I help senior leaders and teams think clearly, adapt under pressure, and lead effectively through change.
ICF PCC executive coaching, neuroscience-informed leadership workshops, and MTQ mental toughness assessment for leaders and organizations. Based in Poland, working globally.
I work with people carrying significant responsibility for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
For C-suite leaders, directors, founders and high-performing executives navigating pressure, complexity, growth or significant change.
For organizations that want to strengthen adaptability, resilience, decision-making and leadership capability across their teams.
For individuals and organizations using MTQ assessment to understand mental toughness and identify focused areas for development.
Private coaching for senior leaders who want greater clarity, adaptability and effectiveness under pressure. We work on the leadership challenges that matter most in your role, from decision-making and performance to resilience, self-awareness and navigating change.
C-suite executives, directors, founders and senior leaders.
Practical, neuroscience-informed workshops for leadership teams and organizations. Topics can include adaptability, resilience, decision-making under pressure, self-awareness, stress regulation and leading through change.
Leadership teams, emerging leaders and organizations.
A structured assessment that helps leaders understand how they respond to pressure across control, commitment, challenge and confidence. Use the results to identify strengths, development priorities and practical next steps. There are 3 levels of detail available in the assessment; let’s talk about which one will be most practical for you or your team. Each 1:1 assessment includes a 60-minute feedback session (different modalities are available for teams).
Individual leaders, leadership teams and organizations.
Most executive coaching is intuitive. Mine is also evidence-based. I draw on neuroscience, HRV leadership coaching, cognitive behavioral frameworks, and somatic work — integrated into a methodology that goes deeper than conversation, and produces changes you can not only feel but also measure.
Understand how stress, uncertainty and pressure affect cognition, behaviour and decision-making.
Translate insight into changes leaders can apply in real situations, not just understand intellectually. We set specific objectives.
Use tools such as MTQ assessment, and where appropriate physiological measures such as HRV, to make patterns and progress more visible.
No two leaders need the same intervention. The work is built around the person, role and challenge in front of us.
Do you know how you score on each dimension?
Not knowing what our resilience is built on is often why generic personal development interventions don't work.
The very act of measuring changes perception.You can see where the bottleneck lies.You can work on specific dimensions.
Emotional control and the sense of agency leaders carry under pressure.
Goal orientation, follow-through, and the ability to stay engaged.
Self-belief, interpersonal confidence, and the capacity to act clearly.
Risk orientation, learning agility, and the ability to use change productively.
Mary has reformatted my thinking for my career path that has kept it simple, manageable and doable. I have worked with her for a few years and she has been a foundation for my recent success!
Mary operates with the highest standard of professionalism, empathy, and strategic clarity. She has a rare gift for asking deeply revealing questions that expose blind spots and spark real breakthroughs. She listened to my background, studied my goals, and designed a tailored approach that aligned with my industry and ambitions.
Through thoughtful exercises and frameworks, she helped me reconnect with my core values, adjust unproductive patterns and tackle limiting beliefs. Thanks to Mary, I now operate with greater clarity, self-trust, and a sharper roadmap for success. I highly recommend Mary to anyone seeking insightful, grounded, and transformative support in navigating their career path.
From the very first meeting, you feel complete professionalism and genuine commitment. The sessions are conducted in a friendly, safe atmosphere, allowing you to open up and truly work on yourself. Mary has a knack for asking insightful questions that help you see problems from a completely different perspective. Thanks to the self-improvement work at this practice, I've gained greater self-confidence and clearly defined my professional and personal goals. I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to develop and make lasting changes in their life.
Mary helped me a lot in setting priorities in my life and professional activities, which brought tangible results in achieving my goals.
Mary is a brilliant individual and knowledgeable on various areas concerning personal development & career guidance.
Working with Mary was a tremendous support to me at a crucial point in my career. From the very beginning, she approached the process very strategically – together we analyzed my experience, career goals, and potential development paths. Based on this, we defined a specific goal that we pursued throughout the entire process.
Mary helped me through every step of the application process – from refining my CV, to preparing for interviews, to final negotiations. Her guidance was accurate, specific, and tailored to my industry. Thanks to her support, I gained confidence and ultimately received a job offer that perfectly matched my aspirations and previously set goals. I wholeheartedly recommend Mary to anyone seeking professional, empathetic, and effective support in their career development.
I always considered myself a mindful person until Mary helped me uncover the limitations that were impacting my leadership effectiveness. Through her coaching and mentoring, I learned how to lead with purpose, inspire my team, and create an environment where people are truly engaged. The impact on our culture and results was undeniable. I highly recommend her to any leader ready to take things to the next level.
