Align for your Success with Mara Benner
True North Executive Coaching helps professionals achieve success through work that emphasizes leadership development, passion, performance and wellness.
Who Mara Works With
Partnering with leaders at pivotal moments
Mara partners with executive and high-potential leaders at pivotal moments in their careers. Her approach blends the rigor of business consulting with the depth of personal development work.
Depending on what her clients or their organizations need, Mara draws on an array of tools and techniques to meet each engagement where it is.
Greater responsibility
Stepping into a new or expanded leadership role with confidence and clarity.
Organizational complexity
Navigating complex dynamics, shifting priorities, or high-stakes change.
Recalibration
Reassessing how they lead and live, aligning work with values and wellbeing.
Aligning for Success
True North Executive Coaching is honored to work with an array of organizations from corporate to nonprofit associations to healthcare & universities. Mara thrives in partnering with an organization’s people to align for success.
Featured Program
Leadership Development Program
Fortune 100 Companies
Nonprofit associations
Start up Organizations
Key Outcomes at a Glance
100%
Of leaders, across the board, indicated that the program was very beneficial at making them a better leader
2/3
Or 69% of leaders indicated it significantly impacted their leadership effectiveness
3/4
Or 75% of leaders indicated that the one-on-one coaching contributed significantly to their ffectiveness
In their own words
“It broke me down and built me back up stronger. Thank you.”
“I can’t recommend the program more. For me, the one on one sessions were worth their weight in gold.”
“I really enjoyed these sessions. They were thought provoking, providing more than their share of “ah ha” moments.”
What are your goals?
Find solutions to your greatest challenges combining
performance and wellness. Request a complimentary consult
Performance Coaching
Navigating Change
Creative Problem Solving
Leadership Development
Strategic Forecasting
Effective Communications
Team Dynamics
Wellness Coaching
Meaning & Purpose
Work-Life Balance
Stress Management
Mind-Body-Spirit
Emotional Intelligence
Whole Person Care
Success Stories
Elise Servaroli
Business Developer and Sales Tech Leader
"I'm a global business development and sales leader in tech, envisioning new approaches aimed at significantly increasing the percentage of women in leadership. Working with Mara has helped me gain invaluable personal insights, explore their meaning and make powerful choices through those insights. I appreciate the way she combines executive leadership techniques with personal well-being, helping along the journey of continued growth and career expansion.”
Lourdes Maurice
Aviation Sustainability Expert
“I have had the pleasure to work with Mara for several years. She was a valuable resource to me as I went through a major transition in my life. Each session is personalized to connect at a deeper level, incorporating holistic approaches and then applying to life and career. She combines her corporate leadership skills with her mind-body expertise for a whole new executive coaching approach.”
Reggie Mention
Seniour Executive Administrative Aid
"I previously had the privilege of working and learning from Mara, so I was thrilled when I was presented with the opportunity to work with her as my coach. My focus was to gain a more complete, big picture view, so I could evolve personally and professionally. I will forever be grateful for Mara’s wisdom, as I have a greater sense of self-awareness that will act as my guiding light for my personal evolution."
Jamie Smith
Senior program manager
"Mara Benner served as my coach for a year. She provided such an amazing experience to learn and grow, and my professional life has truly transformed. Mara provided so many great tools that I can take with me forever; my confidence has grown so much, and she has helped me realize my own potential. I love that I was able to connect mind, body, and spirit to bring balance to all of my decisions, and Mara was always available to support me even outside of our scheduled sessions. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have gotten to know and work with Mara. She is truly gifted at what she does, and I know many others will continue to benefit from her coaching! “
Lori Wiggins
School leader
"Working with Mara has fostered my transformation as a school leader. Her skill in deep listening, posing powerful questions, and her ability to frame events has enabled me to grow in my effectiveness professionally and personally. Being able to view your work with a capable and compassionate coach is a gift. Being able to view your walk in the world with a wise woman accelerates development. The result of working with Mara has been a shift in perspective, a greater sense of my own intuition, which has led to better outcomes at work and in life. “
Executive and Leadership Coach
25+ years experience
Mara has had a deep passion for supporting individuals in achieving personal and professional success. Her background includes over 25 years in leadership roles for corporate and nonprofit organizations. She spent 15 years at the corporate level reporting to the CEO of a national healthcare company, and has been a successful entrepreneur and advocate for healthcare policy change. Mara is also working with the GW Center for Integrative Medicine where a key focus for her is performance and wellbeing. She has received training in areas such as mindfulness, meditation, emotional intelligence, homeostasis and more to support the whole person.
Wholistic
approach
Years of related
experience
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