About Us
Kathy Hay, ORSCC, CPCC, PCC
Kathy Hay is an award winning Relationship Systems Intelligence practitioner and Faculty member of the innovative Center for Right Relationship Training and Consultants, who has gained a reputation for excellence. With hundreds of hours growing confident and competent leaders around the world, she has inspired and transformed individuals – senior executives, managers, and business owners to nurture their leader within.
Now celebrating her 12th year as an accomplished facilitator using the coach approach, Kathy is acknowledged as an expert at aligning unfocused groups without common purpose and vision into strong high performing and cohesive teams. A pioneer in team development facilitation in Canada, she continues to propel her clients to greater success, both as individual leaders within their organizations and as market-leading organizations within their industries.
A natural connector, Kathy has played pivotal roles in organizations focused on community, transformation and development. She continues to empower others and herself by living a holistic life celebrating with family and friends around the world.
Kathy is a highly skilled facilitator. Allen Rigby CSP Business Consultant, SEA Program - Business Enterprise Resource Network
“The Teamswork facilitators were excellent and communicated clearly. They lived the principals they were presenting and honoured our team agreements. After our session with Teamswork our Alumni Board had greater common vision and process. This Board session was important because it grew understanding of how to be part of a high functioning team. This invests in Georgian’s Alumni future growth. Alumni Board member 2010 – Georgian College
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Shahmeen Sadiq, BA, PCC, CPCC
Shahmeen Sadiq is the founder of Anjali Leadership Inc., and has consulted with corporate leaders and teams across North America for over 6 years, helping them become more effective leaders in support of improved business performance. She is a faculty member and senior consultant with The Leadership Circle and is an associate of The Full Circle Group.
Shahmeen is passionate about supporting her clients to create sustainable results that matter. Her belief is that in order for this to happen in the most effective, elegant and effortless way, leaders must engage in the work of accepting and integrating all parts of themselves: from the most powerful and magnificent, to those most shameful and small. A fiercely loving guide, she is renowned for her courageous authenticity and her ability to help her clients lift the veils of illusion to reveal aspects of themselves that have been long hidden. Shahmeen is committed to walking her talk. Her first book, an inspiring and authentic collection of poems and short stories chronicling her ongoing journey, is currently in development.
Shahmeen is a graduate of the coach certification program of the Coaches Training Institute as well as the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching program of the Center for Right Relationship. In 2009 Shahmeen was honored by the International Coach Federation with a Prism Award for large system culture change work done with a not-for-profit organization.
Shahmeen has been doing transformative work with leaders and their teams across Canada for many years. Her energy is contagious, her insight transformative, and her unique spark of humanity and courage fills her workshops with a rare combination of realism and proven hope of a different, more powerful way of moving forward. If you’re looking for a way of creating more of what you and your organization wants – with less effort and greater alignment. Shahmeen is the right match for you. Dan Holden, President – Daniel Holden & Associates
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Laurie Hunt, M.A., H.B.B.A., CPCC
The culmination of Laurie’s varied and global corporate experience, her academic teaching and research, and her extensive training in the field of leadership and team coaching is what fuels her passion for her work as an agent of intercultural change in organizations and communities. Laurie takes a systems approach specializing in relational leadership skill building to bridge difference, to improve cultural intelligence and to develop diverse innovative teams and organizations. She considers herself a ‘system disrupter’. By raising an individual or team’s awareness of how they are operating, she supports clients in disrupting the patterns and habits that get in the way of achieving their desired outcomes.
Laurie’s clients span the corporate, public benefit, government and education sectors. She has researched and co-authored a number of publications on leadership, mentoring and intercultural relationships. Laurie brings over 20 years of international marketing, communications, diversity and human resources experience in the high tech industry as well as teaching in the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Laurie believes in fitness of the body and spirit as well as the mind. To this end, she is an avid runner having completed 16 marathons, is a dedicated yoga practitioner and considers herself a global explorer curious about the world and the people who inhabit it.
