Member Bio
Maria Wade, an experienced executive coach, conducts coaching for leaders and teams in Fortune 500 and international organizations, as well as IT start-ups. She has coached top-level executives from around the world across a wide range of industries and functions. Maria specializes in senior executive development and transformational growth and helps seasoned leaders boost their impact and overcome bumps on their way.
She is truly passionate about leading individuals and organizations through transitions, rooting coaching in the vision of the future state. Her unique talents lie in her ability to support leaders to thrive in times of complexity, leading them to clarity and unleashing their potential by expanding the way they envision their capabilities and exploring habitual responses to challenges and threat triggers. Leaders who have benefited from Maria’s coaching say that she has helped them explore and deeply understand their own individual context and they always know they will receive honest and ‘to-the-point’ feedback. They note that Maria creates a safe environment for sharing and experimentation.
Maria brings to her coaching 15-plus years in senior leadership positions across a variety of industries – electric power & natural gas, customs operations, financial services, legal services, private equity & principal investors. Throughout her career she led projects in M&A providing legal and financial advisory, as Chief Legal Officer provided legal supervision and leadership in launching a national wide customs operations service company, served as CFO in a gas company with 1 billion dollars of annual turnover, and ran an investment company for private investors.
Areas of expertise: Senior Executive Development; Leadership Effectiveness; Executive Presence; Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty; Strategic Thinking; Transformational Growth; Team Effectiveness; Change Management; Project Management; Emotional Intelligence, and Mentoring in Coaching.
Coaching and other certificates:
International Coaching Federation - MCC
Columbia University Coaching Certification Program - Professional Executive Coach
Prosci - Change Management Practitioner
WBECs - ACE Certified Coach
Hogan
Leadership Circle Profile Individual and Collective 360 Assessment Certification
NBI Assessment
