Author: Maya Sharfi

Maya Sharfi is an executive and career coach and the founder of Build Yourself. She helps women move forward into the right role, and step up into new levels of impact and fulfillment. Her clients achieve results like launching new, innovative programs, landing senior director roles, and earning $25,000 raises. She aids women in moving past bias and making their industries and workplaces better places for women’s talent. Maya has trained national industry groups like Women in Innovation and the American Institute of Architects and works with leadership and staff at global design and innovation companies such as Stantec, Gensler, and HOK. She’s a former Harvard Innovation Lab resident, ran a research effort on women in social impact design for the Harvard Business School, and named as one of Impact Design Hub’s Social Impact Design 40 under 40. She’s a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.