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Influence for Outcomes That Matter
A 6-Week Leadership Influence Intensive for Women
A leadership development program designed to help women strengthen the way they communicate, negotiate, and influence outcomes in complex professional environments.
With guided coaching, online training, and a structured workbook, you’ll apply the learning directly to the leadership conversations, decisions, and challenges you are currently navigating.
The Challenge High-Performing Women Face
High-performing women create enormous value inside organizations. They lead projects, solve complex problems, and bring strong insights to strategic discussions.
Yet in critical moments - leadership meetings, stakeholder conversations, budget discussions - the impact of their contributions can become reduced.
Not About Competence
Women leaders bring thorough preparation and strong ideas to every conversation.
But About Impact
The moment of influence becomes compressed by pressure, hierarchy, and resistance.
The Result
Contributions are significant, but outcomes aren't fully shaped.
The Pattern Many Women Leaders Experience
Prepare Thoroughly
Bring strong ideas and read the room carefully.
Focus on Value
Adapt to others and prioritize collaboration.
Pushback Appears
Softening message or over-explaining.
Maintain Harmony
Giving away value to keep peace.
Over time, this dynamic affects individual careers and means organizations don't fully benefit from the expertise and leadership potential of the women they employ.
Program Overview
Influence for Outcomes That Matter is a 6-week intensive leadership development program designed to strengthen women's ability to influence decisions, navigate resistance, and communicate with clarity in complex professional environments.
At the heart of the program are six guided coaching sessions, where participants work directly with the professional situations they are currently navigating.
These sessions provide a supportive space to explore challenges, strengthen clarity, and develop practical ways to move conversations and decisions forward.
The coaching is supported by a structured online training and workbook, which provides the conceptual foundation and practical tools participants bring into the sessions.
Each week, participants engage with the learning material and reflection exercises, allowing the coaching conversations to go deeper and focus directly on the participants’ real leadership situations.
This structure ensures that the coaching remains practical, focused, and immediately applicable.
Zoom Sessions
6 Coaching Sessions 1:1
Focus on the participants’ real professional challenges. A supportive space where you receive guidance in navigating situations you are currently facing, helping you bring the insights from the training into your own leadership style and real-life professional conversations.
Online Sessions
Weekly short lessons
Focused videos that keep you clear and moving without overwhelming you.
Structured workbook
Clarify your ask, map your next move, and integrate week by week.
Guided exercises
Simple prompts that turn insight into action you can use fast.
Influence tools
Navigate resistance, make proposals, and move decisions forward cleanly.
The Be Do Influence Framework
This program is grounded in the Be Do Influence Framework.
Be – Clarity – Do = Influence
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Clarity
Do
Be
INFLUENCE
Stand in my Vision
Hold my Values
Own my Experience
Set up for Succes
Hold Conversations
Uncover Opportunities
Move past Resistance
Hold the Line
Shape Outcomes
Influence is not created by technique alone. It emerges from the interaction between how we show up, how clear we are, and how we act in critical moments.
Be: The Foundation
Influence begins with presence. This dimension focuses on how a leader shows up under pressure: grounded, self-aware, emotionally regulated, and connected to what matters.
Without this foundation, even strong ideas can lose force in the room.
Grounded
Steady presence in pressure.
Self-Aware
Understanding your impact.
Emotionally Regulated
Managing reactions effectively.
Clarity: The Bridge
Clarity is the bridge between inner presence and external action. When you're clear about what you want and what matters most, you can frame your message, so it lands clearly.
Clarity reduces hesitation, over-accommodation, and value leakage.
What You Want
Define clear outcomes.
What Matters Most
Identify core priorities.
What You Stand For
Set non-negotiable boundaries.
Frame Your Message
Make it resonate clearly.
Do: The Action
This is where influence becomes visible. You learn practical tools for navigating real workplace challenges. Make collaborative proposals while protecting value and landing win-win agreements.
Doing the right thing at the right time in the right way is leadership in action.
Handle Resistance
Navigate pushback constructively.
Set Boundaries
Protect your value and time.
Move to Outcomes
Drive conversations forward.
Clear Proposals
Make compelling, actionable recommendations.
Stakeholder Dynamics
Navigate complex relationships.
What People Say
“Finally - a negotiation training that blends presence, power, and strategy. Nothing else I’ve done comes close.”
- Michelle (Participant)
“It’s the first time I’ve learned negotiation in a way that blends presence, values, and strategy without losing power.”
- Participant
“Finally, I get clarity emotionally, in a way I didn’t before. Every session confirms how important that is.”
- A. L. (Participant)
“I really wish I had known this earlier in my career. It’s like parts of the jigsaw made sense. Negotiations now take on a whole different meaning for me.”
- L. M. (Participant)
“I was able to stop myself in the moment when I was about to suppress what I wanted, get clarity on what that was, and set my boundaries, multiple times. And it worked every time.”
- Participant
Coach & Facilitator
Vorian Maryssael has spent more than two decades working in
complex international and technical environments where influence, negotiation, and strategic communication are essential.
She began her career in technical business development and
technology negotiations in the oil and gas industry, operating in environments largely dominated by men.
She later held leadership roles within international organizations, including the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in Vienna.
Today she works with leaders and organizations to strengthen their ability to navigate resistance, communicate clearly, and influence outcomes that matter.
Her work is grounded in the Be Do Influence Framework, helping women translate their expertise and ideas into meaningful impact.
Leadership experience within the United Nations and international organizations in complex, high-stakes, politically sensitive environments.
Over a decade delivering B2B negotiation training through Scotwork for professionals from Key Account Managers to C-suite executives.
Certified Mediator with professional training in conflict resolution and facilitated dialogue.
Senior leadership, advisory, and entrepreneurial roles in oil and gas, technology, and startups.
Certified Advanced Yoga Teacher integrating presence and awareness into leadership and decision-making.
Founder and facilitator of influence, negotiation, and leadership programs for women.
Certificate from the Authentic Leadership Programme, Naropa University (Colorado, USA).
Certified NLP Business Coach.
M.Sc. in Earth Sciences.
DISCLAIMER
Results may vary | Results are based on individual circumstances
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