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Hi, I'm Mary Mosope
I am a passionate, people-oriented, and purpose-driven woman who successfully walks the tightrope of business and social pursuits.
I am an award-winning investment professional with a long tenure working with global investment banks (ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch). Alongside my functional role, I have spent thousands of hours developing, executing, and managing talent recruitment and training programs, focusing on early career professionals.
This passion for personal development and equitable career growth led me to found my social-first organisation, viSHEbility, and write Visible Strengths, a book about how early career professionals can find joy and advancement in their careers by capitalising on their strengths, contributing value and communicating their results.
Leveraging my years of corporate experience and the Visible Strengths principles, I now work with top-tier companies to equip their junior workforce with the mindset and actionable strategies they need to solve problems and drive relevant results while curating purposeful, profitable, and productive careers.
If you would like to invest in your people with the return of increased engagement, retention, commitment and value-add, please reach out to discuss how we can partner to grow your people.
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“A five-star work is not only a pragmatic and principled career guide but a manifesto bound to yield quick results.”- Reader Views (Jan 2023)

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Single/multi-day talks and workshops to raise awareness and provide solution-driven insights on how to address key career-related challenges

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A tailored 3-month (12 weeks) transformational program that helps your junior talent discover and master their strengths so they can deliver relevant results and achieve business objectives.

Our Impact
Our work has impacted professionals at top-tier companies, colleges and communities

