Executive coaching for senior leaders navigating complexity, pressure, and growth — using neuroscience as the map.
Leadership clarity coaching for C-suite leaders, domain leaders, and organizations building adaptive cultures — based in Poland, working globally.
Most leadership problems aren't strategy problems. They're nervous system problems. Stress hijacks cognition. Pressure narrows thinking. I help leaders build the sustainable adaptability that leadership resilience coaching is designed to deliver — not just insight that fades after the session.
I combine neuroscience, HRV leadership coaching, and executive coaching to help senior leaders reclaim their clarity, build sustainable adaptability, and lead at the level their role demands.
I am a researcher, a lecturer, and a practitioner. I don't theorize about leadership — I work in its trenches, alongside the people who carry the weight of it every day.
I build the science, the tools, and the ecosystems that make neuroscience-based leadership possible — for individual leaders, organizations, and the field itself.
You can't manage what you're not aware of.
Executive coaching for senior leaders, directors, and C-suite executives who are performing at a high level but sense they're operating below their potential. We work on clarity, cognitive resilience, decision-making under pressure, and the nervous system behind it all. Sessions are available online, with in-person work in Poznan for clients navigating chronic stress. Brain-informed. Results-oriented. Deeply personal.
Neuroscience-based coaching for executives, founders, and senior leaders navigating workplace stress, burnout risk, and high-pressure decision-making.
C-suite leadership development in Poland for organizations, boards, and HR leaders building leadership culture at scale. I advise on neuroscience-informed leadership strategy, leadership capability design, and building environments where human performance can actually thrive. Advisory engagements are bespoke — designed around your organization's specific challenges and ambitions.
Structured leadership development programs built on neuroscience and evidence-based practice. Designed for leadership teams, high-potentials, and organizations ready to build a culture of adaptive leadership.
Invite-only community for Director+ leaders who pioneer adaptive leadership and set future readiness standards in their 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.
Every intervention is grounded in neuroscience-based leadership — how the brain actually works under stress, uncertainty, and change.
I work with MTQ assessment (the only psychometric tool for mental toughness on the market) and where needed I use HRV biomarkers to track nervous system adaptability — making invisible patterns visible and achieve sustained change faster.
Cognitive and somatic. Mind and body. Insight and measurable change. Not one without the other.
I work with individuals to help organizations adapt. Leadership is a system. I treat it like one.
Mary is an MTQPlus licensed trainer and coach. The assessment helps leaders see how they respond to pressure across control, commitment, challenge, and confidence, then translate that insight into focused development work.
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's leadership resilience coaching helped me build sustainable clarity under pressure. Her questions exposed blind spots and sparked real breakthroughs.
Before executive coaching with Mary, I questioned decisions in high-stress situations. Now I make faster, more strategic decisions with clarity.
I don't separate my practice from research — they feed each other. My leadership development through neuroleadership combines academic rigor with organizational practice. I am Head of Research at The Leader's Brain Research Center, where I lead studies on HRV and RSA as biomarkers of leadership adaptability — which is rare, and what makes it powerful.
Learn about The Leader's Brain Research Center →C-suite leadership development in Poland shouldn't depend on access to expensive consultants. Through The Brain Trust Foundation, I fund research, create open educational resources, and build the infrastructure to democratize neuroscience-informed leadership — across Poland and beyond.
Learn more about the Foundation →Book a 30-minute diagnostic call. We'll assess where you are, where you want to go, and whether working together makes sense. No pressure. No pitch.
Or email me directly: hello@marysenkowska.com
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.
