Our Coaches

Lisa brings decades of leadership, coaching, and consulting experience to a variety of Fortune 100 companies globally. She has successfully developed a transformation methodology that integrates change, organizational effectiveness, and coaching all grounded in Whole Person intelligence™ to ensure sustained systemic impact.

Her ability to navigate complexity seamlessly with a dynamically diverse client base, all the while training coaches and leaders globally, makes her a dynamic change maker in the next generation of leadership performance.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • B. MGT – Human Resources/Labour Relations, University of Lethbridge
• • MBA, University of Alberta
• • Executive Coaching, Master’s Graduate Certificate, Royal Roads University
• • Master Certified Coach (MCC), International Coach Federation
• • Change Management Certificate, Mount Royal University
• • LCP (360º) Certification, Leadership Circle Profile
• • MBTI®, DiSC®, EQ-i, Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory Certifications
• • Sound Healer (Safe & Sounds Protocol)

Cory is a seasoned business leader with 20+ years of experience specializing in communication, marketing, and strategy. As a Consultant, Facilitator, and Executive Coach, she has a sharp intuition for asking questions, listening deeply, and identifying what’s at the heart of challenges and opportunities while helping executives, leaders, and teams navigate complexity with clarity and purpose.

In her past leadership roles as an Executive Manager and Chief of Staff to C-suite Executives in the financial services and agriculture sectors, Cory leveraged her leadership, communication, and coaching skills to simplify the complex, drive strategic execution, and foster momentum and progress for her teams.

As a certified Executive Coach, Cory has worked with leaders in corporations, government, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. She maintains a keen focus on empowering leaders to unlock their full potential, strengthening both their strategic and team leadership while guiding them toward meaningful outcomes. She cultivates a productive, trust-based environment where leaders feel seen, supported, and challenged. Through her coaching, she helps individuals recognize and harness their unique strengths, enabling them to grow into more confident and effective decision-makers.

Greg leads with curiosity and embraces life as an experiment in which one is invited to listen deeply, examine courageously, explore perspectives, and build empathetic narratives that reveal themes, patterns and possibilities.

As an Executive Coach, Greg has partnered with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and spaces, including entrepreneurs, post-secondary academic faculty and administrative leadership, the arts, government agencies, civil service, and inner-city community service organizations.

Greg has over two decades of experience in educational leadership roles, with a focus in theatre arts, where he worked as a coach, mentor, and consultant to professional leadership colleagues. Often through the frame of the arts, Greg facilitated the deepening of learning to ensure diversity of perspectives and understanding.

Greg and his wife Tami have 3 sons and a grandson who keeps them both feeling young! Greg is also the host of a podcast, Ellipsis Thinking…Conversations from the Spaces Between, which sprang from Greg’s lifelong fascination with the ways in which creativity shows up in us all, and how it invites possibility by inviting us to step into the spaces of the unknown.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • CEC Royal Roads University
• • PCC International Coaching Federation
• • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), University of Alberta
• • Bachelor of Education, University of Alberta

Our Leaders in Leadership

We partner with thought leaders from diverse backgrounds and industries to bring fresh perspectives and innovative strategies that enhance our client experience. Collaborating with seasoned practitioners enables us to leverage practical wisdom while staying at the forefront of industry trends to provide cutting-edge solutions.

Meet Kendall Lyman

Kendall has consulted with a wide array of organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to small and midsize firms around the globe, working with senior leaders and their teams to develop leadership capacity, improve team effectiveness and performance, and transform how they lead business.

His work has taken him across diverse industries such as oil and gas, lodging, government, and manufacturing, and has included international projects in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. His work with clients has been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Kendall has also held executive line management responsibilities, including the Practice Leader of the Organizational Change Consulting Group at FranklinCovey.

He is a member of the Duke Corporate Education Faculty Network and is the co-author of two books Change the Way You Change! 5 Roles of Leaders Who Accelerate Business Performance and The Employee Engagement Mindset.

