With Marie Deery
I know the experience from the inside.
I bring twenty years of leadership experience and expert coaching to leaders who want to keep improving and become exceptional – giving them the tools, mindset and adaptability to take their leadership to the next level. We learn best in a safe space, so I keep it fun, real and practical with a focus on learning by doing.
More about Marie →How I support you
Three ways in, designed around your needs.
1:1 Coaching
Deep, personalised support for a leader you’ve invested in. A six-month coaching journey, remote, built around the real challenges holding them back.
Explore 1:1 coaching →The Leadership Programme
A cohort programme for your lynchpin leaders. Half-day workshops and 1:1 coaching, combined so the change sticks. Not training – behaviour change by design.
Explore the programme →Feedback Training
An in-person workshop that takes the fear out of feedback, so your teams say the thing instead of sitting on it. Useful for the receiver. Not scary for the giver.
Explore feedback training →What my clients say
About Marie Deery
Certified co-active leadership coach. Two decades leading teams at Nike, Girl Effect and Saatchi & Saatchi before retraining to help leaders take their leadership to the next level.
I've worked for the last two decades in advertising, and my career has taken me on some weird and wonderful adventures; particular highlights include launching Nike's London Olympic campaign, and spending two years in Addis Ababa setting up youth brand Yegna with the Girl Effect. Most recently I was Head of Account Management at Saatchi & Saatchi.
I understand the leadership experience because I experienced it from the inside out.
As part of my last senior management role I was lucky enough to work with a coach – and I found it to be a profoundly transformative experience. In fact, I was so amazed by the benefits that I resigned from my job and re-trained to become a coach so others could experience the wonder of coaching.
I'm a certified co-active coach (CPCC) – so I bring the lived experience but also the coaching rigour to my work. For me, coaching is about realising potential, not fixing problems. And nothing gives me more fulfilment than enabling people to become a leader they are proud of.
My credentials
Certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
Trained through the Co-Active Professional Coach Training series, widely recognised as the most rigorous coach training and certification programme in the industry.
Two decades leading teams in advertising
Nike, Saatchi & Saatchi, and the Girl Effect – giving me first-hand experience of the leadership journey I now coach others through.
Feel free to book a slot with me.
We can discuss your needs and what your leaders might need next.
Book a call1:1 Coaching
Deep, personalised support for the lynchpin leaders your business relies on.
A six-month coaching journey, delivered remotely, giving leaders the space to work through what they find genuinely challenging – bringing real day-to-day situations into each session, not abstract theory. They take their leadership to the next level. The business notices the change: more maturity, more self-awareness, more clarity in how they lead.
Get in touch about coachingThe Impact
One of the most transformative exercises has been identifying my inner ‘saboteur’ and learning to recognise when he’s in action, which has been a huge unlock for my mindset and my career.
How it works
Six months, built around them.
Remote sessions, real challenges, and small steps that carry into the working week.
The Kick-Off
A session to kick off our work together, establish the big goals and how we will work together over the next 6 months.
Six Monthly Sessions
Monthly, remote, 60 min session. Your space to bring the topics that you need support with.
Between sessions
Commitments applied to the everyday, so there’s accountability and learning by doing.
Is this right for them?
This coaching is great for leaders who:
- ✓Have real potential, but are at a genuine turning point in their leadership
- ✓Would benefit from an outside perspective – not their manager, not HR
- ✓Are ready to be honest about what’s actually getting in their way
- ✓Need space to think through live challenges, not another course
- ✓Are stepping into more responsibility and need to grow into it
What changes
Five ways leaders change.
What the business notices in how they lead after six months.
More self-awareness
Clearer on their values, their patterns and what drives them.
More maturity under pressure
Responding, not reacting.
More clarity in how they lead
Decisions made with conviction, not second-guessed.
Braver conversations
Saying the harder thing, sooner.
More self-belief
Trusting their own judgement, without needing it checked.
What my clients say
Ready to invest in one of your leaders?
Let’s talk about who they are and what they need to grow into.
Drop me a lineThe Leadership Programme
A 6 month programme for your lynchpin leaders.
