I’m Maria, a licensed career coach, accredited design thinker and seasoned entrepreneur - thank you so much for taking the time to meet!
Whether you’re at a crossroads in your career, planning your next big move, or leading change in your organisation, I’m here to help you make it happen – step by step, with clarity and confidence.
I specialise in working with mid-career professional women who are ready for change but unsure where to start, and also with organisations navigating periods of transition or growth.
Together, we turn uncertainty into clarity – and ideas into action.
Are you a mid-career professional woman who…
Is starting a business or project – you need a roadmap for how to take it forward?
Feels a sense of disconnect or total burnout – you can’t recognise what you have achieved in your career and life?
Feels stuck, lost or overwhelmed at the thought of how to create your next chapter in career and life?
Has taken a career break (or planning to) and is not sure how to design your next career or life phase?
“I made the transition from I wish to I am,”
- Vinita, Singapore
“I now have tools and process to take me forward,”
- Plan International Vietnam
- Programme
One to One
I support and enable mid-career professional women to design and curate their action plan, taking them forward into their next career and life chapter.
Many of my clients have built highly successful careers but now find themselves asking:
I’m burnt out but where do I go from here?
How do I transition into a new career chapter that reflects who I am now?
I feel stuck and overwhelmed – what should my next step be?
I love my sector but hate my job – what should I do?
Do these questions resonate with you? If your answer is yes, I enable women just like you to:
Reflect back on their career and life to date
Gather insights on where they are now and from there
Craft a step by step plan to take them forward into their next career and life chapter
If you would like to regain clarity and confidence and to create an action plan to transform your career, please click the link below for full details of my programme.
Private practice clients: where they work...
- WORKING With ORganisations and businesses
Programme & Project Design
Senior leadership team (one : one & group coaching)
Designing highly bespoke programmes for small groups of up to ten participants.
Mentoring Programmes
Bespoke design and delivery
Career Conversations
Enabling your managers to build a coaching culture
Team building
Facilitated programmes
Webinars
Coaching and Design Thinking Insights & Innovation
For Your Business or Organisation
Are you a business or organisation grappling with the challenge of creating a programme or bespoke series of events in any of the above areas. Don’t know where to start or what to do?
Let’s connect – I have designed and led international projects, launched a ground breaking business, and worked in collaboration to deliver organisational leadership & mentoring programmes. Kicking off with a blank sheet and starter pack idea is the stuff of joy to me!
I’m a coach, licensed and accredited...
I am a licensed listener. I know how to hear, understand, conceptualise and bring ideas to life.
I’m a designer, tried and tested...
I am an accredited design thinker: creativity sits at the heart of my approach. “How might we?” is always my opener.
I’m a collaborator...
I work with a fluid team programme designers, content creators and other project partners to bring ideas from the drawing board to reality.
Project partners I have collaborated and worked with:
Crafting Your Financial Design
Do you feel scared, worried, uncomfortable about money? Is your financial situation a roadblock between you and the career or life you want to create? Are you worried about your financial future?
We are currently piloting a practical, hands on programme to enable participants to design forward with clarity and confidence into their financial future. In it, we explore and work on:
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Exploring money mindset and formative stories
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Crunching the figures – one on one support to gain crystal clear clarity on your current finances
03
Designing forward into your future financial chapters – what will that look like? How will you bring it to life?
Download your ebook
Change and transition looks and feels different for everyone. That’s why I’ve created this ebook – to help you explore your unique way of approaching transitions.
ebook Navigating Your Transition Story
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- TESTIMONIALS
The proof of the pudding - the results
- ABOUT ME
Maria Clancy MSc
Licensed Career Coach / Accredited Design Thinker / TEDx speaker
With over 25 years background and academic training in social change, sustainability and entrepreneurship, I bring a wealth of cross-sector experience to my role as an accredited Design Thinker & licensed Career Coach.
I have the great pleasure of working with a broad range of global women leaders, entrepreneurs and organisations through my bespoke programmes, which are shared either in-house or one to one.
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Using a finely curated Design Thinking & Career Coaching approach, I support my clients – in my private practice & within organisations – to shape, author and craft their next career chapter or project phase. Drawing on my substantial experience as a serial entrepreneur, I focus on enabling clients to design action-oriented roadmaps, taking them forward in that transition from ‘I wish’ to ‘I am’.
Creating practical plans to bring possibilities to life, sits front and centre of what I do.
Accredited by the UK’s leading coaching organisations and the Stanford University team who authored Designing Your Life, I bring the additional benefit of my international network of the sector’s top thinkers to my work.
If you have a career dilemma or project challenge that you’d like to explore, I am always delighted to connect for a call!
Just reach out on the link below – I look forward to meeting you!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long will my one:one programme take?
The programme takes between 12 / 16 weeks. We schedule meetings every two weeks or so but of course, we work in partnership to create the best possible schedule of meetings for you.
Is your programme exclusively for women?
Although I work primarily with women, I have also worked with lots of guys too! The programme content and process is the same. Each individual, whomever they may be, relates to the work in their own individual way.
Do I really need help with working through my action plan?
Only you can decide what is right for you. However, in my experience, maintaining momentum and working through daily / weekly actions can be very challenging for lots of people. That is why I have designed a journal (based on the Bullet Journal method) and a momentum process, to support clients in maintaining energy and commitment to taking the steps needed to bring their plans to life.
What if I don’t know at the end what I want to do?
We start by clarifying your intention (your desired outcome) at the very start of our process. And from there, we track towards that in every session. The process and structure we work with ensures that clarity comes.
Do we meet at the same time or schedule as we go?
So that we have a clear process, I generally ask that we schedule at the same time / day but of course, I work around your schedule – we can alter and change as we go.
Do we meet online or in person?
I generally work online but if we find ourselves to be in the same location, I am always delighted to meet in person.
I want to start now on the plan for what to do next - can I?
In order to create a solid foundation from which to design forward, we always start by reflecing back – so you can connect with your story – all that makes you who you are.
Will you tell me what I should do next in my career?
We work together, in partnership, so you can discover what the next right path for you is. I walk alongside you in that journey. We look at your past career, current chapter and from there, craft the design for your next phase. There is lots of discovering, exploring, crafting actions but no, I never tell you what you should do next!
Do you work only in the APAC region?
I work with clients from Africa, Europe, Asia – if you have a phone or a computer with connection, we can work togehter, wherever you are.
Can I get in touch with you apart from our session meetings?
Yes I keep open communication with my clients between sessions – by email or Whatsapp – whatever your preferred method of communication is.
