2242, 246 Stewart Green S.W.
Calgary, Alberta, T3H 3C8
Canada

Chris is a highly accomplished business leader with 35 years of experience leading and growing companies in Western Canada. Chris has led organizations of up to $70M in revenue in software/IT, Information and consulting services in the Canadian oil and gas industry. He is also an entrepreneur and has held several senior executive roles, including President and CEO and Global VP. Chris is the co-founder and CEO of LeaderSharp Group, and he has a passion for leadership development and organizational effectiveness.

Lisa has a track record of success throughout 27 years of organizational leadership, entrepreneurship, management consulting, and executive coaching with leaders and teams across a wide range of industries. Her business background is in change leadership, business growth, organizational effectiveness, strategy, advocacy and policy change, operational efficiency, and leadership team development. She has held senior leadership roles such as Director of Operations and Executive Director. Lisa was the President and COO of LeaderSharp Group from 2014 to 2022. She is a co-founder and is now the Board Chair.

Matthew is a practiced leader in CEO, COO and VP roles, with over 30 years’ experience leading businesses at the regional and national level. He has worked in organizations with revenues more than $300M containing multiple service lines and brands in fast-paced environments. With a focus on operational efficiency, sales performance and customer delivery Matthew has gained invaluable knowhow from operating on the front lines.

He was instrumental in helping to scale a regional staffing firm with strong roots in Alberta to a nationwide organization that achieved platinum membership status of Canada’s 50 Best Managed companies. During his career he has participated in major re-branding exercises as well as numerous enterprise system integrations and structural changes. In his executive roles Matthew has also participated in the due diligence, acquisition, and integration of several organizations.

Over the past eight years Kara has supported and contributed to the growth and success of LeaderSharp Group through a variety of roles. As Operations Manager, Kara’s role involves creating and maintaining client-centric processes with a focus on creating a culture of quality and customer satisfaction.

Kara is masterful at coordinating and managing resources and relationships and has a unique ability to recognize inefficiencies and challenges present in operational systems. As a leader, Kara is passionate about empowering individuals, providing mentorship, and encouraging continuous learning and career development.

Ryan is passionate about building relationships and developing others. He carries certificates in leadership, entrepreneurship and is certified as an Everything DiSC facilitator. Ryan takes an entrepreneurial approach to problem solving, believing in opportunity instead of roadblocks. He has experience in a variety of industries, including hospitality & tourism, where he leveraged his culinary diploma to work as a banquet Chef.

Alicia Wight is a creative and compassionate consultant, facilitator, and coach with over 20 years of experience leading within organizations to create people-focused HR programs that enable organizations to excel. Her expertise lies in supporting teams and leaders in discovering their purpose, strengths, and opportunities through interactive activities that encourage connection and collaboration. Working one on one with leaders, Alicia loves to create space for leaders to explore different perspectives in moving through challenges.

Arlene is a certified Integral Master Coach™ and is committed to upholding the highest standards of her profession. Clients say they have met and exceeded their commitments with her help. They frequently remark on how quickly they start working toward achieving the results they care about – and how helpful it is when she supports them in working through obstacles, enabling them to enhance their leadership effectiveness. They also appreciate her pragmatic coaching approach based on personal responsibility and values-based choices.

Barbara designs and facilitates processes to help people engage in meaningful discussions, reach effective decisions, and develop beneficial, realistic plans. Barb has over 30 years of experience in facilitation, strategic planning, team building, leadership development, community engagement, community development, municipal community services, and culture and recreation delivery. Barb’s approach is based on values of honesty, inclusion and openness, collaboration and relationship building, respect for individuals and community, creativity and innovation, practical solutions, professionalism, and fun.

Ben Dueck is passionate about helping businesses thrive through developing leaders. His past experience includes entrepreneurship (property development, trades, leadership development), non-profit leadership, fundraising, and more. He is a Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and has a Master of Arts in Leadership. He currently sits on the Niverville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Canadian Mennonite University Board of Governors. He is the President/Founder of Cantera Leadership.

