My business background is thirty years of management consulting involving four business start-ups. I graduated from Lakefield College, near Peterborough, Ontario. Rather than go to university (I wasn’t the world’s best student) I opted to join my father in a start-up publishing / training business. From there my journey involved a series of three new start-ups. My ‘university’ turned out to be mentoring and licensee training by leading authors and consultants in strategy and organizational effectiveness.   I was an organization effectiveness consultant for 15 years working with organizations of all types and sizes. In 1995 I started Partnering Designs Inc. as a boutique consultancy to focus on business rejuvenation. I helped generate over $500 MM in partnering projects where we turned energy savings into a funding strategy for school renewal. In 2008 my wife Raymonde and I moved from Oakville, Ontario to the Sunshine Coast, B.C., mostly for family reasons, and for the added adventure of experiencing Canada from a new perspective. Over the past ten years I have updated and retooled myself with four coaching certification programs. The most recent was Enneagram Coaching Certification with the Madanes Coaching School based in Tel Aviv, Israel. They have close ties with Robbins-Madanes Coaching School in California with whom I had done training earlier. Coaching has emerged over the past twenty five years as the pace of change has accelerated. Coaching is a powerful and important tool for facilitating positive change that results in emotional well being as well as effectiveness. I particularly like working with small business leaders. Less politics. Easier applications.  As a small business owner all my life, I identify with the small business CEO.

“Enneagram Coaching is about coming home to the safe harbour of who you really are, and then going to higher ground.”