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Alan Kearns
Managing Partner and Head Career Coach
Alan Kearns
Coaching, Leadership Team
Alan Kearns is a leading thought leader on all things work. Author and contributor to The National, The Globe & Mail, National Post and CBC Radio, he shares the latest...
Amanda Beselt
Client Success Manager & Marketing Specialist
Amanda Beselt
Leadership Team
With a background in web content design and a passion for helping others, Amanda excels at making her clients’ lives easier through clear communication practices and plain language writing.
Andrea Nicholls
HR Consultant and Employee Engagement Coach
Andrea Nicholls
Coaching
Andrea is well-known for her ability to capture attention with creative and surprising marketing solutions. Having done so for over a decade, Andrea is now changing the ‘engagement’ landscape. Her...
Andrea Phippen
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology
- Master’s of Human Resource Management
- Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching
- Certified Executive Coach
- Chartered Professional of Human Resource Management (CPHR)
- Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation
- Certified in EQ-i 2.0 (a psychometric tool)
Andrea Phippen
Coaching
Andrea Phippen is an executive and career coach with over 10 years of HR experience. Andrea believes in developing others and is passionate about building future leaders. As a lifelong...
Brit Wynne-Jones
Director of Engagement & Success
Brit Wynne-Jones
Leadership Team
I am what you would call a "busy bee". You can generally find me joyfully juggling a zillion balls including operations, communications, recruitment, client success, marketing, management, sales, branding, event...
Carole Sandy
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Carole Sandy
Coaching
Carole Sandy (MEd, CCC) is a Counselling/Therapist who has worked as an educator in several post secondary institutions. She has counselled and coached a variety of clients in collaborative conversations...
Cynthia Dennis
Resume Coach
Cynthia Dennis
Resumé & Branding
Cynthia's passion for Human Resources has guided her to devote her career to helping people and companies collaborate and succeed together. Her multidisciplinary career has led her to focus across...
Cynthia Hannigan-Thaw
Client Success Specialist
Cynthia Hannigan-Thaw
Coaching
After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science from Carleton University and a Graduate Certificate in Victimology from Algonquin College, Cynthia discovered her...
Debbie Sprowl
Finance Administrator
Debbie Sprowl
Leadership Team
Debbie has worked in the non-profit world for many years, doing financial and database management. Helping others is what attracted her to working with CareerJoy.
Debora Dekok
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional designations
- Technical Writer Graduate Certificate
- Advanced Resume Development certification from the Career Professionals of Canada
- Photojournalism Diploma
- Bachelor of Arts in English and Sociology
- Certified Biographical Career Report Analyst
Debora Dekok
Coaching, Resumé & Branding
Debora has been a Resume Coach with CareerJoy since 2005 and is also one of CareerJoy’s Biographical Career Report (BCR) analysts. In this role she gets to know her clients’...
Erin Patchell
Director of Operations & Government Programs
Erin Patchell
Leadership Team
Erin has a gift for both seeing the big picture and implementing the details. She is passionate about helping others achieve success, and takes our mission here at CareerJoy straight...
Fleur Trubert
Resume Coach
Professional Designations
- Bachelor’s Degree in French Literature
- Master’s Degree in Film Studies
Fleur Trubert
Resumé & Branding
Fleur is passionate about languages and writing. She lived in multiple cities, working in a variety of jobs in retail, marketing, sales, customer service and the public service commission. She...
Garen Jemian
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Accreditations
University training in Professional and Personal Coaching in accordance with the ICF (PPCC)
University training in Team Effectiveness Coaching
PCC Certification (ICF) (pending approval in 2019)
Recent achievements
Quebec Government Accreditation for organizational training (2018)
Achieved PCC level certification requirements (2018) (500+ billable hours)
TEDx Headliner/Speaker “Motivation Beyond Money” (2017, shared the stage with the Honorable Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire)
Launched and developed Nesta Bar and Lounge?, exceeding the $1M by Year 2 (2011-2014)
Released EP in fundraising efforts for the Lac-Megantic tragedy (2013)
Launched band called ROADS with Indica Records (2009-2013)
Success stories
– Samantha T. / Personal Banking Advisor
– Marisa M. / Director of Sales and Marketing
– Sabrina M. / Mixologist & Manager
– A.V. / President & Nurse Practitioner
– Tania A. / Director of Operations
– Caterina B. / PhD Candidate (Management)
Garen Jemian
Coaching
“I communicate clearly, to the point and I fearlessly provide objective feedback to my clients. What you see is what you get, increasing the focus and impact of coaching sessions.”
