Ms. Beal is the president and founder of Beal Consulting. Before launching Beal Consulting in 1991, Ms. Beal was vice president of The Beal Companies, a real estate development and management firm, where she was responsible for managing a portfolio of equities, bonds and alternative investments. In 1976 Ms. Beal started Financial Education Seminars to introduce women to the basic concepts of personal financial decision-making. These seminars were taught by professors from the business schools of  Boston University, Harvard, and MIT.

Ms. Beal currently serves on the Investment Committees of the Appalachian Mountain Club and the New England Conservatory, and she is a past member of the Investment Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, and WGBH (Boston's PBS channel). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, the North Bennet Street School, the Municipal Arts Society
of New York, and is a past member of the National Council of the Shakespeare Theatre. She is a Trustee Emerita of WGBH and is on the Advisory Committee of the Appalachian Mountain Club and LeAp (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program, NY). Ms. Beal earned a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, an MBA from Boston University, and holds a Series 7 License.