“I know what I need to do, I just can’t manage to do it.”
“Why do I feel so stuck?”
In coaching, we focus on clarifying visions, setting daring but achievable goals, and making the necessary changes to get there. As coach, my job is to listen deeply, ask powerful questions, and help clients break through the stuff that’s getting in the way of a vibrant and flourishing life.
“MaryAnn is an incredible coach who I started with to talk business strategy, but I leave each session feeling like I learned something useful for life. She’s able to reframe difficult situations in a way that opens up new ways of thinking, and she seems to always have just the right way to label strategies that become like mantras for me. I’ve worked with other executive coaches before who focus on aggressively pursuing SMART goals; MaryAnn’s is a more humane approach, one that considers your values and aspirations as a leader as your North Star rather than a specific metric. Her thoughtful questions challenge me, and yet she does it in a way that makes me feel coached and cared for.”
In 2017 I founded my coaching practice to help people turn their intentions into action. Since then, I’ve worked with hundreds of people as they’ve completed books, become more effective at work, discerned new vocations, or written a new chapter of their lives in retirement.
Coaching appointments are usually 45-50 minutes, typically over Zoom or by phone. I offer an initial standalone appointment of 30 minutes for free. You and I will get to know one another, experience coaching firsthand, and see if it's a good fit. No obligation. If you wish to continue, we will discuss fees, number of sessions, etc. Contact me to learn more.
“Coaching with MaryAnn has been so helpful to my ministry. She helps me stay on track with my goals, reminds me of the progress I’ve made, and encourages me along the way. She asks great questions to help me plan my next steps and she does it in a way that makes me feel more confident in my abilities.”
Life-long learning.
In 2018 I was credentialed as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. I’ve completed work on the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential, including completing more than 500 hours of coaching and 65 additional hours of continuing coach education. As of 2023, with the arrival of a new part-time pastoral call, I’ve put the final steps of the credentialing process on hold. But the learning is all still in there, and I continue to read and study widely, bringing all of it to my conversations with clients.
A heart for narrative.
In 2021 I completed certifications in Narrative Coaching and Narrative Intelligence. These are two very different methodologies, bound together by the conviction that good coaching hinges on understanding our own stories. I love being able to draw upon both approaches, and also coach beyond them. Schedule an exploratory call to learn more.
Design for the future.
My work in improvisation drew me to design thinking, also called human-centered design—an approach to problem solving that prioritizes empathy, prototyping, and experimentation. I’ve led workshops and coached individuals and teams around this approach and believe it holds incredible promise in a way that step-by-step formulas and one-size-fits-all solutions do not.
A forager.
Enneagram. Family systems. Antiracist approaches. As a coach, speaker, and writer, I’m a forager at heart, finding wisdom in all kinds of places. Are you a rock climber? Addicted to the novels of Octavia Butler? A serial re-watcher of Ted Lasso? In coaching, we get to play with all of it.
“Working with MaryAnn feels collaborative and creative. I now bring my struggles to our time together with anticipation, knowing that we will ask questions I wouldn’t have thought of alone. We continuously find wisdom, humor, and hope in all that struggle. MaryAnn encourages me to be even more curious, to play around in the messiness, and to revel in the ridiculous. I couldn’t ask for a better coach to sit with, celebrate with, mourn and curse and rage with, and to dream with. She’s really, astoundingly good at ‘with.’ ”