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?

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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.

Speaking + Workshops

Strategic Advisory

Courses

Maria and I partnered on a global webinar on empathy. She was an incredible partner during every step of the process from the design of the session to the promotion to the actual webinar. She is proactive, brings data and stories to the audience, and is a terrific conversationalist. I highly recommend her for events and conferences – especially given the relevance of her content today.

Aaron Hurst, Founder, Imperative

Maria is both a fabulous speaker and subject matter expert on empathy in the workplace. Her style and enthusiasm kept the audience super engaged. Plus Maria shared ideas that could be implemented immediately. Thank you again, Maria. We enjoyed working with you!

Lynn Zimmerman, Vice President of Marketing, WellRight

Maria is an engaging, inspiring speaker who brings all of her knowledge, life experience, and delightful personality to her speaking engagements. Over the course of our 3-day retreat, Maria’s presentation was the favorite of the group! She helped the group understand the business case for empathy and provided practical tools and strategies for strengthening empathy in the workplace.

Jaime Goff, PhD, SHRM-CP

Maria was our Keynote speaker at Sales Kickoff when I was at Lever. It is no small task to tackle a topic like empathy in front of over 100 sales and support folks. I could not have asked for a more engaging and relevant presentation. Having reps come up after the presentation to share their stories and gratitude for the session is more than I could have asked for.

Giorgia Ortiz, VP, Global Revenue Strategy and Enablement at Jellysmack

Maria is a great facilitator and she deftly got our diverse group talking and contributing. I’d highly recommend any start-up or fast-growth company engage with Maria to ensure they retain their “DNA” as they grow.

Sherry Lowe, CMO, Exabeam – hired Maria at Splunk and Expanse

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Conversations with leaders, changemakers, and those who challenge the status quo.

The Empathy Edge Podcast

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Tim Leon: The Return on Empathy for Brands and Marketers

Empathetic marketing is having a moment. But really, this trend has been a long time coming. Buyers today are savvy, everything is available online, and they have no patience for brands that don’t understand them or their needs. My guest today, Tim Leon, coined the term Return on Empathy and talks about all that companies […]

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.

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Expert Insights from Maria

How to Measure Empathy

How can you measure empathy? This is the business question, isn’t it? Truth is: it’s difficult. But it’s achievable, or we wouldn’t see so much data around the benefits of empathetic leadership and culture on performance, engagement, innovation, and revenue! We CAN measure outcomes of empathetic leadership and culture, if we carefully calibrate what we…
How to Be More Decisive As a Leader

Decisiveness is the fourth of the five pillars in my upcoming book, The Empathy Dilemma: How Success Leaders Balance Performance, People, and Personal Boundaries. What are the Five Pillars of Effective Empathetic Leadership? These are common traits and behaviors seen over and over again in the successful empathetic leaders I interview, speak to, and advise.…
Shift Your Marketing Mindset

I want you to shift your thinking. I want you to shift your thinking about promoting and marketing your valuable work. What you do is valuable. It enhances people’s lives. It enhances their work whether you sell B2B or B2C, and you know it. So if you are not excited when talking about your business,…