I create high-performing, inclusive teams.
Leadership is noble and important work. It’s a privilege and an opportunity for personal and professional growth. It can also be lonely, and sometimes exhausting.
I am here to support and expand your sense of possibility, both for yourself and for your teams.
MY VISION
Organizations Thriving through Wellbeing in Leadership
About me:
I am a highly experienced facilitator and trainer with over 20 years in adult education, leadership development, and curriculum design. I bring certifications in emotional intelligence, coaching, equity, diversity and inclusion, social styles, mindfulness teaching, conflict resolution and more.
There are 3 key values that set my work apart:
Empathy: prioritizing deep listening, understanding, and compassion in relationships and leadership.
Collaboration: building inclusive and supportive environments where people work together to achieve common goals.
Well-being: facilitating emotional growth, balance and personal fulfillment for sustainable success.
I have lived through these challenges and learned that with the right support, it is possible to lead skillfully, build strong teams, and do impactful work while maintaining balance and fostering one’s long-term sustainability.
I would love to work with you and with your teams.
Who I help:
You are an organizational leader who wants to do meaningful and impactful work, but not at the expense of yourself. You want a life that you love, and you struggle at times to reconcile how to lead others, have impact and also find the joy and balance you are seeking.
You lead a team and you’re committed to fostering a culture where trust is strong, excellence is the standard and innovation is welcomed.
You have a new team and want to invest from the get-go and cultivate psychological safety where creative synergies and high performance abound.
Your team is burdened by interpersonal conflict and you seek a specialist to restore peace and support resolution.
You are searching for interactive, professional facilitation of team and organizational retreats and strategic meetings.
More about my work
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
At Western University, I designed an Emotional Intelligence program that helped people-leaders improve self-awareness and self-management in order to foster more empathetic and psychologically safe teams.
People leadership for technical experts
At the University of Toronto’s Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, I designed and co-taught an 8-day leadership program for a large public utility company. Three cohorts of engineers were supported to increase their effectiveness and promotability.
Compassionate Leadership
For Women in Capital Markets, I designed and led sessions on Compassionate Leadership for WCM's SOAR program to expand their offerings and grow the reach of their national program.
Bio
For 20 years I have been teaching, designing and facilitating groups of higher education leaders, graduate students and corporate professionals to foster their own effectiveness and build high-performing and equitable teams that achieve their mission while caring for one another.
At the University of Toronto I was the Associate Director of the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering. I helped technically-oriented people become effective people-leaders. I led a team of 6 staff and convened 14 academic professors, all of whom were dedicated to leadership education. I know first hand how rewarding and challenging it can be to lead.
At Western University my work has been exclusively with senior leaders, and those who lead teams. I am privileged to bring communities of leaders together for learning and conversation that inspires their ongoing growth and impact. I have created and delivered customized professional education to Women in Capital Markets, Toronto Hydro, The University of Toronto’s OPTIONS program among others.
My journey into leadership development education and coaching began when I heard author Margaret Wheatley describe a leader as ‘anyone who wants to make things better.’ I have my Masters in Adult Education and Counselling Psychology and I saw myself as an educator and community builder, but not a leader per se. Her comment sparked my curiosity about a different kind of leadership: less focussed on position; more focussed on self-awareness, relational trust and clear purpose.
I am a parent and in my free time I enjoy yoga, meditation, weekly ukulele, travel and a range of diverse cuisines. After 20 years in Toronto I returned to London (my home town) with my family and we live in Wortley Village where we can walk, live amongst the trees and invest in community living.
What clients can expect
Emotional Intelligence participants “more able to manage stress”, consider others’ view
As a certified facilitator of Search Inside Yourself Global's 2-day Emotional Intelligence program I have taught in university and government settings. In pre- and post-program assessments, program participants report feeling more able to manage stress and more likely to pause and consider another’s point of view, after taking the Emotional Intelligence program.
Analytical, technical experts build strong relational, leadership skills
At the University of Toronto’s Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, I led a sophisticated team of 6 fulltime staff and 14 faculty to reach thousands of students each year. ILead is now internationally recognized as at the forefront of engineering leadership education.
Students build leadership skills through story-telling
At the University of Toronto’s Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering I grew ILead's course offerings and annual revenue by designing a sought-after course called 'The Power of Story: Discovering Your Leadership Narrative. I taught the course 4 times to 200 students and garnered international attention.
Awards
Sustained Excellence in Leadership Award, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
2021
Excellence Through Innovation Award, Mindful Moments Program, University of Toronto
2017
Allan Blizzard Award for Distinguished Collaboration, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE),
2014
Quality of Student Experience Award, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
2011