MASHA “Ms. Yes I’ll take the leap” Pavlova
TEDx Speaker | Three-Time #1 International Bestselling Author | Neurodivergent Leader
Welcome, fellow Changemaker!
You are here because you are shaping the future of communities and organizations. Whether you lead in government, business, education, or the nonprofit sectors, you believe in the power of collaboration to build resilient systems, spark innovation, and move ideas into action.
Perhaps you are:
• An Organizational Leader seeking cross-sector collaborations to advance your mission
• An Event Organizer looking for a speaker or facilitator who inspires action and connection
• A Business Owner or Collaborator ready to strengthen your impact and grow with focus
Let’s connect to move your vision forward and expand what is possible!
- Masha Pavlova
Welcome, fellow Changemaker!
You are here because you are shaping the future of communities and organizations. Whether you lead in government, business, education, or the nonprofit sectors, you believe in the power of collaboration to build resilient systems, spark innovation, and move ideas into action.
Perhaps you are:
• Organizational leader seeking cross-sector collaborations that advances your mission
• Event organizer looking for a speaker or facilitator who inspires action and connection
• Business owner or collaborator ready to strengthen your impact and grow with focus
Let’s connect to move your vision forward and expand what is possible!
- Masha Pavlova
A little about me:
My name is Maria Pavlova, but you can call me Masha!
I’m a TEDx Speaker, three-time #1 International Bestselling Business Author, and Neurodivergent Leader. I’ve co-authored books alongside inspiring voices like Dr. Joe Vitale (The Secret), James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), and Ken Honda (Happy Money and Mindvalley).
I build ecosystems that bring leaders together across government, business, education, and nonprofits. Over the past 20 years, my work has included running my own business, developing entrepreneurship initiatives that equip small businesses with mentorship, training, and access to capital, and leading large-scale collaborations across five continents.
Today, I speak, teach, and create partnerships around the world to ignite missions and convert them into measurable impact.
A little about me:
My name is Maria Pavlova, but you can call me Masha!
I’m a TEDx Speaker, three-time #1 International Bestselling Business Author, and Neurodivergent Leader. I’ve co-authored books alongside inspiring voices like Dr. Joe Vitale (The Secret), James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), and Ken Honda (Happy Money and Mindvalley).
I build ecosystems that bring leaders together across government, business, education, and nonprofits. Over the past 20 years, my work has included running my own business, developing entrepreneurship initiatives that equip small businesses with mentorship, training, and access to capital, and leading large-scale collaborations across five continents.
Today, I speak, teach, and create partnerships around the world to ignite missions and convert them into measurable impact.
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SERVICES
Fractional Leadership, Strategic Consulting, Executive Coaching
Partner With Masha to Turn Vision Into Action
Strategic Partnerships and Solutions for Growth and Impact
Whatever your goal is...
The question is never “can you or can you not”,
but rather “what is the best way to get there.”
Your focus might be on moving beyond reactive problem-solving and short-term fixes, finding creative ways to re-engage your audience, securing the perfect sponsor to move your vision forward, or expanding your brand into a new market.
The right approach makes all the difference. For more than 20 years, I have helped leaders like you create clarity of vision, identify the next steps, and design strategies that deliver results. Together, we uncover opportunities, connect with the right partners, and build systems that make growth sustainable and measurable. Every solution is tailored to your stage of growth and the impact you want to achieve.
1.
EXECUTIVE
COACHING
What it is:
A structured coaching experience that strengthens leadership confidence, decision-making, and influence.
Who it's for:
Executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to overcome roadblocks, navigate complexity, and lead with impact.
Value:
Gain tools and frameworks to manage high-stakes decisions, build resilience, and lead effectively through change. The result is actionable growth that transforms leadership capability into measurable organizational results.
2.
STRATEGIC
CONSULTING
What it is:
A partnership designed to uncover challenges, identify opportunities, and create strategies aligned with long-term goals.