Greg Zador
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Success Stories
“Greg really helped me identify where I truly wanted to be in my career – still in non-profit but not in the environment I am in now. His approach was excellent in helping me gain confidence, that even though I have been out of the job search game for over 16 years, I can still be successful. Fully utilizing LinkedIn and answering any questions I had about certain aspects on some job postings I reviewed really helped me understand what employers are looking for.” – Karen Ball
“(Greg) got me back in the saddle quickly!” – Seamus Ryan
“I found my coach to be knowledgeable in executive management challenges. His approach was thoughtful, interesting and helpful. My experience with Career Joy was excellent. I received what I was looking for – quality coaching sessions to help me arrive at workable solutions to key challenges I was addressing.” – Helene H.
“A greater self-awareness of my strengths and weaknesses and what I can do to address them going forward that will make me a better manager and leader. Loved the Highlands Battery – found that very insightful.
Appreciated the one-on-one coaching and how it was done over a longer period of time (i.e. not just back-to-back over the course of a week or two, but more spread out over a few months). Being able to bring tangible issues to the table to discuss and come out with a better idea of what my action plan will be was also helpful.
Nothing that I would change- except perhaps adding another couple of sessions! The self-awareness and improved understanding of what areas I should focus on to make me a better leader and manager would be the best part of the entire experience. I have already put many of the lessons I learned through my coaching sessions into practice and I think I see results already!I found the whole thing really useful and have already recommended the program to a friend.” – Stephanie M.
“Greg is gifted at and derives particular satisfaction and reward from developing, mentoring, enabling and seeing the success of others.”
“Greg is a strategic, thoughtful and innovative leader, mentor and manager. His accessibility, forethought, patience, diplomacy and astuteness furthermore contribute to an inclusive, progressive and supportive leadership and management style. His enthusiastic personality has made him a very likeable individual to work with.”
“The mock interview Greg ran through with me was very helpful. His suggestions re the LinkedIn profile rewrite was also very helpful. Additionally, the career exercise and getting objective opinions outside of my own about where my strengths lie was an eye-opener. Everyone can benefit from this type of service.” K. Cameron
“Your approach is more up to date and reflects current internal & external forces that are a reality of today’s business. People over Profit, Profit over people. You embrace technology and the importance of health & self. Your newsletter is a “Joyous” read with up to date articles that are varied and tap into consciousness. Your approach is not cookie cutter. My coach was completely invested in me. My coach made me the priority & assisted me with focusing on wellness.” – C. Orefici
Greg Zador
Coaching
A collaborator and facilitator by nature, Greg has worked in partnership with representatives of the business, community and education sectors and all orders of government including the World University Service...
Jan Kincaid
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Jan Kincaid
Coaching
Jan Kincaid is a Human Resources professional with over 30 years experience spanning several sectors from manufacturing to pharmaceutical to the not for profit sector. She has been at the...
Jan Williams
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- International Coach Federation Accredited
- Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching, Royal Roads University
- Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design, Royal Roads University
- Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages – Cambridge England Examination Board for teaching adults
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“I thoroughly enjoyed working with Jan. She was very engaged in my development and offered practical advice, constructive feedback and a comfortable environment for discussing personal issues. My favourite aspect of our sessions was finding the language to discuss past achievements, personal preferences and future goals. I found that, by talking through everything with Jan, I was able to unearth stories and ideas I never would have thought of on my own and practice concisely discussing them for future networking/interviews. Jan offered a great balance between leading the direction of our sessions, and also letting me direct where I would like to devote more focus. I wasn’t sure what to expect as I started our program, but I left my first session feeling energized and encouraged, and that feeling remained throughout our time together.”
– Richard Mitchell
Jan Williams
Coaching
Jan Williams knows from personal experience what it takes to attain excellence. As head of her own successful cross-cultural training company in Europe, Jan achieved considerable success in training managers...
Jason Parks
Vice President, Corporate Development
Jason Parks
Leadership Team
Jason has 20 years of proven business development expertise and believes in creating raving fans from every client experience. Coming from a background in printing and education, the balance of...
Jennifer Cowan
Resume Coach
Jennifer Cowan
Resumé & Branding
Jennifer writes, mentors and consults. She has created stories for television, radio, print, interactive game apps and corporate websites. Her television work has garnered multiple awards and her first novel...
Josh Clements
Resume Coach
Professional Designations
- Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Creative Writing
- Master’s Degree in Film Studies
Josh Clements
Resumé & Branding
Josh's writing career began with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and creative writing, and a Master’s in film studies. His love for language started at the age of six, and hasn’t dimmed...
Judith Cane
Finance Transition Coach
Professional Designations
- Human Resource Management Certificate
Judith Cane
Coaching
Judith has worked in the financial services industry for 27 years first as an insurance agent, then as a full service adviser and finally, since 2010, as a Money Coach....
