Vérité customizes services and workshops to your and your organization’s unique needs.
our virtual and in-person services include:
Become a more effective leader by tapping into your authentic strengths, as well as your team’s strengths, for greater engagement and improved productivity to meet your business goals.
Ideal for: Individual leaders, whole companies, and intact teams
Mary offers development workshops on a wide variety of leadership topics, including:
Dare to Lead™, based on Brené Brown’s best selling book, “Dare to Lead.” Mary is one of a select group of people certified by Brené Brown to offer these transformational workshops. Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, this is an empirically based courage-building program. For 7 years she asked leaders across all sectors one question: What is the future of leadership? One answer was overwhelmingly clear: Courageous Leaders. Dr. Brown found that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. These workshops focus on developing these skills to help individuals, teams, and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.
Strengths-based Performance Workshops. Acccording to the Gallup Organization, teams that are highly engaged have 65% lower turnover, 21% higher productivity, and 22% higher profitability. One great way to engage teams and ensure they are working in their areas of greatest potential is to become a strengths-based team. Rather than focusing on fixing individual weaknesses (areas they will never excel), focus on their areas of natural talent and watch them soar. As a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, using the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, Mary offers customized workshops that are highly interactive, enlightening and engaging, and great for intact teams.
Fierce Conversations™, based on Susan Scott’s best selling book, “Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and In Life, One Conversation at a Time”. Mary has been a Fierce Inc-certified Master Facilitator for over a decade. The premise of Fierce is this: What gets talked about, how it gets talked about, and who is invited to the conversation determines what will happen - or won’t happen - in business and in life.
There are 8 conversation model workshops to choose from, depending on your team’s needs: Team, Coaching, Delegation, Confrontation, Feedback, Negotiations, Accountability and Generations. They can be done as stand-alone ½ day workshops or in full day or two-day formats. Each is designed to help your organization have better, more honest conversations so you get better results.
Leadership at the Edge, based on Dennis N.T. Perkins, PhD’s bestselling book: Leading at the Edge - Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition.”
Having studied leaders and teams facing the limits of human endurance — a place he calls The Edge, Dennis Perkins’ research has identified critical strategies that enable leaders and teams to reach their greatest potential in any challenging environment. As a certified Expedition Leader, Mary brings these leadership lessons to life through one of the greatest and most dramatic leadership stories of all time: Ernest Shackleton’s Epic Antarctic Expedition.
On December 5, 1914, Shackleton and 27 men sailed to the Antarctic with a formidable mission: to be the first explorers to cross the Antarctic continent. Forty five days later, disaster struck and for nearly two years, Shackleton and his crew were stranded on the icy sea without a ship, enduring unimaginable hardships. After 634 days, Shakleton and his crew returned, without loss of life.
How did Shackleton inspire his crew to such extraordinary levels of courage, unity, and commitment? This workshop or keynote answers this question and reveals Ten Critical Strategies for Leadership at The Edge.
Additional workshops can be customized for individuals, teams or organizations, on a wide variety of leadership topics.
Explore the power of authenticity through Mary’s keynote addresses on courageous leadership, strengths-based development, communication, and finding the courage to express your true self.
Ideal for: Conferences, conventions, team meetings, sales meetings
Mary has had the pleasure of being a featured keynote speaker at many events including the Women in Retirement Conference (WIRC), and the upcoming 2020 WIRC, CEA/AMP Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Brother Int’l Leadership Conference, Visiting Nurse Service of NY (VNSNY) Leadership Series, HBC Annual Leadership Meeting, and Vertex Global Corporate Communications’ Annual Meeting.
Uncover your most powerful public speaking style and learn the tools to influence your audience while delivering clear, concise content.
Ideal for: Individuals and teams looking to increase their professional power and presence, no matter what their level of speaking expertise.
Mary has spent the past 20 years coaching Executives, Educators and professionals of all levels on their presentation skills. A former professional actor, she has the unique ability to teach people to express themselves naturally and organically in front of others. Mary combines speaking and movement techniques honed both on the stage and in the corporate setting to help participants craft clear, concise, powerful presentations – all while staying true to themselves.
One-on-one Executive Presentation Coaching or Group Workshops available
Maximize your communication skills through an intensive, one-on-one strengths coaching program completely tailored to your personal goals.
Ideal for: Professionals of all levels
As an New York University and Gallup Strengths certified coach, Mary takes a strengths-based approach to help you, and your teams, achieve your goals. Coaching can be done in-person or via phone/skype and is generally on a weekly or bi-monthly basis for as long as needed.
One-on-one Coaching includes Executive Coaching, Executive Presence, Presentation Skills Coaching, and Personal Success Coaching