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Janet Frood, CPCC, ORSCC, PCC
Janet Frood is an accomplished leader, a successful entrepreneur, and an internationally recognized executive, leadership and team coach. Her clientele of executives and entrepreneurs praise Janet as a powerful coach who eliminates the loneliness of leadership and inspires them to find their own leadership style based on their values, strengths and passions. Janet excels in coaching clients who are strategic, visionaries and change agents as well as developing emerging leaders with high potential. She’s a leading practitioner in coaching teams from 5 – 50 members. She has developed innovative programs – Trust: the Currency of Highly Effective Teams and Strengths Based Leadership programs. With a degree in social behaviour and international coaching credentials, Janet is uniquely qualified help individuals, teams, and organizations confront the status quo, find the opportunity that lives within change, and grow confidence and trust in each other and themselves.
“Using her significant individual and team coaching skills, and finely tuned intuition, Janet dealt most effectively with issues at the Executive Team, the Project Leadership Team, and the tactical team member levels. Janet is flexible in her approach and offers creative solutions that balance both the “productivity” aspects (project management/results) AND the “positivity” aspects (people/team management). And most significantly, she transferred those skills to everyone on the project from the top down.” Bruce Calvert, Retired OD Director, McCormick Inc.
“Janet Frood is exceptionally knowledgeable about organizational cultures and change management strategies and brings this to the organizations and individuals that she works with. She excels at assisting people identify the underlying issues, the un-talked about problem underlying the stumbling blocks and provides useful tools for resolving them. I believe that the opportunity to work on individual coaching with Janet has continued to enhance my leadership and management skills.” Michelle Hurtubise, Executive Director, London Intercommunity Health Centre
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John Doan, ORSCC, DDS, CPCC, PCC
Dr. John Doan brings a unique approach to working with people, based on the ‘Science of People Skills’ combined with a fierce compassion to support clients in creating meaningful change and action both professionally and personally. John is both experienced and accomplished as a Professional Coach, working with all levels of organizational leaders, right up to the CEO level. He is the supporting Executive and Team Coach for the Executive MBA Program of the University of Western Ontario as well as being on the Faculty of Leadership Waterloo and a leading coach in Emotional Intelligence with The Institute for Health and Human Potential. As a Certified member of the International Coach Federation John works with an international audience, including individuals, teams and Corporations on both coasts of Canada, the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean and Australia. As a Coach and Trainer, John works to develop his clients’ Leadership ability, Emotional Intelligence as a foundation for success, essential Relationship and Team skills and learning to navigate and deal with Conflict rather than avoid it. Additionally he is an author of articles for publication and is an in demand speaker and group facilitator.
“My coaching with John has been incredibly valuable to allow me to further explore my character, skills and intentions to discern, and act, where there were opportunities to improve or modify my behaviour. He is very skilled at presenting new perspectives on information, techniques and approaches which have allowed me to modify my assumptions and be more aware of, and open to, other approaches, concepts and feedback. His ability to link concepts and ideas to work and life situations allowed me to leverage the learnings rapidly in my daily relationships at work and at home. His coaching has allowed me to grow and be a more effective leader.” Steven Voll, P. Eng., Managing Senior Principal, Stantec
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Sylvia Abergil, ORSCC
Over the last 20 years, Sylvia has created and built ongoing relationships within the public and private sector as a management consultant and entrepreneur. During her 10 years with the Ministry of Health, she effectively worked alongside all levels of public officials in the creation and implementation of new programs; policies and procedures. Sylvia built an exceptional consulting business through referrals only. Her enormous success has been solely due to her own personal skills of building sustainable relationships with management and executives at various levels. Sylvia is confident, creative, organized, intuitive, and stands strongly for integrity. Her client base encompasses companies such as Vonage Canada, Simon & Schuster, TDS Automotive, Spherion Canada, Unity Life, AJB Software Inc. to name a few. Sylvia feels privileged for the opportunity to have had a front-row seat to observe a range of people from executives to employees, families, couples, inside and outside of relationships. Sylvia’s experience, insights, deep passion for diversity, combined with her training serves her clients every day in making meaningful changes that are productive and positive.
