🚀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

JDT Research Ltd.

I lead a multi-cultural team of market analysts and writers to develop concise, easy-to-read, and actionable market intelligence reports, publications, newsletters and video for time-stressed senior level executives.  

We connect the dots in the complex international fashion supply chain.  

We provide difficult-to-get industry concensus and thought leadership on key issues impacting manufacturing through to retail.  

We offer actionable, market-relevent consumer insights.  

And we identify market trends that will impact the future of apparel sourcing, product development and retail.

We work collaboratively with our clients to ensure that our products - in terms of the imformation we are providing, as well as the way in which it is provided (UX) - provide the right information, at the right time.

Managing Director

Lead the product development initiatives of our executive advisory service 'The Current Situation in Sourcing'.
Work with key clients to develop market promotion activities to help them raise brand awareness in strategic markets.
Lead the company in producing conferences and seminars with key clients.

Director 

21st Century Media Ltd.

Led both the creative/product development and sales/marketing teams to consistently deliver high quality, engaging B2B editorial content in both digital and print channels that drove sales and membership growth.

Director

Crystal Bond Ltd.

International Sales and Marketing Manager

Managing Director, Inside Fashion, The Current Situation & Host of A Seat at The Table podcast #insidefashion #aseatatthetable #launchtolegendary #podcasthost | Hong Kong/New York

Energetic leader who is able to quickly adapt to fast changing, complex markets - and turn potential losses into wins!

Sought after coach and mentor to senior and mid tier executives.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

•	Expert at identifying new market opportunities and developing products that drive new business.
•	A masterful problem solver.
•	Proven success in leading culturally diverse teams both on- and off-site.
•	Able to take complex concepts and put them into simple terms so that a wide audience of customers can understand them.
•	Sought-after keynote speaker on industry topics including supply chain management, consumer attitudes, retail strategy, and global industry outlook.  
•	Host of 'A Seat at the Table' podcast  (https://insidefashionlive.buzzsprout.com/)

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