Maximize Your Return On Effort

Results for Executives and Leaders…

• Achieve bigger goals
• Overcome challenges
• Increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Be prepared for growth and demands
• Increase your value

Results for Professionals…

• Higher influence and leadership
• Improved effectiveness and efficiency
• Achieve big dreams
• Blast through obstacles
• Increased success and career/life harmony

Results for Organizations…

• Higher achievement/profits
• Productivity and loyalty
• Retention of top talent
• Improved succession planning
• Higher morale
• Reduced conflict

Results for Women…

• Achieve stellar results both at work and at home
• Move from a ‘Balancing Act’ to harmonizing their career and life
• Feel a much greater sense of fulfillment and peace
• Intentionally design and create a positive legacy

Situation Spotlights – A Review of Client Results

Consulting with Executives and Leaders Provided a unique framework that identified and clarified the attributes and behaviors of the most effective executives at North Americas’ leading fresh produce company and used the results of this proprietary 360 to design and implement a custom executive development program, resulting in  dramatically increasing the pool of qualified key role candidates and significantly improving the quality of executives’ leadership experience.

Advised a number of national and regional Canadian leadership teams on issues pertaining to the retention and advancement of top talent and how to better support their rising stars, resulting in more promotions and higher retention rates for ‘at-risk’ high-talent employees.

Advising and Coaching Executives and Professionals Coached many high-level executives and professionals in organizations such as KPMG, IBM, GEICO, RBC and Time Warner Cable to support them to clarify goals, set clear visions and strategies for their leadership development, increase their influencing skills and time mastery, resulting in performance improvement, career growth and life satisfaction. Click here to read testimonial.

Increasing Individuals’ Productivity Created highly interactive, career/life effectiveness workshops for a number of Canadian and US law firms that were delivered face-to-face and via video conferencing, resulting in the sharing of best practices among women lawyers regarding success at both home and at their respective firms. Click here to read testimonial.

Worked with the national and regional arms of accounting associations such as the CICA, CGA and CMA on personal productivity professional development courses, webinars and as a conference speaker for half-day and daylong seminars. Click here to read testimonial.

Improving Dynamics for Women Supported HSBC Canada with the launch of its Women’s Network via the creation of the group’s first national program to support their female employees.  This included delivering a specialized one-day program in multiple locations across Canada, resulting improved knowledge of personal performance improvement, enhanced understanding of gender differences and increased networking and informal mentoring.  Feedback from more than 400 women (and men) on how the organization could enhance its workplace culture to be more inclusive was also solicited and communicated to the leadership team. Click here to read testimonial./Click here to watch video.

Designing and Facilitating Excellent Meetings Worked directly with client to design and co-facilitate a full-day session to develop a more collaborative and cooperative approach to inter-departmental communications in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC).    Developed an innovative communication process that was role-played, fine-tuned in real time and accepted by attendees for future use. Click here to read testimonial.

Supporting Women’s Networks Designed and delivered a customized, live half-day workshop to TELUS’ women’s network CONNECTIONS, which shared valuable performance improvement tools with more than 600 employees in five cities across Canada.  TELUS called the program a “big win” for its network as 100% of the attendees gave it rave reviews. Click here to read testimonial.

Collaborated with Menttium Corporation’s women’s leadership program, Menttium 100, to create and present an interactive, practical two-hour webinar on career leadership to a global audience of 200 mentees, resulting in participants overwhelmingly rating it as “one of the year’s best” and Menttium repeating the session due to high demand. Click here to read testimonial.

Featured Spotlight – Financial Services Sector

Challenge: Pricewaterhouse Coopers, one of Canada’s leading financial consulting firms, recognized the rising cost of losing their high-potential women. They were looking for an innovative approach to solve this problem.

Solution: Lisa created a system to help them retain and advance more women through senior ranks and into the partnership and leadership positions. This customized group coaching program was tailored to mid-career manager level and up women who were managing a career and a family concurrently to increase their success in both their personal and professional lives. It was equally important to work with the organization to create a culture where these increases in both personal and professional success would be supported and rewarded.

This mentoring and leadership development program included: Identifying the high-potential candidates that would be part of this program

Creating a customized work-life balance assessment for all participants to help them identify their strengths and weakness areas

Delivering a two-day learning experience for groups of women from each major office from coast-to-coast to maximize the ROE (return on effort) of each participant

Incorporating a combination of group learning, shared best practices and facilitated dialogue to provide the organization with valuable feedback for enacting cultural and operational changes to support their goals

Involving the office leadership teams in introducing the program and to joining the women during the dialogue and debriefing time to help increase and demonstrate their leadership and support

Establishing informal mentoring relationships between program participants and internal senior leaders

Encouraging the establishment of informal alumni support teams in each city following the program delivery

Results: A highly successful program that is now in its fifth year of ongoing implementation with over 450 graduates – improved female engagement and job performance, increased number of women accepting leadership roles, decreased turnover costs by increasing the percentage of women returning from maternity leave and decreasing the numbers of women leaving the firm due to burnout or to work in competing firms. Additionally, this program created cultural changes by establishing new communities of support and informal mentoring within the firm.

Feedback mechanisms were also integrated into the program, resulting in valuable ongoing input from participants that directly impact and improve the inclusiveness of the organization’s culture. Click here to read testimonial.

The CEO has endorsed this program as indispensible to increasing women’s leadership within the organization. Click here to watch video.