Who it's for:
Organizations seeking clarity, new market positioning, or actionable plans to unlock growth and increase impact.
Value:
Receive a tailored roadmap that prioritizes key actions and resources, providing a clear path from vision to execution. This solution offers practical strategies instead of generic frameworks, ensuring momentum and measurable progress without wasted time or resources.
3.
FRACTIONAL
LEADERSHIP
What it is:
Access to executive-level leadership on a flexible basis, providing strategic oversight and decision-making power without the cost or delay of a full-time hire.
Who it's for:
Organizations navigating rapid growth, restructuring, or stalled initiatives that require immediate leadership to maintain momentum and clarity.
Value:
Fractional Executive (CEO)
Founder Support: Founders are natural visionaries, but the demands of daily operations can quickly become overwhelming. A fractional CEO provides structure, stability, and leadership, allowing founders to stay focused on growth and innovation.
Crisis or Restructuring: When a business faces turbulence, clear and steady decision-making is essential. A fractional CEO steps in to realign priorities, steady the team, and restore confidence among stakeholders.
Scalability Without Risk: Growth requires direction and strategy, but hiring a full-time CEO too early can be costly and premature. A fractional CEO offers experienced guidance to help scale the business while minimizing risk.
Fractional Marketing (CMO)
Clear Marketing Leadership: Many companies have marketing staff but lack a unifying strategy. A fractional CMO provides direction, sets priorities, and ensures marketing becomes a driver of growth rather than a cost center.
Brand Positioning and Growth: Strong positioning is essential for standing out in competitive markets. A fractional CMO refines messaging, strengthens brand identity, and opens new opportunities for expansion.
Efficiency and ROI: Every dollar spent on marketing should generate measurable impact. A fractional CMO ties budgets to outcomes, eliminating guesswork and ensuring investments produce returns.
Fractional Strategy (CSO)
Clarity on Strategy: Organizations often find themselves reacting to immediate problems instead of pursuing a proactive vision. A fractional CSO brings clarity and focus to the long-term plan.
Unblocking Growth: Many businesses plateau because hidden obstacles slow their momentum. A fractional CSO identifies these barriers and creates a roadmap for sustainable growth.
Critical Inflection Points: During expansions, pivots, mergers, or new market entries, strategy determines success or failure. A fractional CSO provides the insight needed to make the right moves at pivotal moments.
Partner With Masha to Turn Vision Into Action
Strategic Partnerships and Solutions for Growth and Impact
Whatever your goal is... The question is never “can you or can you not”, but rather “what is the best way to get there.”
Your focus might be on moving beyond reactive problem-solving and short-term fixes, finding creative ways to re-engage your audience, securing the perfect sponsor to move your vision forward, or expanding your brand into a new market.
The right approach makes all the difference. For more than 20 years, I have helped leaders like you create clarity of vision, identify the next steps, and design strategies that deliver results.
Together, we uncover opportunities, connect with the right partners, and build systems that make growth sustainable and measurable. Every solution is tailored to your stage of growth and the impact you want to achieve.
EXECUTIVE
COACHING
What it is:
A structured coaching experience that strengthens leadership confidence, decision-making, and influence.
Who it's for:
Executives, founders, and emerging leaders who want to overcome roadblocks, navigate complexity, and lead with impact.
Value:
Gain tools and frameworks to manage high-stakes decisions, build resilience, and lead effectively through change. The result is actionable growth that transforms leadership capability into measurable organizational results.
STRATEGIC
CONSULTING
What it is:
A partnership designed to uncover challenges, identify opportunities, and create strategies aligned with long-term goals.
Who it's for:
Organizations seeking clarity, new market positioning, or actionable plans to unlock growth and increase impact.
Value:
Receive a tailored roadmap that prioritizes key actions and resources, providing a clear path from vision to execution. This solution offers practical strategies instead of generic frameworks, ensuring momentum and measurable progress without wasted time or resources.
