Maria McKenna, MA, is a highly praised Life Coach with a masters degree in counseling psychology and over a decade of business experience as an executive in the entertainment business. In addition to 5 years of teaching and direct counseling work with individuals and groups, in her capacity as Vice President of a major record label, she oversaw an acclaimed creative staff and multi-million dollar yearly budgets.
Maria has worked with executives and creative staff inside many top media companies, including MGM, CBS, Showtime, and Warner Bros. Maria completed her coach training at the Institute for Life Coach Training. Her experience and training as a Life Coach combined with her extensive creative, business, and psychology experience, make her particularly adept at understanding people and organizational systems, harnessing individual strengths, and approaching personal goals in fresh, creative ways.
By Maria McKenna,Life and Career Coach, Institute for Coaching
In his ASU commencement speech this week, President Obama urged graduates to be prepared for more than one job or career in their lifetime. His recommendation was “to keep gaining new skills - possibly even new degrees; and to keep taking risks as new opportunities arise.”*
Although our [...]
By Maria McKenna, Life Coach, Institute for Coaching
Often people have the sense that they’d like to make changes in their lives, but aren’t sure exactly what it is they’d like to change. In order to step outside of ourselves to foster an awareness of what we’d like to change in our lives, it can be [...]
Written by Maria McKenna, Life Coach with the Institute for Coaching
Feeling Long On Stress, But Short On Time? – 5 Simple and Effective Stress-Busters:
You’re not alone if you’re feeling an unusual amount of stress lately. Whatever your personal situation, with the constant bombardment of negative news recently, many of us, including many of my life [...]
Written by Maria McKenna, Life Coach with the Institute for Coaching
As we enter another new year, it’s natural for us to want to eliminate bad habits. All too often, though, we fail to change the habit for the long haul because we don’t create a plan to support us in the process. Here’s a list [...]
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