Transformational
Leadership Development
PART-TIME TRAINING | FULL-TIME RESULTS
FACULTY
Stuart Anderson, CEO / Founder, Performance Psych.
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Stuart Anderson is a high-performance coach, leadership strategist, educator and facilitator. He has 20+ years of experience helping organizations to build high-performance teams, and aiding top performers to achieve more success and satisfaction through self-mastery. His client-list includes a broad spectrum of domains ranging from Cirque Du Soleil to tech CEOs, large arts organizations to the Royal College of Surgeons, rock stars to racing drivers, dancers to olympic athletes to special forces. Stuart holds post-graduate degrees in Performance Psychology (with Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh. He is a certified SAFe Scrum Master (Scaled Agile Framework) and alumni of the THNK School of Creative Leadership. He has studied and worked with Stanford University School of Business to help organizations build signature stories for growth and impact. Stuart is passionate about sustainable high-performance in the work and lives of individuals, and fostering organizational cultures of excellence.
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Dr. Julia Kim
Julia Kim is a global practitioner in leadership development and systems change, and has been working at the interface of transformative leadership, wellbeing economics, and sustainable development. She brings a background in program design, facilitation, coaching, and curriculum development and has worked with UN agencies (World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF), the Global Leadership Academy (GIZ/Germany), Schumacher College (UK), the Mind and Life Institute (USA), and senior leadership teams from business, government, health systems, finance, and philanthropy. As a musician, she believes in the creative power of improvisation, embodied movement, and mindfulness-based practices in sparking innovation and insight. Julia is the Program Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan, and is an associate of the Presencing Institute, and a member of the Club of Rome.
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Bettina Rothe
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Bettina Rothe is an embodied leadership coach and conscious movement facilitator. Bettina supports clients in the development of an authentic leadership presence that is powerful, compassionate and self-aware. She balances an evidenced-based foundation with a practical application that meets the needs of her clients. She holds a degree in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych) from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany with a special focus on Neurophysiology and Developmental Psychology. Bettina has been involved in Leadership Development since 2008 and has been particularly interested in developing ways to lead effectively with body, mind and heart. She trained with Wendy Palmer as a Leadership Embodiment Coach, and she coaches CEOs, TED talk presenters, social activists and entrepreneurs. As the founder of her company “Circles of Inclusion” she designs programs that help people return to a sense of belonging and connection: to themselves, to each other and the ecosystem. Bettina teaches workshops in North America, Europe and Central America.
Jonas Altman
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Jonas is a design strategist and entrepreneur. Partner of an award-winning marketing consultancy, he helps organizations launch new ventures and adopt remarkable ways of communicating. With over 20 years of working within the creative sector, Jonas has partnered with clients including Sony Music, BBC, Tate Modern and Google. Jonas launched the first accelerator programme in London dedicated exclusively to the lifestyle industries and has enabled countless early stage businesses to secure investment and grow. He is a startup advisor, conference speaker and regular contributor to The Huffington Post and The Guardian. Jonas is the acclaimed author of 'Shapers'.
Shivanee Sen
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Shivanee Sen is a Management Consultant and Leadership Coach. She consults with startups on people development and performance, works with schools on social-emotional learning programs, and runs leadership programs for India's first professional women's network.Shivanee has had a varied career, ranging from launching India's first LGBT rights campaign for school students, to coaching Harvard's executive education fellows on motivational speaking, to helping develop a tech platform for corporate soft skills training. Shivanee has a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, a Master in Education fromHarvard University and a Master in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a certified coach from the International Coaching Federation.
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Mike Rowlands
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Mike Rowlands is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and advisor who works at the intersection of business, community and sustainability. He supports visionary entrepreneurs and leaders in organizations around the world, helping to craft distinctive strategies, disrupt markets, and accelerate success. Mike chairs the Board of Directors of Hollyhock, a lifelong learning centre and retreat on Canada's west coast, that hosts over 100 annual programs designed to support, nourish and inspire people committed to healthier organizations, communities, and world. He's also a board member at Social Venture Circle, which builds and serves communities of inspired and informed impact investors and business leaders to make social, economic, and environmental change. And he's an Ambassador for B Corp.As an emcee, keynote speaker, entrepreneur-in-residence, and frequent workshop presenter, Mike regularly hosts events, convenes conferences, and teaches strategy, branding, and entrepreneurial leadership.
Eslinda Hamzah-Tracy
Based in Hong Kong and Singapore, Eslinda works internationally as a coaching consultant and an organisation systems practitioner. She is committed to a co-active and holistic approach in empowering growth and development, impacting her clients is their capacity and enabling them to transform and thrive in a progressively complex world. She greatly values cultural differences and has an incisive appreciation of multicultural diversity. Eslinda brings great respect for inclusion and the tremendous value it brings as a mindset, to relationships and to the workplace. She speaks to this diversity as an essential enhancer of organizational productivity, performance and human engagement.
Mike Starkey
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Mike has been training technical leaders for many years. While leading and managing teams for 6 years in China and 5 years in Central and Eastern Europe as a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Mike was growing technical executives worldwide in IBM. His primary focus was on grooming technical executives in emerging markets and also on underrepresented minorities. He continues to focus on championing women technical leaders. Mike was the Associate Dean for Computing at BCIT. He graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston and holds a Masters of Science degree from the University of Utah. He is a certified IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Collaborator and Coach. Mike has recently been made VP for AI and Quantum Computing Technology at Fujitsu.
David Kohler, PhD.
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David Kohler is an educator, trainer, instructor and coach specializing in leadership development and the science of learning. He has taught mathematics and statistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). He has trained several hundreds of teachers, educators and managers in public and private organizations in leadership skills, training skills, facilitation skills and presentation skills. As an education consultant he has designed curriculum for dozens of companies in topics ranging from marketing to entrepreneurship and personal development. David holds a M.Sc. in mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and is a certified Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and trainer.
TESTIMONIALS
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