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When Leadership Is Heavy, You Need Coaching That’s Built for the Weight

Leadership at the top isn’t glamorous; it’s filled with pressure and visibility. It requires an understanding that every decision has significant consequences for people, culture, performance, and outcomes. This reality is where most leadership development tools, including typical executive coaching options, fall short. Generic books and off-the-shelf training programs often fail to prepare you for the true demands of leading at the executive level. This is where Mary Ricketts coaching makes a difference. Mary offers confidential, no-nonsense executive coaching tailored for leaders who must lead boldly in complex environments. This leadership coaching is designed for decision-makers, disruptors, and changemakers who cannot afford to remain stuck in confusion, indecision, or overwhelm.

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This Is Executive Coaching With Purpose

This isn’t therapy. This isn’t mentorship. This isn’t feel-good conversation over coffee.

This is executive coaching focused on strategy, accountability, and elevation, specifically tailored for leaders.

You bring your challenges to the table, and Mary Ricketts coaching helps you solve them with clarity, composure, and confidence.

What Does Executive Leadership Coaching Actually Look Like?

✓ Clarity Over Chaos

Together, we eliminate the noise and focus on the issues that matter most: your ability to think strategically, lead courageously, and act decisively.

✓ Executive Presence That Speaks Before You Do

You’ll refine the nonverbal, verbal, and energetic leadership traits that command respect and ensure that people listen the first time you speak.

✓ Tactical Execution

Each session ends with decisions made, actions planned, and follow-ups set. In this leadership coaching process, we don’t just talk; we move.

✓ Confidentiality and Candor

No politics. No pandering. Just a safe space to talk through the realities of leadership with someone who understands and will hold you to your highest standard.

Who This Coaching Is For

This isn’t for everyone. Mary Ricketts coaching focuses on executive coaching for:

✓ C-suite leaders navigating pressure, scrutiny, and complex people dynamics

✓ Vice Presidents and Directors ready to prepare for a bigger seat at the table

✓ Executives in crisis or recovery (professionally, reputationally, or culturally)

✓ High-achievers who feel stuck and want to rediscover their fire

✓ Women in leadership breaking ceilings but dealing with real fatigue and resistance If you’re being looked to for vision, strategy, team performance, or cultural change, you’re in the right place for leadership coaching.

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What Coaching with Mary Delivers

Clients choose Mary not because she’s motivational, but because she’s strategic. She sees blind spots, delivers tough truths with grace, and moves leaders forward.

Here’s what you can expect to gain:

✓ Strategic Decision-Making Under Pressure

Leadership is full of unknowns. Mary helps you think clearly when emotions run high, pressure intensifies, and decisions carry weight.

✓ Elevated Executive Presence

Whether you're walking into the boardroom, navigating tough conversations, or commanding a stage, your presence will evolve to match your position.

✓ Influence Without Politics

Develop the skills to influence up, down, and across without falling into manipulation, emotional burnout, or overexplaining.

✓ Conflict Confidence

Learn to confront issues without being confrontational. No more sidestepping the hard stuff.

✓ Trusted Accountability

Mary holds you to the highest version of yourself, even when no one else does.

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Key Areas of Focus During Coaching Engagements

Each executive coaching engagement is tailored to the individual, but may include: ✓ Transitioning into senior leadership or C-suite roles through targeted leadership coaching ✓ Leading former peers after a promotion with confidence ✓ Repairing a damaged leadership reputation with effective strategies ✓ Managing team toxicity or dysfunction in a constructive manner ✓ Increasing visibility and value at the executive table for better decision-making ✓ Crisis decision-making and communication skills development ✓ Setting boundaries while still being available and approachable as a leader ✓ Restoring confidence after professional burnout or missteps with the help of Mary Ricketts coaching

How Coaching Works

✓ Step 1: Strategic Clarity Call
We start with a 45-minute conversation to align on your goals, challenges, and leadership stage. This call is where you and Mary determine if the partnership fits.

✓ Step 2: Custom Coaching Framework
Based on your needs, Mary outlines a coaching structure. Options include:

90-day intensives (bi-weekly or weekly sessions)
6-month strategic coaching engagements
Monthly executive retainer partnerships

✓ Step 3: Results-Focused Sessions
Every session drives decisions, strategy, and momentum. No vague insight. Only leadership that works in real-time.

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Coaching Packages May Include:

✓ 1:1 private sessions (virtual or in-person) through Mary Ricketts coaching

✓ Email/text access between sessions for quick support in your executive coaching journey

✓ Strategic decision-making playbooks tailored for leadership coaching

✓ Tools for refining your executive presence

✓ Communication audit and elevation to enhance your leadership skills

✓ Stakeholder alignment prep as part of your coaching experience

✓ Post-engagement leadership development plan to sustain growth after your Mary Ricketts coaching.

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I already have a mentor or internal leadership coach?

A mentor offers guidance. Mary offers transformation. She’s external, confidential, and committed to your success without bias.

Will this coaching help me if I’m trying to be promoted?

Yes. Mary has helped dozens of leaders navigate the politics, presence, and performance needed to secure the next role and succeed in it.

Can this help with difficult team members or department conflict?

Absolutely. Many clients start coaching when they’re dealing with dysfunctional teams or repeated cultural clashes. Mary helps you resolve issues, not avoid them.

What if I’m also dealing with burnout or emotional exhaustion?

Then coaching isn’t optional it’s critical. Mary works with executives who feel like they’re burning out on the way to success. That ends here.

Why Mary Ricketts?

Mary isn’t new to leadership. She’s led teams. She’s rebuilt organizations. She’s coached leaders through crisis, growth, and reinvention.

As a certified executive coach, board leader, and CEO of Turning Point Training & Development, Mary brings decades of experience across industries including healthcare, education, manufacturing, nonprofit, and government.

But more than that, she brings clarity. And when you’re stuck or spinning, clarity is the most valuable asset a leader can have.

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If You’re Reading This, You’re Likely One of Three Leaders:

✓ You’re rising and want to get ahead of what’s coming before you hit friction with effective executive coaching. ✓ You’re spinning and trying to recalibrate your influence, presence, or results through leadership coaching. ✓ You’re surviving after conflict, crisis, or exhaustion and you want to lead again from a place of power with Mary Ricketts coaching. Wherever you are, the right coaching can reset your leadership permanently.

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Your Next Step

If you’re ready to: ✓ Lead with greater presence and less pressure ✓ Get honest, strategic, confidential support through executive coaching ✓ Make the kind of executive decisions that move your career forward with the help of leadership coaching It’s time to stop second-guessing and start showing up as the powerful leader you were built to be with Mary Ricketts coaching.