C-IQ for Teams & Organizations

Mary Ann Somerville

Executive Director & Peer Group Facilitation for WBECS Conversational Intelligence® for Coaches

Mary Ann is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, executive coach and facilitator, who has been helping clients for over thirty years to clarify their vision, expand their leadership capacity, communicate authentically and access their individual and organizational wisdom to achieve extraordinary results.

Mary Ann’s extensive skill set includes the Harvard Law School’s research and best practices in ‘Negotiation and Difficult Conversations’ and integrates the most cutting edge research and applications from neuroscience. Her passion is to increase the success and well being of organizations by elevating the conversation and tapping the unique resources of leaders and teams to create (organic) organizational momentum.

Ms. Somerville is an expert in the design and facilitation of dynamic interactive learning initiatives which she has used to help Fortune 500 companies throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Recently she worked as a Co-leader of the Peer Coach Facilitator Team for the C-IQ Conversational Intelligence Certification Program with Judith Glaser.

Mary Ann holds a B.A. in Psychology, a Masters in Theology and a Master Coaching Certification from the Behavioral Coaching Institute, ICC. She is Certified in Conversational Intelligence, and a member of the Creating We Institute, a thought leadership collective that provides research and education for leaders and executive teams.

Mary Ann lives in Santa Barbara, Ca. where she enjoys the inspiration and beauty of the mountains and the sea.

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Reach a new level of enterprise productivity, improving the focus and power of your brand through these and other innovative services.

  • Team Coaching – The coach acts as the neutral and unbiased mirror for the behaviors that are impeding growth in the team. An incredibly powerful process that can unlock a team's aspirations and release energy for activating higher levels of performance.
  • Peer Coaching – Builds and strengthens culture. Colleagues become expert peer coaches through the use of STAR Skills™. They develop Sensitivity, Transparency, Active Listening, and Reframing skills.
  • Creating a Coaching Culture – Includes outside and internal experts. Expert coaching training to internal coaches enables them to become skilled in teaching others to coach. Skills are transferable to the whole organization, creating a culture where colleagues support each other in their individual, team, and organizational growth.
  • Innovation Coaching – Designed to help leaders understand how to engage the organization in both day-to-day innovation as well as how to structure and facilitate Project Focused Innovation Initiatives.
  • Employee Engagement Coaching – Designed to help leaders understand how to accelerate the achievement of business goals within an organization.
  • Conversational Makeovers – The Cultural DNA of an organization is enhanced while creating common ground and enterprise-wide synergies for uniting and integrating its most disparate parts resulting in a realization of common goals and strategies. 

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Fall cohorts begin on September 12

“To get to the next level of greatness, depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens through conversations!”

— Judith E. Glaser
Benchmark
CEO & Founder