Mary Jane is the proud co-owner of Creating Waves, a consulting and training company specializing in the well-being of employees. She served on the board of PWN (Professional Women's Network) NL from 2014-2021. From 2014- 2018 she was a member of the MT for The Bridge2Hope foundation, supporting human trafficked survivors in Amsterdam. In 2021 she started a foundation Ready For Female Leadership to publish a book by the same name in 2022. The foundation is now focused on supporting gender balanced leadership and in creating gender inclusive leadership qualities in society as a whole. She also became a founding member of the Wize Move Society, an online platform for supporting the 50+ group to, where necessary, reinvent themselves.
I speak on topics I'm passionate about for mixed groups, large and small. My primary focus in presenting, is to ensure that it is an engaging session. An engaged audience is one that will take something away, to share with others and create the waves needed to accelerate change.
In 2017 – 2018, I sat on and moderated two panels, for the Women in Tech Regatta in Amsterdam.
In June 2019, I was a panelist at the GTD Summit in Amsterdam. Invited by the founder, I spoke to an audience of 800+ attendees on the topic of thriving (work)spaces.
In Sept 2019 I moderated two panels at the Rise & Lead Summit in the Hague for an audience of circa 100 attendees. This summit, in its second year, was initiated to support gender balanced leadership.
In Nov 2019, I moderated a panel for circa 60 attendees, hosted at Accenture in Amsterdam and entitled Allyship! The Key to Gender Parity.
Most recently, in May 2022, I moderated a panel of 4 co-authors of our book ‘Ready for Female Leadership: The Future is NOW’, for which Robert Baker wrote the Foreword.
Age equality is also on my agenda!