Mary brings more than three decades of strategic and organisational development expertise.  She has spent the majority of her career leading change to deliver strategic intent – as a management team member, consultant and business psychologist. Cross-border business experience has helped Mary to develop a pragmatic, but culturally sensitive approach to client assignments.

After ten years in corporate roles in Japanese, Swiss and British shipping organisations, Mary transitioned to management consulting with AON.  Later she was a management team member of a niche consultancy specialising in customer-centricity.  Mary has been assessing executives for development purposes for more than a decade and is a certified coach, working on one to one and group basis, often as an integral part of leadership programmes to reinforce the learning and apply it back at work. 

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Recently, Mary completed research on female leaders in blockchain.  She is a Research Fellow with London Business School’s Leadership Institute collaborating on a FTSE350 board level effectiveness study.   In parallel, she is also involved in research focusing on leadership through crisis with INSEAD colleagues.

She is an American/British chocoholic, balancing this vice with yoga, countryside walks and a spot of surfing.  The next chapter in her nomadic existence involves sailing around the world with her husband, once their younger son turns 18 (or thereabouts).

Qualifications

• BA (Distinction) Economics & Spanish
• MBA
• MSc (Occupational Psychology)
• ICF certified coach
• Certified in psychometric testing