Based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Maja works with leaders in complex organisations who are very good at what they do and who are paying a quiet, cumulative price for it. Her clients are not struggling because they lost motivation. They are struggling because they are deeply committed to their teams, stretched into new territory, and running on less than they have. That is a specific kind of exhaustion, and it requires someone who knows it from the inside.

What becomes possible in Maja’s coaching is the kind of honesty that is hard to access anywhere else. Leaders who have spent years being capable and composed finally have a place to be uncertain, to name what is not working, and to figure out what sustainable looks like for them, not in theory, but in the real conditions of their organisations. For those who are approaching burnout or already in it, the work goes further: understanding what drove them there, what recovery requires across every dimension of their lives, and how to lead differently on the other side without losing what made them good at this in the first place.

Maja is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in leadership and is certified as a professional Co-Active Coach, accredited at the PCC level through the International Coaching Federation. She spent more than two decades as a leader in healthcare, most recently as a director, leading teams doing complex work in the toxic drug emergency response and the communicable disease response during the pandemic. She is also a certified burnout coach. Her master’s research focused on the determinants of health, and her decade working in population health has shaped her understanding of how people actually change, and why good intentions alone rarely get them there.

Maja’s coaching is grounded in the belief that you cannot work on one part of a person and expect the rest to follow. She attends to all of it: the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions that together determine whether someone can sustain the kind of leadership they want to do. She leads from behind, drawing out what is already present rather than prescribing a path.

Her own recovery from extreme burnout is not a footnote. It is the source of her credibility with clients who are in the middle of theirs. Clients describe her as perceptive, disarmingly honest, and precise, someone who asks the question you were hoping she would not, at exactly the moment you most need to hear it.

Maja is someone whose life outside of work tells you something about how she thinks inside it.

Connect with Maja today and imagine your possibilities!