Karen Haas
Branding and Career Coach
Success Stories
Karen Haas
Coaching, Resumé & Branding
Karen takes an analytical approach to coaching & resume writing, deciphering each client’s driving factors for success and what sets them apart in the marketplace. In previous lives as a competitive...
Kathleen McLean
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Certified Professional Coach
- Bachelor’s Degree in Administration
- NATO Defence College Graduate
Kathleen McLean
Coaching
Kathleen is a fluently bilingual Certified Professional Coach. She specializes in assisting clients to make effective and lasting change. Her approach is by exploring and identifying personal goals, identifying solutions...
Kevin Schafer
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional designations
- Certified Career Strategist
Client feedback
“Personally, I have always struggled in deciding which career path to take. This program helped me to clearly define my strengths, natural abilities, and passions, and supported me every step of the way in discovering the right path for me. Professionally, this program was highly effective as well; I was provided suggestions and strategies for professional development, as well as ideas and motivation on resources to use to my advantage.” – H. Wallace
Kevin Schafer
Coaching
Kevin has been a Career and Leadership Coach and Certified Career Strategist since 2005. He is passionate about providing career development strategies to help his clients work towards improving their situation....
Laurie Fenske
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional designations
- Personal Financial Planner
- Elder Planner Counsellor
- Professional Certified Coach
- Awareness Training Company”
- Indigenous Awareness Certificant
- Indigenous Communication & Consultation Certificant
Client feedback
Laurie Fenske
Coaching
Laurie’s coaching successes are shaped by a passion for engaging clients with powerful questions to find the best solutions within themselves. She focuses her high-energy coaching sessions to achieve substantial...
Lillian Thomsen
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Lillian Thomsen
Coaching
Lillian enjoyed a full professional career in the Canadian Foreign Service serving in culturally and linguistically diverse positions both in Canada and abroad. In her final position with Global Affairs...
Lisa Pierosara
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Bachelor of Arts
- Associate Certified Coach
Success Stories
Lisa Pierosara
Coaching
Lisa is a senior certified professional coach, facilitator and collaborative program leader with a history of fostering transformative change, communications excellence and leadership effectiveness. She has a particular focus and...
Lynda Peto
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Certified Career and Employment Coach
- Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education
Success Stories
Lynda Peto
Coaching
Lynda has 10 years of experience supporting and assisting her clients in meeting their career and employment goals. Working with HR professionals, Lynda has a strong connection with the business...
Margaret Van Amelsvoort-Thoms
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Margaret Van Amelsvoort-Thoms
Coaching
Margaret Van Amelsvoort-Thoms is a bilingual CareerJoy Senior Leadership Facilitator. She is also a former Director General with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS).
Michelle Horne
Image and Branding Coach
Professional Designations
- Certified Image Professional
Success Stories
Michelle Horne
Coaching
Michelle helps her clients as an Image and Branding Coach to discover their Personal Brand statement, define their style identity and use that image to create success in personal and professional...
Reba Sigler
Corporate Success Specialist
Reba Sigler
Leadership Team
Reba is a project manager who has always been passionate about coaching. As the Corporate Success Specialist at CareerJoy her role is to make sure projects go from first contact...
Rebecca Bartley
Resumé Coach
Success stories
Rebecca Bartley
Resumé & Branding
Rebecca has always had a passion for writing and the art of telling a great story. With over 7 years of experience in public relations, communications, marketing and writing she...
Richard Rochefort
Certified Career, Executive and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Certified Executive Coach
Richard Rochefort
Coaching
Richard is an expert in leadership development, management excellence and learning. He is perfectly bilingual (English and French). Richard is a certified executive coach, excellent facilitator and outstanding public speaker.
Sandra Bobkin
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Masters in Adult Education
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing Science
- Professional Certified Coach
- Registered Nurse
- ADLER Certified Professional Coach
- Certified in EQ-i 2.0 (a psychometric tool)
- Accredited the Professional Certified Coach Designation (PCC) through the International Coach Federation
Success Stories
Sandra Bobkin
Coaching
Sandra has more than 15 years of private and public sector experience in a variety of learning, leadership and management roles. This includes service in the retail, financial and health...
Shoshana Allice
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Shoshana specializes in supporting leaders through personal and professional transitions, and building effective teams which create engagement and get results. Since 2004, she has coached, mentored, and advised leaders across North America and abroad.
A former Learning & Leadership specialist in Canada’s Federal Public Service, Shoshana has coached and facilitated career and leadership development at all levels. Her experience in the Federal Public Service and in health care have given Shoshana a deep understanding of leadership within a complex unionized environment. She understands the challenges of attending to personal career and leadership aspirations while navigating changing mandates and funding pressures.
