Trusted by leaders in:
HEALTHCARE • EDUCATION • ENGINEERING • BUSINESS • PUBLIC SYSTEMS
When I began working with Mary, I was operating in constant urgency, decisive on the surface, but internally reactive and exhausted. I assumed the solution was better time management.
Through our work, I began to understand the assumptions driving that pressure and developed the capacity to lead with greater steadiness, clarity, and confidence. This proved invaluable as I navigated significant organizational change and led my team through a period of uncertainty. My role remains demanding, but it is no longer destabilizing.
The shift has been lasting, and a fundamentally different way of operating. I communicate more effectively, make decisions with greater intention, and approach complex challenges with a level of perspective that was previously difficult to access.
I would highly recommend Mary to physicians and healthcare leaders facing complex challenges, leadership transitions, or organizational change.
Jamie V., MD
Department Head
When Life and Leadership Become Heavy
You’ve tried to create change, but it's not landing. The intention is there, yet decisions and reactions continue to reflect familiar patterns. It's not that you're doing something wrong. More often, the world has become more complex, and you're being asked to handle more than before.
You’re capable, experienced and respected.
Yet the approaches that once produced results no longer
seem to be yielding the same return.
This is what happens when responsibility expands, stakes increase, and roles become more layered and relational.
-
Your strengths become your weakness.
-
High standards turn into pressure.
-
Care and competence becomes overextension.
What’s required is a different relationship to how you think, decide, and respond under pressure. This is a developmental moment and it's an invitation to level up.
A Different Approach To Change
Through adaptive and performance coaching partnered with adult development, you can expand your capacity for complexity, learn to see from multiple perspectives, and move from reactive
patterns toward more responsive, effective leadership.
Together we surface internal systems that are preventing
your progress.
Rather than focusing only on behavior, this work brings
awareness to the assumptions that are undermining you and your team and stalling progress.
These patterns become visible, making lasting change possible, most often more quickly than expected.
Who This Work Is For
This work is for those who are navigating complexity, responsibility, and needing change, especially when progress isn’t happening.
I work with leaders and professionals across sectors, some of which include; healthcare, business, engineering, and education. Many are responsible
for guiding others through uncertainty, growth, and change.
This includes those who are:
-
Seeking clarity, alignment, and effectiveness
-
Navigating pressure, complexity, and competing demands
-
Teams experiencing recurring challenges, misalignment, or stalled progress.
The common thread is a willingness to look beneath the surface, and
engage in change that will impact decision making, relationships, thinking in greater complexity and managing people and expectations.
This Work Meets You Where You Are
While the contexts differ, the inner patterns that bring people here are often the same.
Choose the doorway that best reflects your current role and responsibilities. Each developmental path is tailored to the realities you’re navigating.
Capacity that holds in complexity
You’re operating in a system where responsibility is high, time is scarce, and the emotional load is heavy, yet invisible, often across shifting systems and competing demands.
Leaders, Executives & Teams
Speaking
Insight that reshapes how leaders think.
For conferences, leadership retreats, and organizations navigating leadership capacity, emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptive development, complexity, burnout, or change.
Education and Training
Where evidence meets lived complexity.
For organizations, and groups seeking depth beyond skills training. This work draws on:
-
adult and adaptive development
-
Harvard's Mind's at Work, EQi 2.0, Leadership Circle, Agile training and more.
-
leadership research
About Mary
Mary Printz is a former school principal, business CEO
and leader in executive adaptive and performance
development.
A certified Harvard Immunity to Change coach and consultant with a Master’s in Leadership, she helps leaders and teams understand the deeper systems shaping their behavior, decisions, and results.
Mary brings both discipline and perspective to her work, shaped in part by her background as a university track and field and field hockey athlete and school and district leader.
Her approach goes beyond surface-level change, supporting individuals and teams in making shifts that are both meaningful and lasting.
Mary helps people change how they think, pause before responding, manage conflict and lead more effectively.
Let's Begin a Conversation
Let's have a conversation, a space to name what you’re navigating, to see whether this work is a fit for you. I offer clarity, curiosity, and respect for where you are.
Schedule a 30-minute Discovery Call
It may be your most life changing decision this year.
Or reach out directly at 1-403-866-3806