Corporate Seminar: Team Management/Coaching
“Mary gave an excellent session that taught our alumni community not only about the ins and outs of team management but also gave an excellent example of how to grow as a young professional through her own experience. Our alumni community especially appreciated this personal touch. The session achieved its goals and received positive reception from all involved. Thanks for everything Mary, it was a pleasure working with you and I will be sure to suggest you as a speaker for other programs at our organization.”
Event: Fireside Chat Webinar for Muskie Alumni Community on Team Management/Coaching
Date: May 10, 2023
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 20
Feedback provided by: Sam Carruthers, Cultural Vistas
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Corporate Workshop: Strengths-Based Confidence in the Workplace
“Dear Mary,
On behalf of the entire NGWL team, I would like to extend a huge thank you for being a part of NGWL 2023 by delivering your inspiring Strengths-based Confidence Workshop! We really appreciate your engagement and energy. Especially after such a long and tiring event, I cannot think of anything/anybody else that could have brought up their energy like you did one last time.
We already received so much positive feedback from participants, thanking you for sharing your energetic and unique program, being inspiring and responding to the participant questions so thoughtfully. We can only second their sentiment. It was a great success.
A few comments from the chat on your session (and this is just eight out of hundreds…):
Thank you soooo much Mary! I'm overwhelmed by the quality of this session! ️
Thank you so much Mary! You have really opened my eyes to building confidence
Thank you for the amazing session Mary! It's been incredible and so practical! Can't wait to read your book
Thank you so much Mary, so transformative and empowering!!
Feeling so empowered!!! Thank you Mary and fellow NGWL
Mary I need a monthly session of this with you haha!!!! so helpful and fun
Genuinely such a meaningful workshop and really inspired a lot of self-reflection and steps to take action!!
Thank you! You are amazing ️.”
Event: McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
Date: 24th April 2023
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 514
Feedback provided by: Jacqueline Hüneke, McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
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SEO London Lunch & Learn Session: From SEO Alum to Goldman Sachs Executive Director
Hi Mary,
Thank you again for hosting such a fab session, your talk was insightful and full of actionable tips and strategies that our students can utilise. The fact that we had so many questions was a testament to how useful and thought-provoking it was to the students.
I’ve included some of the feedback:
I truly enjoyed the event and particularly Mary's down-to-earth personality despite being an executive director at one of the largest financial organisations in the world. Her approach to explaining complex concepts related to her career in simple terms for students to understand and maintaining a positive and bubbly energy throughout the event has made the experience even more enjoyable from a viewer's perspective. Once again proving that the high finance industry is filled with ambitious individuals with great personalities and willingness to share some real insights. I learnt to stay open-minded and view internship opportunities as exploratory ways to find out my true passion after attending this session and will be taking all the incredible insights and advice Mary gave when going for interviews and assessment centres. Thank you to the SEO team for organising this engaging and insightful event!
Mary gave incredibly insightful advice on her career progression and her role at GS. Mary was very honest as well - she decided that investment banking was not for her because she needs a lot of sleep! Overall, I really like her energy and thoroughly enjoyed this session.
I liked the in-depth coverage of the credit risk management role and the identification of the skills it takes to succeed within it. Very inspiring journey too.
I found the session exceptionally engaging, I was especially inspired by the journey of the speaker, and how she managed to weave in the technical, and story aspects of her career. I also love how she was giving both general skills and corporate skills, whilst also balancing with a healthy lifestyle. Also, she mentioned of how to generate value and master 1 skill and prioritise one thing at a time. It was really engaging and really would have loved for it to be longer.
I loved the presentation, she covered every key point and this led for really interesting questions afterwards. I was really inspired by the drive that she seems to have had from an early age going to university at 16 for example!
Event: SEO London Lunch & Learn Session: From SEO Alum to Goldman Sachss Executive Director
Date: 19 April, 2023
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 60
Feedback provided by: Malvika Johal
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University of Birmingham: UoBe Festival 2023
“You delivered a fantastic session on cultivating confidence. You shared your own stories and experiences, along with helpful theory and practical tips. The student were really engaged with the session. Although we started late due to tech issues, and the session ran over, all the students stayed to the end, asked some interesting questions in the Q&A, and even stayed behind to chat further. They were obviously captivated by your energy and enthusiasm. Amazing!
