Higher Ground Teams
Discover Your TRACERS Pattern
Take the free assessment to see how your team shows up under pressure.
The TRACERS Assessment is a short, evidence-based tool that reveals your relational style and team patterns.
It shows how you approach tension, communication, and decision-making, and where there’s room to build alignment.
You’ll get insights you can use immediately to improve collaboration, engagement, and trust.
(No sign-up required. Immediate results.)
See what’s happening between people, before it becomes a problem.
Every team has patterns, spoken and unspoken, that shape how work gets done.
When pressure builds, those patterns either help us hold together or quietly pull us apart.
Maria’s assessment, Relational IQ, helps leaders and teams see what’s happening between people, name it early, and address pressure before cracks widen. It gives language to what we all feel but often can’t describe, the dynamics that influence trust, collaboration, and performance.
When teams can see what’s really happening between them, everything moves faster and holds stronger.
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Relational intelligence is the ability to understand, navigate, and strengthen the human dynamics that make or break teams. It’s the difference between a group of high-performers and a high-performing culture.
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Without it, we default to habits that erode trust, overrelying on technical skill, avoiding difficult conversations, or managing performance without truly seeing the people behind the roles.
With it, we create spaces where people feel understood, not just evaluated. Where engagement deepens, collaboration becomes easier, and culture becomes something people want to stay part of.
The Relational IQ Approach
Relational IQ is the ability to see, understand, and work with what happens between people.
It’s not about personality or performance. It’s about relationships, the invisible structure that supports every outcome.
Through facilitated sessions and diagnostic tools, Maria helps teams visualize their relational landscape. Together, they identify strengths, uncover patterns, and co-create new ways of working that build trust, clarity, and momentum.
When the work between people gets clearer, so does everything else.
The Impact of Relational IQ
Faster Decisions
Clarity in relationships removes the friction that slows collaboration.
Fewer Rework Loops
When people feel heard and aligned, the right outcomes happen the first time.
Outcomes That Hold
Even under pressure, trust and respect keep work moving forward.
Start Strengthening What’s Between You
The strongest teams don’t avoid tension; they know how to move through it together.
Whether you’re leading a team, an organization, or a culture shift, Relational IQ gives you the tools to see clearly, lead wisely, and connect deeply.