Leading Through Stories

Lift Leadership with Mary Michailides

October 19, 2022 Kristy Wolfe Season 2 Episode 2
Leading Through Stories
Lift Leadership with Mary Michailides
Show Notes

Season 2 Episode 2 of Leading Through Stories focused on Mary’s Lift Leadership work with educators and leaders. 

In this episode

  • 0:10 Intro
  • 1:45 Get to know more about Mary 
  • 4:00 Leadership development
  • 5:00 Intro to Lift Leadership 
  • 7:00 Conversation about how we lift ourselves and others
  • 14:45 Spotlight on Mary 
  • 16:30 Story of impact…22 years later
  • 23:00 Effective listening task 
  • 26:00 More about Mary’s Lift Leadership series and sign up for her newsletter by emailing mariamconsulting@gmail.com
  • 27:15 Details about November’s Leading Through Stories episode. Guest to be announced on Nov 9th

A little more about Mary Michailides

Mary has a life-long love for learning and leading. She was an educator with 39 years of extensive experience as a principal, assistant superintendent, manager with Alberta Education, and presently a leadership development facilitator in her own company. In 2017, Mary redirected her career and established Maria M Consulting. As a leadership development consultant, she supports school jurisdictions and businesses in transformative leadership practices, which assists leaders in elevating their leadership capacity to build capacity in others. Mary’s commitment to collaboration and support of shared leadership has been instrumental in empowering staff to enhance their skills in impacting organizational change. Mary inspires and motivates all levels of leaders to develop collective capacity in delivering high quality teaching, learning and leading practices.

Mary’s commitment to the statement; Live Well...Lead Well is embedded in her work of coaching and mentoring to maximize the potential of her clients.

Mary was a founding member and Chair of the Zebra Child Protection Centre, the first of its kind in Canada. She is proud of the work that has been accomplished in support of the most vulnerable population in Edmonton and surrounding areas.  

With her loving husband of 38 years and their 3 daughters, Mary is often engaged in “live well’ activities including; cross country/downhill biking, traveling, skiing, and playing soccer.

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Send an email to mariamconsulting@gmail.com


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We believe everyone is a leader from where they stand and that we all have a story to tell. By sharing our stories we create connections, build relationships and support ourselves and each other through comfortable as well as uncomfortable experiences. 

Leading Through Stories, is an authentic conversation about successes, l

About Leading Through Stories
Everyone has a story to tell—and what we do with that story can create lasting impact. Every episode, Leading Through Stories, helps unravel the how and why of digital storytelling with host Kristy Wolfe.

Life is made up of meaningful moments—which ones do you want to share?

This podcast is presented by Common Language DST, digital storytelling facilitation training for health and wellness changemakers.


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