“I have been lucky to work with Marie in two different contexts - first during a supervisor course at work and then during a very uncertain period in my professional career. In both contexts, she has been an invaluable and compassionate thought partner for talking through challenges and generating ideas as well as a steady voice reminding me of my strengths and intentions.
Marie has an innate ability to listen deeply and pick up on cues I sometimes don’t even recognize in myself. She helps me reframe my thinking in ways that are both practical and empowering, and guiding me through thought exercises that allow me to fully explore different perspectives in a complex situation and move forward.
She has a special way of helping people step back, recognize their strengths, and approach complex challenges with more confidence. Through our work together, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of myself, my leadership style, and my relationship with my work. I’m incredibly grateful for her guidance and would strongly recommend her to anyone looking for a perceptive, compassionate, and highly effective coach.”
Angela Wang
Global Health Security | Pandemic Preparedness & Response
“My time coaching with Marie was absolutely a worthwhile investment professionally and personally. The questions that she posed demonstrated her exceptional active listening and processing skills. Several times, her questions provided a basis for me to reflect in new ways on why I found a certain issue to be challenging, how to redefine or reinforce healthy boundaries, or ways to better articulate my position.
Marie’s experience and skills provide her with unique insight to support those who work internationally, provide social/humanitarian services, and manage unrelenting issues of conflict and negotiation. Marie assisted me to better understand and redefine challenges, prompting me to identify ways to move forward on stubborn issues. I was inspired and rejuvenated after each session.”
Annaliese Limb
Deputy Division Chief Office of HIV/AIDS USAID
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Marie and I deeply value her collaborative spirit, her passion for understanding, and her ability to offer a nuanced perspective in complex problem spaces. She is a discerning coach, and a master facilitator. Her sensitivity to polarized relationships and her peacebuilding background are gifts she has developed through her international work in Africa and the Middle East. She is both caring and insightful, literate in global cultural conventions, and committed to unlocking the generative potential of conflict. I hope you’ll have the good fortune of working with her and learning from her.”
Sandra Wells
Director at the Institute for Mindful Living
“Marie is someone I have regularly sought to work with as a project lead and for her leadership capacity-building skills. She seeks to understand the client or problem-set, then responds with creative, useful solutions. And she's a joy to work with. Ask me more!”
Gwen Bevis, PhD
Country Director, Ukraine Monitoring and Learning Support EnCompass, LLC
“I have had the pleasure of working with Marie on several projects and in a variety of roles, and I cannot say enough about the positive impact her leadership and mentoring have had both on my direct work environment, but also longer term on my career trajectory as well.
Marie always demonstrated compassionate leadership, providing thoughtful constructive feedback as appropriate, and managing multiple stakeholders and interests. Her insights and guidance better equipped me to handle difficult work environments and situations, shifting my mindset from being purely reactive to one of constructive and proactive engagement.
I highly recommend Marie's mentoring and coaching sessions and services to anyone looking for professional guidance on current careers, future career trajectories and leadership coaching.”
Andrea Abel van Es, PhD
Research and Evaluation Consultant
“In my coaching sessions with Marie I was impressed by her strong communications skills, caring demeanour, and her ability to make incisive observations that made me question some of my own assumptions about myself and the world. Marie’s approach in coaching was exceptional and reflective, allowing me to question my own assumptions and engage in new ways of meaning-making at a time when my mind was fixated on binaries that brought me nothing, but stress and fear of the future.
If you want someone who will help you to invite more aliveness into your life, then Marie’s coaching sessions are a good place to start! To speak to her personality, Marie is very approachable, emotionally intelligent, and exudes passion and compassion. I’ve known her as both my coach, and as a professor, and in both capacities, I am indebted to Marie for the impact she has left on.”
Baha Ebdeir
PhD Researcher
UCD Southerland School of Law Dublin, Ireland
“It was a pleasure to work with Marie on a conflict sensitivity assessment in 2023 for the United Nations Country Team in Mozambique where she demonstrated experience and adaptability and offered practical solutions. I would welcome the opportunity to engage with Marie again and recommend her highly.”
Ashley Fitzpatrick Serraventoso
Peace and Development Advisor, UNDP Mozambique
“Marie is amazing! I have known her since we both attended a workshop together in 2016. We have mostly worked on training programs together for the peacebuilding community. She is a highly skilled facilitator who can keep people engaged through vibrancy and clarity that enables understanding. She excels at conscientious preparation, great design, deep care for her clients, and incredible intellect. Marie is an asset to any organization and a gift for any clients. She is mature, funny, kind and smart, which is a great combination.”
Patrice Laslett
Director, Cultivating Leadership