FRACTIONAL
LEADERSHIP
What it is:
Access to executive-level leadership on a flexible basis, providing strategic oversight and decision-making power without the cost or delay of a full-time hire.
Who it's for:
Organizations navigating rapid growth, restructuring, or stalled initiatives that require immediate leadership to maintain momentum and clarity.
Value:
Fractional Executive (CEO)
Founder Support: Founders are natural visionaries, but the demands of daily operations can quickly become overwhelming. A fractional CEO provides structure, stability, and leadership, allowing founders to stay focused on growth and innovation.
Crisis or Restructuring: When a business faces turbulence, clear and steady decision-making is essential. A fractional CEO steps in to realign priorities, steady the team, and restore confidence among stakeholders.
Scalability Without Risk: Growth requires direction and strategy, but hiring a full-time CEO too early can be costly and premature. A fractional CEO offers experienced guidance to help scale the business while minimizing risk.
Fractional Marketing (CMO)
Clear Marketing Leadership: Many companies have marketing staff but lack a unifying strategy. A fractional CMO provides direction, sets priorities, and ensures marketing becomes a driver of growth rather than a cost center.
Brand Positioning and Growth: Strong positioning is essential for standing out in competitive markets. A fractional CMO refines messaging, strengthens brand identity, and opens new opportunities for expansion.
Efficiency and ROI: Every dollar spent on marketing should generate measurable impact. A fractional CMO ties budgets to outcomes, eliminating guesswork and ensuring investments produce returns.
Fractional Strategy (CSO)
Clarity on Strategy: Organizations often find themselves reacting to immediate problems instead of pursuing a proactive vision. A fractional CSO brings clarity and focus to the long-term plan.
Unblocking Growth: Many businesses plateau because hidden obstacles slow their momentum. A fractional CSO identifies these barriers and creates a roadmap for sustainable growth.
Critical Inflection Points: During expansions, pivots, mergers, or new market entries, strategy determines success or failure. A fractional CSO provides the insight needed to make the right moves at pivotal moments.
Fractional Executive
Chief Executive | Chief Strategy | Chief Marketing
Consider This...
What if exponential growth in your organization could happen as a result of minimizing risk and simplifying your efforts?
Progress Is Impossible Without Change
The culture of endless efforts of "planting the seeds for the next generation" is a myth restricting and diverting us from the impact necessary today.
As a leader, my goal is to create a self-sufficient ecosystem which holds the vision and collapses the timeline bridging the gap of what's possible for your project. This approach maximizes connectivity of people both within and outside the organization to create powerful partnerships with staff, community, sponsors and partners.
I invite YOU to shatter the belief of "this is just how it goes" and see how close your mission really is.
Creative Solutions for Maximizing Your Mission
I support social impact businesses and non-profit organizations with the most effective, out of the box processes resulting in maximized team commitment, powerful lead-generating outreach and longterm partnership development.
Fractional Executive vs. Consultant
Bringing a fractional executive on board allows you to tap into the skillset and expertise of someone who is committed to your mission and vision without the extensive requirement and cost associated
with full time employment.
Bringing a fractional executive on board allows you to tap into the skillset and expertise of someone who is committed to your mission and vision without the extensive requirement and cost associated with full time employment.
Envision the Results
By hiring me as a fractional executive you can expect to fast-track your goals in engagement and impactful collaborations, public outreach to maximize social engagement, team sustainability through self-leadership culture, and exponential conversion of community buy-in.
Fractional Executive
Chief Executive | Chief Strategy | Chief Marketing
Executive Coaching
Strategy | Growth | Systems | Sustainability
Consulting
Small Business | Strategy | Growth | Systems | Sustainability
Getting a coach has been the most impactful choice I have ever made in my life. It is the core reasons behind my ability to grow quickly, overcome all obstacles, and when I do fall, to not stay down for long. Since I have discovered coaching, I have built the support I needed around me based on where I was, where I wanted to go and how fast.
