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Coaching
One-to-one work for the inflection points — the promotion, the pivot, the return.
- Executive coaching
- Career inflection programmes
- Return-to-work coaching
Visible Strengths Co.
The career you want is already inside you. We help you make it visible.
Career facilitation, coaching and training for ambitious women in corporate — and partnership with the organisations that recognise their value.
If this sounds familiar
You are exceptional at your work, and quietly aware that exceptional has stopped being enough.
You have outgrown the version of your career that got you here — but the next one hasn't quite arrived. We help women name what they want next, and build the visibility and language to ask for it.
Where to begin
Two doors into the same work.
VSCo. supports the individual and the organisation. Find your way in.
01 — For individuals
For the woman building a career on her own terms.
Coaching, courses and content for the woman who is ready to lead her career, not be led by it.
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02 — For organisations
For the company developing the women it cannot afford to lose.
Partnership with companies, colleges and community organisations who want to see their women progress, stay and lead.
Explore for organisationsThe work
Three ways the work shows up.
Different doors, the same intention: helping ambitious women see — and be seen for — what they are already capable of.
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Courses
Cohort programmes that build the four Ps — Presence, Positioning, Power and Pay.
- The Visible Strengths Programme
- Pay & Promotion Lab
- Women in Leadership
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Content
The podcast, the book, the email tribe — the quiet, ongoing companion to your career.
- Ask Mary Podcast
- Visible Strengths book
- Corporate Icon Email Tribe
The Ask Mary Podcast
Honest career conversations, in your ear each week.
Short, candid episodes for the woman who wants the truth about how careers actually move — not the polished version.
Episode 042
When loyalty stops paying you back
Episode 041
The quiet cost of being the reliable one
Episode 040
Asking for the role before it is announced
The book
Visible Strengths.
A field guide for the woman who has done the work, knows her worth, and is ready to be paid, promoted and recognised for it.
Start here
Not sure what comes next? Take the Career Diagnostic.
A short, honest set of questions that names where you are — and points you to the work that fits.
“I came in able. I left visible. The promotion conversation I had been postponing for two years happened six weeks later.”
Corporate Icon Email Tribe
Quiet, weekly, useful.
One considered note each week, written for the woman building a career on her own terms.
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