With significant expertise in the energy, legal, and financial services industries, Mary Jo's educational and professional background enables her to provide clients with meaningful non-directive leadership coaching that impacts their ability to contribute to their organization.
Mary Jo has spent a decade in strategic executive retained recruitment and talent management guidance from both the client and the service provider side. She has been on the board of a number of not-for-profit organizations and has been a guest lecturer at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Prior to this, Mary Jo spent 10+ years with IBM in a variety of corporate and field roles in Operations, Finance, Systems Engineering, Marketing, and Office of the President.
Mary Jo's career and life experiences have demanded a high level of achievement and she has a well-developed business acumen proven over time.
Mary Jo coaches individuals across organizations on a broad range of issues, including:
Extending already sound abilities; making your best better
Taking individuals out of ruts and potential blind-spots and on to higher performance levels
Leading more effectively (communication, delegation, accountability, teamwork, developing others, facilitating change, etc.)
Relationship challenges within the workplace
Career transitions to new roles or new teams
Supporting the development of high potential employees
Comments from 360's of Mary Jo's work as a Certified Executive Coach:
Mary Jo holds an undergraduate honours degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University. Mary Jo is a member in good standing of the International Coach Federation and is internationally accredited as a Certified Executive Coach.
Equally strong ability to recognize peoples' weaknesses / areas requiring work and communicate those in a way that is supportive and motivating
Genuine interest and curiosity about people which enables her to learn so much so quickly about a person
Capable and resourceful, accessible, dynamic, caring, trusted and courageous, ethical, non-judgmental
Respectful, pragmatic, persistent and unafraid, direct, analytical, compassionate
Quick, intuitive, nurturing, wise, astute
Excellent rigour, strong strategizing and inquiry, good action focus
Very practical and direct approach, communicates with grace & diplomacy
Responsible and strongly aware of what she is doing in the role
Respectful, yet unafraid
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Mary Jo Macdonald
Certified Executive Coach
