In the words of the leaders, peers, and teams I've partnered with.

Marie is someone who fundamentally changes how a team works and how they see themselves.

I've had the privilege of witnessing her enter rooms full of nervous energy due to competing priorities and pressure, and somehow, through a combination of genuine care and quiet mastery, she turned these rooms into spaces where people actually felt heard and confident about their next steps.

What sets Marie apart isn't just her facilitation skill, though she's exceptional at that, whether running a large product inception or a delicate team conversation. It's the intention behind everything she does. She designs experiences with purpose, thinking carefully about how each person in the room will engage, what they need to feel valued, and what outcomes the team actually needs to walk away with.

She's also one of the best coaches I've seen in action. She has a remarkable ability to be the steady, invisible hand behind someone's growth, putting her coachees front and center, letting them shine, while quietly guiding them toward capabilities they didn't even know they had. She leads from the back of the room, and somehow that's exactly where all the magic happens.

And beyond all her craft, Marie is the kind of teammate who makes everything around her better. Her follow-through is unmatched. If she says she'll do something, consider it done, and done thoughtfully. She brings a can-do energy that's contagious without being performative. She collaborates like a true partner, never making it about credit, always making it about the work.

If you get the chance to have Marie on your team, in your corner, or coaching your teams and leaders, say yes. You won't just get great outcomes. You'll get a team that's better, more capable, and more confident long after Marie has moved on, and that's the mark of someone truly exceptional.

I highly recommend Marie for any organization that values strong coaching, collaboration, and continuous organizational improvement to drive delivery excellence. Marie works exceptionally well with both teams and individuals to elevate their strengths and overall effectiveness. She has a unique ability to help teams pinpoint their most critical areas of focus, balancing this strategic drive with incredible empathy.

Marie excels at helping teams help themselves through the following strengths: • Agile Delivery Support: Guides teams to deliver high-quality products through the seamless adoption of Agile best practices. • Workshop Design & Facilitation: Crafts and leads engaging, outcome-driven workshops. • In-the-Moment Coaching: Offers real-time feedback and guidance to solve problems as they arise. • Data-Driven Accountability: Uses metrics analysis to build a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. • Empowering Change Agents: Mentors internal champions to sustain and scale high-performing teams.

Marie delivers high-impact results by leveraging: • Deep SDLC Expertise: Applies extensive practical knowledge of delivery and the full software development lifecycle. • Advanced Coaching Frameworks: Executes professional coaching and facilitation stances effectively to guide teams without dictating. • Continuous Learning: Actively embraces and implements modern workflows, including AI tools like Gemini and Claude, to optimize performance. • Leadership Alignment: Partners with Engineering and Product Leadership to design systems for better ways of working.

I had the privilege of working with Marie during her time as Senior Agile Coach at Paciolan, where she supported my teams with both expertise and genuine care.

What set Marie apart wasn't just her command of Agile methodology - it was her skilled facilitation and her ability to create a comfortable space for collaboration. In addition to her core work with our engineering teams, Marie extended her reach to our client-facing operations, partnering with managers to design and facilitate custom workshops focused on soft-skills development. The impact on our teams was real and lasting.

Marie's facilitation style strikes the right balance: structured enough to keep a room productive, and open enough to make people feel genuinely heard. She has a gift for meeting people where they are and helping them grow from there.

Beyond her formal role, Marie was a driving force behind Pac Women, an employee resource group that grew organically out of a shared commitment to community and inclusion. Her involvement there reflected the same energy she brought to her coaching work - showing up fully, building something meaningful, and making the people around her better.

Any organization that brings Marie in will benefit not just from her Agile expertise, but from a coach who invests in the whole team - not just the process.

If your organization, team, or leader needs someone to strengthen workflows, processes, collaboration, and communication to help them thrive, Marie is exactly who you want in the room. I had the privilege of working alongside her for five years at Paciolan, and she has a rare ability to bring people together, combine what is said and unsaid, and turn scattered ideas into clear, actionable plans.

I've watched her bring consensus across numerous product inceptions, aligning competing perspectives into a productive path forward. She has a gift for organizing complexity without losing sight of the people involved.

She sees people with generosity and acceptance, which brings out the best in everyone around her. When I came to her with only a hint of an idea and a jumble of thoughts for a PAC Women ERG presentation, she assured me I already had more than I realized. Then, Marie helped me piece it together like an expert at solving a Rubik's Cube! She guides with positivity, celebrates improvement, and champions continuous growth. I'm grateful to her patient partnership on research and planning for ERG and Customer Service Team Building sessions over the years.

Marie is thoughtful in her work and relationships, extraordinarily dependable, and operates from values that make her easy to trust.

Beyond all this, Marie simply makes any room, in person or virtual, feel comfortable and productive. She's quick to laugh and quicker to support. Seeing her, even on a video call, improves my day!

Any team lucky enough to work with Marie will be better for it.

I first got to know Marie through agile coaching circles, and I quickly came to appreciate the value she brought to every conversation and team interaction. I was excited when I got the chance to work with her.

She is especially strong at retrospectives and facilitation. She has a great ability to create space for honest discussion, identify meaningful themes, and help teams turn feedback into action. Her work around themed retro boards and facilitation practices became a real contribution to how teams reflected, learned, and improved together.

What stood out most to me was the trust she built with teams. She did not just run ceremonies, she helped people feel safe enough to participate, reflect, and get better. Marie is a strong coach, a thoughtful facilitator, and someone who makes teams better by helping them have the right conversations.

I've had the pleasure of working with Marie over the past several years, and she is one of those people who leaves every team better than she found it.

