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It all begins with you!

The foundation of any successful career or business is an understanding of the people who make that business great — the “Why” and “What’s important” to you.

Are you the leader of company or a member of the executive team? Or may you are the manager of a department or an emerging leader who just wants to make things better. Everyone is different and what you need at this particular stage of your career may be a coach, confidant, or an advisor.

I can help because of I’ve been there. From my early days as lone-wolf sales rep for Xerox in northern Saskatchewan (yeah, that’s a part of Canada!) to being a product manager at TELUS for data centers and wireless solutions to my time on the executive leadership teams of small and mid-sized companies, I have a wide and diverse background that you can leverage for your own personal insight and development.

My goal is to share my experiences — the good, the bad and the ugly! — so you can find your own path to becoming the best leader you can be and make your company better.

Let’s get started!

1:1 Coaching & Business Consulting

Fast-track your personal development and benefit from over 30 years of experience to become a better leader and improve your executive presence.

Certified practioner:

  • Trust at Work — based on “The Thin Book of Trust” by Charles Feltman, this framework focuses on the 4 Distinction of Trust — Competence, Reliability, Sincerity, and Care — and supports trust building as a workplace competency. Building trust with others, whether it’s co-workers, employees, or clients — helps you create, sustain or rebuild trust as a critical element to your personal success or the well-being of your company.

  • Lumina Spark — this unique methodology creates a personal portrait that identifies your individual strengths according to 24 qualities along 8 complementary aspects:

    • Inspiration Driven <—> Discipline Driven

    • People Focused <—> Outcome Focused

    • Introverts <—> Extraverted

    • Big Picture Thinking <—> Down to Earth

      The Lumina Spark model also provides insights along 3 personas — Underlying, Everyday, and Over-extended — to give you an understanding how you are, how you act normally, and how you may respond under pressure or stress.

      The Spark portrait is applicable to individuals but can also be extended to entire teams so you can see how group dynamics can drive certain behaviors and outcomes and how Leaders can work with their teams to build trust, competence and better results!

  • Emotional Quotient (EQ-i) 2.0 — this Level 2 psychometric tool has been used for years to provide deep personal insights about a persons unique strengths and areas for development when it comes to 5 dimensions of Emotional Intelligence and 15 underlying composite measures:

    • Self-Perception

    • Self-Expression

    • Interpersonal

    • Decision Making

    • Stress Management

    EQ-i 2.0 is well suited for high-performing individuals & leaders and emerging leaders in your organization.

    The report links Emotional Intelligence and leadership development and contrasts individual results with the results from hundreds of other leaders to highlight your strengths and potential areas for development.

  • Coaching with Conscious Competence — is a competency-based learning and development model that provides understanding to the stages of human learning and the challenges, emotions, and behaviors they face along with recommendations for leaders and managers about how to support their development.

    This foundational model for learning is an excellent pre-cursor to any of the other personal or team-based coaching and development programs. Experienced leaders will benefit from having clarity and structure to help them guide their direct reports or teams to a higher level of performance. If you believe that building trust is essential to your success as a leader, then begin by learning how to Coach with Conscious Competence!

Team Workshops & Facilitation

Team building is more than just dinners and escape rooms. It’s about shared learning and experiences that help the team grow and learn to work better together.

Build a stronger, more resilient team by understanding the unique strengths of each person and how to develop their individual and group potential.

Workshops possibilities include:

  • Trust at Work

  • Lumina Spark (personal and team personalities)

  • Strategic Selling

  • Negotiation

  • Innovative Leadership

  • Strategic Planning

  • Business Finance Fundamentals

  • Product Management & Marketing

Identifying what your team members need can be challenging, especially when you’re day-to-day life is packed with client issues and trying to grow the business. Engaging an external person with expertise and real-life experience can help you build a stronger team with better skills and insights about how to achieve their personal and team goals.

Let’s talk about what your team needs to reach its full potential.

Keynotes & Speaking

Kick-off your team event with an insightful presentation that will get your team focused and motivated on your key goals and objectives.

Donovan draws from over 30 years of experience in a variety of roles such as sales, sales management, product development, marketing, operations and executive leadership. His perspective blends the human side of business with the practical needs to deliver value to both clients and shareholders.

Capable of relating to audiences at every level in an organization, Donovan can connect the dots in a complex world of people and technology to expose the purpose and meaning behind how we work together.

Past Keynotes include:

  • Capitalism with a Conscious

  • Impact of an Aging Workforce on Field Service Companies

  • (NEW!) Coaching with Conscious Competence — How to Lead Your Team with Empathy and Drive Better Results

Starting at $2,500 per engagement (Remote or In-person)

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