Strategic Skills Development

The Strategic Mindset: Developing Your Strategic Capabilities

The Strategic Playground is an opportunity for leaders to recharge, reflect and rethink by immersing themselves in a strategic thinking experience.  This dynamic half-day workshop designed for leaders across all functions and roles who aspire to elevate their thinking and operate strategically. Through an immersive and transformative learning experience, participants will gain the tools and mindset to make space for strategic thinking, enabling them to navigate challenges and contribute more effectively to their organization's success.

Elevate your role with 1:1 strategic coaching.

Mary offers mentorships to professionals who feel they have been passed up for promotions time and time again without any direct insight as to why.

Through regular meetings and working sessions, this program helps cultivate key executive, leadership and strategic skills that prepare functional roles to step into a future, more senior position.

Mentees will learn how to provide more value to their organization, and feel more confident in their roles and empowered to lead strategic initiatives that affect change within the org.

Work 1:1 with Mary through a direct mentorship to become a more skilled strategic thinker and viable candidate for a promotion. Learn to see with a broader lens, create a strategy and vision for meeting the company’s evolving needs for accelerated growth, and understand how to make contributions to the org that support the broader business goals. Along the way, you’ll be encouraged to step outside of your comfort zone, all while knowing that someone has your back.

What Clients Are Saying

  • "Mary thinks about the connection between behavior change and business results. Not just training on the widget but also human behavior and how you influence that and change. She can look at the whole ecosystem that surrounds the organization and deliver a plan that works within it and makes it better."

    — Senior L&D Leader

  • "Mary gets the bigger picture of everything she does. She helped us by looking at our training strategy from a broad perspective to make sure we were developing content that really had an impact. Everything we do is about impact and Mary has helped us increase our impact through a collaborative approach that allowed us to retain our voice, while leveling up our approach and delivering content that provided more value for our participants. Her insight is invaluable."

    — Jaime Taets, CEO Keystone International

  • "Mary's real world experience in sales and marketing was so helpful. She’s helping us think strategically about how to leverage education to achieve business goals, and that’s a critical component."

    — Major Home Improvement Manufacturer

  • "Xcelerate's approach to sales training and coaching transformed Inprela. Now we have an entirely new, and more effective approach to presenting and talking about our business and can now focus on organically growing existing clients. Hands down the best money I’ve ever spent at Inprela for an outside resource!"

    — Stephani Simon, President, Inprela

  • "Mary asks hard questions that make people think - often questions other consultants don't ask."

    — Marketing Leader at an international Medical Device Manufacturer

  • "Mary is more than a training person, she is a Performance Consultant. If you’re looking to drive change or increase performance in your organization, partner with her to develop a strategy that improves performance and drives change in your organization."

  • “Mary’s not just plugging training tactics into a calendar. She approaches learning plans like marketing plans – winning hearts and minds to ultimately influence behavior and drive adoption.”

    — Marketing Leader at an international Medical Device Manufacturer

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