Mary-Anne Gillespie

Mary-Anne is the Founder/CEO of Red Apple Coaching and Consulting and known as one of the most sought out private Business coaches in Canada and United States. With over 19000 billable coaching hours she has successfully brought over 900 Business Owners to #1 in their fields with average 7 figure profits and 50% annual growth rates. She’s represented companies like Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Jaguar, RBC, GoodLife Fitness, Re/Max, Keller Williams and many others companies large and small. Published in Forbes 7 times for her Business Insight, she has shared stages with Grant Cardone, Ryan Serhant, Arlene Dickenson and many more.

Mary-Anne has developed some of the most sought out Business Coaching programs and is an expert in systemization, mindset and profiling. She has taken her background in Cognitive Neuroscience and found a way to bring that into businesses for higher success, productivity and her trademark ability of seeing/creating out of the box solutions to corporate growth.

During Covid, Mary-Anne worked with over 250 Business Owners in pivoting their businesses which resulted in each business successfully retaining all employees and achieving increases in revenue.

Honored to be nominated as "Business Woman of the year" for accomplishments as a trailblazer in business as well as charitable effort as she has recently started her newest company “Girlbundance” to help fund a passion project of helping less fortunate girls with future dreams of opening businesses of their own through female mentorship and investment in their futures.

On a personal side, Mary-Anne speaks around the world sharing her life story inspiring others to achieve their dreams. Born and raised in Montreal, she is a cancer survivor and was left homeless for over a year after losing her family when she was younger. Her belief in anything is possible despite your circumstances has been shared on stage through absolute proof of what happens when you believe in yourself.

For fun, when she isn’t rescuing dogs, surfing or finding the best live music events. She is an accomplished Triathlete. She received an elite designation for 2023 as an Ironman AWA (All World Athlete) and is ranked in the top 15% of world triathletes and competes in over 6 Ironman’s a year placing on the podium all of 2022.