About Maria Sirois, Psy.D.

I’ve spent three decades showing up in the board rooms of business and the bedsides of the dying and everywhere in between to do one thing:  bring the data, the stories, the tools, and the wisdom that enable any one of us to cultivate a grounded optimism, a clear sense of direction and a resilient inner strength in the moments of upheaval and opportunity.

I teach, train, keynote, coach, consult and encourage and am known for saying the thing that others hesitate to say with a generous tone and a kind gaze (mostly kind). I work in that liminal space between what has been true and what is possible and help to name the difficult and exhilarating side of striving for excellence in whatever we do.

My father went to school at night while working in a leather mill to get his college degree, with three young babies at home.  I am his daughter.

My mother made sure I had every chance to read whatever I wanted to read and has never stopped learning.  I am her daughter.

My work is intimate and universal.  Positive and paradoxical.  Efficient, elegant, direct, and elevating.  It has yet, however, to change the temperament of my cat.