Helping leaders become their best selves.
I help leaders and organizations get personal — to become the best version of themselves. Whole-person work that honours the complexity and honesty of being human.
Getting personal is the work
Effective leadership is no different from what makes a human being effective in life. How we show up — as parents or CEOs — comes down to our awareness of who we are, how we engage, and the impact we have on the people and events around us. It’s about knowing where we come from and what shaped us.
My work draws on therapeutic models of transformation, transition, and self-esteem. My coaching is somatic and transformational — informed by how trauma is held in the body and plays out in daily life and leadership behaviour. I work intimately with clients to build the awareness that real change requires.
M.Ed · PCC — Professional Certified Coach (ICF) · Trauma-Informed Coaching Certificate
Thirty years alongside people in transition
Over the past 30 years, I have been focused around supporting people through personal and professional transitions. Working with men and women throughout their careers, at the beginning or end; preparing for retirement, managing the changes needed to take on more senior leadership roles, deciding if they want a change, re-examining roles, or identities, developing confidence and capacity to influence and hold more space and to be heard and have impact, having confidential conversations that allow them to make important decisions or to manage and recover from difficult events are all areas that I work with.
What I love is to be working deeply with individuals helping them to identify what it is they want to accomplish and navigating the transformations and transitions that will support that.
Trauma-Informed Coaching Certificate, Moving The Human Spirit
2021
Foundations Certified Coach, Global Team Coaching Institute
2020
Leadership Circle Profile
2017
Coaching from Source, Coaches Rising
2017
Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile
2015
Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
2014
M.Ed, Counselling, University of Ottawa
1990
B.Ed, Special Education, University of Toronto
1982
B.Sc, Clinical Psychology, Dalhousie University
1980
Strategic Leadership Development & Leadership Effectiveness Analysis
2004
Mediation, CIIAN
1997
Psychometric assessment tools include Myers-Briggs, FIRO-B, NEO-PI, Enneagram, Birkman, and EQ-i 2.0.
Ways we can work together
Executive coaching
One-to-one somatic and transformational coaching for leaders ready to engage in self-discovery and lead from deeper awareness.
Organizational development
Working with teams and partnerships as the complex, personal systems they are — building honesty and awareness across the whole.
Personal transformation
Support through moments of change, grounded in frameworks of transition and self-esteem and an understanding of how the body holds our experience.