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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 being made at the top.
Most senior leaders are operating inside systems that were built for speed and visibility, not for the kind of focus and clarity their roles actually demand. Back to back meetings. Fragmented days. Constant context switching. No protected time to think, just noise.
These conditions slowly and systematically erode the quality of judgement that the organisation depends on.
The people at the top are skilled and committed. The system around them has simply never been designed for the level of focus their roles require. That is a system problem and requires a system-level solution.
Check out Maya's book The Protected Mind, coming in winter 2026.
THE WORK
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Leadership teams often have the capability they need. What gets in the way is the environment around them.
When calendars are full, meetings create more work than decisions, and there is no space to step back, the quality of thinking starts to drop.
I work with executive teams to identify where clarity is being lost, then redesign the conditions around how they think and decide. Meeting structure, decision rhythms, protected thinking time, and the norms that shape how the team works.
Engagements can begin with a senior conversation, diagnostic, or focused working session. Where the challenge runs deeper, I work with the team over several months to embed better conditions for clear thinking, sound judgement, and stronger execution.
Best for:
Boards, C-suite teams, and senior leadership teams operating under pressure, complexity, or change.
SPEAKING
Keynotes and leadership sessions for senior audiences navigating complexity, AI, and high-stakes decision-making.
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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
Available internationally.
Best for: Boards, C-suite teams, senior leadership audiences, executive forums, offsites, and conferences.
Before starting her practice in 2020, Maya Rooz spent fifteen years inside some of the world's most complex organisations, including Chief of Staff to the Chief Marketing Officer at Jaguar Land Rover. Earlier in her career she was present through Saab Automobile's Chapter 11 restructuring, an experience that shaped her understanding of how leaders think, decide, and hold up under pressure. That foundation is at the centre of this practice.
The work is built on a simple premise: structure, environment, and systems determine the conditions leaders operate in. Change the conditions and the quality of thinking, decision-making, and leadership changes with them.
Maya is an executive advisor, international speaker and author, as well as ICF-ACC accredited coach.
