My main focus is on helping men and women in midlife upgrade their relationship with work, so that they wake up excited to do work that they love.I enable leaders to become more effective, better able to contribute meaningfully to their businesses in the short and long term. I have extensive experience of working across cultures in multiple languages, and am good at quickly grasping challenges faced, cutting through complexity and identifying pragmatic solutions. I act as a catalyst, enabling people to become ‘unstuck’ and move forward. I believe that we each have the answers to our own challenges. My role is not to provide new answers, but rather to help my clients to step back from their situations, to see patterns and to identify the actions required to enable them to progress. My career started at Barclays Bank, where I was a successful Relationship Director, responsible for a portfolio of large corporate customers, generating annual profit of £150m. I then moved from frontline sales into risk management, where I oversaw the restructure of the risk function across Barclays Africa, and the integration of Absa Risk into Barclays Group Risk. In these roles.I led the establishment of an internal coach training programme for Absa, South Africa and for Barclays Africa, where I was responsible for the training, supervision and ongoing professional development of around 150 coaches in 14 countries, working in three languages.Client Testimonials• “I found Maria to be both sympathetic and empathetic and she really challenged me to find the solutions in my own time and space. I still reflect back on my notes and will be forever grateful.” VvZ• “When I started working with Maria, I had felt stuck and frustrated for some time and was ready to quit my job and make drastic changes in my personal life. Maria helped me to understand the root causes of those feelings. The level of awareness that Maria awakened in me is something I not only continue to apply every day in my professional life, but also something I have carried through into all relationships with amazing success on both fronts.” AS • “Maria’s coaching made a massive difference to me personally and to my career. Maria gave me the insight I needed to shift the circumstances around me and in myself, with not only the promotion being in the bag within a few months, but generally many aspects in my life improving and falling into place.” AB
Listed skills include Coaching, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Management, and 46 others.
