🚀Accelerate Your Leadership Transition in 90 days 💥Growth Strategist for Leaders Who Care 🎯Executive & Corporate Coaching 🎯Career Coaching For Frustrated Professionals Who Want to Get Unstuck

You didn’t start your business to feel stuck, stressed or overwhelmed. You had a vision: freedom, growth and work that actually mattered. Then it got complicated. Now it feels like the business runs you, not the other way round. 

If that resonates, I got you!

I make AI simple to save you hours and sleepless nights so that you can scale with confidence. I know what I’m talking about; I’ve been in your shoes.

Who I Help

Non-technical SME owners in professional services, creative industries and impact-led businesses who want to boost growth with AI but don’t know where to start 

How We Make That Happen Together

✅ AI Training & Training Days– hands-on workshops, keynotes and training days 

✅ The AI Growth Lab (12 weeks): Flagship program with weekly calls, assignments and accountability to bake AI into your daily ops

✅ Strategy Consulting: People | Processes | Leadership – Optimise your team, streamline operations, & strengthen leadership

✅ High-Impact Team Training Days – People & culture programmes grounded in GEDI, HumanWorksX and TAWDI to lift communication, collaboration, & performance

What You Can Expect

✔ Practical, tailored strategies that work
✔ A clear, actionable plan for your business & you
✔ A trusted partner who helps you scale with confidence

Why Trust Me?

With 25+ years of experience at the highest levels of business, leadership, & strategy, I bring real-world expertise, a global perspective, & a results-driven approach.

Key Credentials:

⏩ CPD Certified AI Trainer
⏩ Triple-Accredited Professional Coach
⏩ GEDI, TAWDI & HumansWorksX Accredited  
⏩ Senior Executive Leader (Sotheby’s, $500M+ in annual sales)
⏩ Co-founder & President, Metropolitan Business Association 
⏩ Member of the Professional Speakers Association Spain

What Clients Say

"Maria’s insight made a tangible, emotional, & financial difference to the company."
— Zoe Loveday, Managing Director, SSK

"Maria’s intervention was critical in accelerating awareness around opportunities ahead, resulting in significant positive change."
— Bruno Vinciguerra, CEO, Bonhams

Beyond work? You’ll find me

🤝 Volunteering 
🌍 Relaxing in Barcelona (in front of the latest Netflix show)
🐶 Hanging out with my husband, Yann, & our jack-a-bee, Cookie

📞 If you’re ready to stop spinning & start scaling, book a call to talk about how I can support you

Your business should serve you, not consume you. 
Let’s fix that!

Not ready yet? 
👉 Get my best tips: https://askmariakelly.ck.page

Maria Kelly

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Currently helping Startup founders and entrepreneurs with their business models, SaaS metrics and pitching skills.  Equally acting as mentor for numerous incubators and helping them and their entrepreneurs with pitching techniques and my SaaS expertise/knowledge.

Communication & Startup Coach. (Speaker & Trainer)

Solar2Water

Startup with the aim of harvesting the humidity in the air for irrigation of plants, gardens and farms.

Investor / Cofounder

BOARDIO

Independent Advisory Board for Startups.  I can help with overall Business Strategy, Development, Fundraising, SaaS metrics.

Startup Advisor

BE1B

Board Advisor. Currently helping with growth strategy, investors relation, and business development.

Board Advisor

RedClaimer Legaltech

As co-founder / investor, my role in this team was to create the software architecture and flow of the product.  Taking it from an idea, I reviewed the business stretagey and growth, working on a software model that can be scalable. I designed the full process from the flow chart, wireframe and database. All the way to the planning of the initial sales strategy and expansion.

Investor / Co-founder

Toastmasters International

I picked up the role of club presidency for the second time.  During my term as president, I helped grow the club from a dying 13 to a thriving 40. I wrote this objective before starting my term "increase our membership but also become the strong and fun club that it was before Covid."  I delivered this and achieved beyond these objectives.

President of The Achievers Toastmasters Club (Marbella

FIBREE

Currently, with 10 years of experience in the sector of HOA management and over 30 years in software development, I have been working as FIBREE regional chair in Andulcia, with the objective of identifying startups that use blockchain technology or play a major role in the advancement of this sector, bringing transparency and reliability to many aspects of the HOA.  This is very much in line with what we do at Urbytus.

Regional Chair -

URBYTUS LTD

I founded this startup officially in 2008/9.  I have taken it through MVP, product - market fit, pricing validation, various collaboration deals and a number of funding rounds.  It has been an amazing learning curve that allows me now to share the experience with other entrepreneurs.  Urbytus was an opportunity where I learnt how to build agile products, lead teams, and motivate staff to achieve their best.  Most important I managed to create a SaaS that eventually became cash flow positive and survived the death valley.

Manager & Founder

Konssult

Acting board advisor and mentor. I helped this startup during its fundraising round and mentoring them throughout their sales process and building of their SaaS model and marketing strategy.

As the president of a local Toastmasters Club, my role was to bring the team together and make the club achieve its best.  During my term, we managed to organize a Division conference, increase our membership, and change to a younger audience by attracting entrepreneurs who wanted to improve their public speaking skills. I also helped our club with registering as an official club and transitioning to the TM calendar year.

President of The Achievers Toastmasters Club

Startup Mentor / Advisor / Investor | 25+ years in IT, SaaS, & startup world | I help founders hands-on with: Business Plan, Strategy, Development, Pitching and closing funding round | Award Winning Speaker🏆 | TEDx

I wrote my first line of code at 14 and that was just the beginning. Over the past 40 years after university, and many years of learning by doing, I've built, scaled, sold, and closed many businesses.

With a background in Biotechnology and a postgraduate degree in Genetic Engineering, I found my true passion in IT and entrepreneurship. Over the last 27 years, I've taken numerous ideas from paper to reality, culminating in the sale of my last IT company in 2018.

I am passionate about communication and I currently channel my energy into

- Mentoring/Coaching entrepreneurs & Startups. I've had the privilege of helping hundreds of founders shape their business strategies, perfect their pitches, and ultimately scale their projects.

- Communication and Public Speaking Coach  I organize public speaking bootcamps, communication workshops, and provide individual sessions for conference speakers.

Contact me if you are interested in upping your communication skills for yourself or your team.

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