Maria Fafard, Ma, Pcc, Cpf Email & Phone Number

Annandale, Va, Us

Washington, Dc, Dc, Us

- Serves as a one-on-one and team coach for leaders in government, ranging from emerging leaders to Senior Executive Service members, helping them grow in self-awareness, address challenges, reach their goals, and lead more effectively. Coaches leaders using 360 assessments and other tools to improve performance. - Delivers high-impact leadership development programs for Public Service Leadership Institute including Excellence in Government.- Designs and facilitates executive retreats.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, Us

Designs and delivers recurring, highly rated courses on coaching for leaders, meeting facilitation, and virtual meeting facilitation: Coach Your Project Team to Greatness! and The Power of Virtual Meeting Facilitation for Project Managers.

Annandale, Virginia, Us

LinkedIntellect provides three lines of service:✔ EXECUTIVE COACHING: Executive and leadership coaching, with a focus on intellectual and spiritual growth, thought leadership, career strategy, personal branding. Successful engagements include coaching Directors at Microsoft (as an external coach). ICF mentor coach.✔ FACILITATION: Meeting facilitation, with a focus on strategy sessions.✔ SPEAKING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING: Speaking and designing and delivering training on subjects of coaching, facilitation, thought leadership, career strategy, personal branding.

Mclean, Va, Us

✔ EXECUTIVE COACHING: • Leadership coach in Emerging Leaders Development Program (enterprise-wide program for high potentials). Survey results: 100% of participants would recommend Maria as a coach to other leaders.• Co-Chair of enterprise-wide Capital One Coach Community of Practice. Cultivates coaching culture. Mentors coaches.• Provides executive coaching; portfolio of clients includes VP's, Senior Directors, and Directors. ✔ SPEAKING: • Speaks on topics of personal branding, career strategy, coaching and facilitation at Capital One conferences such as LIFT and EmpowHER (events up to 300+). • Talk on “Magic of Facilitation for Scrum Masters” was selected for Capital One Scrum Master Summit and became the most popular session of the Summit. Survey results: presentation skills rated at 96%; subject matter expertise at 98%.✔ FACILITATION AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING:• Provides facilitation services for meetings such as strategic retreats, problem solving, and planning meetings.• Designs and delivers workshops on facilitation, communications, MBTI, leadership, Agile, and team building✔ AGILE COACHING AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION:• A key player (the only full time coach) in transforming a 700+ organization (Capital One Cybersecurity). Coaches leaders and teams. A key member of organizational transformation task force. • Prior to joining Cyber, led and coached Agile teams in Card Technology. Managed a contract of 16,000 annual man-hours. Recipient of Tech Excellence award (2018).

Frequent speaker at conferences and events, consistently rated as “extremely engaging.” Select topics: Magic of Coaching and Facilitation, Power of Thought Leadership, Finding Meaningful Work, Unlock Your Personal Brand, Personal Branding for Leaders, Spiritual Tools for Coaches, Spiritual Tools for Modern Humans. Select speaking engagements:• 12/2020, Expert Agile Club, Power of Virtual Facilitation for Agilists• 10/2020, Scrum Alliance “Scrum Mastery” conference, Magic of Facilitation for Scrum Masters• 08/2020, PMI's "Together We Rise" Virtual Experience Series, Coach Your Project Team to Greatness! (was scheduled to deliver the talk in Prague, Czech Republic, at PMI EMEA Congress, conference was virtualized due to pandemic)• 07/2019, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, The Power of Facilitation• 05/2019, PMI EMEA Congress 2019, Dublin, Ireland, The Power of Coaching and Facilitation for Project Managers• 10/2018: Agile DC, Magic of Coaching for Scrum Masters• 04/2018: Interview on Federal News Radio, Personal Branding• 11/2017: EmpowHER Conference, Digital Brand for Women• 11/2017: Admin Assistants Summit, Personal Branding for Admin Assistants, Richmond VA• 10/2017: Agile DC, Secrets of Facilitation for Scrum Masters• 08/2017: Emergent Leader Development Program, Personal Branding for Leaders • 05/2017: LiFT Conference, Personal Branding• 03/2017, General Assembly (GA), Interviewing 101• 2017: Capital One Coach CoP, Spiritual Tools for Coaches• 2016: #10Kwomen, US Department of State program via Meridian, Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs • 2016: Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Eurasia & Central Asia (UGRAD), US Department of State program via IREX, Personal Branding and LinkedIn for Students• 2016: Capital One Coach CoP, Personal Branding for Coaches• 2016: Capital One Scrum Master Summit, Facilitation for Scrum Masters• 2015 & 2016: GA, Personal Branding and LinkedIn, 5x

New York, Ny, Us

✔ Develops and presents workshops on career strategy, LinkedIn strategy, personal branding, and interviewing at General Assembly (named the World's #1 Most Innovative Company of 2015 in Education).✔ The participants of my sessions say: “I learned so much at you class. It was terrific! One of the best seminars I have taken. Fast paced, informative, extremely hands on and relevant.” | “Outstanding presentation skills, style and content.... Love it! Awesome stuff! Worth every minute for those wanting to use LinkedIn for the job hunt.” | "Thank you for a wonderful class. I feel like I've been living in the dark ages without knowing it, and am suddenly in the light of the modern day! I finally have a vision of how LinkedIn really can help me."

