Hi I'm Marian Mariño
I’m a Leadership and Effectiveness Coach.
If you’re looking for a partner with thirty plus years of corporate, global, leadership experience, please consider hiring me as your coach.
- Inspiration & motivation
- Making you feel more confident
- Lead with passion and confidence.
My Career
I am a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Process Modeling and Control. I have 33 years of experience working for global energy companies. Over my career, I had many technical and leadership roles. I’ve been a Manager of Technology, Strategic Planning, and Innovation. My last role in the corporate world was leading a very cutting-edge Innovation organization: Shell GameChanger. It was an honor to be at the helm at its 20th anniversary, and together with my team, to develop a vision for the following 20 years. As an Engineer, I understand the challenges of moving from technical work to leading a team. That is why along my corporate journey, I also pursued my other passion: understanding what motivates human beings, what drives confidence, how to make better decisions, and what habits make us more effective and productive. I’m certified as a Leadership Coach and studied a variety of subjects: psychology, business, neuro-linguistic programing, leadership, philosophy, self-help, team dynamics, time management, and productivity. I’m thrilled to share all I’ve learned about leadership, as a way of leaving my legacy.
What My Clients Say
I am extremely happy to have Marian as my coach. She is helping me along the journey in my new leadership role. She is very experienced and empathetic, providing valuable advice matching my situation. I can come to her with any issue I am facing, and Marian provides a solution. She has helped me from the beginning, providing purpose through a new vision, mission and values. Helped me with developing my team’s competencies and employee management. It served me a lot to prepare difficult conversations with her. I enjoy working with Marian, it has helped me tremendously. She has been there when I needed her, and I look forward to growing more through her advice.
Gesa-Marie
My time with Marian was extremely valuable. She’s a patient, approachable, and attentive coach. She helped me to identify and develop my leadership strengths rather than focusing on my “weaknesses”, which was perspective-changing for me. I made great progress working with Marian. I highly recommend her.
Sara
Recent PhDs, grad students, and early career professionals take note! I initially sought Marian as a coach for my transition from academia to industry, and then came back for support navigating my demanding new role with a global team at a very large corporation. Marian was exactly what I was looking for: she is herself a STEM PhD who made the transition out of academia, and climbed the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 company. In addition to providing typical coaching (structure for a long-term project), Marian provided key insights to hiring practices at large corporations, and, later, how to handle management lines and teams spread across continents. Her insights helped me better understand an otherwise opaque process, and kept me grounded + motivated despite perceived setbacks. With Marian, I was able to complete 100+ informational interviews, grow my network, and ultimately land my first job at a multinational corporation. It CAN be done!
Cat
Marian is brilliant in helping with the interview process. She is professional, knowledgable and personable. If you are completing working with her – just do it – you won’t regret it. I instantly decided to add many more coaching sessions, once I saw how much value she was adding to my process and day to day. The daily checkins are incredibly helpful as well.
Anonymous
Marian and I spent just over 6 months together working on money goals! Thanks to her expert coaching I ended up finding a new job and creating a lot of clarification about what I want for my future.
Audrey
Sometimes, you get that position or opportunity that you have always wanted only to think, “I don’t know if I am ready for this. “ You can’t ask your colleagues. There is no online resource specific enough to your situation to be useful. Imagine having someone who could help you break down the challenges and the scenarios you will be facing. Help you determine was skills you would need. Then, help you develop those skills to make the most of this opportunity, which will be needed right now. Then “I don’t know… “ becomes “Hell yes, bring it on!” That is what I have in Marian. She is my secret weapon. Our weekly calls are a master class, and our texts help keep me focused and on track.