Students provided feedback on the session. They rated the activity as 5 out of 5. This is what they enjoyed most:
1. The speaker broke down everything to make it easy to understand. Additionally, it was very reflective and informative
2. How lovely and personal Mary was. She genuinely cared and was so thoughtful and honest
3. Mary's energy, inspiration and guidance!
4. Detailed disassembly of unconfident behaviour and practical step-by-step advice”
Event: University of Birmingham UoBe Festival
Date: 24th January 2023
Format: In-person speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 244
Feedback provided by: Rachel Stavlo, Employer Liaison Officer
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Corporate Workshop: Strengths-Based Confidence in the Workplace
“Thank you SO much for delivering this great session and your amazing attitude. The participants loved your session, and the feedback has been great! We will keep your name for future editions and will also recommend sessions to other events we host. Working together with you on this has been a pleasure. Thank you so so much.”
Event: McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
Date: 7th May 2022
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 569
Feedback provided by: Paulina Blaszczyk, McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
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Corporate Workshop: Strengths-Based Confidence in the Workplace
Thank you for delivering such an inspirational session! Your energy was contagious, and the content resonated with participants (and me personally). Hope to work with you again at some point in the future!
Event: McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
Date: 7th May 2022
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 569
Feedback provided by: Jacqueline Hüneke, McKinsey & Company Next Generation Women Leaders
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Corporate Workshop: Wellness & Productivity in the workplace
"Mary's workshop session on Wellness & Productivity in the workplace was so insightful and empowering. The team loved her authentic style, openness, and humour."
Event: Lazard Plus
Date: Jan 2022
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: N/A
Feedback provided by: Tracey Abayeta
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SEO London: Instagram Career Insight Livestream Interview
“Mary has a wealth of knowledge on how students as well as professionals can navigate challenging circumstances to maximise their career progression, having overcome challenges herself and succeeded during the 2018/19 global credit crunch when Mary was breaking into the industry. The entire SEO team were grateful for Mary's input, and felt that the session was highly informative and timely for students having to cope with the challenges of Covid while studying and also trying to break into the industry. Mary was highly engaging even on a virtual platform.”
Event: SEO London: Instagram Career Insight Livestream Interview
Date: 21 October, 2020
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 250
Feedback provided by: Dumi Senda
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PWC UK: Black History Month 2020
“Mary spoke to the FS Consulting Cluster about running ViSHEbility and being a black woman in financial services. This was a Brilliant and informative session. Honestly, you shared so many gems concerning being a black woman in financial services.”
Event: PWC UK: Black History Month 2020
Date: October, 2020
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 250+
Feedback provided by: Mary Agbesanwa
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Corporate Workshop: Being an entrepreneur in your 9-5
“We had the pleasure of working with Mary for our "Building Your Hustle" webinar for students aged 14 - 18. Mary led a fantastic session on being an entrepreneur in your 9-5, and students commented that they were extremely "inspired" by Mary's CARAT analogy and her success as a black woman. Mary was a real pleasure to work with and went above and beyond for Doceo Tuition students by providing fantastic information and presenting it to the students in an engaging and informative way. Mary is professional at communicating her availability and meeting deadlines. We would be more than happy to work with Mary again.”
Event: Building your hustle
Date: 24 October 2020
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 44
Feedback provided by: Stephanie Lartey
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MarketFinance Limited: Black History Month 2020
“Mary's honesty was really helpful for us as a company to take on her personal views regarding how we should thrive for equality throughout the whole company and not just e.g. meet quota by having a representative of each ethnicity within the leadership team. We need to make a change from the bottom top in addition to having the top of a company vocalise and show their support of equality. The company were very grateful for the opportunity to hear you speak. It was extremely engaging and powerful to hear such honesty about your own experiences which made it very personal and resonated well within the company.”
Event: Black History Month panel at MarketFinance
Date: 28th October, 2020
Format: Virtual speaking engagement
Attendance Count: 50+
Feedback provided by: Gaby Khedair, MarketFinance Limited
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