Meet Monique
Monique de Maio is a strategic navigator, author, and speaker who helps women leaders and organizations move from chaos to clarity, in business and in life.
As an immigrant who came to the United States at age five, Monique learned early how to navigate complexity, adapt quickly, and advocate fiercely. That foundation shaped everything that followed: 30+ year career in marketing leadership at IBM, Wall Street, with a nonprofit and in publishing, the founder of OnDemandCMO, and the creation of a platform dedicated to helping women design lives they actually love.
From chaos to clarity, in business and in life...
Monique’s work sits at the intersection of strategy and humanity. She’s known for cutting through noise, simplifying the complex, and delivering solutions that work.
As a CMO, she’s guided global brands through positioning, messaging, and market strategy. As a Strategic Navigator, she applies that same rigor to help women leaders think strategically about their own careers, wellness, and life design.
Possibilities podcast and The Secrets to Creating a Life You Love.
Keynote speeches and conversations that move people to action.
Strategic sessions and advisory work for women leaders and organizations.
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ABOUT MONIQUE
Monique de Maio is a strategic navigator, author, speaker, and CMO who helps women leaders and organizations apply business-level thinking to solve both professional and personal challenges. As founder of OnDemandCMO, a strategic marketing consultancy, and author of *The 7 Secrets to Creating a Life You Love*, Monique brings decades of executive-level experience to help people cut through complexity and build what matters.
She's also the host of *Possibilities with Monique de Maio*, a podcast featuring 100+ conversations with women navigating leadership, career growth, and life design.
Monique de Maio isn't a coach. She's a strategic navigator who provides solutions, not just questions. Unlike traditional coaches who primarily ask reflective questions, Monique diagnoses the real issue, provides strategic frameworks, and builds actionable plans.
Her unique background includes building and operating a successful marketing consulting firm for over 20 years, raising a family as a working mom, and navigating the challenges of being an immigrant who started with no resources. She wrote the book she wishes she'd had in her 30s and 40s, and she brings that lived experience plus proven business strategy to every engagement. When you work with Monique, you get someone who's been there, built that, and knows what actually works.
Monique de Maio came to the United States as an immigrant at age five and learned early how to navigate complexity and advocate fiercely. She built a 30+ year career in marketing leadership at IBM, Wall Street, publishing, and the nonprofit sector before founding OnDemandCMO, a strategic marketing consultancy serving enterprise and mid-market organizations.
As a CMO, she's guided global brands through positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies. She's also a black belt in mixed martial arts, a working mother who raised a family while building a business, and a lifelong wellness advocate. Her book *The 7 Secrets to Creating a Life You Love* and her podcast *Possibilities with Monique de Maio* reflect her commitment to helping women leaders design lives they actually love.
Yes. That's exactly what makes Monique de Maio's approach unique. She applies the same strategic frameworks that solve complex business problems to personal challenges like career transitions, leadership development, work-life integration, and life design.
Whether you're hiring her for your organization's marketing strategy or working with her personally as a Strategic Navigator, you get the same level of rigorous strategic thinking. The skills that diagnose market positioning also diagnose what's keeping you stuck in your career. The frameworks that build go-to-market plans also build life plans that work. Many clients discover that when they bring Monique in for business consulting, they're also getting a trusted advisor for their own leadership growth at the same time.
