Testimonials.
I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of coaches over the years, and I have to say that my experience with Suzanne has been the most rewarding.
-ALEX MACLENNAN, ASSISTANT DEPUTY MINISTER
I wanted to thank you again for your executive coaching. I found your approach refreshing, and it helped me navigate a complex (but exciting) time in my career. I learned a lot about myself and also realized how important the power of silence is to help people figure out things on their own.
Thank you for being a great coach and for helping me figure out a few questions and their root. I feel I’m prepared for new adventures!
- INES PICCININO, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT BC OIL & GAS COMMISSION
I have had experiences with a few executive coaches, and she is by far the best I have worked with. Every session with Suzanne is filled with a-ha moments that have helped me re-think my career, and the way I approach leadership. I am a more confident, more assertive, more strategic professional as a result.
Suzanne really cares about empowering the people she coaches, and she makes sure that every session is responding to specific needs or challenges of her clients. She is professional, smart, flexible, and experienced. I feel I can share anything about my professional challenges with her, and that she will listen without judgement and help me tackle them, often by using the tools I am most familiar with in my own work.
By working with Suzanne I was able to identify my career mission, as well as the avenues to achieve that mission. I significantly increased my confidence at work, created a new team strategy in alignment with the organization’s mission, and positioned myself and my team as key contributors to the organization’s success. Suzanne helped me understand ways in which I can be a leader who acts with purpose and integrity. She helped me understand my fears and reframe them so they do not control me.
- CAROLINA PALACIOS MANAGER, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, OXFAM CANADA
Suzanne is an excellent coach; creative, thoughtful, and wise. I have worked with many coaches over the years and Suzanne has helped me find insights that were unexpected and deeply impactful, both for my professional and personal life. I would recommend her to anyone who is interested in doing real work to find opportunities in their career, or to understand their purpose and values more deeply. Working with her is also fun! She is delightful, warm, and engaging.
My organization is going through an agile transformation which is really based on changing how people relate to each other and their work. Suzanne has helped me lead through this transformation in a better, more effective way.
- CAITLIN BROWNRIGG, DIRECTOR
Through Suzanne’s exceptional coaching and inquiry skills, she has supported me to take on new and different leadership opportunities. Our sessions have been particularly helpful for me in navigating the shifting and evolving global context with the arrival of COVID-19, and adapting my leadership style to respond to the changing needs of my team.
Suzanne is a compassionate and experienced coach who effectively guides me to identify key barriers to my professional development, and new ways of framing and/or addressing these barriers. Perhaps the most profound impact that Suzanne has had on me is the realization that the answers are almost always within me. Through our sessions I have learned to turn down the volume on the framings that no longer serve me and turn up the volume on framings that reflect the authentic and effective leader that I am.
While working with Suzanne, I have transitioned to my dream leadership role, and continue to consider how I might want to grow in my career, far beyond my wildest dreams for myself when we first met. ”
- REBECCA DAVIDSON, CHIEF OF PARTY / HEAD OF GLOBAL HEALTH, CARE CANADA
My coaching experience with Suzanne has been one of the most impactful and effective learning experiences I've had over the course of my career.
Suzanne helped me in exploring and acting on challenges I was facing in my new role. She helped me step back and take a wider view of my longer-term career goals, explore and develop my signature leadership style, and work through steps and commitments to achieve my professional career goals.
I feel very fortunate to have been coached by Suzanne. Not only is she a skilled and committed coach, but she brings a personal style that allowed me to truly expose myself and my greatest fears and challenges. Through her gentle yet focused questioning, Suzanne helped me explore my leadership style, and understand what was holding me back. It is through these conversations with Suzanne, that I have been able to come to see very deep and impactful insights into who I am as a leader and how to find the solutions within myself.
-KAREN QUINE, DIRECTOR