Having been in a space of both professional and personal growth for multiple decades, I am honored to be in a space where I can now turn around and provide the guidance to exceptional individuals who have a dream and a vision, as well as the burning desire to make it a reality.
My clients are the individuals who are already out there, putting in everything they've got into building their mission. What support looks like for them is recognizing and breaking through limiting beliefs, building their business in a tested framework, and breaking through all of the glass ceilings both in a mindset as well as the practical sense.
If you are on a mission and want to have a global impact, I would love to invite you to explore the possibilities of how far and how fast you can go, while not jeopardizing yourself in the process.
Reimagining Hope: A Journey Beyond Survival
A profound testament to human resilience: how one woman's journey through war's shadows transformed personal trauma into a beacon of hope, healing, and collective compassion. ...more
Projects, Partners, and People
November 28, 2024•6 min read
The Power of Impactful
Projects, Partners, and People
These stories showcase transformative initiatives and partnerships driving change locally and globally. Each blog post explores how visionary individuals and collaborative efforts are creating meaningful impact across diverse sectors.
We dive into projects that:
• Solve critical community challenges
• Introduce groundbreaking solutions
• Create sustainable impact
• Inspire collective action
Join me in exploring the stories of everyday individuals behind remarkable change.
Global 24-Hour Pause for Peace:
A worldwide concert uniting hearts with music and love, guided by future generations.
“Are you ready to experience a day full of positive energy, uplifting music, and the chance to connect with others worldwide? Let’s plan a perfect day without hatred and violence, that will fill you with hope for humanity’s future and leave you inspired to be a part of it!”
- PEAC Institute Team
In December 2023, a group of seven of us joined forces with the esteemed PEAC Institute, along with a member of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning team, embarking on a collective journey towards a world free from suffering and violence.
The 24-Hour Pause for Peace is the first step towards making peace an everyday reality. On October 4, 2025, youth from over 96 countries/ 50% world countries will come together in an orchestra of peace, showcasing a 24-hour musical experience that speaks the language of unity and love.
Join us at the forefront of history as we change the course of the world and remind ourselves what humanity can do when we come together!
Learn more by visiting: 24 Hour Pause for Peace
SPEAKING
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MCing
PANELS
INTERVIEWS
WORKSHOPS
Masha Pavlova
TEDx Speaker
3x #1 International Bestselling Author
Neurodivergent Leader
Speaker Topics:
Business Strategy, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Entrepreneurship, Global Collaboration, Mastering Change, Neurodiversity, Overcoming Adversity, Purpose-Driven Culture, Resilience, Social Impact, Storytelling
Traveling From:
Madison, WI, USA
Speaking Fee:
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Masha's Story
Standing in India and holding hands with His Holiness, The Dalai Lama is a moment few could imagine, especially after a time of being unable to walk. It was one of many miracles on the journey that earned me the title Masha “Ms. Yes I’ll Take the Leap” Pavlova.
As a young immigrant, I faced trauma, homelessness, and all the struggles that come with being an undiagnosed girl on the spectrum. Refusing to let my circumstances define my future, I forged my own path. I became an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an ecosystem builder. Over the past 20 years, I have partnered with inspiring leaders across government, business, education, and nonprofit sectors to shape strategy, spark global collaboration, and create lasting social impact.
I speak about overcoming adversity, authentic storytelling, and systems thinking as tools for transformation. My work connects vision with action, showing how bold ideas, heart-centered leadership, and inclusive thinking can drive personal, professional, and community change worldwide.
Stages: TEDxOshkosh, bLU Talk at Harvard University and Northwestern University, Chambers, Global Events
Shared The Bill With: Deepak Chopra, Lisa Nichols, Dr. Joe Vitale, Brian Proctor, Neale Donald Walsch, Anthony Trucks, Jordan Harbinger, Demo Castellon
Keynotes, MCing, Panels, Interviews, Workshops
Masha Pavlova
TEDx Speaker
3x #1 International Bestselling Author
Neurodivergent Leader
Speaker Topics:
Business Strategy, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Entrepreneurship, Global Collaboration, Mastering Change, Neurodiversity, Overcoming Adversity, Purpose-Driven Culture, Resilience, Social Impact, Storytelling
Traveling From:
Madison, WI, USA
Speaking Fee:
Please Inquire
Masha's Story
Standing in India and holding hands with His Holiness, The Dalai Lama is a moment few could imagine, especially after a time of being unable to walk. It was one of many miracles on the journey that earned me the title Masha “Ms. Yes I’ll Take the Leap” Pavlova.