Keenly interested in each client’s unique story, Shoshana encourages rich conversations to build strong coaching relationships. Clients are drawn to her down-to-earth, genuine personality which naturally provides them with a safe, exploratory environment. She is not afraid to gently push clients by asking the hard questions in order to decipher what they really want.
One of Shoshana’s gifts is the ability to synthesize information and hear ‘between the lines. She pulls together what clients can’t quite put into words yet, gaining and sharing a deeper insight into their values, strengths, and deeply held beliefs, as well as potential blind spots. Challenging their stories about what might limit them, or the limits of their abilities, she is able to leverage their complementary strengths and drive powerful changes.
Career successes Shoshana takes pride in include developing and rolling out an emerging leaders program as well as a coaching-based succession planning initiative for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She has also worked in India, where she rolled out a Coaching Skills for Managers program: She introduced the program at a national conference, trained 10 facilitators to deliver it, and helped develop and roll out a marketing strategy for it.
Shoshana’s coaching successes for individuals include:
- Helping an executive director-level client make some hard decisions about his next steps by connecting deeply to his values and truth. The client ultimately created a life legacy he is both proud of and nourished by.
- Supporting a manager in taking a new level of leadership by connecting her with her own courage and commitment in order to have a courageous conversation with her director.
- Supporting a front-line leader to identify the work she deeply wanted to do and facilitating a 3-way conversation engaging her director in that vision, who got on board and brainstormed ways to make connections and build bridges for the client.
Clients working with Shoshana can expect to practice and develop strong muscles in vulnerability, courage and clarity to gain the leadership skills they desire.
Professional Designations:
- Masters in Human Systems Intervention
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CTI)
- Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation)
- Certified in EQ in Action (Emotional Intelligence psychometric tool)
- Certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Client Testimonials
Shoshana Allice
Coaching
Over the past fifteen years, Shoshana has coached, mentored, and advised leaders, at all levels of organizations, across North America and abroad. With almost a decade in the Federal Public...
Stephen Williams
Career and Leadership Coach
Accreditations and Education
- Co-Active Coach – CTI – Coaches Training Institute
- Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP)
- Certified Human Resource Leader (CHRL)
- Certificate in Human Resources Management (CHRM), Humber College
- Certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Facilitator
- Certified in DISC profiling
- Certificate in Human Resource Law, Osgoode Hall Law School
- Hon. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), University of Toronto
Accomplishments
- Designed & developed North American wide training initiative and Leadership Development program
- Developed Career Guidance program that provided structure to leadership development and succession planning
- Improved relationships with union business agents by actively engaging them in problem solving and managing issues with their members, resulting in reduced grievances and better bargaining results
Client testimonials
Stephen Williams
Coaching
Stephen Williams came to CareerJoy with a comprehensive HR background. He has more than 25 years of experience as an HR Leader specializing in Employee Development, and possesses the solid...
Tanya Smith
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Action Learning Certification
Success Stories
Tanya Smith
Coaching
As an accredited integral leadership development coach, Ms. Smith works with individuals to develop/build their competencies in order to improve their capacity to achieve long term excellence, self-correct and self-generate.
Taryn Brady
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Associate Certified Coach
- Certified in Leadership Circle Profile
- Bachelor of Science (Zoology),
- Masters in Spiritual Science
- Certified in Insight Seminars series
- Leadership Edmonton Program
- Professional Speakers training
Success Stories
guidance on where to improve my CV and cover letter.” – John T.
Taryn Brady
Coaching
Taryn's love of science and technology has been a common thread throughout her career. After her first job as field biologist with Canadian Wildlife Service she knew that working with...
Thomas Labelle
Certified Career and Leadership Coach
Professional Designations
- Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching
- Certified Career Development Professional
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Service Administration
- Member of the International Coaching Federation
- Member of the Calgary Association of Professional Coaches
Success Stories
Thomas Labelle
Coaching
He feels extremely fortunate to be in the position to excite and motivate clients about career and life “possibilities” and to help them devise strategies towards achieving their goals. The...
Tudor Robins
Resumé Coach
Professional Designations
- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Journalism
Tudor Robins
Resumé & Branding
Tudor enjoys writing anything that tells a story and considers resumes to be the ultimate “short story” of a person’s life. As a professional resume-writer for more than a dozen years,...
Victoria Miles
HR Consultant and Employee Engagement Coach
Victoria Miles
Coaching
Victoria has 25 years of experience in helping organizations shape and deliver strategies centered around the intersection of commerce, culture and community. Whether it has been through leadership roles in...