PRAISE FOR
VISIBLE STRENGTHS
Corporates!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Student & Reader Reviews!
“I managed to get my promotion one year earlier than normal.”
The Visible Strengths Program is a game changer. It accelerated my enjoyment and my success in the workplace . If you are going through a pivot or career change, this is almost like therapy. Mary is wonderful at helping you gather your bearings, focus on what’s important and help you figure out your new direction. The Visible Strengths Program is a launchpad for this new chapter of your life.
— Nicole Morgan, Consultant
"Following the program, I was able to 4 x my salary within 2.5 years."
I was able to apply for a job that I won’t have done if I didn’t go through the Visible Strengths Program. I am a lot more intentional about understanding my areas of strengths and how I can shape a career that encapsulates that. Following the program, I was able to 4 x my salary within 2.5 years, and because I know where my strengths are and now have a strategy in my career, I feel more fulfilled.
— Daniella Sterling, Business Manager
Mary Mosope Adeyemi's five-star work is not only a pragmatic and principled career guide but a manifesto bound to yield quick results.
"Visible Strengths: Capitalize on Strengths, Contribute Value, and Communicate Results to Accelerate Your Career" is a vital career guide by Mary Mosope Adeyemi that explores three essential steps to professional fulfilment, fruitful endeavours, and success in one's career: capitalising on your strength, contributing value to these strengths, and communicating results to those who matter.
With a stirring introduction packed with sage wisdom, the text does not dally in its beginning and instead cuts through time-tested strategies as each chapter builds upon the other with intricate candor and precision. The book is divided into three chronological parts as it teaches professional career people and novices alike to craft careers within their talents, using these talents to serve people and the organizations they work in as well as drawing the necessary people to them. Through the stories of high-achieving professionals, her personal stories, as well as impactful coaching structures, Author Adeyemi transforms what would otherwise be complicated knowledge into practical, applicable knowledge.
The book asserts that many begin their careers with little preparation only to find themselves later stuck in a rut. In the author's own words, she advises that "Whichever scenario you identify with, you always have the opportunity to accelerate, reposition, or fully reset your career. If you are doing well, you can do better. If you are not doing as well as you would like, you can get back on the right track." Some guidance is infused in ample illustrations or relatable quotes at the beginning of each chapter and even summaries, resulting in an approachable laity friendly package. As the book hurtles along, reminders of previous details, tips, and approaches help reinforce its didactic potential.
Concise and balanced, "Visible Strengths: Capitalize on Strengths, Contribute Value, and Communicate Results to Accelerate Your Career" draws up to a close with self-reflective questions and insightful exercises that evoke contemplation and confidence to reach the glass ceiling of success. All told, Mary Mosope Adeyemi's five-star work is not only a pragmatic and principled career guide but a manifesto bound to yield quick results.
— Reader Views Editorial Review (Jan, 2023)
Visible Strengths is a must-read for anyone looking to live a more fulfilling, purpose-driven life and career
“Mary is a talented and knowledgeable career coach. She listened carefully to my goals and concerns and helped me identify areas for improvement and growth. Her expert advice, support and personalised approach greatly impacted my professional development. Visible Strengths provides practical insights to help you identify and build on your strengths. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to level up their career, build their confidence, and create more meaningful connections. It's a must-read for anyone looking to live a more fulfilling, purpose-driven life and career.”
— Moriam (via Amazon 04 Feb 2023)
“Massive advocate for Mary and her work, and I’d highly recommend Visible Strengths in a heartbeat!
Mary, through Visible Strengths, has massively impacted and transformed my life and early-career journey. Visible Strengths has helped me reconnect to a vision (I lost over the years), discover the different strengths built with time, and know and understand how I can successfully leverage them into every aspect of my life. The results are dazzling!
- I discovered my "ikigai" and became more intentional with myself;
- I got clarity on both my purpose and career journey;
- I stopped living other people’s dreams, and owned my dreams;
- I successfully identified the steps required to progress and (finally!) own my career narrative.
In practice, I transitioned from a career where I lacked passion and enthusiasm and was conditioned to remain grateful that I “even had a job” to an exciting career in a whole different space and environment – one where I always wanted to thrive but accepted to discontinue my dreams, passion and interests as a result of lack of confidence, clarity and external pressure. Visible Strengths has equipped me with the practical and theoretical tools to capitalise on my strengths, contribute value, and communicate clear, tangible and impactful results. Moreover, She's made it possible for me to reconnect with my vision and purpose and confidently transition into my dream career while evolving into a strong, confident, purpose-driven woman.
A must-have for anyone looking to undertake a transformative and exciting journey full of discovery about oneself and learn how to successfully leverage these to accelerate one's career and other life aspects!.”
— AnnaBoni (Amazon Review, 06 Feb 2023)
"The Visible Strengths Philosophy - I love it! It is so straightforward, simple, and cuts across all circumstances. Your take on playing to one's strengths, contributing value, and communicating results, is so rich. From the introduction alone, I can already begin to do things differently. This is a book we need."
— Uche Ezichi, International Executive Coach, Managing Director, ACEEVA Consulting
"I love the simple concept of understanding how best, through the use of questions, to identify one's visible strengths and communicate them! Mary Mosope Adeyemi's ability to share her journey—pitfalls and successes—makes Visible Strengths an enjoyable and impactful read!"
— Saundra Wood, VP/Strategy Manager- Culture & Transformation at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
“In Visible Strengths, Mary Mosope Adeyemi synthesizes a world of career advice into a simple and memorable framework of three steps: use your strengths, add value with them, and share your results. It doesn’t get any easier. Whether you’re starting out or starting again in your career, this book will help you succeed.”
— May Busch, Executive Coach, CEO Of Career Mastery And Former COO Of Morgan Stanley Europe
“Mary Mosope Adeyemi has created a viable roadmap for early career professionals to understand the strengths they bring, how to contribute value from them, and how to communicate it to those who matter. An essential read for all early career folks, it is particularly salient for women, as we often put our heads down and get to work. The techniques in Visible Strengths will bring your head up and give you more visibility.”
