Great change isn’t a huge leap, it’s a PIVOT.
Let’s Listen, Lead and Learn… together.
GRANITE CLUB MEMBERS (M-F 7:00am-1:00pm)
AT-HOME BUSINESS HOURS (M-F 5:30am-2pm)
Service
Do you want to optimize your Wellness? Do you want to achieve peak performance? Do you want discover true strength? Do you need to PIVOT and move in another direction?
Transformation occurs at the height of your own Triple-Loop Learning, where you learn how to learn and apply it physically, emotionally, and mentally, with you as the source of your own change. I hold the Coaching space so that you can LISTEN to your body, LEAD yourself mentally in making more informed choices, and LEARN about the rewarding emotional outcomes and physical results that you can generate.
As your Executive Wellness Coach, I draw from evidence-based research and experience as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a Martial Artist, a Strategic Foresighter, a Leadership Facilitator, and Developmental Coach to be in service to the world. These lenses help me offer insights that can help balance the powerful changes that occur between the panic and the possibility.
Sessions involve addressing somatic, emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, spiritual, and moral topics that are barriers and enablers for shifting from your current way of being to embodying your new way of being. Together, we will co-create a comprehensive program that addresses your needs, what those needs require in your daily interactions with others, what specific actions and behaviors your needs require, and how those changes are impacted by and create change in the world. Doesn’t that sound powerful?
Everyone has the ability to PIVOT by one degree and walk a straight line to end up in a totally different destination. Let’s discover a way to co-create that together.
Become a co-creator in PIVOT: A Wellness Project.
Executive Wellness Coach
Executive Health and Wellness Management ▪ Education Seminars ▪ Fitness Consultations for Older Adults ▪ Long Term Athletic Development ▪ Team Mentorship ▪ Organizational Development ▪ Client Relations ▪ Corporate Consultant ▪ In-Home Personal Training ▪ Startup Consultant
Professional Experience
PIVOT: A WELLNESS PROJECT
Freelancer ▪ Toronto ▪ 2007-Present
Executive Wellness Coach • Promoting highest standards of client centered evidence-based services for executives • Developing and presenting wellness seminars in fitness and lifestyle management • Providing individual developmental coaching
Strength and Conditioning Coach • Lighting the fire to optimize your body
Leadership Coach • Looking at how you show up as a leader in self, with others, and to the rest of the world
Education
MDes Strategic Foresight and Innovation OCAD University, Toronto, ON ▪ Spring 2024
MA Leadership Studies Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC ▪ 2018
Advanced Diploma (honors) in Fitness and Lifestyle Management George Brown College, Toronto, ON ▪ 2009
BA (honors) Theatre and Drama Studies specialist, Philosophy major University of Toronto ▪ 2002
Acting Conservatory Diploma Sheridan College, Oakville, ON ▪ 2002
Special Interests / Volunteer Experience
SHORINJI KEMPO ▪ 2009- Present ▪ Shorinji Kempo (3rd Degree Black Belt) ▪ Toronto Branch (since 2019) ▪ Cabbagetown Branch 2009-2019
CLUB MANAGER ▪ 2014-2019 Shorinji Kempo (2nd Degree Black Belt) Cabbagetown Branch
CLASSICAL PIANO ▪ (Royal Conservatory of Music) ▪ Training 1981-1993, 2019-present
Certifications
Integral Coaching Canada ▪ ICCP-1 Associate Coach Certification
Evidence Based Fitness Academy (USA) ▪ Barefoot Training Specialist Level 2
National Strength and Conditioning Association (USA) ▪ Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology ▪ Certified Personal Trainer
Ontario Fitness Council ▪ Registered Health and Exercise Professional
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![WARRIOR: Sometimes I wake up in the morning like an angry animal. Left unchecked and without any training, I would be dangerous in this world. We all need to harness and allow our animal side to have expression in this world. It's why I train, so tha]()
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![VISIONS: I'm trying to apply for school again. The anger of past rejection and the dejected feeling is just a distraction from the inner vision. If you close your eyes and tune in to your highest desires, you always have the ability to take another s]()
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![MONSTERS: The biggest things that we fear are illusions. Depression in the world is an ugly creature that we have created to distract us from being able to fix real problems. It's easier to fixate and obsess on the illusion of danger versus the true]()
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![CLIMBING UP FROM ROCK BOTTOM: One of the most powerful lessons that I've learned in life is that when you fall flat on your butt, you can only die or get up. From the pits of a global depression, we collectively must choose to live, love, and learn a]()
