The Must-Have Membership Community ¡ The Executive Edge (private 90-day coaching)
The day I tore a Sheriffâs Sale notice off my front door and said, âNo moreâ was the day I first experienced the power of my core identity.
 I was a stay-at-home mom with four children under seven, living what looked like the âperfectâ life â country club, community volunteering, smiling through the pain. But behind the facade was chaos: an abusive marriage, financial ruin, and a husband who had stopped paying the mortgage.Â
When I saw that notice, I was exhausted â working three jobs, raising my children alone, managing my daughterâs autism therapy, and surviving on welfare. There was a constant feeling of anxiety - What will happen? I wonât be able to handle it.Â
But, in that moment â between my kids arguing over a TV show and the cat brushing against my leg â something in me shifted.Â
A radiance rumbled up from my soul and said, âEnough. Iâm done chasing whatâs broken. Iâm creating my own destiny.âÂ
That was the day I stopped living by other peopleâs expectations â dutiful wife, perfect mother, obedient daughter, do-it-aloner â and began rediscovering who I truly was because I had lost sight of her.Â
I rebuilt my life from scratch, quickly rose to the C-Suite, found love again, and began helping others do the same. That is the foundation of my work.Â
When you reconnect with your undeniable core identity, you become unshakably relevant â to yourself and everyone around you.
My Philosophy:
I believe accomplished people donât need fixing â they need space, perspective, and identity alignment to stop performing by overachieving and start leading from self-trust and their innate core brilliance. You already have enough to do. We retire what's already there that's no longer serving you.
My Business Intention:
To elevate high-performing leaders back into visible, trusted authority by restoring how they think, respond, and lead under pressureâso they become indispensable in moments that define their careers. This work exists to close the gap between who a leader truly isâand how they are experienced in the moments that matter. Because my clients know they are capable⌠itâs just not landing anymore. I make sure it lands.
The Must Have - A community for professionals in Corporate America who are ready to become the person no organization can affor to overlook.
Not another leadership program.
Twice a month, you get coached by someone who has been in the room you're trying to get into. Plus support materials and a community.
Most professionals in Corporate America are navigating in a feedback vacuum. Too smart for generic advice. Can't be fully honest upward. No trusted place to process what's actually happening.
What's possible on the other side: a room where your judgment is sought before you've even spoken. Where the air changes slightly when you walk in.
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The Executive Edge - a transformative 90-day coaching program designed for leaders ready to bridge the Edge Gap between their capabilities and the recognition they deserve so they are valued, hired, and promoted. Through a structured journey across three proprietary pillarsâ
Sightline⢠â SteadyState⢠â InfluencePointâ˘
âparticipants gain clarity on their professional perception, master real-time reaction management, and strategically navigate their career advancement.
I am your trusted advisor who sees you clearly, tells you the truth, and helps you navigate the nuances of your specific situation so you become trusted, revered for critical decisions and are the must-have.
Set up a free Edge Gap Consultation.
I invite you to email me with questions: [email protected]
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Here are practical strategies you can apply right now.
31 Ways for Leaders to be More Valued and Advance in the High Stakes Corporate World
Executive coaching tips on how to be valued and advance while maintaining well-being. You may you're overwhelmed, detached or passed over. This is affecting your personal life, relationships, sleep, eating habits and peace. I help you change things that you donât like about your career and life by helping you honestly assess where you are now, with all the outside factors (bureaucracy, corporate politics, personal agendas, posturing, drama, familial stress) and internal factors (doubt, fear, anger, frustration, expectations, disappointment, resentment) and create a different outcome right away.
Are you exhausted on the treadmill to nowhere, not getting recognized and it is affecting your relationships, healthy routines and sleep? Iâve been there. I was you. Then I adopted key strategies I share in this mini course and went from food stamps to CEO of a $33 million company with more time and closeness with my family. I will show you the exact steps to position your value without another degree or extra work. You can lead a great team, get the promotion, be liked, land a great role. Success is freedom.Â
If you enter a room with 15 people one of them will stand out. She will have confidence that people notice. Others will stop talking and listen to him. Executive presence exudes the message, âI belong here.â And they show up with the same calm, self-control in their personal lives too. The easiest way to build executive presence is to stop doing the things that undermine it. They're all in this report. Watch Mary Lee in an ASK THE COACH session.
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Capable yet undervalued leaders between 40 and 60+
In need of executive presence
Want to be the must-have
Not sure of a good career pathÂ
Strong in character yet not promoted or hired
Corporations with an emerging leader or difficult employeeÂ
Having a hard time letting go
In transition from a job loss, divorce, grief
Disconnected in relationships
Unjustly labeled and not sure how to undo it
Dissatisfied, anxious, dealing with doubt, feeling empty
Mary Lee has coached for divisions and individuals within: Google, Merrill Lynch, Amazon, Ford Motor Company, Johnson & Johnson, United States Department of Labor, PNC, Adobe, Nokia, PayPal, Philips, US Chamber of Commerce, The University of Southampton - UK, The Pittsburgh Steelers, ConnectiveRx, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, IBM, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Sage Intacct, Mitel, John Wiley and Sons, Department of the Air Force and more.
Corporations seeking leadership coaching may reach out to Mary Lee directly at [email protected]
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The Still Space Podcast is where Executive Coach Mary Lee Gannon and her guests share fun and simple strategies to manage yourself so that you can show up the way you want in work, relationships and life and not default to past behaviors that leave you disappointed. The Still Space is where you learn to take an intentional moment to challenge habitual assumptions that hold you back with enlightened truths that boost your genius. We transform drama, resentment, doubt, unmet expectations, and self-sabotage to executive presence, self-control, deep sleep, healthy choices, and more connection with the people who matter while it still matters. Itâs time. Be sure to like and subscribe.
Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or here: Mary Leeâs Podcast    Apple    Spotify
Listen to The Still Space Podcast on Apple PodcastsMary Lee speaks complimentary of a virtual basis on several topics regarding how to close the gap between your abiity and how you are experienced so you can be the must-have.
If you want to hear songs you know that rejuvenate, refresh, and reinvigorate you to be able to adjust to the many changing situations in your personal life, relationships and career, this is for you. Roll down the windows and sing, get inspired, remain calm, and notice what matters here - Agility. Life is good today. Let's feel good!
Listen to Agility on Spotify
The Way a Person Lives is Mary Lee Gannon's YouTube Channel where you get mindful, creative and fun lifestyle ideas on how to make your home, garden, travel, and relationships interesting and peaceful no matter what is going on around you. This is where you make room for being the strong executive leader AND having playful fun! We all have a choice in how to live our lives. It's time we make choices that bring us joy. Work hard and play hard too.
Mary Lee is a regular columnist for The Ladders - $100,000+ Job Platform
Executive Coaching is a proven way to develop individual, team, and organizational performance across industries. A Metrix Global study found that executive coaching has a 788% return on investment (ROI) based on factors including increases in productivity and employee retention.
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