I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with Maria as my executive coach. Maria is an exceptional coach who played an important role in transforming my professional career. Maria’s 360-degree assessment provided invaluable insights, which helped me to understand better myself and my goals. Thanks to Maria, I discovered what I was truly looking for and how to transform my career.
Maria’s coaching style is very professional and empathetic which makes me feel safe and respected during our sessions.
She helped me push myself to get the results I was looking for.
Thank you, Maria.I can definitely recommend Maria!
Maria Wade is an exceptional executive coach who played a pivotal role in transforming my professional approach. Before her guidance, I grappled with frustration over unheeded advice. Maria skillfully helped me uncover the root of this frustration, fostering a mindset shift where I processed the dismissals more objectively.
Maria’s unique communication style, a perfect balance of challenge and support, set her apart during my search for a coach. Her cordial yet impactful sessions created a safe space for open communication and experimentation. In particular, Maria’s 360-degree assessment provided invaluable insights, revealing shared challenges and empowering me to choose how to address areas needing improvement.
I recommend Maria Wade to any executive seeking a strategic partner for their professional journey. Her ability to guide leaders, foster self-awareness, and create a secure space for growth is truly commendable.
I have just concluded my coaching program with Maria—my first-ever experience with an executive coach—and I can confidently say it has been incredible, powerful, and effective due to Maria’s exceptional skills and extremely relevant program structure. As a newly-appointed COO, I came into the program with certain topics to be addressed (along with certain personal expectations), and not only was each topic thoroughly discussed, investigated, and resolved, but she helped me with other unanticipated issues that arose during the course of my first months in the C-Suite. Maria was insightful, listened extremely well, and was able to dig through the surface level to get to the root causes of each topic, always in a safe, conversational, and open atmosphere. She challenged me to think about myself, question my own assumptions, and listen to my own words, never giving me the answers but allowing me the freedom to discover the answers myself with her expert guidance. I interviewed several potential coaches before selecting Maria, and she was absolutely the right choice for me.
I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with Maria as my executive coach. From the beginning of our coaching program, I sought to enhance my leadership capabilities, increase my confidence at the executive level, and maintain focus on key objectives. Maria has been instrumental in helping me achieve these goals and elevate my leadership to new heights.
Maria is a phenomenal coach who genuinely listens and understands her clients. She has provided me with invaluable guidance, helping me grow as a strong, empathetic, and collaborative leader. Through our sessions, I have learned to focus on results, communicate concisely, and be more decisive and in control, even in the midst of chaos and pressure.
One of the most significant aspects of Maria’s coaching is her emphasis on self-care and mental discipline. She has taught me the importance of slowing down, breathing, and taking time for myself. This has had a profound impact on my ability to stay composed and articulate in both high-stress situations and moments of relaxation.
Maria’s coaching has not only helped me raise my leadership level, but she has also restored my sense of purpose and confidence. Her astute insights and practical tools have empowered me to reflect, adjust, and bring my best to everything I do. I often find myself thinking, “What would Maria say?” when faced with challenges, and her guidance has become an invaluable resource for me.
I wholeheartedly recommend Maria to anyone seeking to elevate their leadership skills, improve their focus, and build confidence at the executive level. She is an inspiration, and I am genuinely grateful for her support and guidance. If given the choice, I would choose to work with Maria again in a heartbeat.
I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with Maria as my executive coach. From the beginning of our coaching program, I sought to enhance my leadership capabilities, increase my confidence at the executive level, and maintain focus on key objectives. Maria has been instrumental in helping me achieve these goals and elevate my leadership to new heights. Maria is a phenomenal coach who genuinely listens and understands her clients. She has provided me with invaluable guidance, helping me grow as a strong, empathetic, and collaborative leader. Through our sessions, I have learned to focus on results, communicate concisely, and be more decisive and in control, even in the midst of chaos and pressure.