Change seemed like an insurmountable challenge until Creative Brain transformed my communication. We went from being constantly overwhelmed to having clarity about our goals, which relieved a lot of pressure and helped us approach new challenges more creatively. I highly recommend it.
The workshops showed me that there are many stress reduction techniques I can use depending on the situation. This workshop stands out from the others: relating what happens to us biologically to the context of stress has been groundbreaking for me in understanding the issue and, above all, in consciously and practically selecting the right technique for the right situation.
Before working with Creative Brain, I often questioned my decisions in high-stress situations. Mary's neuroscience-based approach has completely transformed the way I deal with uncertainty. Who knew we knew so much about our brains? Now I make faster, more strategic decisions, and I don't question them endlessly—my team has noticed the difference.
I struggled with decision paralysis. Creative Brain's neuroscience-based approach helped me trust my intuition and make key decisions with clarity.
Stress was a constant companion for me, but I told myself that everyone experiences it. Mary showed me ways to manage stress that didn't require me to work extra hours. Now, even when things get really hectic at work, I can stop, catch my breath, and not burn out. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to regain control over stress and have more energy every day.
I contribute to research on adaptability, decision-making under uncertainty, generational cognitive shifts and evidence-based approaches to leadership development.
More about the Leader's Brain Research Center →
I've spent the last decade working with leaders, athletes and teams across cultures, organizations and levels of seniority, trying to understand one question:
How do we sustain access to our maximum potential, even in high-pressure environments?
That question has taken me across 40+ countries and 4 continents. In a world where constant change and overwhelm have become the norm, I help leaders stay sharp, keep people engaged, and sustain high performance without burning out.
Because performing at your best shouldn't require running yourself into the ground.
And constant change shouldn't mean losing access to your capacity to think, decide and lead well.
I'm a neuroleadership researcher and lecturer, CEO of Creative Brain, and Head of Research at the Leader's Brain Research Center. I'm also a co-founding member of the Leader's Brain Trust Association.
My work brings together neuroscience, leadership and the science of adaptability to understand what happens to our thinking, behaviour and performance under pressure.
My purpose is to help leaders build the capacity to stay clear, adaptable and effective when it matters most.
That means turning what we learn about the brain and nervous system into practical tools leaders can use in the real world.
Leader's Brain Trust is a newly established association co-founded by Mary Senkowska to investigate and advance adaptive leadership capacity among Polish organizational leaders. The initiative represents a strategic effort to create evidence-based insights into how executive boards, management teams, and CEOs are currently responding to organizational change.
More about the research →Mary works primarily in English and has delivered leadership work across 43 countries. Programmes, materials, and coaching engagements are also available in Polish.
Neuroleadership coaching adds the biological layer underneath mindset and behavior — how leaders recover, make decisions under pressure, and build sustainable adaptability. Mary Senkowska is a neuroleadership coach based in Poland, working with C-suite and senior leaders globally.
Mary specializes in leadership development through neuroleadership — executive coaching for senior leaders, HRV leadership coaching, C-suite leadership development in Poland, and brain-based leadership training for organizations.
The foundation is MTQPlus, including MTQ48 and MTQ48Plus where appropriate. For clients seeking more precision, Mary also uses HRV measurement to understand readiness, recovery, and sustained capacity under pressure.
Meaningful, sustainable change usually requires three to six months. Mary does not offer one-off sessions as a standalone product; each engagement is designed around outcomes.
Senior leaders, founders, and high-performers who are functioning well externally but want to lead with more clarity, resilience, and intentionality.
Senior leadership diagnostics, C-suite advisory, and strategic consulting for CHROs, CEOs, and boards seeking evidence-based thinking on leadership culture and adaptability.
Company-facing programmes, including the NLS2040 leadership development curriculum, are delivered through nls2040.com and designed for measurable organizational outcomes.
Yes. Based in Poland after relocating from New York City, Mary brings direct familiarity with North American, Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and European business contexts.
The Leader's Brain Research Center is a research hub founded by Mary Senkowska at WSKZ in Poznan, Poland, conducting HRV-based studies on leadership adaptability.
Yes. Mary holds an ICF PCC credential, lectures at SWPS University and WSKZ, and conducts original research through LBI.
Book a consultation or write directly to hello@marysenkowska.com. Mary reads and answers inquiries personally.
If you’re not sure where to start, share your current challenge or context over email and I’ll be able to guide you from there.
