About Maya Delano
Maya Delano’s work lives at the intersection of transformation, leadership, and creative truth-telling.
She is a coach, facilitator, and artist who helps women navigate pivotal transitions—career shifts, identity changes, personal loss, and the quiet (or not-so-quiet) moments when life no longer fits the version they once built.
But this work didn’t begin in a studio.
It began in the real world—inside organizations, teams, deadlines, expectations, and the unspoken pressure to keep moving forward, even when something deeper is asking for your attention.
A Life Interrupted and Reimagined
In her early thirties, Maya experienced a profound personal loss: the death of her mother.
It was a moment that didn’t just bring grief—it disrupted her sense of identity, direction, and belonging in her own life.
The path she had been walking no longer felt aligned.
The roles she had stepped into no longer felt like hers.
And like many women at a crossroads, she found herself asking:
Who am I now? And what comes next?
What followed wasn’t a clean reinvention.
It was a process.
A gradual, layered, deeply human unfolding.
Through that process, Maya found her way back to herself—not through logic alone, but through creative expression.
Through collage.
Through image, intuition, and meaning-making.
Through allowing something new to emerge before she could fully explain it.
From Corporate Leadership to Transformational Work
Before stepping fully into her work as a coach and facilitator, Maya built her career in the corporate world—where she developed a strong foundation in leadership, communication, and navigating complex professional environments.
She became known not just for her performance, but for something harder to quantify:
Her ability to see people.
To mentor emerging female professionals entering the workplace.
To support their growth, confidence, and voice in environments that didn’t always make space for it.
To help them move forward—not just strategically, but authentically.
She has also contributed her time and leadership through board service, reflecting her commitment to community impact and meaningful contribution beyond her own work.
Collage as Compass
Maya’s signature approach, Collage as Compass, is both a methodology and an experience.
It blends coaching, visual storytelling, and intuitive process to help women access clarity that can’t always be reached through thinking alone.
In her workshops and 1:1 coaching, women use collage as a tool to:
Navigate life and career transitions
Process change, loss, and uncertainty
Reconnect with their identity and direction
Make aligned decisions about what’s next
This work is not about “being creative.”
It’s about seeing your life—clearly, honestly, and with possibility.
Maya has facilitated these workshops for women across different life stages, guiding them through moments of reinvention with depth, structure, and care.
The Work Today
Today, Maya works with women who are ready for something more—
More clarity.
More alignment.
More truth in how they live and lead.
Some are navigating career transitions.
Some are stepping into leadership.
Some are rebuilding after loss or major life change.
All of them are asking, in their own way:
What’s next for me—and how do I move toward it with confidence?
Maya’s work meets them there.
Not with quick answers.
But with a process that is grounded, intuitive, and deeply transformational.
If you’re standing at the edge of something new—even if you can’t fully name it yet—you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Rooted in Community
Based in Santa Cruz, California, Maya is deeply connected to her local community.
Her artistic development has been influenced by her work alongside artists such as Coeleen Kiebert and her ongoing engagement with the creative and professional communities around her.
She believes in showing up—not just for clients, but for community.
Through mentorship, collaboration, and philanthropy, she continues to invest in spaces where women can grow, create, and lead.