As a young immigrant, I faced trauma, homelessness, and all the struggles that come with being an undiagnosed girl on the spectrum. Refusing to let my circumstances define my future, I forged my own path. I became an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an ecosystem builder. Over the past 20 years, I have partnered with inspiring leaders across government, business, education, and nonprofit sectors to shape strategy, spark global collaboration, and create lasting social impact.
I speak about overcoming adversity, authentic storytelling, and systems thinking as tools for transformation. My work connects vision with action, showing how bold ideas, heart-centered leadership, and inclusive thinking can drive personal, professional, and community change worldwide.
Stages: TEDxOshkosh, Harvard University, Northwestern University, International Conferences, Chamber Events
Shared The Bill With: Deepak Chopra, Lisa Nichols, Dr. Joe Vitale, Brian Proctor, Neale Donald Walsch, Anthony Trucks, Jordan Harbinger, Demo Castellon
Watch TEDx Talk:
• Please like and share my TEDx Talk to inspire courage and let others know they are not alone.
• Watch more TEDxOshkosh talks HERE.
• Follow TEDxOshkosh and discover the incredible opportunities they bring to our community HERE.
• Amazing photography by:
Hunter Radke: hunterradke.com &
Weston Imaging: westonimaging.com
AUTISM RESOURCES:
A heartfelt thank you to the TEDxOshkosh team for creating an unforgettable experience with all of the care, support, and heart. Thank you to the sound engineers, photographers, and videographers for capturing these moments, to the sponsors who made it possible, and to my fellow speakers for the encouragement we shared. To my partner Sterling Lynk, friends, mentors, and the bLU Talks community, and to my therapist, thank you for your support, belief, and guidance. To my hair stylist, Jenelle, whose conversation inspired a last-minute change to my talk, you reminded me why this message matters!
Watch TEDx Talk:
• Please like and share my TEDx Talk to inspire courage and let others know they are not alone.
• Watch more TEDxOshkosh talks HERE.
• Follow TEDxOshkosh and discover the incredible opportunities they bring to our community HERE.
• Amazing photography by:
Hunter Radke: hunterradke.com &
Weston Imaging: westonimaging.com
AUTISM RESOURCES:
A heartfelt thank you to the TEDxOshkosh team for creating an unforgettable experience with all of the care, support, and heart. Thank you to the sound engineers, photographers, and videographers for capturing these moments, to the sponsors who made it possible, and to my fellow speakers for the encouragement we shared. To my partner Sterling Lynk, friends, mentors, and the bLU Talks community, and to my therapist, thank you for your support, belief, and guidance. To my hair stylist, Jenelle, whose conversation inspired a last-minute change to my talk, you reminded me why this message matters!
MEDIA
Books, Publications, Podcasts & Interviews
Books and Publications
Business, Life and the Universe: How to Shape Your Reality: The Power of Perception
Business, Life and the Universe:
How To Rebuild Yourself From Scratch In 3 Years Or Less.
Tears of Hope: It has been an honor to assist with and be mentioned in the extraordinary story of Dr. Aimmee Kodachian, h.c..
Podcasts and Talks
The Be and Become Summit
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bLU Talks Harvard - One Choice That Changes Everything
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Figure It Out Friday with Special Guest, Masha Pavlova
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Keys to the Kingdom - "Where There Is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love."
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The Better Your Business Show - Brilliant Breakthroughs
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Expact Connector with Masha Pavlova - Let's Talk Branding!
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