Claire Bloom, CIRM, M.S.E.L., M.S.S.I., MBTI Certified Practitioner

Claire Bloom is an associate with Your Success Plus!, an educational organization specializing in motivational speaking and training for business and community education.

Her professional background includes over twenty years of curriculum design and teaching experience in Total Quality Management, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Team Building, Leadership and Management. She has taught and worked in a variety of environments, including the United States Navy, from which she retired in the summer of 1998 after having served for more than two years as the first female Executive Officer of USS CONSTITUTION, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. 

She has a Master of Science in Educational Leadership, a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence, is certified in Integrated Resource Management, is an APICS Qualified Instructor for CIRM, and is an MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) Master Practitioner, qualified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She is an active volunteer, and is currently serving in a number of volunteer roles. 

Together with Keith J. Launchbury, a consultant in manufacturing, she has developed the Manufacturing Simulation Game, the Integrated Resource Management Game, the Marketing Game, six checklists for assessment of enterprise operations, and a checklist for evaluation of team performance. She is a frequent speaker at business and organization events on numerous motivational topics, has authored numerous business articles in various publications. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Toyota Award for the best paper presented at the South African Production and Inventory Control Society Conference in 2001, the Margaret Cochran Corbin Award for Service by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Charles Frances Adams award for Service by the USS CONSTITUTION Museum. Her military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, five Navy Commendation Medals, and two Navy Achievement Medals.