ACHIEVE RADICAL SUCCESS THROUGH Empathy.
I help good companies become great by connecting people, purpose, AND profit.
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Now is the time
The current market is not merely asking, but requiring that you adapt and evolve.
You need visionary and compassionate leaders. You need a high-performing and empathetic culture. You need an influential and uplifting brand.
Gone are the days of cutthroat C-level execs and merciless mass-layoffs. Today, customers, stakeholders, and employees alike expect your company to value and model empathy.
Fortunately, winning leaders and organizations can be compassionate and competitive, ambitious and empathetic. Cultivating empathy helps you create more innovation, happier stakeholders, and lucrative bottom-line results.
Cash flow, creativity, and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
Empathy is the new foundational standard, not a fluffy afterthought.
#1
Empathy is #1 for “new product innovation success.”
Nielsen
87%
of CEOs agree the company’s financial performance is tied to empathy.
Businessolver
92%
of team members would be more likely to stay with their company if business leaders empathized with their needs.
Businessolver
2x
Emotional connection is TWICE as valuable as customer satisfaction.
Harvard Business Review
Improve your empathy in your business or brand now and for the long-term.
My clients learn to imbue their work with compassion to create strong leaders, thriving cultures, and winning brands.
Are you ready to see how high your organization can climb when it’s supercharged by empathy? And how your people can engage and perform beyond your wildest expectations?
Just a few of the organizations that love working with Maria
Maria brings nearly 30 years of empathy-led leadership, business, and brand expertise. She has been a trusted advisor to hundreds of companies and brands, including massive global corporations, pioneering startups, and heart-centered nonprofits.
In her engaging workshops and mindset-shifting presentations she offers actionable strategies to amplify impact, and explains how compassionate business tactics will transform organizations from the inside out.
Maria can help if…
- You want to cultivate integrity in your leadership, business, culture, and brand.
- You want to create a business that makes a significant difference in the world.
- You want to craft empathetic brand stories to better engage and connect.
- You want to leverage your compassionate culture to attract and retain top talent.
- You want to make the world a better place while still turning a healthy profit.
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Conversations with leaders, changemakers, and those who challenge the status quo.
The Empathy Edge Podcast
Marly Q Casanova: The Currency of Kindness & How to Avoid Burnout
People often confuse empathy and kindness so I spend many a keynote or leadership training session debunking the myths of empathy. My guest today, Marly Q Casanova, or Marly Q as she is known, is “Miami’s Top Kindness Influencer” whose talks and events have inspired thousands of people of all ages to be more kind to themselves, each other, and the world since 2010.
The Empathy Edge Book
harnessing the value of compassion as an engine for success
Through Maria’s research, case studies, and practical advice you’ll discover how active compassion and cultivating an empathetic mindset can help you and your brand succeed.
Expert Insights from Maria
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Why Taylor Swift is the Savviest Marketer We Know
The dog days of summer have never been felt more acutely on our planet than the past few months. Record scorching temps, wildfires. And I’m hearing data that many companies are still not actively treating climate change as a business threat. Sigh. Seriously?! Not to mention the sizzling hot economic buying power of women. Taylor…
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Leaders: Control or Connect?
Recently, I learned (another) leadership lesson from my parenting journey: Are you trying to control or connect? My defiant son is learning to navigate who he is in the world, apart from Mom and Dad (if I dare slip up and say, Mommy, he is quick to correct!). You can imagine the arguments, stress, exhaustion…
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Can’t Get Your Employees Back to the Office? Here’s Why
Recently, Delta CEO Ed Bastian talked to BusinessInsider about the real reason there is tension around the return to office (RTO). So simple. So ignored. Your employees’ work and life patterns have been forever changed. Employees crave flexibility. They are not going back unless it works for them. The Pandemic showed knowledge workers that it’s…
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