INTEGRATIVE CAPACITY IS WHAT’S MISSING
You're brilliant at the science. Everything else is drowning you.
It’s the ability of research teams to connect diverse expertise into a shared vision and decisive execution, even under pressure, without you carrying it all alone.
Backed by NSF, NIH & CTSA funded research. Trusted by investigators at UC Irvine and UCLA
HELLO!
I’m Maritza!
Whether you’re leading a research lab, directing a clinical trial, or stepping into your first PI role, the challenge isn’t scientific expertise, it’s leading the people who make the science happen. My work on Integrative Capacity equips scientists, clinicians, and research managers to turn complex team dynamics into shared vision, operational clarity, and breakthrough outcomes.
For over a decade, I’ve studied what separates high-performing research teams from stalled ones, and the answer is integrative capacity: the ability to align diverse expertise around a shared mission and execute under pressure. I translated that science into the curriculum and coaching I offer, so research leaders can clarify their scientific vision, build teams that deliver, and navigate the complexity that comes with doing work that matters.
The results?
3 Funded Institutes or Centers
4 National Research Training Grants
25+ Funded Proposals
600+ seminar attendees
Most research teams don’t fail for lack of talent.
They fail because there’s no reliable system linking a molecular biologist’s insight to a clinician’s question to a statistician’s method.
Integrative Capacity is the solution.
Disconnected Expertise →INTEGRATIVE CAPACITY → Aligned Results
It’s the set of leadership practices, structures, and routines that enable diverse experts to:
Align around a shared scientific mission
Integrate perspectives in real time
Execute with clarity instead of stalled decisions and fragmented proposals
The result: Proposals that get funded. Labs that run smoothly. Time and energy returned to the science that matters.
Why Integrative Capacity Changes Everything
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Integrative Capacity Leadership
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Build the fundamentals on your own time
1:1 support or a 6-week implementation sprint
High-stakes submissions and decisions
Success
$75
$250/hr
By request
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These 3 mini-courses represent structured, measurable leadership development rooted in workforce science and evidence-based practice. Advance your career, run your team with greater impact and efficiency, and improve your likelihood of funding.
Self-paced access from $75 — with optional expert support (consultations, proposal reviews, letters of support) available as needed.
Research Career Accelerator (RCA)
Build Integrative Capacity in your proposals, drawing on diverse insights and all of the unique collaborations you’ve got around you.
Build your Core Question + Risk Position, Sub-question Role Map, and Reverse Timeline + Operating Statement so you stop missing submission deadlines, so your team stops living grant-to-grant, and so you can finally focus on the science that got you into this work.
Scientific Lab Accelerator (SLA)
Develop Integrative Capacity in your lab with collaborative conditions that help you to foster creativity and impact immediately.
Build your Decision Rights Map, Meeting Cadence System, Delegation & Throughput Dashboard, and Lab Operating Rhythm Plan, so that decisions stop stalling on your desk, so that your people know who owns what, so that you get your time and attention back instead of being the bottleneck.
Proposal Prep Challenge
Strengthen Integrative Capacity across your team’s proposal, showing funders how people, data, and project components connect.
Build your Responsiveness Map, Team Management Narrative Alignment, and Multi-site Plan, so that reviewers see one clear story instead of a fragmented one, so that you walk into the deadline calm and confident instead of scrambling.
Protect Your Energy. Align the Work. Build Integrative Capacity.
Protect Your Energy. Align the Work. Build Integrative Capacity.
Research on Integrative & Interdisciplinary Teamwork
Supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Salazar Campo’s research program has yielded groundbreaking insights into how interdisciplinary teamwork enhances team performance and organizational effectiveness. As a longtime partner of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), she has influenced the creation of activities sponsored by the Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP), advancing education, training, and dissemination purposes that benefit teams and organizations across various industries.
Her evidence-based training interventions and curricula have improved collaboration and performance in medicine, data science, and professional services, supporting leaders and teams as they navigate the demands of job strain, task complexity, and member dynamics.
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