What Maryann's Clients Are Saying

”Maryann’s mentoring in project management grounded me in fundamentals so that I can leverage what I have learned for decades to come throughout my career. While she focused on concrete examples applicable to my current work, she took the opportunity as well to explain how much more broadly and deeply principles of project management, like risk management, could apply across financial risk, reputational risk, market risk, & operational risk which all have both tactical and strategic implications. Along with mentoring in the practicality of IT estimating; budget management; change management; Statements of Work; deliverables management; benefits realization; and vendor management, she incorporated so much including actual examples about the importance of soft skills in people/project team leadership; vendor negotiations; and critical situation management. She heightened my appreciation for identifying leading indicators to both optimize results and to avoid risks/issues and for how an isolated anomaly may really be the beginning of a new trend warranting notice. The role play examples she integrated throughout this mentoring palpably illustrated that effective communications is key to success and team motivation. Time flew by during my sessions as the fundamentals were comprehensively covered within the context of her plethora of on-site and virtual team examples drawing upon her decades of global experience responsible for impacts into the billions. Maryann is passionate about helping others learn, and her enthusiasm and humor make her mentoring sessions productive, invaluable, and enjoyable.”

”Three (3) other colleagues and I formed a specialized business in a new industry such that there is limited baseline or comparative information available. Having been previously delighted with Maryann’s breadth and depth of business skills and acumen in doing work involving my other multi-faceted businesses, my colleagues and I sought her expertise again. Although Maryann did not have any experience at all in this new industry, this was no obstacle for her. Within 3 days, she had consumed the relevant industry information available and produced a robust Business Plan, Pitch Deck, & Summary document to be used for our presentations to investors and to a myriad of other stakeholders. At the end of a week’s time, she had incorporated additional collaborative input from us while also posing pivotal questions for our strategic and tactical consideration taking into consideration local and national socioeconomic factors; seasonality and cyclicality of product/service delivery; business continuity and risk management; joint community partnering and messaging; and investor positioning. Throughout the process, she kept us fully engaged and informed while providing us templates for on-going use to launch our business and to assess predictive metrics as we establish our own baseline according to expected financial metrics. Maryann’s decades of global experience working at Executive Levels helped us further define our roles and our priorities for competitive advantage. We haven’t witnessed someone work with such speed while amassing new subject matter expertise and producing outstanding deliverables while also providing such a value-added experience along the way. My colleagues and I would highly recommend Maryann Kelly for her mentoring and business consulting expertise.”

”I was offered a role to be on Maryann’s (Intuitive Services Insight^®) team in a capacity that I had not done previously. With her hallmark boundless energy and enthusiasm that I quickly came to experience, she welcomed me warmly and taught me more about the subject matter in record time before I realized it. She went out of her way to practice presentations with me and asked some of her peers to also provide a safe environment for preliminary presentations of highly technical subject matter with significant business and regulatory impact so that within a couple of months, I was leading the presentation among Executive and Senior Leadership. Previous to this point, during 15 yrs of my career, I likely never would have met let alone presented to this Executive audience on, what became, a regular basis. Maryann really has a talent and passion in bringing out previously unknown or unused talents and skills and further developing existing skills. Her mentoring style is such she drives the right amount of accountability with skill mastery and infuses confidence consistent with aptitude and performance.

“I fortunately had the opportunity to be on her team again, in another company, to enjoy yet another experience of further growth in yet different subject matter areas and growth in leadership/professional development. Maryann is most accommodating to the ‘whole person’, and finds ways to make things work out well for varying facets of life and for the employer. She has gone out of her way to ensure that I get the limelight, but I know she’ll be the first to take the bullet as well. It doesn’t get better than that.”

”Working with Maryann has changed my life. Her intuition and feedback is spot on. She helped me to get clear about what I needed to focus on in order to reach my goals. I have been practicing the action steps she gave me and I now feel more peaceful, openhearted and excited about my future. Thank you, Maryann!”