Clint coaches individuals looking to bring new levels of courageous authenticity to their leadership, challenging leaders and their organizations to build cultures that foster trust, teamwork, focus, and innovation. Drawing on his own experience as a leader and with an understanding of the challenges busy executives face, Clint inspires his clients to live and lead deliberately: leading their lives and organizations with purpose, vision, and courage. Clint loves to coach technical professionals looking to evolve from technical or task excellence to true leadership, building relationships, teams, and culture. Clint also coaches individuals in the areas of change, career transition, and personal transformation.

Colleen believes that there is great potential waiting to be discovered and unleashed within every individual. There are new possibilities to be imagined, and new directions to be set for success. Colleen coaches, trains and facilitates leaders, teams and organizations to succeed and achieve the greatness that lies within them. With a leadership and coaching career spanning more than 20 years, she has led leadership forums and workshops for diverse participants utilizing tools such as World Café, Open Space Conference, and The Talk Show, to name a few. One of the highlights was leading forums with the World Business and Executive Coaches Summit.

Deborah Bryant, a certified Integral Master Coach™ since 2005, is fluently bilingual in English and French. She served over 80+ clients/groups, becoming a trusted coach and advisor to leaders, teams, boards of directors, individuals, and coaches-in-training and has over 550+ contact hours. Deborah is passionate about shaping inner and outer perspectives to foster purposeful, compassionate leaders and teams capable of mobilizing for results and managing in a VUCA world.

Erin is passionate about developing people and teams as they actively move towards their personal and professional goals and partnering with organizations that recognize that their people are their greatest asset and pathway to long-term success. Erin incorporates high-performance principles, neuroscience and the complexities of human behaviour and development into her consulting work with entrepreneurs, organizations and international charities in Canada, the USA, Central America, Africa and Asia Pacific and as an instructor in the Professional and Leadership Programs in the SAIT School of Business.

Over a wide-ranging career, Erin has been a successful international speaker, transformational change manager, accountant, educator, software technology consultant, researcher, and project manager, leadership development facilitator, management consultant and executive coach. She is passionate about facilitating in ways that deeply engage people to interact and use their collective intelligence.

Heather Bordo is a consultant, strategic facilitator and executive coach who combines these skills and her diverse experience to create unique value for her clients. As a strategist, she utilizes her big picture thinking to keep people focused on opportunities that will have the greatest impact on achieving their goals. Her roles as an internal and external consultant have led to her proficiency in helping clients achieve and exceed specific business outcomes. A natural coach, Heather is particularly skilled in challenging and inspiring others to expand their perspectives, maximize their capabilities and achieve the next level of performance.

My passion is to unleash the potential that lies within both the individuals and organizations that I work with. Having a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, a Business Diploma, as well as personal experience in Senior leadership, I have acquired the skills to both identify the potential and constraints to development and in turn, develop and implement individualized coaching programs to increase both results and the satisfaction in achieving them.

Jen is a transformational leadership and team coach, serving people to unleash and unlock potential, realize impact and consciously thrive in the complexity that life presents. One unique aspect of Jen’s coaching is that rather than trying to reduce, avoid or remove complexity, Jen works with her clients to navigate through it by holding space for creative energy to emerge and sparking what is possible for her clients.

As an accomplished certified executive coach, communications expert, and team facilitator, Kathleen brings a wealth of corporate and business experience to her practice. She understands the complexity of working within large, diverse organizations and helps her clients navigate the challenges of working in fast-paced, demanding work environments. Kathleen uses her background in strategic communications and psychology to support clients in their career, team, and leadership development. Her easy-going nature allows her to collaborate with clients in a positive, energetic and dynamic way. Her goal is to become your partner in delivering the learning programs, coaching, and support your organization needs to be its best.

Manon is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as well as ICF Quebec. She is a Senior Leadership Consultant and Coach at iA Financial Group, one of the Canadian leaders in the financial world with assets of over $200 billion. She coaches middle and senior-level leaders in individual, group and team settings and has been a part of the organization for 22 years. She also conducts coaching mandates in her “private practice” in French.

Nathalie has more than 30 years of experience in private and public organizations (provincial, federal and municipal) in Quebec, Canada and Europe. A management consultant and certified executive coach, she offers innovative expertise in transformational leadership development in both private and public organizations in Quebec, Canada and Europe. She holds a Master of Science degree and has been certified in Trima psychometric testing since 2006 and has been certified with The Leadership Circle profile since 2013.

