Recommendations

"I recruited Maria to be the MD of FT Conferences, and got to know her as a friend and colleague. Over the years we have stayed in touch and I have always been inspired by Maria's insight and ability. She is a rare individual who helps people achieve much more than they think they are capable of."

Christine Watson

"Maria contributes to organisational effectiveness and development as a result of her outstanding experience using the excellent Birkman Methodology. Theory is hugely supplemented by past experience as a very senior marketing and communications practitioner with world class technology and publishing entities. I have used Maria's services on many occasions and value the contribution made in each and every situation."

Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 1991 (hired more than once)

Paul Beard

"I have known and worked with Maria in various roles since 1979. She is a gifted and articulate communicator who I have relied upon in some very high pressure situations. Her talent for getting to the heart of the matter is unparalleled and the innate ability to work with emerging or broken teams is a huge asset to her and her clients. A rare and almost unique person, she cannot be recommended highly enough in her field of expertise."

Mike Briercliffe

"Maria is an expert in all forms of communication and human interaction and a valuable contributor to any development initiative as she ensures focus and outcome achievements that stretch and grow all involved"

Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 1995 (hired more than once)

Denis Tebbutt
Managing Director

"Whilst at a small high technology company, Indigo and at Hewlett Packard we hired Maria to improve the efficiency of our senior management, individuals and teams. Maria is highly competent, creative in her solutions whilst being perceptive in her analysis of people and team dynamics. Crucially, in addition to analysis she guides to meaningful actions to improve performance, never easy with senior people and leaders. In addition to her contracted work I have would also consider her a mentor."

Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 2003 (hired more than once)

Chris Baker

I have watched Maria take on very difficult coaching and facilitation assignments with senior executives of multi-national corporations, and help them through major business challenges. She has assisted them in gaining a deeper understanding of their relationship needs and tendencies, and how to work much more effectively with other corporate and national cultures.

However, that does not begin to explain Maria’s gift in this work (which I personally experienced when I engaged her to interact with me and my staff).

Maria has an uncanny ability to help others cut right through to the essence, and understand how that is affecting the business situation and interactions with others. The objective term for what she does is “intuition,” but I am convinced her gift goes deeper. It is characteristic of Maria’s engagements with executives that they end up confiding in her about their “whole life” situations, and thus she ends up helping them in myriad ways.

Her clients rave about Maria to me, and I understand why. She seems always to be able to help them in life as well as in business.

John W. Epperheimer
President, The Workpath Group