As an experienced Executive Coach and President of Global Conversations, Mary J Murphy works with individuals who are focused on achieving meaningful and sustainable results in their work, their life and their future. She inspires and motivates clients to expand their perspectives and engage in the conversations that matter most to them. Mary integrates her knowledge and experience in coaching, strategic communications design, and team development to help individuals and teams move to a new level of impact and results.

Mary completed a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from York University (1983), where she concentrated on individual and organizational change. She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (2001), a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (2003), and has advanced training in Organization Relationship and Systems Coaching (2006) and Co-Active Leadership Development (2009).

Over the past twenty-five years Mary has worked as both a successful consultant and a leadership and executive coach to business and government clients in Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe. She has worked with leaders at all levels, coaching them to meet and exceed their performance goals, providing them with strategic guidance around critical organizational challenges, and helping them define what matters personally and professionally as they make the transition to a new role or get ready to move on. She has worked with both large and small sized organizations, especially around communicating issues during time of change. Over the past two years, Mary has been developing an integrated coaching and communications approach to working with the “people aspects” of large-scale organizational transformations, particularly in the IT Community.

Mary has also advised clients and coached individuals as part of international development projects that focused on environment and sustainability challenges in China as they relate to the issues of climate change and water resource management. A key strategy in both projects was to introduce a coaching approach to building capacity for the development of essential communication channels within and between different levels of government, business, media, and the community.

Mary is a recreational athlete who enjoys a rich family life. She has been an instructor for both walking and running groups in the community, is a golfer and hiker in the summer and a skier in the winter. To keep her artistic spirit nourished, she creates mixed media paintings.