• Martha Pollay teaches in front of a live class
  • Martha Pollay teaches in front of a live class
  • Martha Pollay teaches in front of a live class

Meet Martha

Co-Founder of Mandara Hospitality Group and a Certified Leadership Coach, Martha unearths creative ways to elevate the employee culture, leadership style, and guest experience within the hospitality industry. Knowing there is a ripple effect to every interaction, Martha is passionate about coaching her team to embody the social and emotional intelligence skills necessary to maximize the quality of their connections with others. Since 2009, when she and her husband opened their first restaurant, Martha has expanded her leadership coaching to other venues, including other Hospitality Groups and Athletic Teams. The principles she has built her work on are informed by mindfulness, somatics, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience.

Credentials

Martha holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) certification awarded by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a Georgetown University Leadership Coaching program graduate.  She is also a certified teacher for the Search Inside Yourself leadership program, a science-based mindfulness curriculum that originated at Google and is designed to cultivate emotional intelligence.  

The Mandara™ Leadership Lab

The Mandara Leadership Lab's program development integrates the fields of mindfulness, somatics, and emotional intelligence to create a strong foundation for being a successful leader.  Our curriculum weaves together both intellectual and experiential learning creating a solid foundation to support growth and transformation in leaders and their teams.  Your habits and your ability to transform those habits are rooted in neurology.  While an intellectual understanding is helpful and often necessary, it is essential to develop the practices that build the new neural pathways essential for lasting change.  

There are innumerable benefits to developing and honing your emotional intelligence skills, such as greater self-awareness, increased emotional agility, improved relationships with others, and enhanced resilience and wellbeing.  Mandara Leadership Lab is dedicated to training the emotional intelligence skills necessary for fostering Embodied Hospitality, Authentic Leadership, and Interpersonal Wellbeing.