Executive Coaching
Become a more effective leader with our personalized coaching.  In a confidential, nurturing space with an experienced guide, get the support you need to clarify and communicate your vision, empower top performance from your team, drive change within your organization and unleash your full leadership capability.
Our process
How it works
We work with you side by side in three phases
assessment
Assess
We will ask a series of questions and provide our proprietary assessment with options to take or include third party assessments to inform needs, vision and goal development 
people
Coach
From there, we will go through a defined number of sessions together.  This is the cornerstone of the experience  enabling you to make faster, targeted progress toward your goals.   
Evaluate
Toward the end of our time together, we will evaluate progress against your original goals. This data helps provide a retrospective view and path forward while we also celebrate your experience of expansion at the close of our engagement.
Individual rates
One Session
$350
Individual session fee
A 45 minute deep dive call to help you gain clarity, get unstuck and  make progress toward your goals.
Three month engagement
$1950
One time fee
6 sessions every 2 weeks
Six Coaching Sessions to help you make progress toward your goals and Lead Confidently™
Five month engagement
$2950
One time fee
10 sessions, every 2 weeks
Ten Coaching Sessions to help you make progress toward your goals and Lead Confidently™


About Us
Meet Your Coach
Maryann Baumgarten, PhD
Founder & Chief Executive Coach 
Dr. Baumgarten is a seasoned executive coach and talent leader helping high achieving professionals and organizations 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.

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We can help you
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.
Let's stay connected
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650-223-5226
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