Sylvia is now an accredited Relationship Systems Coach and Facilitator. Her passion is to bring awareness to the power and potential of human relationships. Sylvia is zealous about nurturing her clients to have conscious and intentional personal and professional relationships. Through her unique set of training and intervention skills, Sylvia engages her clients to see and understand what’ s really going on in their world; what the needs are of the team; how to successfully harness the capacity of that team; how to quickly and efficiently address conflict and differences directly and effectively with immediate and sustainable results.
“Being coached by Sylvia has been a profound experience for me. Her clear insights and depth of perception along with her ability to guide and support have helped me tremendously in achieving a most satisfying relationship. With great care and dexterity Sylvia has been able to steer me in the right direction, for which I am very grateful. I highly recommend her coaching services to anyone who wishes to make a genuine shift in their relationships or even to just bring about an uplifting enhancement.” Jan Oren CPCC, Training & Development Manager, Myron Smarter Business Gifts
“Sylvia is an innovator. She brings fresh perspectives to create entire new areas within the field of coaching. Her work with families and couples facing the challenges inherent in interfaith and intercultural life situations is truly inspiring.” Tracey White, Director, Organizational Change and Leadership at the University of Waterloo
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Gary Harris, BSc, CA, CPCC, ORSCC
Ability in any field comes from many places; experience, training, passion, natural abilities, desire, and so forth. Gary brings all of that and more to his chosen career of coaching and consulting. With a Bachelor of Science in economics, a Chartered Accounting designation, thirty eight years of business experience in most aspects of large and small companies, ten years of self study and actualization, coaching certification as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and coaching certification as an Organization Relationship System Certified Coach, Gary has found his passion – his energy in coaching. With a focus on moving our economy and organizations forward, Gary is known as a ‘Corporate Triage Expert’ and specializes in stopping the bleeding and removing the pain by creating healthy balanced relationships with self and others in the organization. All progress is from people.
Clients often evaluate two criteria when considering a coach. First the experience of the coach is important. Gary brings a multitude of business and life experiences to this chosen career. His hands-on business experience is varied and wide ranging. Life experience brings the ability to see a broader pallet of possibilities. Gary has that and brings it to his coaching relationships with the passion and joy of youth.
The second important aspect of a coach relationship is ‘connection”. This can only be known after at least the first encounter. As stated by one client, “our sessions are extremely emotional, intense and powerful, but always something deep to think about … highly effective”.
“A very valuable workshop which allowed us to identify the value of team members, recognize how we interact, and create behaviors to become a more effective team.” Mark Tsutsui, Section Manager, Twin Cities Operations, State Farm Insurance
“Before this session we were fearful, mistrusting and talked in small groups. After, we were more trusting, learned to speak as one voice, made a commitment to build a great team.” Mary Anne Shill,Acting Executive Director, St. Joseph’s at Fleming
“The process allowed us to engage in deep conversations that are needed to move this team even further & accomplish bigger things than were possible before.” Teresa Herrera, Omaha Section Manager, State Farm Insurance
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Jing Ye CPCC, ORSCC
Jing has a wide range of expertise and 20 years of industry experiences in fields of legal, technology, business, leadership development and coaching. From an assistant judge in china, IT professional at IBM, to a business consultant then a professional coach and facilitator, she has demonstrated her abilities to connect with people authentically and be a champion and change agent for making trans-formative changes in organization. Deeply rooted in her Chinese heritage and a desire for connectedness, Jing is passionate about building communities/teams, bridging cultural differences and promoting diversity in society and organization. With her rich experiences and deep understanding of both eastern and western culture, Jing helps people to see beyond the status quo, challenges individuals and organizations to break their own boundaries and limitations and empowers clients to make sustainable changes in their professional and personal life.
“Jing is a very talented executive coach and facilitator able to connect deeply with professional audiences and deliver transformational learning experiences. She has the rare ability to meet any audience where they are, connect in an authentic and engaging way and then lead them toward new learning or shared goals. I enthusiastically recommend Jing for any work related to coaching or leadership development.” - Paul Byrne, VP, Corporate Services, The Coaches Training Institute
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