Arlington, Va, Us

✔ GROUP FACILITATION AND COACHING: • Facilitated Agile ceremonies • Facilitated problem solving, decision making, issues prioritization, effective communications and team building meetings and workshops• Provided career coaching to employees with a focus on personal branding and LinkedIn strategy. ✔ SCRUM MASTERING AND AGILE PMO SUPPORT:• Managed multi-systems projects using Agile methodology (with a focus on Scrum). • Managed cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment. Served as a Scrum Master and Business/Systems Analyst at Agile PMO. • Facilitated communications between business customers and the technical project teams. ✔ SELECTED RESULTS: (1) Achieved an average 94% rate based on facilitator evaluation forms.(2) Achieved high client satisfaction.✔ The participants of the meetings I lead say (source: comments on Facilitator Evaluation forms):"I think this was probably the best retrospective I’ve attended... ever."“Maria was awesome and a pleasure to work with. I appreciated her objectivity and the opportunity for the program team to talk about difficult topics as a group.”“Maria was well prepared, e.g. the “Agile Toolbox” and she used many effective learning techniques to keep us engaged from the start.”“I thoroughly enjoyed the open dialog. I felt Maria did an excellent job of keeping the pace of the meeting and addressing important topics.”

Washington, Dc, Us

✔ AGILE PMO SUPPORT: Supported $200 million+ system transition from SPAWAR to VA; facilitated inter-agency meetings; and developed BPA Reports with a focus on To-Be state. Identified improvement opportunities; recommended IT, reporting, and policy solutions; and led the effort to implement them using Agile methodology. Led the effort to develop program artifacts such as Operational Acceptance Plan, RACI charts, Quad Charts that incorporate Budget, IT, Risks and Scheduling data and burndown charts.Provided support to Automate GI Bill Initiative PMO at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology. Coordinated team activities for the effort to upgrade the Budget Execution and Acquisition Database; served as a liaison between budget and IT teams, facilitated requirements gathering. Interacted with internal and external government agency officials; responded to data calls requiring input across work streams and contracting teams. ✔ SELECTED RESULTS: Designed an automated solution for weekly reporting that reduced the LOE required to produce the reports from 3 hours to 6 minutes, developed and conducted corresponding training series for the team, and developed relevant guidance.

Washington, Dc, Us

✔ TRAINING AND FACILITATION:(1) Designed and delivered recurring budget and application training for installation users and HQMC Action Officers, including hands-on sessions, presentations and webinars; facilitated workshops. (2) Delivered training at NDIA conferences, at HQMC, and at 11 USMC installations in the US and Japan. (3) Developed application training and user documentation. ✔ PROJECT MANAGEMENT:Managed HQMC Budget Support project. Developed budget for USMC Environmental Management Program. Range of budgets: $150 million in FY 2011. Provided extensive PPBE support to HQMC and USMC installations with a focus on developing budget exhibits and financial reports. (1) Led the effort to develop USMC PPBE Environmental process map. Identified deficiencies and inefficiencies and recommended improvements. Facilitated and coordinated team activities for the project. (2) Led the effort to convert Crystal reports to Web format and to develop a library of customized reports. (3) Facilitated and coordinated the activities of IT team developing IT solutions to accommodate new budget processes. (4) Served as a Deputy Program Manager for HQMC contract.✔ SDLC SUPPORT AND BUDGET ANALYSIS:Supported SDLC of a role-based financial system. Analyzed business and functional requirements; supported system implementation; and provided application testing, training and support. Developed principal environmental budget exhibits included in PRESBUD, OSD, and NAVCOMPT submissions to USMC, DoN, and DoD. Played a key role in developing the USMC Program Objective Memorandum (POM) for the Environmental Management Program. Facilitated and coordinated activities for POM, Operational Plan Submission, and Execution data calls and data validation efforts. ✔ SELECTED RESULTS:(1) Increased efficiency of operations by developing and implementing SOP's.(2) Achieved data quality increases by developing and implementing BPI solutions.(3) Achieved high client satisfaction.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Developed and monitored the $10.5 million Trust budget. Fulfilled month-end financial duties, prepared financial statements and performance reports. Supervised AP, expense, and fixed assets functions. Assisted IT group with finance initiatives. Developed net assets, performance, and production forecasts. Developed financial models, budget scenarios, and divisional budgets and forecasts. Provided support to the Executive Vice President and the Controller. Supervised an employee.

Reported to Director of Finance. Developed complex Excel spreadsheets and financial models. Reconciled and maintained financial databases using reports from Deltek accounting system. Designed a financial database for NAVSEA 00T and GSA tasks in Excel (Navy and DoD program support). Tracked finances for projects; developed spend plans and funding documents; and advised managers of negative financial trends. Processed AP.

Ma, Economics

Executive Certificate In Leadership Coaching, Cohort 52

Expected: Master Of Liberal Arts, Creative Writing And Literature

Graduate Coursework, Evidence Based Coaching

Ba, Economics