Maryam Daryabegi
Helps financial, technology, and consulting firms strengthen leadership capability, decision-making, and execution through growth, transformation, and AI-driven change.
Maryam Daryabegi is a strategic leadership advisor, executive educator, and founder of Innovation Bazar. Her background spans more than two decades across banking, strategy, consulting, and executive education, and she has seen firsthand that technical expertise alone does not dictate institutional growth: lasting performance depends on how leaders communicate under pressure, decide amid ambiguity, and execute when legacy habits no longer work.
Her career includes leadership roles in banking, strategy, consulting, and executive education across San Francisco, London, New York, and Mexico City. She led global strategy and operations at Glencore, managed client portfolios at First Republic Bank, and advised global financial institutions on transformation, performance, and organisational strategy at IBM. Today she is the founder of Innovation Bazar, where she partners with financial institutions, technology, and consulting firms to strengthen leadership capability, improve decision-making, and drive effective execution during periods of growth, transformation, and AI-driven change.
Her approach is rooted in a simple principle: diagnosis before design. The best solutions begin with understanding where leaders and teams are actually getting stuck before prescribing how to move forward. Tools such as 100Facets complement that philosophy by surfacing patterns, perspectives, and blind spots directly from employees, providing evidence that informs the work rather than relying on assumptions.
Maryam is a senior lecturer who teaches executive and graduate programmes, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, and was named to the inaugural Forbes 50 Over 50 list for her impact in financial services, fintech, and organisational leadership.
What Maryam helps with
Maryam partners with financial institutions, technology, and consulting firms to strengthen leadership capability and improve how leaders and teams communicate, decide, and execute through growth, transformation, and AI-driven change. She works with professionals at every stage, from emerging leaders and mid-level managers to senior executives and the C-suite, helping them navigate complexity and perform in fast-changing environments. Her approach begins with the real problem: before designing anything, she uncovers where leaders and teams are getting stuck, what capabilities need strengthening, and how people, strategy, and execution can move forward together.