"Life Altering" change to coaching and facilitation!
 
Back in the fall of 2007 Kesa's Mark Bosworth and David Hoy told me I had to go out to Royal Roads University (RRU) and become a Certified Executive Coach - it would life altering!
 
I did, and they were right! I have clients from various walks of life and in Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary currently. We meet twice a month face to face or often over the phone, and every session ends with an action plan to move forward! The follow up session of course naturally starts with a check in about that action.
 
While coaching is something I do specifically, it has also entered into every other aspect of my world. I use a coaching style when I facilitate workshops and planning sessions and I certainly use coaching language when working with businesses and organizations to take action on the plans they've developed.
 
I use "a coach approach" when I am teaching students at Grant MacEwan's Golf Management Program about "Working with Boards and Committees". I used coaching techniques in project managing the development of a staff orientation program for the Law Society of Alberta.

You notice how I snuck in a few of the things I've been doing in the text above - this really will be painless reading for you! 
 
The fascinating piece for me is that I am still doing what I have done for over 35 years. I am still being recruited to help organizations and people move forward, make change, plan, deliver those plans, improve, mend, reorganize.
 
I am using all those years of experience at The Dow Centennial Centre, TELUS, Eaton Centre, Canadian Men's Curling Championship, The House of Banjo, Canapen Investments, McCoy Bros, Thorne Ernst and Whiney (KPMG now), The Edmonton Klondike Days Association COMBINED WITH the tools of coaching, facilitation, project management, business planning, strategic planning, to help my clients move forward.