Maya Sharfi Email & Phone Number

Maya Sharfi is the founder of Build Yourself, an executive coaching company dedicated to helping women in design and strategy lead more boldly and impactfully while increasing work-life balance. Maya's coaching empowers women to overcome challenges such as work-life balance issues and feeling bogged down in their leadership roles.Key Client Results:✔️ Significant salary increases, including $25k, $40k, and even $80k bumps✔️ Negotiated a 4-day work week with a salary increase✔️ Crafted new aligned leadership roles specific to skills and interests✔️ Successfully landed jobs with job descriptions changed to perfect-fit roles at higher titles✔️ Gained more time for work-life balance and self-care✔️ Transitioned from working on lower-level tasks to higher-level strategic work✔️ Launched city-wide initiatives and became recognized experts in their fieldsApproach:We help you:➡️ Stop overworking and overthinking to lead more easefully and joyfully➡️ Become more strategic and visionary, moving away from day-to-day tasks➡️ Overcome perfectionism, second-guessing, and people-pleasing to lead more boldly and fearlessly➡️ Empower their teams to achieve more without being the sole driving force➡️ Sharpen their innate creative thinking skills to handle market challenges and lead with confidence

We offer coaching for your high level leaders and training programs that move your emerging women leaders into leadership in your firm or company. Women learn business-based thinking and how to take more initiative and leverage their creativity to proactively address and solve business challenges. This includes getting women out of the weeds and helping them sidestep the perfectionism that holds them back. They grow their external visibility in ways that benefit the company through client exposure and business development.Our programs help women take on a higher level of work, adding to your existing leadership team and freeing up your capacity as a leader to work on higher-level issues. We help you build the pipeline for the future of your company and help build a culture that attracts and retains women because you have more visible examples of women growing and succeeding at your company.Companies we’ve worked with have achieved:✨ 3x increase in promotion of women✨ 30% increase in women who recommended company to other women✨ 18% increase in loyalty to company✨ Decrease in gender bias in promotion selection process✨ Increase in women doing business development and proactive networking with clients and customers

Greater Boston Area

Creative Agency is creative changemaking firm focused on community building, place-based change and empowerment projects. Creative Agency serves clients such as affordable housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners, Americans for the Arts and the High Line Network through interdisciplinary design and ethnographic research, storytelling and communication. Our work results in projects such as a 'cookbook' on creative placemaking strategies, leadership summits for social impact designers, and multi-course pop-up meals that serve as racial equity training. We're passionate about social equity and inclusion and believe that creative tools are essential to the changemaking toolkit.

Cofounder of research collaborative investigating strategies and models for financially sustainable and impactful social impact design. Research study funded by the National Endowment of the Arts and PennDesign.

Greater Boston Area

Research on emerging modes of design practice that in the face of challenges of relevance and financial sustainability, are developing new, more entrepreneurial practice models.

Cambridge, Ma

Research on organizational behavior study on pro bono and professional identity in the architecture profession. Includes interviews, interview protocol development, and interview analysis.

Mla, Landscape Architecture

Ba, Urban Studies/Affairs

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