Presence · Perspective · Practice
Lead with clarity - especially under pressure.
Coaching for women leaders, physicians and high performing professionals navigating complexity, responsibility and change.
If this feels familiar you are not alone.
You’re capable, thoughtful, and deeply committed to what you do.
And lately, something feels heavier than it used to.
Not because you’re failing...
but because the complexity around you has grown faster than the inner strategies that once worked so well.
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You carry more responsibility than others realize
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Your mind doesn’t fully rest, even when things are going well
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Certain conversations linger longer than they should
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You feel pressure to stay composed while managing competing demands
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You’re sensing that growth now requires something different, not more effort
This is a normal moment in mature leadership and it’s a meaningful one.
This isn't a problem to fix.
It's a capacity that's ready to grow.
At certain points in leadership and life, effort stops working the way it used to.
Not because you’re doing something wrong,
but because the world around you has become more complex and your inner system is being asked to hold more than it was designed to before.
This is what happens when responsibility expands, stakes increase, and roles become more layered and relational.
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Old strengths can start to feel heavy.
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High standards can turn into pressure.
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Care and competence can quietly become overextension.
What’s required now isn’t more discipline or better strategies.
It’s a different relationship to how you think, decide, and respond under pressure.
Growth at this stage isn’t about adding more.
It’s about developing the capacity to hold what’s already here.
This is a developmental moment and developmental moments are invitations.
Presence · Perspective · Practice
This is the developmental work I do with leaders who are ready to grow their capacity, not just manage their behavior.
Change that lasts doesn’t come from trying harder or fixing yourself.
It comes from strengthening the inner capacities that shape how you show up in moments that matter.
My work centers on three interrelated practices that support mature, sustainable leadership.
Presence
Presence is the foundation.
It’s the capacity to stay grounded when emotions run high, to listen without preparing your defense, and to respond rather than react.
Presence creates internal steadiness and relational safety, especially in moments of pressure, conflict, or uncertainty.
Perspective
Perspective is what opens choice.
It’s the ability to notice the assumptions, habits, and identity pressures shaping your reactions and to hold more than one viewpoint at a time.
Perspective allows leaders to step out of reflex and into clarity.
Practice
Practice is where insight becomes lived.
Rather than forcing change, we work with small, intentional experiments that build trust in new ways of thinking, deciding, and relating.
Practice turns awareness into reliability, especially when stakes are high.
Together, these practices support growth that is integrated, human, and sustainable, not performative or exhausting.
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 path leads to the same developmental work—tailored to the realities you’re navigating.
Women Leaders
You’re leading in environments that ask a great deal of you, relationally, emotionally, and professionally.
This work supports women who want to:
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lead with strength without self-erasure
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navigate visibility, authority, and expectation
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hold boundaries without hardening
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trust their voice and inner compass under pressure
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Physicians & Physician Leaders
You’re operating in a system where responsibility is high, time is scarce, and the emotional load is often invisible.
This work supports physicians who want to:
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reduce rumination and decision fatigue
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navigate conflict and leadership with steadiness
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loosen identity pressure tied to performance
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restore energy without disengaging from care
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Leaders & Teams
(Across Sectors)
You’re responsible not only for outcomes, but for people, culture, and direction.
This work supports leaders and teams who want to:
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improve communication under stress
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address adaptive challenges, not just technical ones
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build trust, accountability, and shared ownership
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develop leadership capacity that holds in complexity
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How the work unfolds
This work is thoughtful, structured, and deeply human.
It’s not therapy.
It’s not consulting.
And it’s not about fixing or optimizing you.
It’s a developmental coaching partnership designed to help you grow the inner capacity required for the complexity you’re holding now.
1. Clarify what’s really happening
We begin by slowing things down enough to name what’s actually creating strain, beneath the surface of roles, behaviors, or situations. This often brings immediate relief.
3. Build capacity through practice
Change happens through small, intentional experiments in real life, conversations, decisions, boundaries, leadership moments.
These practices are:
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practical
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realistic
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designed to fit your actual context
What to expect
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1:1 coaching sessions (typically 60 minutes)
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Virtual or in-person (when possible)
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A calm, focused pace, not rushed, not vague
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Light reflection or experimentation between sessions
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Clear boundaries and confidentiality
This work respects your time, intelligence, and lived experience.
2. See the patterns shaping your responses
Together, we explore the assumptions, habits, and identity pressures that quietly influence how you think, decide, and relate, especially under stress.
Nothing here is about judgment.
It’s about awareness and choice.
4. Integrate and stabilize
Over time, new ways of responding become more natural and reliable.
You don’t have to “remember” to do them,
they become part of how you lead and live.
There is no single right pace or path.
The work meets you where you are and grows with you as your capacity expands.
About Mary
I’m Mary Printz.
I’ve spent my career in the human side of performance, learning, leadership, communication, and change, first as an educator and leader, and now as a coach.
Over the years, I’ve worked alongside people who are capable, brilliant and committed, women leaders, physicians, executives, educators, who aren’t looking for shortcuts or surface fixes. They’re looking for growth that’s honest, sustainable, and aligned with who they are becoming.
My work sits at the intersection of adult development, emotional intelligence, neuroscience and trauma informed coaching. I’m especially drawn to the moments when people sense they’ve outgrown old ways of operating, when what once worked now feels heavy, constraining, or costly.
I bring a calm, structured presence to this work. Clients often tell me they feel both understood and challenged, supported without being rescued, and stretched without being pushed.
At its core, this work is about helping people develop the inner capacity to meet complexity with clarity, steadiness, and integrity, so leadership and life feel more inhabitable, not more exhausting.
