Meet Mary Monusky, Managing Director

Mary is a Networking Architect, linking business leaders to relevant customers, partners, and solutions. Her talent lies in her innate ability to visualize connections between brands, individuals, and common goals, then build and help leverage relationships to drive sales, raise capital, capture demand, and meet organizational goals.

Mary's experience and passion centers around helping businesses and individual contributors Thrive:

For emerging and new-growth businesses, this includes sourcing and maximizing corporate relationships, brainstorming and road-mapping for new businesses or projects, and talent-sourcing to build a competitive sales team.

For established brands and teams, Mary taps into her innovative talents to facilitate strategic workshops or virtual 'white boarding' sessions. These sessions are specifically aimed at identifying, arranging, coaching and repositioning team capabilities to optimize potential.

In 2017, Mary founded Thrive Partners as a consortium of industry experts focused on providing premiere business support, aimed to amplify her passion to uncover the hidden potential and brilliance in others.

Alison Anesta, Founding Partner

Alison is a Business Psychologist and Thrive’s Growth Strategist. As Your Strengths Advisor, Alison specializes in people frameworking, team and guest experience design, and business growth/change management.  Her focus on behavioral science and psychological principles lends to her clients’ ability to unlock their personal potential and reach new business achievements. Her passions include world travel, hiking Runyon Canyon, and focusing her career and personal contributions to social responsibility.

Grace McBride, Founding Partner

Grace is Thrive’s EVP of Digital Innovation, Marketing & Branding, specializing in new business start-ups and brand relaunches.  As a business growth savant, she creates unique and custom digital marketing plans, collateral design, and brand strategy. Through her words and design, Grace captures the essence of her clients goals and then translates them into customized brand identity elements. Her passion includes cooking with fresh foods from her garden, global travel, and staying connected with her alma mater Cornell University.

Dr. Sean Gallagan, Chief Education Officer

Dr. Gallagan is Thrive’s Chief Education Officer of Aviation Education & Workforce Development solutions. He provides aviation professionals, companies, and educational & (non) governmental organizations consultation services to grow their business. Dr. Gallagan’s expertise lies in ‘next-gen’ training development and strategic planning. Prior to becoming a consultant, he served as the Associate Dean overseeing transportation programs at Broward College and was Principal/Director of George T. Baker Aviation Technical College – the largest FAA Part 147 public training institute in the SE United States. He has implemented numerous programs including career dual enrollment, short-term training programs, industry/company-specific, and online courses. He received his Ph.D. from Barry University, Masters from Nova Southeastern, and Bachelors from FIU.