Maria Escobar-Skinner, CEC is an associate with RHR and an executive coach, leadership advisor, and business leader with more than 25 years of experience helping leaders and organizations navigate transformation, strengthen culture, and develop high-performing teams.

As a member of senior leadership teams in global organizations, she has led enterprise talent strategies, organizational change initiatives, and leadership development efforts while partnering with executives to align people strategies with business goals.

She specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, succession planning, talent strategy, and organizational effectiveness. Throughout her career, Maria has partnered with senior leaders across global organizations to align people strategies with business goals, build leadership pipelines, and foster values-driven cultures. Known for her thoughtful, holistic coaching approach, she helps leaders increase self-awareness, expand their leadership capacity, and drive meaningful change.

Maria enjoys traveling, exploring different cultures, active living, wellbeing, mindfulness, and spending time with family and friends. 

Leadership begins with deep self‑awareness, clarity of personal values, and understanding of the environments in which they operate. The most effective leaders align their values, actions, and decisions in service of people, culture, and organizational performance, creating the conditions to navigate complexity with intention and lead with purpose and accountability.

Maria Escobar-Skinner

Maria works with organizations across multiple industries, with significant leadership consulting experience in the following:

Retail
Financial services
Consumer packaged goods
Food and beverage
Manufacturing
Industrial gases and chemicals
Logistics and supply chain

Languages:
English
Spanish