About Maria
Hello there!
I believe that true transformation begins with awareness—and that’s where my work starts. As a certified Enneagram teacher, leadership coach, and creator of the ARC Method, I help individuals and teams unlock their potential by understanding their core patterns, breaking free from reactive tendencies, and making intentional choices that lead to lasting growth.
With a background in business team development, leadership training, and the psychology of personality, I take a science-backed approach to training and coaching. The Enneagram is more than just a personality system—it’s a powerful tool for self-awareness and change. But insight alone isn’t enough. That’s why I developed the ARC Method—a structured framework that bridges awareness with action. Rooted in neuroscience, the ARC Method (Awareness, Response, Commitment) empowers individuals and teams to pause, recognize their patterns, and make intentional choices that align with their goals.
I hold a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California (USC). I also hold an Enneagram Teaching Certification from The Narrative Enneagram (TNE).
Why does this matter?
You want someone who not only understands the complexities of work relationship dynamics, but is also deeply knowledgeable in the Enneagram. With my education, training, and experience, I am able to uniquely see how the Enneagram framework can be applied practically and successfully to organizations large and small.
My Approach
I skip the spiritual teachings of the Enneagram and focus on its psychological and scientific foundations. My approach is practical, actionable, and designed for real-world impact. Whether I’m working with individuals looking for personal growth or teams navigating leadership, communication, and conflict, I use a combination of:
The Enneagram – to uncover core motivations, strengths, and blind spots
The ARC Method – to shift from autopilot reactions to intentional responses
Science-Based Tools – to help clients build new habits and lasting change
Why It Matters
In both personal and professional life, we are often driven by unconscious habits and automatic responses. Understanding why you do what you do—and how to shift it—can be the key to improving relationships, reducing stress, managing conflict, making better decisions, and becoming a more effective leader.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your personal or professional growth, I’d love to help you discover how the ARC Method and the Enneagram can guide you toward meaningful transformation.
About The ARC Method and the Enneagram
The ARC Method
The ARC Method — Awareness, Response, Commitment — provides the actionable steps needed to transform your narrative. It’s a simple yet powerful process to break unhelpful patterns, build healthier habits, and commit to lasting change. The ARC Method is about understanding your triggers, responding with intention, and making lasting changes. It is based on neuroscience and guides you through the process of shifting your behavior patterns to align with your goals. The ARC Method turns insight into action, empowering you to rewrite your story and create a future that reflects your values.
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The Enneagram
The Enneagram is a powerful tool for understanding the core motivations, fears, and desires that shape our behaviors. It highlights nine distinct personality types, each with its own narrative and unique way of perceiving the world. By identifying your Enneagram type, you gain insight into the story you’ve been telling yourself — the patterns, strengths, and blind spots that define how you navigate life. You discover your character’s journey, uncovering the underlying motivations that drive your choices. With the Enneagram, you have a personalized roadmap for your character arc guiding you to unlock your potential and step into the next chapter of growth and transformation.
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The ARC Method and the Enneagram Combined
While the Enneagram gives you the map, it doesn’t tell you how to navigate it. The ARC Method shows you how to make those crucial shifts, but without the personalized guidance of the Enneagram, it can lack focus.
Learning both together allows you to approach personal development as a hero’s journey — where you not only understand your story but also have the tools to craft your next chapter. This dual approach is about transforming awareness into action, ensuring that you’re not just learning about who you are, but actively creating the story you want to live, whether it’s for personal growth or team success.
The Perfectionist believes you must be good and right in order to be worthy. They are conscientious, responsible, improvement-oriented and self-controlled but can also be critical, resentful, and self-judging.
Type 1
The Perfectionist
9 Types
The Giver believes you must give fully to others in order to be loved. They are helpful, caring, supportive, relationship-oriented but can also be overly intrusive, demanding and prideful.
Type 2
The Giver
The Performer believes you must be successful in order to be loved. They are fast-paced, focused on goals and efficiency. They can also be inattentive to feelings, impatient, and image-driven.
Type 3
The Performer
The Romantic believes you must obtain the ideal relationship or situation to be loved. They are idealistic, deeply feeling, empathetic, authentic, but also dramatic, moody and sometimes self-absorbed.
Type 4
The Romantic
The Observer believes you must protect yourself from a world that demands too much. They seek self-sufficiency and are non-demanding, analytic, unobtrusive, and thoughtful, but can also be withholding, detached, and overly private.
Type 5
The Observer
The Loyal Skeptic believes the world is unpredictable and hazardous so they try to create security and certainty by being prepared. They are trustworthy, inquisitive, and are good friends but they can also be doubting, vigilant, and questioning.
Type 6
The Loyal Skeptic
The Epicure believes you must keep life up and open to assure a good life. They seek possibilities and pleasure and are optimistic, upbeat, and adventurous but also avoid pain and can be un-committed and self-serving.
Type 7
The Epicure
The Protector believes you must be strong and powerful to assure protection and regard in a tough world. They seek justice and are direct, strong and action-oriented, but also can be overly impactful, excessive, and sometimes impulsive.
Type 8
The Protector
The Mediator believes that to be loved and valued, you must blend in ad go along to get along. They seek harmony and are comfortable and steady but can also be self-forgetting, conflict-avoidant and sometimes stubborn.
Type 9
The Mediator