Leadership superskills workshops combined with 1:1 coaching. Your leaders will come back leading their teams with more awareness, effectiveness and accountability.
Get in touch about your cohortThe Impact
The Authentic Leaders programme Marie has crafted, alongside our 1:1 sessions, has been a highlight of my professional career in recent years.
How it works
Three parts, working together.
A space away from the day-to-day, tailored 1:1 support, and challenges that bring the learnings into real working life.
Cohort workshops
A series of half-day sessions, in person. The cohort immerses themselves into leadership fundamentals – learning tools and honing their skills on each other.
1:1 coaching
Six remote coaching sessions per person, tailored to their individual goals and challenges. Personal development work that feeds into the cohort.
Embedding
Challenges set between workshops, so the tools get used in the day-to-day – then the learnings are shared back in the room.
Workshop topics
Leadership superskills.
Series of half-day workshops, each building a specific muscle – creating the awareness and skills to lead yourself, and others effectively.
Workshop 1 · Lead yourself
Awareness & emotional intelligence
Knowing your values, strengths and blind spots – and using that awareness to manage your emotions, not be run by them.
Workshop 2 · Lead others
Giving feedback & setting expectations
Being direct and assertive: setting expectations, giving real-time feedback, having hard conversations, delegating and taking action.
Workshop 3 · Lead others
Creating space for others to grow
Building others’ capacity to find their own solutions – spotting the learning moment, instead of stepping in and taking over.
Is this right for you?
This programme is great for teams who:
- ✓Lead the teams driving day-to-day operations of the business
- ✓Want to improve how they lead themselves and their teams to be even more effective
- ✓Want more range as a leader – so they can adapt to whatever the situation calls for
- ✓Are stepping up into more senior roles where they need to do less and direct more
- ✓Are working in silos and need to bond into a strong, effective team
What clients say
Five ways leaders change.
What’s different in how they lead after this programme.
Confident leaders taking ownership
More senior in how they operate – solving problems themselves instead of escalating them.
Creating opportunities for team to grow
Building capacity in themselves and others – creating opportunities for their reports to learn and step up.
Capacity for hard conversations
Tools deployed in real, high-stakes moments – difficult feedback, contract calls, cross-team friction. Not just understood. Used.
Less self-doubt, more self-belief
More trust that they can handle whatever new challenge comes their way.
Calmer under pressure
Steadier, less reactive – a new calmness and ability to take challenging situations in their stride.
Feedback Training
A workshop that takes the fear out of feedback.
So your teams start saying what people need to hear to improve.
Bring it to your officeThe Value
Learning how to give feedback in a way that’s truly valuable to the person receiving it, but also doesn’t feel terrifying to me.
The structure
Three hours. Three reframes. One simple tool.
Reframes
New ways to see feedback that make giving it feel lighter and something you want to do.
The tool
The Four Fs: a simple framework to deliver feedback that lands – at work, and in life.
Practice
Breakouts where your team tries it for real, on real situations, before they leave the room.
Is this right for you?
This workshop is great for teams that:
- Struggle to give feedback in the moment
- Care about treating each other with respect and kindness
- Are ambitious and want to do great things together
- Value learning new skills
- Want to build a feedback culture they're proud of
Feedback from teams.
“We don’t need to be afraid of feedback – personally, or as an agency.”
“It gave me confidence to give feedback to co-workers, even my friends.”
“I feel more equipped ahead of the feedback cycle about to happen at work.”
“I feel more equipped to both give and receive feedback.”
“My most meaningful takeaway was that nice isn’t kind.”
“Knowing it’s not being shared as a piece of personal feedback made it so much easier to take in.”
“It’s so easy to slip into finger-pointing – attaching feedback to a person rather than the behaviour or situation.”
“The ‘nice ≠ kind’ reframe was the most meaningful – it showed me what I could do to make it easier for both sides.”
Want to build a feedback culture you’re proud of?
Let’s talkLet's talk about your leaders.
The best way to know if we're the right fit is to talk it through. Book a call with me and we'll cover your brief, your leaders, and what support might look like.
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No pitch deck, no pressure – just a conversation about what your leaders need next.
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