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<p>Coaching and consulting for senior leaders and leadership teams.

Are you a senior leader eager to elevate your leadership?

These one-day intensive coaching sessions will jumpstart you or your team. Schedule a 30-minute strategy call now.

VIP Coaching Session

Supercharge your leadership impact. Transform overwhelm into leadership mastery with a one-day, personalized, VIP coaching session that fits your schedule. Break free from chaos to lead with conviction. Over the course of six hours, you will—

  • Create a values-based vision.

  • Set goals. 

  • Decide on a course of action. 

  • Take the next steps.

Curious to find out more?

Only five openings for this VIP Coaching Session are available. 

Enneagram Deep Dive 

If you’re frustrated with the impact of personality differences at work (and at home), this individualized, one-day Deep Dive is for you. You’ll leave the day with—

  • Non-judgmental, non-inflammatory language to address personality differences.

  • A way to recognize and see how to leverage the strengths of those different personalities.

  • Tools to mitigate conflict and stress.

  • Insight on the impact of your strengths and blindspots at work.

  • A plan to continue your Enneagram learning journey.

Curious to find out more?

Only five openings for the Deep Dive are available. 

Do you Struggle with…

  • Overwhelm at shouldering new responsibilities?
  • Fear that you won’t measure up to expectations—yours or your team’s?
  • Doubt about your skills and abilities?
  • Procrastination in the face of uncertainty?
  • Delay in making decisions?
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HOW WOULD YOU LIKE—

  • Courage despite uncertainty, so you can meet new challenges.
  • Confidence in yourself so you can speak your truth and do what’s hard.
  • Trust in your decisions, so you can effect change for the better.
  • Satisfaction at a job well-done and goals achieved.

Here’s what you can expect.

OUTCOME.
Change and transition cause confusion, blur perspective, and cloud vision. We’ll start by getting clear about the outcome you want.

COURSE OF ACTION.
Once you’re clear about your desired outcome, you’ll chart a course of action. We’ll work together as you craft a plan and identify strategies to execute.

ONE STEP AT A TIME.
With an outcome and a course of action in hand, you’re ready to move forward. Confidence and courage grow as you test new waters, reflect on the experience, and apply what you’ve  learned.

HOW DOES COACHING WORK?

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YOU SET THE AGENDA.

Coaching begins with the assumption that you have the knowledge, creativity, and ability to find the answers to your challenges. You are resourceful and strong. You know what you need. You identify the outcome you want and the indicators of success.

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WE EXPLORE TOGETHER.

During each session you will clarify challenges, explore assumptions, examine perspectives, and consider alternatives. I will encourage and support you through active listening, respectful inquiry, reflection, and attention to the three centers of intelligence.

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YOU DECIDE AND TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP.

Coaching is experiential. At the end of each session you decide and commit your next action step(s) and apply what you’ve discovered or learned in that sessions to what you do the next day.

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YOU REFLECT, EVALUATE, AND MOVE FORWARD.

Throughout the coaching process, you’ll reflect and evaluate your actions and their impact. You’ll note successes and make course adjustments, always with your outcome in mind.

CHANGE IS HARD.

I KNOW.

I’ve held more than six different professional positions and served on the boards of five very different organizations over my career. Each position required me to learn new skills, acculturate to a different organization, assume a new role, and cultivate courage and confidence. (I’ve experienced plenty of change—planned and unplanned—outside of my career, as well.) I’ve been at that edge where fear, uncertainty, procrastination, overwhelm, and doubt.

Having coached hundreds of professionals stepping into new roles and facilitated scores of teams with new responsibilities, I’ve witnessed how fear and anxiety can transform into courage and confidence.

Find out more about me here.

Curious? Interested? Let’s talk. No obligation.

Let’s Get Started!

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Schedule a free 50-minute consultation

(Includes a mini-coaching conversation.)

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Identify your desired outcomes.

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Choose a plan.

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Move forward with confidence and courage!

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testimonials

Mary came alongside me in a way I had never experienced before. By listening intently and presenting my own thoughts back to me in a fresh way, she gave me a brand new perspective and helped clear confusion I did not even realize I had. As a student trying to determine life direction, Mary gave me the freedom and guidance to begin calibrating my compass. Even on the days when I came to our calls without an agenda, by Mary’s thoughtful leadership, we always reached a place where I felt peace and clarity. Several months later, I still reflect on our coaching time and continue practices that I learned from Mary. In whatever stage of life you may be, Mary’s coaching will, without a doubt, help you live reflectively and find new footing as you continue to develop your vision.

JENSI SHAW
Communications Student, Ohio State University

Mary is interested in the whole person’s well being rather than just doing her work. With God’s help and wisdom, she picked up my broken pieces and together, we put the pieces together. I learned about listening as she listened to me. Listening is not about me, it is about how the speaker feels and  what she/he is saying. I learned to listen with empathy. I solved my own problems as I talked while she listened patiently.

Adeola Olatunde

Mary helped me identify a particular and present issue for me to address in my professional life. Her coaching style, both direct and empathetic, made space for me to determine my own issues and work toward my own solutions in the presence of a supportive other.

Emily Hamilton
Pastor of Missions, Christ Presbyterian Church (Edina, MN)

Being a coach does not absolve me from needing my own coaching from time to time.  I look to Mary for this.  She listens thoughtfully, asks meaningful questions, and provides guidance that helps me clear the way so I gain insight on how to best move forward.  The combination of Mary’s caring style and her technique has shed more light on who I am as a person and coach that has been invaluable.

Kate Wood
K8 Co and The Table