INDIVIDUAL PROFILES

Mary J. Murphy M.E.S. CPCC

PROFILE

  • A certified organizational and personal coach known for her energy, insight, and commitment to action
  • A champion of leaders who are willing to have the crucial conversations
  • A creative designer and facilitator of management and team retreats
  • A seasoned communications professional with international experience
  • Recipient of the first International Coach Award for Social Responsibility (China, 2007) 

     As President of Global Conversations, Mary J Murphy works with leaders who want to achieve meaningful and sustainable results in their work, their life and their future. She inspires and motivates clients to expand their perspectives and engage in the conversations that matter.  Mary integrates her coaching, change management and communications knowledge and experiences to help clients move to a new level of impact and results. 

     Mary completed a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies at York University (1983), where her focus was on organizational and personal change.  She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (2001),  a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (2003), and has advanced training in Organization Relationship and Systems Coaching (2006). 

     For the past twenty-five years Mary has worked as a highly successful consultant and coach to business and government. In the private sector, she has worked with leaders at all levels, providing them with strategic guidance and coaching around critical organizational challenges and helping them build healthy organizational relationships. She has worked with both large and small-sized organizations, especially around communicating the change. More recently Mary’s work has focused on developing an integrated approach to change management, coaching and communications for large-scale organizational transformations.

     In the public sector, Mary has brought a coaching approach to national social marketing strategies, internal change communications programs, and policy communications strategies with a specific focus on behaviour change. She has worked on international development projects, with the current one being a five-year water resource management project in China where she is introducing coaching as an approach to building essential communication channels within and between different levels of government, business, and the community.  

     Mary is now extending her coaching with leaders to connect with emerging leaders and youth on topics of leadership, collaboration, and contribution.. She is the founder and champion for “Pearls for Girls” (www.pearls4girls.org), a leadership program for youth, with a focus on global citizenship. 

     Mary is a recreational athlete who enjoys a rich family life. She is an instructor for both walking and running groups in her community, is a golfer and gardener in the summer and skier in the winter. To keep her artistic spirit nourished, she creates mixed media paintings.