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![THE LIVING DEAD: When we make every move to reduce suffering in our lives, we reduce our capacity to be brilliant. A life driven by fear is a life that discovers mediocrity everyday. A life that embraces suffering as informative is a life that shines]()
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![TO BE ENABLED: Despite whatever obstacles we face, there should never be an emphasis on 'being disabled'. Instead we should focus on how we are all empowered to 'be able'. Healthy living is living a life that invites healthy play.]()
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![TREASURES: I'm reminded of all the knick knacks my grandmother used to collect. I'm sure they all had a story. She always warned me to build up my constitution or she would box my ears off. Such a wonderful gift that she gave me for how to live.]()
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![OPENING THE VAULT: Sometimes we lock up our thoughts, emotions, and expressions for a couple years at a time. When we crack the safe the contents can be pretty powerful. In a secure world you can leave the door open. I leave mine open more often nowa]()
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![THUMBS UP: Sometimes you need to acknowledge that you are going through a rough patch. These have been some of the most testing times for myself, my people, and the others that I have yet to meet. Something keeps me going enough to keep chasing the g]()
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![SHELTER: I keep discovering these kid forts built in random parks. These kids transcend space and time. It's the same design, and I've seen it in the woods ever since I was a kid. I'm reminded that there is a 'way' of things in this world that transc]()
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![THE SPECTACLE: Lately I've been daydreaming about experiencing live events indoors. As most people I know are gradually overcoming their fears, a return to what's spectacular about being human is staring me in the face.]()
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![BAGGAGE: This year has been a constant reminder of the baggage that we have created and are handing down to the children of this world. It's really important to pour energy into change in this world. It's really necessary for all of us to transcend t]()
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![BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE: One of my favourite pastimes when on walkabout in the world that I miss the most is wandering into booksellers throughout the world. I can remember them all with such detail and dream of a day where I can take someone back to m]()
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![WORKPLACE WELLNESS: Imagine if taking care of your health, happiness, safety, and peace were a mandatory part of your work day? Did working from home enable us or disable us from achieving this?]()
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![COMMUNITY: I love the post it board at one of my local coffee shops. It invites silent voices into the conversation. All voices matter in organizations. The world is a big organization of too many voices unheard.]()
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![THE PERSONAL TOUCH: Work should be personal. We can only become our most enlightened self when we connect with others and meet them in a way that co-creates a world that is happier, healthier, safer, and full of peace. The village needs to get back t]()
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![TIME TRAVEL: I love being on a continuum of people on this planet that have played some of these piano pieces to honour those who are working on them right now and those who have worked and will work on them long before I was born and long after I'm]()
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![DISCOVERY WALKS: I randomly walk through the neighborhood at night with the puppy at the end of our day. The world is quiet as a coyote walks past us and we quickly move away. The emotions shift in the opposite direction when moments later we stumble]()
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![DON'T DROP THE BALL: Someone gave me an elastic ball in 1997. It was the most bizarre gift at the time, but it has been magical for me ever since. In 2017, I started making a second ball, and wonder who I will give it to. There is something to be sai]()
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![DEFENSIVE DRIVING: The future of all of our wellbeing in this world depends on all of us responsibly getting behind the wheel. The car crash of life since March 2020 is because we all got caught up in thinking we were invincible.]()