ABOUT MARIA DECARVALHO
Maria DeCarvalho is an executive coach who works with leaders committed to their own personal development. She counts among her international clients key executives in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, global banking, software, transportation, manufacturing, telecommunications and foundations as well as the leaders of a number of faith communities, including an order of monks. She also has the honor of coaching other coaches.
Maria’s career trajectory has taken her through the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She served the late U.S. Senator John H. Chafee on Capitol Hill, and in Rhode Island as the director of his home office. Before her stint as a lending officer in the Commodities Finance Division, International Department of JP Morgan Chase, she served on the faculty of the bank’s rigorous corporate training program. In that role she taught credit analysis and specialized lending practices to all new Chase corporate hires and to mid-career lending officers sent for training from other global banks.
As an ordained Episcopal priest and Dean of The Cathedral of St. John in Providence, RI, Maria built a multicultural congregation whose attendance doubled and whose annual giving increased 280% over her tenure. Her longstanding interest in adult learning combined with a quarter-century of listening to people led Maria into serious study of human relationships and interpersonal communication. She draws on a range of sources including modern social science and ancient spiritual wisdom to teach the essential relationship skills of deep listening, delivering important messages and expressing appreciation and gratefulness.
Because improving relationships and team effectiveness so often requires adaptive growth, Maria immersed herself in the groundbreaking Immunity to Change (ITC) coaching methodology created by Harvard University researchers Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. She is a Certified Coach and serves on the faculty for coach training in the ITC system. She is also a Senior Associate of Minds at Work, Kegan and Lahey’s consulting firm. Maria is asked to speak to a wide range of audiences and is the author of numerous articles in both the popular and professional press.
Maria earned her B.A from Yale University, and received her Master of Divinity degree from Boston College School for Theology and Ministry. She lives in Providence, RI with her husband, A.T. Wall. They have two adult children and a black Labrador retriever named Charlie.