Lead Consciously
Lead Confidently™
Discover your Leadership Strengths & Shadows now...
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25+ years of award winning experience across multiple industries
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ICF certified, PhD level coaching & training for individuals, teams & organizations
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Evidence-based, data driven, human centered solutions & support
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Solutions for Success
We can help you quickly gain new levels of awareness, skill, and confidence to meet the challenges you face every day, drive transformational changes in your organization and reach your next level of success.
Benefits
When you transform the way you lead, your life and organization will transform too
When you experience our coaching and programs, you will:
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Improve effectiveness
When you uncover strengths, shadows and shift how you approach current challenges, you increase clarity of communication, confidence, and build teams that collaborate more effectively to create better results
Feel more balanced
When you better understand your mindsets and skillsets that got you to where you are and apply approaches to take you to where you want to be with support of a skilled coach, you gain a stronger sense of control and balance in your work life
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Grow your career
When you become a more effective and balanced leader, you can better shape and step into the next level identity you want to create for yourself, your team members and your organization, taking your career and company to new heights
Services
Our core solutions, tailored to your needs
We work with professionals from many industries and provide the support you need to address your specific challenges.
Meet Your Coach
Maryann Baumgarten, PhD
Founder & Chief Executive Coach
Founder & Chief Executive Coach
Dr. Baumgarten is a seasoned executive coach and talent leader helping high achieving professionals and organizations Lead Consciously and Lead Confidently™. With over 20 years of experience, she has advised senior leaders as well as designed and developed numerous award-winning people programs that have increased performance, opportunity, equity, career growth and personal fulfillment for early and mid career professionals, senior leaders, women, and underrepresented talent.
Prior to founding Beam Leadership, Maryann was a talent executive and people leader in tech and academia. She was most recently Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Meta (formerly Facebook) where she and her team partnered closely with the most senior leaders at the company to develop and scale DEI across the organization among hypergrowth. Before Meta, Maryann built and led the DEI practice at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and spent 14 years at Microsoft where she last led global curriculum development for Microsoft’s “MACH” talent development program - and saw exponential increase in performance of participants vs non participants.
Her work has been featured in several publications including textbooks, Workforce Magazine and Talent Management Magazine. She is also the author of “Engage: How Leaders Bring More Energy into Work and Life.” Maryann holds 5 academic degrees in social science including a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and certifications in executive coaching from Fielding Graduate University and International Coaching Federation (ICF).
For larger engagements, Maryann collaborates with a number of talented partners with similar credentials and complimentary skills.
Prior to founding Beam Leadership, Maryann was a talent executive and people leader in tech and academia. She was most recently Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Meta (formerly Facebook) where she and her team partnered closely with the most senior leaders at the company to develop and scale DEI across the organization among hypergrowth. Before Meta, Maryann built and led the DEI practice at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and spent 14 years at Microsoft where she last led global curriculum development for Microsoft’s “MACH” talent development program - and saw exponential increase in performance of participants vs non participants.
Her work has been featured in several publications including textbooks, Workforce Magazine and Talent Management Magazine. She is also the author of “Engage: How Leaders Bring More Energy into Work and Life.” Maryann holds 5 academic degrees in social science including a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and certifications in executive coaching from Fielding Graduate University and International Coaching Federation (ICF).
For larger engagements, Maryann collaborates with a number of talented partners with similar credentials and complimentary skills.
We can help you to
Lead Confidently™
Lead Confidently™
Now, more than ever, the world requires a shift in thinking and leaders to rise to the challenges we face. We think different to help you think different and unleash the brilliant leader you are within.
Clients report a 100% satisfaction rating with "life-changing" results. They see meaningful, tangible change in their careers, confidence, team performance and personal life including promotion, changes in jobs, improvements in reputational feedback and much more.
We are here to support you as you rise to your next level of leadership.
Clients report a 100% satisfaction rating with "life-changing" results. They see meaningful, tangible change in their careers, confidence, team performance and personal life including promotion, changes in jobs, improvements in reputational feedback and much more.
We are here to support you as you rise to your next level of leadership.