As President of Global Conversations, Mary J Murphy works with individuals who want to achieve 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. Mary integrates her coaching, facilitation and communications knowledge and experiences 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 her focus was on organizational and personal 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).

For the past twenty-five years Mary has worked as a highly successful consultant and coach to business and government. In the private sector, Mary has worked with leaders at all levels, providing them with strategic guidance around critical organizational challenges and helping them build healthy organizational relationships. She has worked with both large and small sized organizations, especially around communicating change. Mary is now extending her coaching with leaders to connect them with emerging leaders and youth on topics of leadership, collaboration, and contribution.

In the public sector, Mary has coached and advised EX level clients in the federal government, created change management programs, as well as national social marketing communications strategies with a focus on behaviour change. She has worked on international development projects, with the current one being a five-year water resource management project in China where she is introducing coaching as an approach to building essential communication channels within and between different levels of government, business, and the community. More recently, Mary’s work has focused on developing an integrated approach to change management and communications for large-scale organizational transformations.

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 skier in the winter. To keep her artistic spirit nourished, she creates mixed media paintings.