Mariette brings a unique perspective to her work with private and corporate clients that draws on:

• Corporate experience that ranges from Fortune 500 companies to micro, small and mid-size businesses at all stages of development.
• An insider's knowledge and understanding of how businesses make people decisions.
• A principal player role as strategist and spokesperson in high consequence matters including union organizing drives, funding and venture capital pitches, and difficult customer and employee relations issues.
• Personal experience starting and running multiple small businesses including designing and introducing new products to market.
• A twelve-year track record coaching hundreds of high income achievers in top U.S. companies.

Creative, insightful, holistic, quick, curious and innovative, Mariette's work as a strategist and coach has been featured in Make a Name for Yourself by Robin Fisher Roffer, Wired for Creativity by Candace Long and 201 Best Questions To Ask On Your Interview by John Kador. Her articles on business and career strategies have appeared in print and on-line around the world. A past member of the Advisory Board of Create Magazine, Mariette was co-founder of the Georgia Chapter of the International Coach Federation, is a founding member of the International Association of Coaches and served on the District 14 Executive Committee of Toastmasters International.

Your Star Maker Team

No one achieves a goal alone. That's why we have assembled a highly skilled team of professionals proficient in web design, graphic design, copy writing, image, law, photography, public relations and other specialties. We are happy to refer these individuals to you if and when you need them.

Communication is the secret to success in business.