With a career spanning over 30 years in the industry as a Quantity Surveyor, Project Manager and Risk Manager, Maria’s interest in personal development led her to become a qualified Personal and Business Coach in 2012. Maria is passionate about bringing positive, lasting change to the industry and launched Construction Coach in 2014 working with SME’s and micro-businesses to build stronger, more profitable and happier businesses. Maria’s ethos is all about the ‘Construction Revolution’ which is encouraging the industry to move away from the ‘race to the bottom’ on cost and the boom and bust culture that runs through it. This is reflected in her Federation of Master Builders Coaching Programme which is now on it’s 3rd cohort and also the recent launch of the Solving Tech for Small Builders programme, funded by the CITB Impact Fund.. To influence change Maria has been a Non-Executive Director on the Construction Industry Council national board, former Chair of the CIC EDI Committee and current member of the Construction Leadership Council working groups, Skills for a Modernised Industry and Repair, Maintenance and Improvement.