About

Psychologist and Leadership Specialist
  • Expert in Leadership, Coaching, Executive Team, Organizational Assessment & Development, Culture Change
  • Executive level roles in professional services and consulting
  • Experience in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific
  • Innovative solution designers from astronauts to women leaders
  • Expertise in Psychology, Neuroscience and Mindsets

Marisa Paterson

Founder

About Marisa

A global leadership psychologist with more than half a century of international experience, leveraging psychology and neuroscience about how the mind works to help clients solve complex leadership challenges. Partnering and co-creating with clients to develop innovative, lean and agile leadership solutions that create value for their organization. Oh yes, and fun to work with!

Partnership

I believe in the value of diversity of thought and engaging innovative specialists for clients based on the needs of the engagement.  I have a network of Global Associates in the fields of leadership development, strategic alignment, coaching, storytelling and executive presence.  

Working With:

  • Fortune 500 Organizations
  • CEO’s/Executive Leaders/Senior Leaders
  • High Potential Leaders
  • Women Leaders
  • Digital Transformation Thinkers
  • Entrepreneurs

 

What Clients Are Saying

Senior Female Executive: Her unique ability to ask questions, “unpack” situations, and guide learning and future action through helpful advice and coaching is unlike anything I’ve experienced before. This led to a shift in the way I work and how I “show up” every day, positively impacting and strengthening personal, professional relationships and results.
Strategic Alliance Partner: ‘She has truly mastered the art and science of leadership development in a unique way.  I especially value her precision thinking which gets to the heart of an issue and her ability to provide creative solutions that solve complex leadership challenges in agile and elegantly simple ways’.
Partner, Professional Services Firm: ‘As a leader she engages the hearts and minds of her team, inspiring them to challenge themselves and setting a high bar for delivery standards. She has a wide range of EQ skills, is a deep listener and delivers the tough messages to build trust’.
Solopreneur: ‘She has helped me to navigate each twist, turn and dip with practical, applicable tools and insights.  Not only is she smart, she's also intuitive and has a keen sense for what I need at each point on my journey’.
Business Services Leader: ‘Rigorous and creative at the same time, she is that rare combination of a consultant who possesses the ability to take a strategic view of a leadership solution, and who is also pragmatic enough to make it elegantly simple to implement’.
Senior Executive, Commercial: ‘She is a detailed, determined and tenacious operator. An expert in her field, highly skilled, knowledgeable and has a passion for what she does and has great integrity’.
President Consulting Firm: ‘A critical player in our collective success for large scale client engagements. She is innovative and deftly weaves in her business psychology depth of knowledge with each client’.
Chairman, Boutique Consulting Firm: 'A collaborative colleague, with deep subject matter expertise, she is always concerned to deliver to the highest possible standards to her client. She is also great fun to work with!'
Leadership Coaching Clients: ‘She has an executive presence, gravitas and confidence’‘ She adapts seamlessly within varying cultures and levels of leaders’ ‘ One of the finest coaches I have encountered’ ‘Her coaching style is direct and supportive’.