Kendall has three children and currently lives with his wife in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation (in progress)
• • Masters of Business Administration

Leah Marks is an ICF Associate Certified Coach and Registered Clinical Counsellor with over 25 years of experience supporting individuals across academic, clinical, and organizational settings. She brings a grounded, evidence-informed perspective to coaching, shaped by her background in counselling psychology, executive coaching, and human development.

Leah understands the complexity of high-performing environments and the personal and professional pressures leaders navigate during periods of growth, transition, and change. Her work integrates strong psychological insight with a forward-focused coaching approach that helps clients build clarity, strengthen decision-making, and move toward meaningful, sustainable action in their careers and lives.

As a coach, Leah partners with professionals and leaders to explore thinking patterns, leverage strengths, and identify practical strategies for growth and cultivating strong working relationships. Her style is thoughtful, collaborative, and strengths-based, creating a space where clients feel supported while being constructively challenged to develop confidence, resilience, and momentum.

Leah’s coaching is informed by extensive experience in career development and transition, including her work with professionals and students at the University of British Columbia’s Life and Career Centre, Alumni UBC, and the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers. She also draws on her background as a post-secondary instructor and academic advisor, as well as her research in persistence and wellbeing, to support clients in aligning performance with long-term sustainability.

Maria’s coaching and clinical work is grounded in a somatic methodology that guides clients to decode how their past conditioning is physically organized in their body and nervous system.

By transforming these protective, automatic stress patterns into adaptive physical options, she helps clients embody an aligned, regulated presence and take values-driven action under pressure.

Born in Sydney, raised in Northern Italy, and later settled in Oregon, Maria grew up across different countries and languages. That upbringing opened her eyes early to how much culture shapes the way people express themselves — and how much can go unsaid between languages. That early awareness still shapes how she works with clients today: listening not just to what’s said, but to what the body is already saying underneath it. Maria lives in beautiful Southern Oregon with her husband and Kuro the cat.

Matthew’s coaching is grounded in the belief that leadership is the most powerful force for good in the world, and that world-class leadership begins with the quiet, essential work of self-leadership. He listens for the resonance between a leader’s values and their actions, helping them clear away the modern noise to reconnect with their most authentic way of leading.

Matthew’s perspective was shaped by nineteen years of service in the Canadian Armed Forces. From commanding tanks in combat to navigating the high-stakes world of multi-national operations in Latvia, he learned that true strength is found in humility and that the best leaders are also the best students. His journey later took an intentional turn into the art of furniture making—a year spent learning that both wood and people must be worked with, not against. This experience deeply informs his coaching today: he approaches each client with the attention, patience, and respect required to reveal the unique grain of their character.

Most recently, as Chief Operating Officer of a cybersecurity startup, Matthew navigated the complexities of the tech world, helping leaders find clarity in uncertainty and courage in the face of rapid change. He believes that every leader is a coach and a friend, and he is committed to walking the path with those who are ambitious not just in what they want to build, but in who they want to become.

Matthew lives in Ottawa with his wife Tiffany, and their dog Juno, where he enjoys the stillness of a long hike or a bike ride and remains active in his community, seeking out the stories and lived experiences of those around him.

Pat McLaughlin is a seasoned executive leader with deep experience guiding large, complex organizations and developing high impact leaders across diverse sectors. He has built a distinguished career focused on strategy, culture, and performance, helping organizations navigate change, strengthen leadership capacity, and deliver sustained results.

Pat’s leadership journey includes senior roles with J.D. Irving, Limited, one of Canada’s largest privately held enterprises. As Director of Leadership and Organizational Development, he led enterprise wide leadership initiatives, executive development programs, and talent strategies that strengthened leadership capability, supported succession, and aligned people practices with business priorities across a highly diversified organization.

He has also held prominent executive leadership roles at Hockey Canada, serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer, as well as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy. In these roles, Pat was responsible for organizational operations, strategic planning, and leadership alignment during periods of complexity, visibility, and change, supporting performance at both national and grassroots levels.