As an Agile Coach, Marie brings a rare combination of creativity, empathy, and practical coaching. She has a gift for creating psychologically safe spaces where teams can navigate conflict, learn from one another, and grow together. Whether facilitating difficult conversations, coaching leaders one-on-one, or designing engaging retrospectives and workshops, Marie always meets people where they are while helping them move forward with confidence.

What stands out most is her ability to build self-sufficient teams. Rather than becoming the center of every solution, she intentionally develops others' capabilities; coaching teams, change agents, managers, and even the PAC Women community to confidently facilitate and lead on their own. Her thoughtfully designed retrospectives, team workshops, and visual collaboration tools made continuous improvement both meaningful and enjoyable.

Beyond her professional talents, Marie is simply an exceptional human being. She's thoughtful in the little things, too, the kind of colleague who remembers that Reese's are my comfort food and surprises me with them when I travel. That kindness isn't for show; it's simply who she is.

Any organization looking for someone who can strengthen team culture, develop leaders, and make learning engaging would be fortunate to have Marie. I recommend her without hesitation.

Creative, dedicated, intuitive, and resourceful - these are some of the first words that come to mind when I think of Maria. We first met a few years ago when her then employer had brought me in for a 3-month long leadership development program for a cohort of their middle managers. Maria was part of the internal coaching team that I was helping augment. I was immediately struck by her ability to connect with the teams, her empathy and thoughtfulness, and her brilliant sense of humor! Her deep understanding of business strategy and the ecosystem contributed immensely to the success of the leadership development program. She is quick to contextualize and that helps the teams she partners with, in getting to the root causes in no time, reduce friction, and collaborate with ease.

Maria is a brilliant coach with both individual leaders and their teams. She listens deeply and is quick to grasp the unsaid as well! She partners with her coachees to help them unlock their own wisdom and become more self-assured with their next steps. It's no surprise that leaders and teams who benefit from her coaching are some of the most high-performing!

If you are looking for someone who can transform your team culture and productivity with creativity, empathy, and who knows how to do all this while also having some fun along the way, you'd better talk to Maria!

I was lucky to work with Marie for about 5 years in my role as a manager of several software development teams. In her role with our Agile coaching group, I had the opportunity to collaborate with her often in building the environment, culture and habits that transformed our teams into healthy, high-performing autonomous units that consistently deliver on projects.

Marie showed the teams and team leadership how to build healthy modes of communication and helped all of our teams design workflows and practices that encouraged collaborative problem solving and allowed the teams to take full ownership of the software development cycle from beginning to end. When Marie joined Paciolan, this is something we were struggling to figure out, and her perseverance, creativity and positivity were vital in the work she did to help our department to level up.

Marie is always pleasant to interact with and her positivity is motivating and even inspiring. It is widely recognized amongst our engineers that she played an important role in our organization's growth and her work is very appreciated. I feel confident in recommending her as someone who can help lead transformational change in any organization.

I had the pleasure of working closely with Marie during our time at Paciolan, where she served as a Senior Agile Coach supporting our engineering team. Over the years, she became a trusted partner who consistently helped our team improve the way we planned, collaborated, and delivered complex initiatives.

Marie had a unique ability to keep teams focused without becoming overly process-driven. Whether facilitating story mapping sessions, planning, retrospectives, or helping organize larger cross-functional efforts, she always brought structure, clarity, and thoughtful guidance. She was especially effective at helping teams navigate ambiguity and turning discussions into actionable plans.

What I appreciated most was Marie's collaborative approach. She took the time to understand the team's challenges, asked insightful questions, and adapted her coaching to fit the situation rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all methodology. She built strong relationships with engineers, managers, product partners, and other stakeholders, making her a valued and trusted member of the team.

Marie combines deep Agile expertise with excellent communication skills, professionalism, and a genuine desire to help teams succeed. I truly enjoyed working with her and would gladly recommend her to any organization looking for an experienced coach who can improve team effectiveness while fostering a positive and collaborative working environment.

I had the opportunity to work closely with Marie for several years while she was a Sr Agile Coach who worked alongside our product and engineering teams. She was a great partner who helped keep teams aligned, facilitated productive discussions, and always looked for ways to improve how we worked together.

She brought a collaborative, practical approach to every project and was someone people genuinely enjoyed working with. I appreciated her ability to build strong relationships across teams and help keep everyone focused on delivering value.

I would highly recommend Marie to any organization looking for an experienced Agile Coach and a strong team partner.

I have known Marie for nearly four years through our shared involvement in the HitRefresh community. While we have not worked together directly in a professional capacity, I have had the opportunity to observe how she consistently shows up in service of others, and I can confidently speak to her character, commitment, and contributions.

Marie has a genuine passion for people, wellbeing, and continuous growth. She thoughtfully prioritizes participation in community learning experiences and brings a level of presence and engagement that enriches the experience for everyone involved. Her reflections are insightful, often integrating both cognitive and embodied perspectives, and she has a gift for helping others see connections they may have overlooked.

What I particularly appreciate about Marie is that she pairs ideas with action. When she recognizes opportunities to support a community or advance a shared purpose, she takes initiative. Whether providing thoughtful testimonials, actively engaging in post-session discussions, amplifying our mission, or reaching out directly to potential speakers, she consistently looks for ways to contribute and create value rather than waiting for someone else to step forward.

Marie is also a creative and systems-oriented thinker. Through her contributions to the Agile community, including the creation of retrospective templates and facilitation resources, she demonstrates an ability to design structures that support both effectiveness and meaningful human connection.

Above all, Marie is generous, thoughtful, and deeply committed to helping people thrive. She brings curiosity, care, and a collaborative spirit to everything she does. I would enthusiastically recommend Marie to organizations looking for a leader, coach, or change agent who combines creativity and systems thinking with genuine care for people.