Mary Laniyan

Mary is an ICF-PCC Credentialed Coach and ICAgile Certified Enterprise Agile Coach with more than 25 years of international experience leading and supporting business transformation, leadership development, and organizational change across multiple industries, including FTSE 100 organizations.

She partners with senior leaders, executives, and transformation teams to navigate complexity, build adaptive leadership capabilities, and create the conditions for sustainable performance in rapidly changing environments. Drawing on extensive experience in technology, strategy execution, and enterprise agility, she helps leaders strengthen self-awareness, expand their thinking, and make more effective decisions amidst uncertainty.

Mary’s coaching approach is inquiry-based, systemic, and deeply collaborative. She creates a trusted space where leaders can challenge assumptions, uncover limiting patterns, and gain fresh perspectives on themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Her clients value her ability to balance support and challenge, enabling meaningful insight, while fostering accountability for action and results.

With expertise in organizational agility, Lean Portfolio Management, psychological safety, and leadership effectiveness, Mary supports leaders in aligning strategy with execution, leading through change, and cultivating high-performing, resilient teams. She is particularly passionate about helping leaders build coaching cultures that unlock engagement, innovation, and collective performance.

Committed to human capital development, Mary extends her impact beyond individual coaching through thought leadership, speaking engagements, and as host of the podcast Sincerely Agile with Mary, where she explores leadership, agility, coaching, and the future of work.