Executive Coaching • Performance Partnering • Fractional People Leadership
Perform at scale.
Bridge the gap between founder ambition and leadership execution. Combining targeted coaching, embedded Fractional People leadership, and a bespoke Performance Partnering methodology to identify blocks, align leadership, and accelerate growth.
— How I Can Help —
Three ways to strengthen the people and leadership behind your growth.
As businesses grow, the challenge changes. You need leaders who can evolve with the business, a leadership team capable of delivering the next stage, and a People strategy that supports the organisation you're becoming. I work across three connected areas, depending on what you need, where you are and where you're going.
— Where to start —
Connected work, you and the team
Focus: You
Executive & Performane Coaching
For Founders, CEOs and senior leaders ready to deep dive into their development and accelerate their own personal growth.
See the work →Focus : Team and organisation
Leadership & People Advisory
Build and Focus Leaderhsip Capabilty through "Performance Partner' model & build people foundations and sacel your business needs to scale.
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— Executive & Leadership Coaching —
Clarity. Awareness. Impact. Performance.
Lead with more clarity. Create more impact. Hone your performance. Make aligned decisions that move you and your business forward.
— The reality —
As leaders, we can get caught in the hustle of delivery: growing, scaling, solving problems, making decisions and keeping everything moving. Real, thoughtful growth requires space to think.
— The work —
Step back, gain perspective and see yourself, your leadership and your business more clearly. Develop deeper self-awareness, understand your leadership style and make better decisions.
— The experience —
I've worked alongside founders and CEOs through building, growing and scaling businesses, including VC and PE backed companies, through tough decisions, pressure, uncertainty, incredible highs and difficult moments.
— The approach —
As a Henley trained Executive Coach, I bring that experience into the room, helping you build self-awareness, challenge your thinking, ask the right questions and develop your performance.
Grow yourself. Grow your leadership. Grow your business.
— Three connected areas —
One goal, three ways in
Executive Coaching
Transform how you lead. For founders, CEOs and senior leaders who want to increase their clarity, self-awareness, impact and performance. Create space to think. Challenge your assumptions. Understand yourself and your leadership style. Make better decisions. Develop strategy. Become the leader your business needs next.
Focus: You
Leadership
Build the leadership your business needs. For businesses that need to strengthen their leadership capability and performance. Assess where your leaders are today. Create alignment. Raise standards. Develop capability. Address what's holding the team back. Build a leadership team that can take the business forward.
Focus: Your leadership team
People Strategy & Delivery
Build the organisation to support your growth. For growing businesses that need experienced People leadership to turn strategy into action. From People strategy and organisational design to performance, talent, culture, development and change. I help build the people foundations that enable the business to scale.
Focus: Your organisation
— One goal —
Better business performance.
Whether the focus is you, your leadership team or your wider organisation, the work is connected. Because sustainable growth happens when the leader, leadership team and organisation are all ready for what comes next.
- About Mary -
Mary McGonnell
I help leaders, founders and executive teams bridge the gap between ambition and execution.
I’ve spent 15+ years working with founders, leaders and executive teams, building and scaling businesses across tech, fintech and international markets. I’ve built teams and functions from scratch, scaled internationally and worked alongside leaders through the opportunities, challenges and decisions that come with growth.
That experience shapes how I work.
— In their words —
“Mary brings an incredible mix of high empathy and total integrity. She cuts through the fluff and helps your leadership team focus on what actually moves the needle.”
— Scaling Startup