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Senior leaders are hired for the quality of their judgement.
Almost none of them are given the conditions to protect it.
The most expensive thing in your organisation is the quality of the decisions made at the top.
Most senior leaders work inside systems built for speed and visibility. Back-to-back meetings. Fragmented days. Constant context switching. No protected time to think.
Over time, those conditions wear down the judgement the organisation depends on.
The people at the top are capable and committed. The environment around them was never designed for the thinking their roles require.
Maya’s book, The Protected Mind, is published on 1 December 2026.
THE WORK
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Leadership teams rarely lack capability. What costs them is the environment they decide in.
Maya works with executive teams to find where judgement is being lost, then redesigns the conditions: how meetings run, how decisions are made, where thinking time sits, and how information reaches the table.
For boards, CEOs and executive teams under pressure, complexity or change.
SPEAKING
Keynotes for senior audiences on how judgement holds up under pressure, and under AI.
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When AI Thinks for You: Protecting Human Judgement in the Age of AI
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The Protected Mind: Build the Conditions for Clear Thinking
For conferences, executive forums and leadership offsites. Available internationally.
Maya spent fifteen years inside some of the world’s most complex organisations, including as Chief of Staff to the Chief Marketing Officer at Jaguar Land Rover, and through Saab Automobile’s Chapter 11 restructuring.
It showed her how leaders think, decide and hold up when the pressure is real, and how much of that depends on the conditions around them.
Her practice, founded in 2020, rests on one premise: change the conditions, and the quality of thinking, decisions and leadership changes with them.
Maya is an executive advisor, international speaker, author of The Protected Mind, and an ICF accredited coach.
