Master Certified Coach (ICF) · 6,000+ private sessions · 1,000+ group hours · Compassionate Inquiry · Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment · Relational Trauma
When the work is consequential...
AI is changing what organizations can build, automate, decide, and scale - and intensifying every question about power, trust, responsibility, and human dignity.
If you're building, leading, funding, or implementing these systems, that pressure becomes personal. You may be moving fast while carrying decisions whose consequences are still unfolding - holding your team's uncertainty, investor expectations, public scrutiny, or the invisible labor of keeping a system functioning while the ground keeps shifting.
That doesn't mean you're weak, failing, or not resilient enough. It means your body, relationships, and values are registering the real cost of a system that asks too much for too long. You can be ambitious, ethical, and deeply committed to meaningful work - without making self-abandonment the price of belonging.
This work may be for you if:
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You are building, leading, funding, or implementing AI and carrying more responsibility than feels sustainable.
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You are capable and outwardly successful, yet increasingly exhausted, conflicted, disconnected, or alone.
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You care about the human impact of your work but feel caught between your values, organizational incentives, and the demand to move fast.
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You've become skilled at functioning under pressure while losing contact with your own limits, or inner authority.
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You are carrying responsibility that is not fully yours, but struggle to put it down.
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You want change that includes your body, and relationships, not just better habits or more productivity.
What becomes possible
This is not about becoming less driven, less sensitive, or less committed to meaningful work.
It's about leading without continually overriding yourself - and without passing unprocessed pressure down to the people and systems around you.
Through this work, you'll build capacity to:
Make clearer decisions under uncertainty, without collapsing into urgency or control.
Hold boundaries without withdrawing care or conviction.
Work with moral strain and systemic misalignment without normalizing harm.
Repair trust and use power with more steadiness and humanity.
Build a version of success that doesn't require chronic override.
When work creates moral strain
Sometimes the hardest part of consequential work is not the workload. It is the gap between what you are asked to do and what you know, feel, or value to be true. You may be asked to prioritize speed over care, loyalty over honesty, performance over integrity, or short-term outcomes over human consequences.
Over time, this can create moral strain. In more sustained or severe circumstances, it can become moral injury: the exhaustion, anger, grief, numbness, self-doubt, or disillusionment that can arise when a role repeatedly asks you to act against your values. Naming this does not mean you need to make an immediate decision about your job, team, company, or future. It means you can begin to understand what is happening with enough clarity and compassion to make choices from integrity rather than survival.
Hi, I'm Maria Marc
Trauma integration practitioner and Master Certified Coach for the people building, leading, and adapting to the age of AI
Most leadership coaching starts with strategy and stops there. Most trauma work stays outside the realities of power and institutional life. I stand in the gap between them.
I work at the intersection of nervous system, leadership, and institutional strain - with people carrying outsized responsibility for others' safety, wellbeing, or outcomes, and navigating speed, power, ethical complexity, and the human consequences of change.
Trained under Dr. Gabor Maté
Compassionate Inquiry (CI)
Trained under Dr. Janina Fisher
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
+6,000 private sessions
+1,000 hours group work
Master Certified Coach (ICF)