— Valerie Sutton, Director, Career Services Office, Harvard Graduate School Of Education
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Mary's energy is electric! - She has a lot of positive energy and that was definitely encouraging especially as our classes were on a Monday evening after a hard start of the week. Also, joining a room full of bright women and a huge smile from Mary ready to start the session, very energetic, creating room to raise our hands for questions, sharing our personal experiences with the wider group, getting advice from Mary but also learning from the experiences of others was extremely insightful and worthwhile.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“The quality of the different documents and worksheets shared made realised the time and resources that have been invested. They are very useful and helpful - this in itself motivated me to also invest and really do bring my whole self to the sessions (contribute) in order to make the most of each of them.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Joining this program has been the best decision I've made. I have learned things that would have taken me years to discover through trial and error. I have every confidence that if I implement and practice the advice I have learned, I will be accelerating my career by several years. That's pretty damn good value for two and a half hours of time.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“It is the best professional and life education I have done so far. I feel that I have grown as a human being in the past 6 weeks”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“I see that I have gifts and talents worth sharing. I have a unique voice and presence that inspires others. I am good enough to do the things I’ve been too afraid to pursue. I want to unlock others the way the visible strengths program unlocked me.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Even just the people I had the opportunity to meet in this program made it so worthwhile. What a quality network to form so early in my career.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“This has been amazing. I don’t want the program to end. My Mondays will definitely be missing their sparkle”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Thank you for this rich and wonderful experience. It was a gift.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“I feel better equipped to deal with my fears and limiting beliefs”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“I have told all my friends and their friends that the visible strengths program is a must-do”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“This program should be 4x the price charged because the value is off the charts!”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Mary's personal stories and the anecdotes shared within the group were so useful and are one of my favourite parts of these sessions. At the end of the session, I just felt overwhelmed with gratitude to be a part of this group of women and the discussions we were having. I know I’m going to come back to the lessons I’m learning in this space for years to come.”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“Knowing my strengths increased my confidence which has helped me in the work I do. Leveraging the different experiences that were shared during the workshop, I was motivated to write up proposals and show to different stakeholders on the different things that may be considered in relation to my role which was well received. I am now becoming a point of reference for certain matters/conversations within my graduate community. People are now becoming aware of my interests and value-add and now inviting me to contribute and share. I feel very happy about that!”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“This program was a reminder I needed to dream BIGGER again. This ignited a spark of my younger self that had an abundance of confidence that's been battered along the way, but mindset is everything - if I don't believe that I can, then I certainly won't. This program has given me the framework and the tools to help me get serious again about my goal setting. I desperately needed this”
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“I feel really motivated. I love the fact that this course isn't just a casual zoom chat once a week. There has been so much thought that has gone into the pre-work tasks, the in-depth slides and the corresponding workbooks for each session. Because so much work has gone into this, I now feel even more compelled to reach the current bar that has been set and put the work in from my end too”.
The ‘Visible Strengths’ Program
“I feel empowered to focus on developing my strengths further, rather than viewing it as ‘not trying’ because it’s not an investment in my weaknesses. Investing in my strengths can get me an even greater return than investing in my weaknesses and this is something really powerful I learned from Mary.”
Secure The Bag Workshop
“All the bonus resources that were provided after the workshop such as the workbook, masterclass presentation, reaching out, and follow-up templates were an excellent touch. It helped consolidate everything that was learned in the session and was really helpful. I also enjoyed the break out sessions as I found talking through examples with others out in the open made you pick up on things you may not have noticed before and actually see how you could improve your answers.”
Stephanie, London UK
Secure The Bag Workshop
“A key goal of mine was to transition into a new career and I am pleased to report that the STB course has helped me to do that. I have secured a new role that has excellent opportunities for career development in a different field and I am very grateful to viSHEbility for the excellent STB course which is informative, practical, and life-changing.”
Tamara, London UK
Secure The Bag Workshop
“There were so many nuggets of gold deposited in this workshop. As always, Mary’s authenticity, commitment, and passion shone through; the workshop was delivered with so much impact. Bonus materials were provided, as well as additional web links to refer to after the workshop. Being able to ask questions as we went along was so useful. Also, interacting with others in the breakout room idea was a nice change-up during the workshop.”
Pearle, London UK
Secure the Bag Workshop
“The Secure The Bag workshop was absolutely fantastic! I love to go to career events and update my knowledge and this one was exceptional. The delivery was great, points were valid & actionable and it was easy to follow along. Looking forward to more events.Well done viSHEbility!.”
Tomi, London UK
Secure The Bag Workshop
“The presentation and workshop were of high quality, detailed, and amazing. There is nothing in each stage of getting a new job which wasn't touched. I feel equipped with some new nuggets to make the changes to my CV and LinkedIn profile. Some great tools provided to get to know yourself, with this information I can use the assessments to better describe my strengths and qualities. I also feel equipped to attend interviews confidently, with a new view about what they want and most importantly how to give winning answers.”
Melissa, London UK

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