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Maria Eliadis
Maria is a dynamic professional with over 30 years’ experience working collaboratively to explore innovative ways of tackling complex challenges and realising exciting opportunities.
As a coach, trainer and facilitator Maria’s work focuses on supporting people to stop spinning their wheels and giving them the nudge to get the traction they need to move forward, to grow, to achieve their goals. The cornerstones of her approach are raising self-awareness, building emotional intelligence, strengthening flexibility and adaptive practices and championing innovative thinking.
Maria is an alumnus (2011) of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government program ‘The Art and Practice of Leadership Development’ which teaches the practices and principles of Adaptive Leadership, and she is certified as a Brain-Based Coach with the NeuroLeadership Institute.
Brain-Based Coaching is a certificate program offered by the NeuroLeadership Institute and accredited by the International Coach Federation. BBC is informed by neuroscience and all tools and techniques have been tested with corporations around the world. BBC supports you to stay solutions focused, provides guidance to overcome blocks and barriers so you can achieve your desired goals.
Maria recently gained certification to apply Vertical Development frameworks to her coaching through the Vertical Development Institute. Moreover, in Jan 2023, she set up a social enterprise called B-HART. B-HART's mission is to elevate Human Rights-based Practices in the Disability Sector. She is the co-CEO, designed the Accreditation Benchmarking Assessment Tool and is the principal trainer and consultant to Disability Services Providers.
Maria’s adaptive leadership programs use real life situations to apply adaptive leadership principles and practices in a safe yet robust learning environment. Participants are encouraged to apply different ‘lenses’ to situations to gain insight and inspiration to explore new ways of thinking and try new ways of approaching challenges. Offered to teams the programs supports the development of shared language and practices to work productively and safely together.