One of the most significant aspects of Maria’s coaching is her emphasis on self-care and mental discipline. She has taught me the importance of slowing down, breathing, and taking time for myself. This has had a profound impact on my ability to stay composed and articulate in both high-stress situations and moments of relaxation. Maria’s coaching has not only helped me raise my leadership level, but she has also restored my sense of purpose and confidence. Her astute insights and practical tools have empowered me to reflect, adjust, and bring my best to everything I do. I often find myself thinking, “What would Maria say?” when faced with challenges, and her guidance has become an invaluable resource for me. I wholeheartedly recommend Maria to anyone seeking to elevate their leadership skills, improve their focus, and build confidence at the executive level. She is an inspiration, and I am genuinely grateful for her support and guidance. If given the choice, I would choose to work with Maria again in a heartbeat.
Coming into 2019 and following some significant personal and professional changes I found myself looking for the guidance of a wise and experienced executive coach to help me find a way to achieve my historical level of performance while balancing new expectations at home and at work.
Having done my dissertation on executive coaching, been coached previously, being certified as a coach myself, and having recommended and overseen coaching with others, I made a point to ensure I was working with the right person for this particular engagement. After reconnecting with Maria and seeing her style in action briefly I knew she was a coach who could work effectively with me to meet my goals. Maria and I ultimately decided on a brief (4 months) engagement with an intense (twice a month for 90 minutes) cadence in our work together and this time together proved to be extraordinary valuable to my development. Over this period Maria and I honed our work on 6 specific themes that emerged from feedback I received: 1) slowing down, getting more input first, 2) building stronger relationships, 3) communicating more frequently, soliciting feedback more often & really listening to others, 4) showing more emotion/not hiding my emotions from others, 5) getting the basics right and effectively juggling better (responsiveness), and 6) empowering my team and others.
As a coach I found Maria to be incisive, challenging me in the best way to figure out what I wanted. Maria was not afraid to push me to really develop solutions for the challenges that I faced. Maria is honest and not afraid to ask tough questions – the kind that make you pause, really go deep inside, and get clarity to determine exactly what the barrier or the issue really is.
I also found my work with Maria to be intellectually demanding and stimulating. As someone who enjoys cycling and running (most of the time) I know what it feels like for my body to be physically exhausted from working hard. I would often leave my sessions with Maria feeling similar to the way I felt after a particularly intense workout, as if I’d really put my mind to work strenuously and always, always with many new thoughts and ideas for ways to solve my biggest challenges.
Lastly and perhaps most importantly I found working with Maria to be a true partnership. Maria showed genuine concern for my progress and wellbeing and Maria is a person for whom I felt very comfortable sharing the very intimate details of my biggest challenges with. I also had absolute confidence in Maria as a coach and complete faith in knowing that the details of our sessions stayed between us. In true partnership fashion Maria asked a lot of me and gave a lot back in return and I am very grateful for the opportunity to have worked with her and would recommend her without reservation to anyone looking to do the very life changing work of coaching.
Maria is an amazing coach—she creates a “safe space” for people to think and express feelings. Her ability to see the systemic impact of what she hears is invaluable when supporting organisations through transformation. Coaches come in many guises – Maria combines high empathy, warmth, genuine curiousity with high business acumen. She is also a great team player: reliable, thoughtful and delivering excellence in whatever she does. A great thinking partner to us!
I truly have to admit that I started our coaching sessions because someone had suggested that it would help me improve my leadership skills, something that I knew I needed if I wanted to advance into new leadership roles within my organization. I remember, I was kind of skeptical and nervous at the same time, because I thought it is hard to support and advice someone you don’t know and that having this opportunity not in my native language was going to be tough.
But then I met Maria… and my world rocked, and my thoughts crashed, and everything that I thought I knew was destroyed to be rebuilt…
(not I am not in love with you nor personally or professionally… hehe)
But I totally admire you, because we were able to know my deepest feelings and thoughts, you made me laugh and cry, you made me feel angry and happy, you made me feel unprepared and ready…
Thank you for been a great professional to me, for opening my eyes and ears when I needed it.
I really wish now that more and more people can find their “own” Maria. I have learnt so much, this was really a shocking and breaking and rebuilding moment for my personal and professional life.
