The founder

Dr. Maria Albert

Founder & CEO

Academy of Wellbeing and Excellence LLC

Hey, it’s me again, Maria.

I grew up with two ideals that never felt like rivals: take good care of yourself and the people around you, and give your very best. Wellbeing and excellence, held together. That’s where this practice begins.

With nearly twenty years of teaching, my work took me across Asia, the UK, and the US. Along the way, I learned that people don’t remember slides. They remember how the room felt, and what they could do differently the next morning.

Then a sabbatical introduced me to competency-based education. It skips “Did they attend?” and asks “What can they do now?” I piloted the first sessions with teams in India and the UK, and their response is why AWE7 exists.

My statistics side did the rest. It turned seven human capacities into outcomes you can see, practice, and measure. It also gave us the AWE7 Pulse, which reads the room in minutes and shows what moved from start to finish. No guesswork, no names, and no personal data stored.

Designed by science, powered by our humanness. And yes, there will still be laughter, stories, and a surprise or two you’ll be talking about next week.

Own the AWE.