Mary Despe de Echemendia, MBA, PCC, SPHR

expert

Location

Hawaii

Areas of Speciality

Career & Leadership

Credentials & Qualifications

Hult International Business School, MBA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA
HRCI, Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
International Coaching Federation (ICF), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) International Coaching Federation (ICF), Member

Nearest available session

November 3, 2026 - 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Times shown in Pacific/Honolulu

Private 1:1 Sessions

Work with Mary

Career Story Clean-Up: Shape Your Narrative with Confidence

$145.00

Turn time away from work into a confident, authentic career story.

60 minutes View Session

Career Tech, Demystified: Master the Systems Behind Your Search

$117.00

Make your resume and LinkedIn profile easier for recruiters to find.

60 minutes View Session

Career Crossroads: Make Your Move

$99.00

Define your priorities, compare viable career paths, and build practical decision criteria to move beyond analysis paralysis and choose your next step.

60 minutes View Session

Clarity Call: Find Direction and Next Steps

$58.00

Get unstuck and identify the next practical steps for your career.

30 minutes View Session

Ace Your Interview: Practice, Feedback & Strategy

$117.00

Complete a realistic mock interview, practice challenging questions, and receive personalized feedback to strengthen your responses and preparation.

60 minutes View Session

Resume or LinkedIn Profile Audit: Optimize Your Professional Brand

$58.00

Strengthen your resume or LinkedIn profile with personalized expert feedback.

60 minutes View Session

Build Your Own Career AI Co-Pilot

$117.00

Create an AI-powered career tool with personalized prompts and workflows for resumes, interviews, networking, career pivots, and professional conversations.

60 minutes View Session

What I Really Wanted to Ask: Your Space for Honest Career Questions

$117.00

Bring your toughest career question and leave with practical, personalized next steps.

60 minutes View Session

Finding Work after 50: Start Here

$99.00

Position your experience for today’s market, strengthen your resume, profile, and interview story, and build a practical strategy for navigating age bias.

60 minutes View Session

Mary

Career Coach

A session with me is like…
Entering a grounded, strategic space where your experiences, strengths, and goals are honored, and practical steps are crafted to help you be seen and advance authentically.

One life experience that helps me relate to my clients is…
Learning to advocate for myself after a 15-year marriage ended, realizing that I had to trust my own voice and prioritize my goals while navigating career, life, and personal change.

Three things I want clients to feel post-session are…
Confident, empowered, seen.

Past experience that qualifies me for this role is…
Over 15 years as a recruiter, hiring manager, and career coach, with expertise guiding professionals, especially women over 40 through promotions, new roles, and career transitions. Led workshops for SWE, PMI, and contributed to Refinery29 and LinkedIn.

I work with women 40+ who are ready for what’s next—whether a new role, promotion, or professional goal that reflects the impact they’ve already made. Many women feel unseen at work, balancing careers with caregiving, rebuilding after life changes, or breaking ground as the “first” or “only” in their workplace. I help women honor their full story, not just what’s written on a resume—turning experience, wisdom, and perspective into strategies that showcase their expertise and voice, so their next step reflects the whole them, not just a job title.

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Finding Work After 50

In this session, Sam career and leadership Expert Mary Despe de Echemendia offers a more hopeful way forward. Instead of following the old career ladder, she shows you how to use a compass: lead with your strengths rather than your title, tap into the network you’ve spent years building, tell your story on your own terms, and test new possibilities without expecting everything to work perfectly the first time.