Custom Individual Coaching
Are you suffering from burnout, feeling helpless and stuck in your life or career?
Do you feel like you are being held back by someone or something in your personal or professional life?
Would you like to replace frustration, confusion and stress with peace, fulfillment and balance in all aspects of your life?
Do you know you want a change, have a business idea you want to bring to life, but aren’t sure what direction to take, or how to go about it?
“There are two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
Coaching Unlocks Potential
I work with people who prioritize leadership, sustainability and communication including:
• Mid to senior-level managers and executives including small and medium-size business owners
• Physicians and healthcare professionals working within a hospital setting, community or private practice
• Individuals embarking on a new stage in life (career change, promotion, starting a business, retirement, empty nest etc.)
Each coaching relationship is unique and begins with the assertion that people are naturally creative and resourceful. It involves meeting clients where they are, listening on many levels, powerful questions, trust and intuition to evoke transformation.
Coaching feels like a 100% focused “re-charging conversation” for clients to tap into the energy they need to move forward and bring out the best in themselves and others. Co-Active Coaching is valuable to any personal or professional change initiative.
My flexible Custom Coaching Programs and one-off Clarity Coaching sessions are designed to meet you where you are and achieve the results that you want in all aspects of your life and career. Leadership Assessment & Development is my specialty.
Mary-Ellen shifts your perspective for the better and makes a long-lasting impact
“Mary-Ellen helps you cut out the noise and focus on what’s important. She gives you relevant ‘homework’ that stretches your learning. Mary-Ellen asks the right questions and gives you tools to help you look inside yourself. She is the unwavering, sage coach in your corner who builds your confidence and shifts your perspective for the better to make a long-lasting impact.”
Anthony Westenberg
Associate Director, Marketing and Communications
The York School
How I make a difference
Meet you where you are to create a fulfillment plan that taps into your best ideas and energy.
Consider where you want to be, what you want to accomplish and who you want to reach.
Support you to overcome burnout, career stress, improve relationships, manage conflict and navigate unpredictability with ease.
Process and free you from limiting assumptions and beliefs that may be holding you back.
Support you to embrace a creative versus reactive leadership mindset to stretch and transform yourself as a leader in all areas of life and work.
Hold you accountable and empower you to keep moving forward to achieve your dreams and goals.
Let's work together 
Client Case Study
Leading Better Care Development Program
High impact leadership coach for Scottish nursing, midwifery and community team leaders for nationally funded strategic initiative of the Scottish government. Focus on individual transformation and systems impact through authentic, strengths based, collaborative leadership approach. Facilitated Glasgow program launch encompassing self-awareness / team building activities followed by six month individual, group coaching and reporting on coaching outcomes.
I’m moving through my life with much less anxiety and newfound self confidence
“Our coaching sessions have taught me skills to make clear and rational decisions rather than ones based on emotional conditioning. I am now moving through my life with much less anxiety and newfound self confidence that has me hoping for the best rather than always expecting the worst. This enables me to say “yes” when I used to mostly say “no” out of fear of failing or rejection. You have given me a great gift and I am so grateful.”
Karen Herzberger
Executive Chef
“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about
making sure it doesn’t happen.”
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
A Note About Professional Ethics
Confidentiality is an imperative for each coaching relationship. As an ICF-Accredited, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC, PCC), I adhere to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics and core competencies which protects clients and serves to uphold the integrity of ICF and the global coaching profession.
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