Anonymous
When I got my new manager position, I was clear on my objectives but not sure how best to pursue them. I wanted to learn strategies and develop skills to be a better leader. I was enrolled in Marian’s New-Manager package. We interacted via chat and weekly calls. I received excellent support and advice as we discussed specific situations. Marian analyzed my situation with me and shared practical advice and methods that I was able to apply immediately. Her coaching was extremely valuable and is making a tremendous difference in my results. Marian also provided extensive input on how I can brand myself within my organization as well as improve my organization skills. Her broad experience as a leader in global companies was a real benefit. I have developed new leadership skills and feel more confident and organized. Marian coached me on how to position myself better on strategic projects that increased my visibility at the Senior Management level in my company.
Timothy
I recently became a team leader and took Marian’s “New-Manager Package – Kickstart Your Leadership Skills”. I really recommend it! She helped me a lot with how I could motivate my team and set the right boundaries and objectives. I really enjoyed also her to-the-point articles she wrote on many of the subjects we discussed. She helped me also decide which path I should follow in my career by putting my career options in perspective of what is important to me and what I do not want to do. By looking at the options more quantitatively I really felt the way I was heading is the correct one because of the right reasons and not just because of a gut feeling. It was very timely advice as I’m getting close to a point in my career where need to choose a direction. What I also really enjoyed was Marian’s vast experience and the examples she gave when explaining approaches. I would definitely recommend her as a coach and I will continue to stay in touch with her after the programme.
Anonymous
My goal is to acquire a master’s degree in robotics, but I don’t think I have enough willpower to go through the whole process, so I found Marian. To start getting into the learning time, I didn’t know how to study lessons, make weekly schedules, and keep my energy high. Marian gave me a lot of practical skills to make that happen. These kinds of techniques laid a good foundation in the following days, and it made me start moving. My learning process bumps now and then, and it causes a lot of anxiety and self-doubting. Marian helped me out there to make my anxiety fade away. I was always afraid of math in the school time. But Marian encouraged me to learn math bit by bit. I am not afraid of math anymore, even though math is yet to conquer, but I will do it. I wasn’t a focused person, and Marian gave me techniques to deal with the distractions, it was so critical for me. Most of the distractions in my mind faded away. I am in a clean mind to study for now. I am kind of reborn.
Mike
I’ve been working with Marian for 3 months and she has made a huge impact on my productivity and perspective on every aspect of my business and personal life. From the first session, she taught me some basic techniques to avoid procrastination, increase my focus, and improve my productivity and it worked! She is a great listener with a wealth of experience that she shared with me to help me with my goals. She has challenged me to dig deep to get a better understanding of my core values and what drives me. Every week I get better, stronger, and happier with everything I am doing. Working with Marian is an investment that has truly paid dividends in my life and I would strongly recommend her to anyone looking to improve themselves and become more effective in identifying and focusing on achieving their goals.
Joe
Marian is a fantastic coach! My sessions with Marian have been life-changing for me. As a young leader I wanted to be more focused and efficient in what I do. I wanted to be an inspiring leader for my team, define my priorities and be able to spend time on what matters the most to me both on personal level as at work. Marian is making a huge difference in my life. She has guided me in developing my vision and my goals. She offers a variety of resources (articles, planning tools…) to complement her coaching. I have been blown away by how much success I have had because of her advice and her encouragement. She guided me through important decision making and I am staying on track with my goals and daily habits because of her. Her extensive experience as a leader in global companies is a real benefit. I am finding her coaching extremely valuable. I would highly recommend Marian to anyone who is aiming to be more productive.
Anonymous
With Marian’s help, in just two weeks, I was able to see a lot of improvements in how I manage my time. I was able to experience the satisfaction of being in control by uprooting one of my most productivity-destructive habits. I am looking forward to uprooting my other bad habits and replacing them with good habits as I continue to work with Marian. She never runs out of ideas and every day is a pleasure to read her insightful messages.
Anonymous
Marian gave me the structure, tools and accountability I needed to finally define my goals and establish a routine of habits that puts me on the right track to achieve them. It’s made me so much less stressed because I feel like I know what I need to do each day and week. Highly recommend!