“Life Changing Revelations”
Time Magazine
Content to Get Hooked On

Workshops
Distinct Goals & Specific Outcomes
Office formal joy-filled learning with specific problems to solve and goals to achieve.
Perfect for breakthrough thinking, leveraging innovation to navigate uncertainty/change, collaboration, and ideation.
Teams/Entrepreneurs
Experiences
Team Bonding Immersive Events
Experiences are all about getting people to connect, communicate and bond in a fun, but deeply authentic way while upskilling communication & resilience.
Great for on-boarding and returning to face to face

How Mary Moves Ideas Into Action

“Mary delivered insights for our team in a way that was engaging and emotive. She easily weaves stories together in a way that not only strongly delivers her message but also grabs and maintains her audience’s attention”
Olga Karanikos
Senior Marketing Director, JOVE – EdTech

“The feedback we received during the event and since has been nothing short of amazing. Your achievements and brilliant spirit are an inspiration to many, so we are honored to highlight you and your body of work. We appreciate your support of our shared mission, and you will always have allies in all of us.”
Sarah Yao Schutzman
CFA Managing Partner, Providence Heights Capital Management, LLC

“Your presentation was amazing! I loved the box breathing technique, and will be practicing it for sure.”
Victoria Prescott
CFA Associate Director, Capital Markets & Investor Relations, Realty Income Corporation

“Mary can make you laugh, cry and learn something new in the space of 15 minutes. Her powerful take-away message encouraged me to reflect on my own expectations of myself, and was a truly valuable experience.”
Kate Brownlie Smith
SparkLab Australia

“Discovering Mary Poffenroth fundamentally changed how we talk about fear with our clients. Her work combines the best of scientific knowledge with an incredibly effective, no-shame, nuts and bolts strategy. This empowering, human, funny, wise approach is game-changing for anyone who wants to make a real impact and show up with all of their humanity intact inside high-stakes moments.”
Casey Clark and Julie Fogh
Co-founders, Vital Voice Training

“Mary spoke during a training session with our Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams. As a Director of more tenured Account Managers in Sales, it can sometimes be a challenge to provide learning opportunities of real value. We found Mary to be insightful, engaging and very realistic. The practical suggestions she shared have already led to more purposeful conversations with clients and resulted in sales opportunities progressing.”
Jen Ostrosky
Asst. Sales Director, JoVE – EdTech

“Mary stands out as one of the best public speakers I have come across. She is a natural on stage and truly engages her audience with unique approaches to her subject-matter and her warm and conversational delivery style.”
Lucy Timms-Davis
Imperial College London

“Very few speakers have the ability to engage, educate, and capture the full attention of an entire audience in a matter of minutes. Mary is one of those speakers.”
Brielan Smiecowski
BS Strategy

“Mary’s words were a wakeup call for me. I have been using the RIA method and I am starting to notice a change in my outlook in life.”
Vanisa Hayrapetionsfard

“Mary’s talks and workshops are always very insightful, and you can tell she’s had a great deal of experience in the field of communication. I was impressed with the way she delivers information, giving anecdotes that are both inspiring and relatable.”
Raquel Taylor
Imperial College London

“Fearology with Mary Poffenroth (from the Ologies Podcast) just changed by life.”
Ashley Hall
Marketing Coordinator, Nature Center at Shaker Lakes

“Mary is an engaging speaker who energized the room with vivid storytelling abilities. She’s poised on stage and her enthusiasm for science communication is infectious.”
Josh Silberg
Hakai Institute

“Mary is my anxiety-busting hero.”
Alie Ward
Host, Ologies Podcast

“We weren’t just learning about our fears and how to face them, we were bonding with each other in a way that wouldn’t have been possible for our group of executives had Mary not created a deeply engaging and entertaining event. The night was wildly successful and really set the stage for our entire event season.”
Michele Martell, Esq.
Media & Technology Attorney

“Mary’s ability to translate complex scientific concepts into anecdotes that the general public can appreciate is remarkable. The splashes of humor and intrigue that pepper her presentations engage diverse audiences and connect the public with science.”
Kristen Procko, PhD
University of Texas, Austin

“Mary actually made fear fun! Even more, she allowed me to have a larger vocabulary than “I’m stressed”. I’ve been carrying around the fear wheel she gave me ever since and breaking through the noise of a hectic day to ask myself, ” just what is going on here?”
Carolyn Thielman
Estee Lauder Companies

“Mary demystifies the complex concepts of fear with comprehensible examples and science that forever changes the way people will experience the world around them.”
Ryan Bond
Director of Digital, Britannica