Earlier in his career, Pat served as Chief Executive Officer of Edge School and as Vice President with the Edmonton Oilers, further deepening his experience in organizational leadership, performance culture, and stakeholder engagement in high pressure environments.

Across his career, Pat is recognized for his ability to translate strategy into action, build values driven cultures, and develop leaders and teams that deliver meaningful and measurable outcomes. His work spans executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational advisory engagements, with a consistent focus on clarity, integrity, and performance.

Pat and his wife, Cindy, split their time between Calgary and Mesa, Arizona, and enjoy staying closely connected with their children and grandchildren.

Our Leaders in Leadership

We partner with thought leaders from diverse backgrounds and industries to bring fresh perspectives and innovative strategies that enhance our client experience. Collaborating with seasoned practitioners enables us to leverage practical wisdom while staying at the forefront of industry trends to provide cutting-edge solutions.

Meet Tony Daloiso

Over the past 30 years, Tony has advised, coached, trained, consulted, and spoken to hundreds of the most senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies around the world. Tony is the CEO of The Charter Oak Consulting Group, a firm he started over 30 years ago that was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Fastest Growing 500 Firms. He has also served in a leadership capacity with several of the top leadership development and consulting firms including The Center for Creative Leadership, McKinsey and Co., Franklin-Covey, and The American Management Association. In the fall of 2017, Tony became Professor of Leadership and Organization Behaviour at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. His MBA course on Transformational Change was the highest rated course in the MBA program the spring semester of 2019.

Tony’s current focus is on consulting with CEOs and their teams regarding organization transformation projects, building capability, implementing strategy, and supporting major change. He has extensive experience coaching senior executives and executive teams to effectively transform their business. Tony’s book “Change the Way You Change” is available at Barnes and Noble booksellers and Amazon retail, where it is a bestselling business book. His newest book, “The Journeyman Life,” was an instant #1 bestseller on Amazon.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • Ph.D., Organizational Psychology, University of Connecticut
• • MA, Counselling Psychology, Fairfield University

Tami’s coaching is grounded in her belief in reflective inquiry and the capacity of others. She listens beyond words to the heart of what matters most. She is not afraid to offer questions that may encourage others to attempt that which they’ve only ever dreamed of, or risk that which they never believed they’d have the confidence to try.

Tami also supports the curriculum development and delivery of coach training, finding joy in designing curriculum that supports the development of successful leadership. She is committed to empowering others to work towards the realization of their next possibility and offering support to and celebrating the emergent insight that shifts to action.

Tami brings over 35 years of experience as a teacher, consultant, and educational leader with Edmonton Public Schools. Throughout her final tenure as Principal of Victoria School of the Arts, her work was focused on inviting others to build upon their creative capacity to lead with deep curiosity, think unconventionally, question the status quo, and imagine and reflect on new perspectives and possibilities—all in support of becoming more passionate and compassionate members of the local and global community.

Tami currently lives in Parksville, BC, where she enjoys her garden and loves to host family and friends, including her 3 sons and grandson as often as possible.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • CEC Royal Roads University
• • PCC International Coaching Federation
• • MEd in Educational Leadership, University of Alberta
• • Professional Mentor Coaching, Royal Roads University

Wendy is passionate about developing leaders. She currently partners with several global leadership providers to offer coaching to leaders, and designs and facilitates leadership programs for organizations across North America.
Prior to returning to her love of facilitation and coaching, she had the good fortune to enjoy a long career with Suncor Energy in downstream operations, as well as leadership and employee development, while concurrently keeping her entrepreneurial spirit alive as a small business owner. She has amassed invaluable leadership insights through her professional background and executive education at Harvard Business School and Royal Roads University.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• • Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching
• • Professional Certified Coach through the ICF (pending)
• • Leadership Circle Profile, certified facilitator
• • CoreStrengths/SDI 2.0, certified facilitator