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The A Muse Coach team of coaches consists of:

Sarah Robinson

A Muse Coach

Sarah brings over twenty years of expertise in hiring and building high performing teams here in Canada and abroad. She has extensive experience in building the infrastructure and programs necessary to support organizations through the various stages of growth and change. Her particular gift is in supporting individuals and organizations through times of significant transition. Sarah has the ability to put people at ease, establish trust and build a safe environment to have tough conversations about what needs to happen to be able to move forward. Blending curiosity, creativity, a sense of fun as well as a passion for achieving results, she is able to help clients explore new possibilities to get to where they want to go on their own terms.

Sarah uses the Team Diagnostic Assessment process – a leading edge methodology – with leaders and their teams. This process provides a comprehensive profile of the team's current reality from the inside out. It enables the team to gain powerful insight and awareness of existing team strengths and challenges. Sarah offers custom-designed team coaching workshops and leadership development programs that focus on helping leaders and their teams create excellence.

Sarah coaches in a variety of sectors, including high-tech, healthcare, media, environmental engineering, and not-for-profit. Outside the corporate arena, Sarah also works with individuals seeking to make changes in their careers and personal lives.

In 2007, Sarah and her client Ovarian Cancer Canada won the Prism Award. This award is given by the International Coach Federation to organizations that have achieved excellence through leadership coaching.

Sarah received her coach training from the Adler School of Professional Coaching. She is an active member of the International Coach Federation, an advanced Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach and an authorized Facilitator of the Team Diagnostic Assessment Tool.

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Joanne McLean

Soulzatwork Team and Executive Leadership Coach

Joanne helps leaders "get real", access their authentic leadership capacity and lead their lives and businesses in ways that produce fulfilling, sustainable results, on their own terms. Her mission is to be a catalyst for leaders and teams, so they can leverage their natural strengths, in service of inspiring people, while transforming organizations.

Prior to launching Soulzatwork, Joanne’s 20+ year career took her into senior roles in global corporations (in the high tech and pharmaceutical sectors) in employee health management, strategic business development, marketing communications and human resources including leadership development, succession planning and executive coaching. Joanne understands that leaders must act fast, work with integrity and get results. She is a strategic thinker and her clients can count on her to ensure that the business context is front and centre as they develop their team. She designs and delivers custom solutions focused on creating team success based on collaboration, while capitalizing on the diversity in the team. She currently works with leaders and teams in the corporate and not for profit sectors.

Joanne received her coach training and certification through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coach Federation. She is an advanced Organization and Relationships Systems Coach, Authorized Facilitator in Team Diagnostic Assessment Tool, Certified Solutions Provider for OneSmartWorld and a certified coach for Learning in Action Emotional Intelligence assessment.

Joanne is on faculty with The Banff Centre, Leadership Development.

She is a recipient of the International Coach Federation Prism Award for Creating Organizational Excellence through Leadership Coaching.

www.soulzatwork.com

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Nicki Weiss

SalesWise

Nicki Weiss is an internationally recognized Certified Professional Coach, Master Trainer, and workshop leader. She brings to her work 30 years of experience with healthcare leaders and teams.

Since 1992, Nicki has trained and coached more than 10,000 business executives and teams including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Nicki is passionate about helping leaders and their teams create positive and productive work environments and improve interpersonal and team interactions, in order to create durable, resilient, and sustainable results. She understands the stresses placed on those who work in both the corporate and entrepreneurial world, and how the stress experienced in the workplace transfers into their personal lives. Nicki combines her powerful coaching abilities with strong facilitation skills to help individuals and teams reach new levels of sustained, improved performance.

She is committed to helping organizations develop sane and humane (and fun) workplaces so that workers experience a sense of accomplishment, camaraderie, increased trust, and support – at work and in their whole lives.

Nicki received her coach’s certification from the Coaches Training Institute; she is an advanced Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach and an Authorized Facilitator of the Team Diagnostic Assessment Tool.

www.saleswise.ca

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Barbara Jennings Ph.D.

Leadership & Team Development Coach

Barbara is a seasoned healthcare professional with over 20 years’ experience in both academic and business environments. She has led successful research development teams and cross-functional business teams in a Canadian pharmaceutical company and in the company’s global organization. She understands the importance of strong, aligned leadership across all levels of an organization.

Barbara leverages her extensive business experience to provide coaching for individuals wanting a higher level of fulfillment in their lives and careers. She works with leaders and their teams who strive to achieve sustained high performance within their organizations. She serves the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry as well as working in areas of healthcare. Customized workshops are designed to meet clients’ needs. She offers the “Manager to Leader” group workshop for managers eager to reach their goals and to enhance their effectiveness as leaders. Authentic leadership in every aspect of life is Barbara’s passion.

Barbara is a certified coach through The Coaches Training Institute, a trained Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach. She is an authorized Facilitator for the Team Diagnostic™ tool, The Leadership Circle™ Profile, a 360 degree profile that helps managers become aware of their competencies and behaviours or provides insight into the leadership culture of organizations to create a foundation for change and development.

www.fosteringleaders.com

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Katie Isbister CEC MSW

Katie is an executive, leadership and team coach and business leader with over twenty five years experience in leading, consulting and coaching in mid to large size public and private sector organizations. Katie’s coaching style is deeply collaborative and she has a genuinely warm, calm, direct and encouraging presence. Her strengths as a coach are anchored in her experience and knowledge of herself and her ability to be transparent in the service of developing relationships in which people feel seen, heard and understood and within which they can explore taking the risks so required to live up to their "head and heart" potential.

Katie works with leaders and teams to bring out the best in themselves and their people. She specializes in challenging leaders and teams to leverage their strengths while at the same time ensuring that they are supported in "digging deep" to identify and address internal and external barriers to development. She believes that great leadership inspires and informs healthy workplace culture and drives high performance.

Katie received her coach training and certification through Royal Roads University and is an active member of the International Coach Federation. She is a certified Facilitator of The Leadership Circle, The Team Diagnostic Assessment Tool, Emotional Intelligence Inventories, Coaching Out of the Box, and the Myers-Briggs Inventory.

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