Summary of Experience
Committed to maximizing results and growing initiatives, Mariama Boney, LMSW, CAE, CPEC is an award-winning educational administrator, association executive, facilitator, consultant, coach, and author for 25+ years. I facilitate by creating safe, structured spaces where leaders and teams transform how they work, move toward bold goals, and maximize results and profitability.
Drawing on experience across 1,500+ trainings and programs, 1,000+ projects and consultations, and 1,000+ groups and teams, I help organizations slow down just enough to tell the truth—without blame or defensiveness—so they can move forward with clarity, alignment, and shared ownership.
My facilitation helps leaders and teams:
• Name what’s really happening beneath burnout, tension, or stalled progress
• Create psychological safety so people can speak honestly and stay engaged
• Turn tension into traction, using difference and disagreement as data
• Align people, priorities, and decisions so strategy becomes actionable
• Strengthen trust and accountability through clear roles and expectations
• Leave with clarity, momentum, and practical next steps
My facilitation style is direct, human, and solution-focused. I don’t rescue the room or dominate it. I design and guide the process so the right conversations happen—and people can do the work together.
Across sectors and industries, this work has contributed to impacting more than 3 million lives, helping leaders lead with confidence, teams work with trust, and organizations move from polite agreement to real alignment, action, and results.
I am the author of VENT: I’m Worth It: A Journey to Refocus, Realign and Restore and VENT: I’m Worth It: Leadership Edition, and VENT: Our Resilience Is Enough. .
A. To help individuals and teams maximize the results I provide:
• Onboarding processes linked to learning outcomes
• Team development and retreat sessions
• Strategic planning
• Interactive workshops such as DiSC, The Five Behaviors, CliftonStrengths, customer service, motivation, leadership, communication, conflict, supervision, ethics, AI Trust, and well-being.
• Dialogue sessions on diversity, inclusion, equity and access
• Train-The-Trainer
• Coaching
B . I create plans for and provide onsite design and assistance with facilitation of:
• Meetings
• Workgroups
• Boards, Volunteers, Committees, Taskforces
• Planning sessions
• Retreats and
• Well-being coaching
• Special topics (e.g. diversity and inclusion, team building, networking, change leadership, etc.)
• Train-the-Trainer
