SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

As a speaker and facilitator, Maris helps individuals navigate identity, stress, and value exploration. She brings grounded tools and fresh insights to organizations and communities seeking to support their teams, clients, and members holistically.

With a blend of clinical insight, academic grounding, and personal lived experience, Maris creates space for honest, compassionate conversations. Her talks offer actionable strategies grounded in the realities of leadership, caregiving, and making thoughtful, values-based decisions under pressure.

Her approach integrates simple neuroscience and practical tools, rooted in the belief that awareness and intention are the foundation for a present life and an empowered future.

Selected Events and Collaborations

  • 92Y

  • LA Times Festival of Books

  • Broward County Library Annual Literary Conference

  • Crayola

  • TJX

  • Jumpstart

  • Delta Dialogues

  • Podcasts: Totally Booked with Zibby, Pulling Threads, Betches Childproof, and additional appearances

Participants Leave with:

  • Clear frameworks for understanding stress, reactivity, and identity in daily life and professional roles

  • Practical tools to manage tension, navigate change, and communicate more effectively

  • Insights into the stories and patterns shaping relationships, culture, and personal performance

  • Strategies to engage and collaborate with greater intention and impact

Featured Topics and Workshops:

  • Identity, Intention, and Leadership: showing up with clarity, awareness, and purpose in every role

  • Conflict Resolution and Collaboration: managing tension and strengthening communication with practical, self-regulation strategies

  • Redefining Midlife: Identity, Transition, and Growth: exploring evolving roles, life transitions, and the stories that shape how we show up to them

  • Supporting the Sandwich Generation: navigating caregiving, role transitions, and layered responsibilities without burnout

Testimonials

“Maris brings a unique depth of knowledge

combined with authenticity and warmth that immediately draws people in. Maris also has a remarkable talent for taking big, complex concepts and making them accessible, actionable, and relevant for any audience. She not only brings clarity to important ideas but infuses them with heart and meaning, leaving people feeling informed, empowered, and inspired."

Crystal Rountree, CEO-Jumpstart

“Maris doesn’t just speak, she connects! Her blend of science, story, and humor made the material stick in a way that felt effortless. Participants were fully absorbed and left feeling seen, empowered, and equipped with tools both approachable and genuinely life changing.”

Danielle St. Laurent, Founder-Delta Dialogues

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