Patrick Murphy is a leadership coach and facilitator based in Brooklyn, NY. He is known for his unwavering enthusiasm and spirit to help leaders succeed. Patrick’s coaching style is direct and supplemented with a strong, nurturing instinct. He has a desire to find and hold the highest possible outcomes for all his clients. Patrick’s training style leans heavily on audience participation and surfacing knowledge already in the space. As a trainer, he views his role as ‘filling gaps’ – supplementing vast ranges of career and life experiences his audiences hold. In both realms, Patrick’s endless supply of enthusiasm and his passion for the power of positive framing never fails to enliven clients’ attitudes.

For the first 15 years of his career, Randy worked in several leadership roles within operations and human resources throughout Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has led several high profile projects, including a Regional Growth Plan Strategy, as part of a National Operating Plan. Within Human Resources, Randy has been responsible for facilitating the training process, implementing employee development and training solutions, and ensuring consistency and relevancy of training programs for managers, including senior leadership and executive teams. Randy has also coordinated training of international employees for new markets and was personally involved with the launch and opening of operations in Hong Kong.

Purpose-driven and strategic/systems thinker passionate about scaling sustainable leadership for the betterment of humanity and our planet. Ruth is a holistic leadership development practitioner, coach, and facilitator passionate about creating conscious leaders and businesses. Her coaching focus pays attention to three levels of scale: Leading Change, Leading People, and Leading Your Life. At the heart of her work is deep reverence for leaders’ courageous authenticity, humility, and commitment to evolve and outgrow their current successes. Ruth offers value by combining awareness of clients’ fast-changing complex business priorities with a deep understanding of the unconscious and conscious factors that shape leadership. She supports leaders to live and lead from an internally discerned sense of purpose, vision, and values, growing their inner capacity to lead in complexity and uncertainty whilst staying in alignment with the strategic aims of the company.

As a Coach and Facilitator, Sonia brings the best of people by focusing on their natural strengths while cultivating transformational insights and motivation so they can achieve their most important goals. Sonia’s coaching style is conversational and easy-going while following a structured process that results in powerful self-discovery. Your sessions with Sonia will be an optimal soundboard to test your ideas and engage with a coach who has extensive corporate experience. Senior leaders may be pleasantly surprised by Sonia’s candor, who won’t hesitate to be direct and decisive when needed. She is confident, charismatic, and thorough; and committed to supporting her clients to develop the mindset and skills needed to achieve their potential.

As a people and culture specialist, Sophie brings 15 years of experience supporting and elevating people-focused strategies in organizations, including leadership development, employee engagement and championing health and wellness. She has worked as both an internal and external ICF-certified coach for nine years, effectively supporting the personal and professional development of senior leaders and executives through one-on-one coaching and facilitating group leadership sessions.

Teresa is passionate about collaborating with both individuals and teams to realize their professional and personal goals. Building on 17 years of experience in consumer-packaged goods companies (Hershey, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, etc.) in various leadership roles, she works with business leaders and teams to strengthen leadership capabilities, enhance performance and effectiveness to build sustainable and rewarding impacts. In her coaching practice, she works as a collaborative partner to uncover opportunities that will drive forward both personal and professional goals and objectives, as well as overcoming any obstacles getting in the way. Having lived and worked across North America, Europe and Asia, Teresa has enhanced her approach to address cultural diversity and sensitivity.

Mae is passionate about creating supportive workplaces where people can thrive and bring their best selves to work. She has over 20 years of experience in group facilitation, workshop design and facilitation, knowledge translation, community development, health promotion and behaviour change with content expertise in the areas of psychological health and safety, workplace mental health, mental well-being and positive psychology.

Stacie Wilkinson is a Calgary based Executive Leadership Coach. Prior to becoming a coach, Stacie spent 25 years in both technical and business roles in Canada’s energy industry. Her experiences include strategic planning, operations management, business improvements, and implementing profitability optimization and cost reduction tactics. She has built teams, implemented processes, managed change, and created great leaders. She has worked at and held Director and Vice President roles at Suncor Energy, Husky Energy, Parkland, and Accenture.

Our Team

LeaderSharp Management
and Operations

LeaderSharp Associates

Our Team

LeaderSharp Management and Operations

LeaderSharp Associates

LeaderSharp Management
and Operations