The Aligned Leader Institute, LLC

There are many leadership tools and techniques out there, and I had read or tried almost all of them without much success. What Mary Jane brought is an inside-out approach to change my beliefs and improve relationships, which removed barriers and stresses that had been holding me back from reaching my goals. With Mary Jane’s coaching, I was able to feel more confident in pursuing my goals and more comfortable building relationships, which ultimately lead to greater success in my organization. I highly recommend working with Mary Jane to unlock your next level potential.”

Mary Jane Mapes is an amazing Executive Coach! She provides training to many levels of organizations and aids in the development of leaders and office professionals to encourage and promote executive presence. Her mentored techniques are applicable and relevant. Her purposeful, professional, approach will develop you into a Leader that your organization will want to promote. I had the privilege to work with Mary Jane Mapes on training and coaching projects for my organization and professional association and am grateful for the opportunity to develop my professional and executive presence to support executives, initiatives and goals for my organization. When you are a mentee of Mary Jane Mapes, she is your Mentor for life!

Mary Jane is nothing short of TRANSFORMATIONAL! Her hands on, evidence based approach taught me how to identify and alter my behaviors to build engaged high performing teams. Mary Jane takes executive leaders outside the classroom and behind the “ board room curtain”. Mary Jane teaches the executive lessons not commonly associated with a MBA program but definitely needed to succeed in business. My journey included everything from transformational leadership, mastery of professional etiquette to sealing the deal and “teaching pigs to sing”. If your feeling stuck, passed over, underwhelmed or simply ineffective in your current role, Mary Jane is the professional trainer to transform you from a leader to a Chief. She did it for me, and she will do it for you too.

Mary Jane is a life-coach extraordinaire, whose leadership development skills are unparalleled in the profession. Her love and concern for client leaders emanate from her ability to be present, to listen deeply, and to help identify and remove blocks. Mary Jane excels at helping leaders build strong, trusting, committed relationships with team members. Together, she and her clients develop a plan and a process for achieving specific goals to lead to positive results that exceed expectations every time. Mary Jane's coaching earns my unqualified recommendation as one of the best investments you will every make in yourself.

Mary Jane provided me with timely executive coaching at a turning point in my career. She quickly was able to evaluate my strengths and weakness and guided me through a time of uncertainty. She was also able to reveal hidden qualities which I had not yet utilized. She clearly has a keen insight rarely seen in her profession. I am grateful for her unique leadership and gifts.