Mary MA, BA (Hons), Cert Psych, MCMI, FRSA

Mary is a Leadership & Organisational Development Consultant and Executive Coach. She specialises in working with senior teams and individuals at board and executive level, as they manage organisational transitions and change. Her specialist areas of work include:

• Leadership coaching – Mary works with senior and executive leaders to help them make sense of the increased complexity that accompanies intense periods of change, and to increase their resilience as they lead their organisations and teams through transition. Her focus is on raising awareness of what is happening in the whole ‘organisational system’ so that clients see patterns and connections in their behaviour and their relationships with others, and gain a better understanding of what holds them back, as well as being able to identify the new possibilities for growth and development, leading to change interventions that are sustainable.
• Leadership development - Mary uses her specialist skills and knowledge of education, psychology and learning methods, to design leadership programmes and consultancy interventions that have impact, enabling participants to become more authentic leaders, aware of the impact of their leadership on others, and the qualities needed to lead sustainable change, build resilience, and develop a culture of high performing teams.
• Organisational & leadership consultancy – Mary’s area of expertise is group and organisational dynamics. She draws on this understanding to help organisations surface the hidden processes that can ‘derail’ organisations and teams – especially during times of change when relationships and organisational structures are disrupted. This enables clients to become more conscious of behaviour and interventions better aligned to support the organisation’s phase of change, transition and the next phase of development.

Qualifications

Trained as Ashridge and Tavistock coach
Tavistock trained consultant in organisational systems and group dynamics analysis,
leadership development, change management, and experiential learning
Certified to use the Human Insight AEM-Cube diagnostic
Psychotherapy & Counselling training: Regents College
MA Sociology: Middlesex University
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
BA (Hons) English & Sociology

Member of Chartered Management Institute
Member of the Institute of Directors
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Personal style

Mary brings deep insight, clarity of thinking and purpose to her work with clients, and is trusted to help them work through complex situations to arrive at a deeper understanding of their organisational issues, and potential solutions. She has great empathy with her clients and establishes highly supportive relationships in the work she does with them.

Experience

With more than 16 years experience of leading and developing strategic change as a leader and manager, Mary is a practised leader, and has held executive and non-executive roles in her specialist areas in the health, higher and further education sectors. She recently designed and led a national executive leadership development programme for CEOs of further education colleges, based on executive coaching to support leadership change and development. She also supervises the coaching work of consultants working in change initiatives.

In the past, Mary was Executive Director of Postgraduate Education at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust for nine years, where she also taught on multi-disciplinary MA courses for health and other professionals, and completed her own advanced training in consulting to organisations. She has been a mentor to clinicians on NHS-commissioned MSc courses from University College London, and as a former university secretary has a specialist background in governance.

Clients

Her recent clients include the Social Enterprise Coalition, the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, IBM, the NHS and OPUS.