Coaching gives you space to pause, reflect, and work on the questions that matter most - whether in your career, your business, or your wider life. Some clients come at moments of transition, others when they want to strengthen relationships or increase their impact.

What unites them is a wish to move forward with clarity and confidence, supported by a trusted partner who will both encourage and challenge them. My role is to provide that partnership, bringing presence, perceptiveness, and gentle persistence in inquiry. Together we attend to both the whole person and the wider systems you are part of, because lasting change comes from aligning the two.

What you could expect from coaching with me:

As Einstein suggested in the famous quote, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

How we make meaning of situations is influenced by our cultural background and the significant personalities and events that have shaped us as we have developed through our lives.

Coaching serves a powerful developmental purpose by bringing our meaning making and behavioral patterns into our consciousness.

We can only change what we are aware of.

Quality relationships

Coaching gives us an opportunity “to see ourselves in the mirror”.

Coaching enables deeper self-insight, understanding how we come across, how we feel about things, what we value and why. That can help us “reframe” and change how we respond to people and situations.

It can expand our capacity to influence others and enhance the quality of our personal and professional relationships.

Clarity

Sometimes we might have a general sense of discomfort about our lives and find it difficult to name the source of our discomfort.

Coaching can be a powerful way of bringing clarity around our values, purpose, goals and wishes.

Good coaching is not just about helping us to get on with our lives or move faster. It encourages us to examine what is “under our bonnet” and helps us to take actions that are right for us.

Resourcefulness and well-being

Coaching can help us internalize our strengths and ‘step into our power’. It can help us become more aware of the internal resources that we can build on for dealing with adversity.

Coaching, when done well, is a safe container where we can explore our inner world and have our feelings and experiences validated.

That can lead to both enhanced physical and mental wellbeing, as well as improved performance.

When done well coaching can deliver near magical results.

Representative Assignments

Worked with a business owner reshaping his leadership team to support growth - helping him manage both the external pressures of scaling and the inner doubts that came with stepping into a larger role.

Guided a General Manager of a global pharmaceutical company through executive transition - building stakeholder alliances, and aligning team performance with new strategic goals.

Helped a newly appointed Country Manager in a global oil and gas company address imposter feelings and step into her leadership role with confidence - enabling her to inspire and elevate team performance.

Supported a CEO in a multinational insurance company to lead more effectively across cultures, improve decision-making under volatility, and strengthen trust and collaboration within the executive team.

Worked with Partner candidates at PwC across CEE - coaching them through the Partner admission process and supporting their transition into senior leadership roles, with a focus on influence, visibility, and strategic impact.

Facilitated creating trusted relationships between team members cross-culturally in an international telecommunications and technology business to improve the alignment and effectiveness of the global change effort .

Recognised by a Business Transformation Leader at a major tech company: “Maria has a rare skill in helping unlock how people perform by talking about the often unsaid fears and challenges that affect 99.9% of leaders (the 0.1% are liars or dead).”