Are You Leading With Clarity + Confidence—or Just Putting Out Fires?

For decades, I've worked with passionate, emotionally intelligent leaders who are stretched too thin.

With a combined focus on burnout recovery, trauma-informed leadership, and training in Nonviolent Communication, I've seen how the right blend of support transforms how leaders show up — and how their teams follow.

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About My Approach

What makes my work different is simple: I believe leadership includes personal and professional capacity-building.

As a CNVC Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication, I’ve supported leaders across industries—from tech giants like Google and PayPal to entrepreneurs scaling their first teams.

With a background in Marriage & Family Therapy and leadership development, I blend emotional intelligence with practical skill-building to help leaders create workplaces where people thrive.

Group Offerings for Teams

I help teams build trust and develop the collaboration skills to make greater impact.

My most-requested trainings include:

NVC: Productive Conversations at Work – Learn to navigate high-stakes or sensitive conversations with clarity and skill.
Collaborative Decision-Making – Build systems and habits that balance autonomy with accountability, creating buy-in across your team.
The Enneagram at Work: Building Trust and Collaboration – Use personality insights to build relationships and leverage diverse strengths for shared success.

Give your team the skills to shift out of reactivity and competition-mode, so they can cultivate clarity and alignment.

Also, if you’re interested in “teal” strategies for your organization—i.e. greater self-management and shared leadership skills vis a vis Laloux's Reinventing Organizations—let's talk. I can help.

Participant Reviews

Earl Wagner, Ph.D.,

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Mary has taught everyone from tech engineers to middle schoolers. I’ve consistently seen her guide groups of learners right to the core issues that matter most. With Mary, you can expect to absorb some powerful insights that help you immediately put your NVC learning into practice. Even when covering difficult topics, she naturally and intuitively helps people open up. That engagement makes for a powerful learning experience. Highly recommended!

Gibran Khan

Google Startup Hubs

Mary possesses expertise on multiple fronts, including Nonviolent Communication, Enneagram coaching, and counseling. I’ve done all three with her and have personally experienced how she connects her knowledge across different disciplines… to go below the surface and address root causes.

Mary Roaf, Ph.D.,

Associate Professor

A key way that Mary’s coaching around communication has improved my effectiveness as a facilitator of cross-sector teams is to foster shared commitments regarding ambitious outcomes… The principles of conscious comm/NVC especially speaks to how to address adaptive challenges in ways that bring about substantive, impactful change. No words express how radically transformative this work is.

Individual Coaching for Leaders:

Manage trauma, anxiety, and limiting beliefs that impact work performance
Work with reactivity and conflict skillfully
Prep for difficult conversations
Transform "imposter syndrome"
Navigate perfectionism and burnout

Email me to sign up for individual coaching or discuss hosting a team training.

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“Highly, highly recommend… I’ve worked with quite a few therapists, and Mary is the one I keep going back to.”

— Kim Flynn, Entrepreneur, Podcaster & Author