🚀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

Francisco Mahfuz

Become more interesting than Netflix | Attract your ideal clients and grow your business through the power of your story | Keynote Speaker & Storytelling Coach | Host of The Storypowers Podcast

Do you know that dream where you have to speak in front of the class and you’re terrified? I lived it 😬

My 7th grade teacher said “Francisco, come up here and tell a story to the class”. All the other kids stared at me, and I thought “Oh no”.

Half of them looked horrified, and the other half couldn’t wait for me to crash and burn. 

But I realised I was actually excited. 

You see, I was never a popular kid. My mom made a big sacrifice to put me in that fancy private school, but that meant I couldn’t afford the things my classmates had, and that made me different. And when you’re a kid, being different is no good at all. 

I never felt like I fit in, that I was cool - but now I had my chance. 

So I got up there, and told one of my stories. And they loved it. They laughed, they cheered, they asked for more, and I felt like I was the most popular kid in that school. 

Until the bell rang, when I left the stories in the classroom and went back to being the same old me. 

For many years I felt unfulfilled, unexcited, and every morning when the alarm went off, I thought “There’s got to be more to life than this…”. 

That’s when I found my way back to stories. 

Now I help international organisations and teams tap into the power of story. 

I also work with individuals on how to brand themselves and attract their ideal clients through storytelling. 


🤔 If stories could make an awkward, unpopular kid cool (even if only for a while) and give me a reason to get out of bed in the morning, can you imagine what they could do for you?


🚀Do you want to develop your origin story to find the clarity and confidence to attract your ideal clients and grow your business?

🎤Do you want a transformative talk at your conference, event, or corporate retreat, where no one is bored and reaching for their phones? 

💥Do you want your team to deliver memorable presentations without wasting hours of preparation? And communicating in a way that engages, persuades and inspires? 


LET’S TALK: Send me a DM or email me at francisco@franciscomahfuz.com


Want to see more?

✨ Check out my website: 
https://www.franciscomahfuz.com 

🎙️Listen to The Storypowers Podcast, where I interview experts on how story can grow your business and make a difference: 
https://www.franciscomahfuz.com/podcast (and everywhere podcasts are found!)

📖 Or read all you’ll ever need about presenting with my book, Bare: A Guide to Brutally Honest Public Speaking: 
https://amzn.to/2IBAAFw

Regional Manager

The Blacktower Group was formed in 1986 to provide independent wealth management advice and a bespoke service for both individual and corporate clients.

Having celebrated 30 years in business, our independent financial advisers continually keep pace with the changing needs of our customers, regulations and legislation. They are led by our Group Managing Director, John Westwood, one of the founders of the firm. 

In 1996, Blacktower expanded offshore and opened its first office in the Algarve, Portugal during 2000. Blacktower Financial Management (International) Ltd (BFMI) was formed in 2003 and incorporated in Gibraltar, where the BFMI Head Office is situated. 

We are proud to hold both MiFID and IDD permissions. 

I pride myself on the ability to provide independent and unbiased financial advice on services including:

 Personal Pension Planning
 Inheritance Tax
 Provision for the future
 Retirement Planning
 Education Planning

International Wealth Manager through the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments, and fully qualified as a UK adviser.

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