WORKING SABBATICAL™
REPLENISH. LEAD. IMPACT.
A confidential 1:1 space to navigate life’s challenges and regain clarity, energy and purpose without stepping away.
Come back to yourself, lead from there.
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Working Sabbatical™ helps executives and professionals regain clarity, vitality, and grounded direction while remaining fully engaged in their work and lives.
It is designed for those navigating ongoing responsibility, where the cumulative effects of pressure begin to shape not only their work, but also their energy, motivation, and the internal stance from which they lead.
A confidential space that helps you navigate life’s challenges and reset within the realities of performance and responsibility.
Deeply attentive and thoughtfully structured, our collaboration creates the conditions for greater clarity and sustainable leadership energy to emerge from within.
It is especially relevant for leaders who continue to perform at a high level while sensing that something important is ready to shift.
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This work is for executives and professionals who are highly capable, deeply committed, and trusted in their roles — often carrying more responsibility than most people realize.
They continue to perform at a high level, even as something internally begins to feel different.
Over time, responsibility accumulates — across work, relationships, and unspoken expectations. What once felt manageable may begin to show up as diminished vitality, a quiet loss of clarity, or the sense that something important is missing.
Many have already invested in leadership development, coaching, personal growth, or other forms of support.
And yet, the feeling remains that continuing in the same way is no longer sustainable.
This work is especially relevant for those who cannot step away from responsibility, yet recognize that something important is ready to shift.
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This work takes place as a private one-to-one space, designed to integrate into the realities of leadership and daily life — not add to them.
Sessions are confidential, structured, and deeply attentive, creating the conditions for greater clarity, perspective, and meaningful change to emerge.
The approach is facilitative and non-directive, supporting the conditions from which grounded leadership, renewed vitality, and clear direction naturally arise.
Over time, the patterns that shape how responsibility is carried begin to surface and shift. Leaders gain greater freedom, choice, and perspective in how they lead, relate, and make decisions.
This work is not about fixing what is broken.
It is for those who recognize that something important is ready to shift and want to create lasting change without stepping away from the responsibilities that matter most.
Because meaningful change rarely happens in isolation. It happens in relationship.
About
Maria Tello
Maria Tello works with clients navigating pressure, visibility, and complexity — often those operating at a level where the demands are significant, and the personal impact is not always visible.
Her work is designed to restore clarity, grounded direction, and steady vitality while remaining fully engaged in the realities of work and life.
Drawing on global leadership experience alongside a decade of advanced training in somatic and depth-oriented development, Maria helps leaders restore the internal conditions from which sustainable leadership, creativity, and meaningful contribution emerge.
Working Sabbatical™ grew from Maria's own experience of discovering that outward success does not always translate into deep fulfillment. Her work is grounded in knowing that meaningful change happens not alone but in relationship.
She created Working Sabbatical™ as a confidential one-to-one space for leaders seeking deep clarity, vitality, and direction without stepping away from the responsibilities that matter most.