Maria DeCarvalho, M.Div.

I'm an Episcopal priest and a performance consultant.

I help courageous leaders draw on the power of their deepest values, build essential relationships, and produce the critical outcomes they're striving for.

I help executives make better business decisions faster.

I help individuals and teams move beyond what gets in their way, so that clarity and reconnection to their core values unleash the results everyone wants.

If you’re the leader of an organization devoted to improving people’s lives, you’re undoubtedly faced with the constant need for navigating uncertain, even momentous, change.  So it can be frustrating when interpersonal conflict and stalled projects create resistance to your best efforts.

The Christian scriptures tell us that even the apostles found internal struggles got in their way. St. Paul complained to the Romans:

I do not understand my own actions;
for I do not do the thing I want;
I do the very thing I hate. 

You already know that up until now, problems of resistant attitudes and behaviors in the workplace were ignored, gossiped about, or managed with an impersonal carrot-and-stick approach. If the problems seemed insolvable, perhaps the person was let go. But often not before the work environment had become toxic and ineffective---and courageous leaders became dispirited by their lack of success in a time of unrelenting change.

Now there is another way; one that starts with a freed  heart and mind, one that doesn’t seek a cookie-cutter solution. Rather it prevents the problem to begin with, by getting to its source of constriction in the bodies, minds, emotions, spirits and psyches of leaders and their teams.

I call this approach ‘Unleash the Spirit of Leadership,’ where leaders and team members bravely take responsibility for their own outcomes. Where they help each other overcome the obstacles that hold them back. And where adaptive learning helps them reconfigure what they already know so they fill their current roles in more effective ways---and perhaps create game-changing new behaviors and improved performance.

Are you ready to improve your performance?
And that of your teams?

Please continue on through my website to learn more.