🚀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

Eli Lilly and Company

Credit Manager & Commercial

Manager Commercial Governance

Sotheby's

Client services:
•Providing client service (B2C) for a portfolio of HNWIs.
•Sales related accounting and logistics. 
•Credit Control.
•Create and maintain KYC records by obtaining information from internal and external sources.
•Use of screening tools such as Lexis Nexis/RDC/World check.
•Deal with all extended payment terms requests in respect of the Corporate Governance threshold.
•Ensure all Trade Credit Facilities are approved and reviewed in the relevant timelines.
•Monitor and ensure accounts are placed on stop if they remain unpaid.
•Good knowledge of NFTs (Non Fungible Token) and cryptocurrency, web3.
•Prepare the monthly doubtful debt review file on monthly basis.
•Liaise with Treasury to assist in cash management as appropriate.
•Assist in training of new and existing staffs.

Finances :
•Performing month-end activities, including journals and accruals. 
•Liaising and providing requested information to internal / external / and fiscal audit queries.
•Responsible for all communication and correspondence to our main bank.
•To collect and remit the US state's tax from US purchasers to our Tax department in New York. 
•Handling W8/W9 forms.
•Providing the import VAT tax figures for the Swiss tax declaration to the Finance Manager.
•Processing VAT refunds to clients.

Project:
•Implementation of automated solution to client support in SAP. 
•SAP new module update.

Post Sale Manager 

Client services:
•Acted as first point of contact for client and ensure a high level of client satisfaction. 
•Collaborated with a network of internal subject matter experts to resolve issues. 

Accounts Payable :
•Providing cover/assisting the Accounts Payable.
•Tracking spending against Purchase Orders (PO).
•Preparing payments runs in line with payment terms.

Finances :
•Posting of bank transaction and bank reconciliations. 
•Ensure that all financial transactions are correctly processed and appropriately reflected in the GLs.
•Ensure monthly balance sheet reconciliations are performed and variances are investigated and reported in a timely manner
•Responsible for the petty cash.

Post Sale Administrator

Christie's

Client services:
•Conduct and manage all pre-sales and post-sales and negotiation.
•Buyer onboarding - Compliance, credit worthiness assessment. 
•Effectively manage all extended payment terms on the A/R and A/P ledgers to ensure accurate cash-flow.

Finances:
•Monthly reconciliations including related booking entries (vendor/buyer ledger, stock & provisions for bad debt).
•Preparation and lead of the monthly doubtful debt review file and discuss with the international Director and Finance Director on monthly basis.

Post Sale Manager

Ville de Genève

Accounting activities :
•Management of all accounting transaction related to a portfolio of properties.
•Performance of accounting operations.
•Execution of the monthly accounting closings and reconciliation of accounts. 
•Monitoring and audit of tenants; settlement of incomes.
•Breakdown of heating use by the tenant.

Real Estate Accountant

Sabbatical year

Travelling in South America

Procter & Gamble

P&G and Gillette merger:
•Played a key role in Gillette integration for P&G. 
•Master data single point of contact for a market business unit.
•Sap Key user (MM, SD).
•Root cause Analysis and resolving issues raised during order, shipping and billing cycle.
•Responsible for collecting, manipulating and data cleansing (customers, pricing, costing, plants) for SAP system upgrade.
•SAP security owner: access re-definition and compensating control activities.

Customer Services project:
•Participated to develop a software to create orders form for the CSO helping the increase volume orders and decrease of repetitive tasks. 

Account receivable customer operation:
•Responsible for processing accounting receivables and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedure, Credit management and the AR month End Closing on SAP.
•Recommendation of solutions; support implementation; lead relevant share/reapply work with Dubai office.

Master Data Analyst & Account Receivable for CEEMEA

INFOassitance

•Selection, interviews and evaluation of candidates; recruitment for permanent and temporary jobs. 
•Negotiation of contracts (salary, charges and costs for the clients).
•Prospection of new markets.
•Establishment of employments certificates. 
•Advise on Swiss Labour Law. 
•Update of agency’s web site and creation of a database for the listing of customers.

HR Consultant

Geneva Press Club - Club suisse de la presse

•Administrative Assistant for different ONGs (Geneva press club, International Geneva Welcome Centre, Fédération Genevoise de coopération) during my service civil.

Administrative Services Assistant

FER Genève

•Reshaped the FER website (www.fer-ge.ch); creation and update Intranet and other
different FER’s members associations.
•Creation of websites during the Geneva election campaign.

IT trainee

I am an energetic and enthusiastic professional with versatile skills set, and a track record of creative problem-solving that focuses on delivering exceptional customer service. I enjoy working hard to achieve my targets and can communicate well as part of a team as well as enjoying working by myself. I am a reliable and hard-working person who can be trusted in all areas and expertise.

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