My training includes advanced work in adult development and different leadership coaching methodologies, emotional intelligence, and evidence-based approaches to human change. I continue to learn alongside global thought leaders in this field and alongside my clients, who are some of the most thoughtful people I know.
I believe growth happens best in relationships that are thoughtful, respectful, and real.
This work is for people who are ready to grow, not by becoming someone else, but by becoming more fully themselves.
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Begin with a conversation
If something here has resonated, the next step doesn’t have to be big.
We begin with a simple conversation, a space to name what you’re navigating and to see whether this work is a good fit for you right now.
There’s no expectation to commit.
Just clarity, curiosity, and respect for where you are.
Book a 30-minute Discovery Call
Or reach out directly at 1-403-866-3806
Uncover Blind Spots & Make the Changes You Need to Succeed
Join leaders worldwide in adopting my system to prevent burnout, implement sustainable change, and pursue continuous self-improvement.
For leaders seeking profound personal and professional transformation and the support to actualize it.
Here's What You Get:
Eight Session Breakthrough:
Through the 8 Session Connection, you gain:
Eight intensive 60-minute sessions tailored for individuals and leaders.
Identify what might be holding you back.
Ability to objectify your thought, feeling, behavior progressions.
Discern the level of adult development you use
Clarify pathways toward higher levels of complex thinking
Three Month Leadership Breakthrough:
The 3-Month Leadership Breakthrough provides rapid insights and the realizations necessary to set you on a path to reach your full potential. We take you from being IN your thinking and feelings to being able to SEE them.
Three months of weekly 60-90 minute sessions.
Ability to objectify your thought, feeling, behavior progressions
Identify what might be holding you back
Discern the levels of adult development you use
Provides the fundamental reset required to transform old patterns into new, productive mindset.
Greater ability to engage complexity, volatility, & challenge
Ability to actualize gains through ongoing support
Clients describe quantum-leap mindset shifts, improved emotional intelligence, greater relational acumen, and fulfillment in realizing their full potential.
Leadership & Team Coaching:
Enhance your team's capacity for growth, resilience and problem solving.
Bring out your team’s full potential!
Build trust and accountability, demonstrate adaptability and resilience in the face of challenges, and achieve results collaboratively.
Grow your team to become critical thinkers and more introspective with their thoughts and reasoning.
Develop a cohesive team aligned around a shared vision and common goals, leveraging the diverse strengths of each team member to achieve collective success.
Key Aspects:
The process:
The model for individual and leadership development employed is known as "Immunity to Change (ITC)," developed by Robert Kegan, world-renowned psychologist and Harvard researcher and professor.
ITC has been influential in adult development, organizational culture, and leadership growth, offering a practical personal and professional transformation tool.
Individual Coaching guides individuals:
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Utilizing various tools and exercises to facilitate the exploration of underlying beliefs and assumptions that impede change.
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Guiding individuals through a process of challenging and testing these assumptions.
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Cultivating a deeper understanding of the barriers to change and providing support for actualization.
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Collaborating with the individual in a partnership for growth and change.
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Gathering new data and insights, leading to a shift in perspective.
Sustaining Change:
This process is not just about initiating change but also about ensuring that the changes are sustained over time. Collaboratively with individuals, teams, and organizations, strategies are developed to integrate new perspectives and behaviors into their daily lives.
Organizational Applications:
The ITC framework seamlessly transitions to the organizational level, tackling collective immune systems and resistance to change within teams and entire organizations.
Overall, the approach provides a structured and systematic method for understanding and overcoming personal and organizational resistance to change, fostering positive and healthy growth and development.
For inquiries about workshops, training, and team development, please reach out to: Mary@MaryPrintz.com
Through the comprehensive coaching program, you will:
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Overcome counterproductive thought patterns that hinder growth
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Foster emotional intelligence and the assurance to lead in complex environments.
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Acquire self-directed systems to flourish amidst uncertainty
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Unleash your creative and relational potential
Advance in:
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Self-awareness
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Emotional and cognitive agility and flexibility
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Confidence, presence, and influence
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Skillful responses to complexity
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Enhanced effectiveness in relationships
Whether you are in a stagnant or difficult situation or eager to expand and develop, our coaching provides the essential reset that you need and desire to operate at your full confident potential.
Leadership & Team Skill Development:
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Develop and refine leadership skills such as communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills.
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Enhance emotional intelligence and self-awareness for effective leadership.
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Balance competing priorities to avoid burnout.
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Develop strategies for fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
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Develop a leadership style that inspires confidence and trust.
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Implement strategies for continuous personal and professional improvement.
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Navigate career transitions, promotions, or changes in leadership roles.
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Build effective relationships with team members, peers, and stakeholders.
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Develop strategies to adapt and thrive in dynamic environments.
Executive coaching is a highly personalized process, tailored to the specific needs and objectives of the individual. The ultimate goal is to help leaders unlock their potential, overcome challenges, and achieve greater success in their professional roles.
Why Mary?
With more than three decades of expertise in education, entrepreneurship, and leadership, Mary possesses the wisdom and skills to empower you to reach your fullest potential and uplift those around you with your unique talents. Mary is operating at her highest level and supporting her clients in doing the same. Imagine the impact of achieving exceptional outcomes through coaching. Mediocrity is no longer acceptable.
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Certified Immunity to Change Coach, Minds at Work, Harvard University
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Leadership Circle Consultant
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Certified True Colors International Coach
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EQ -i 2.0 Certified, Multi-Health Systems Inc.
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CEO Accelerated Potential Academy
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Masters in Leadership M.Ed.
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Healthcare Leadership Consultant
Authenticity is Mary's hallmark for achieving concrete results. There's no masking; each piece of guidance and shared narrative stems from real-life experiences, delivering actionable insights.
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