Executive Coaching for Excellence & Well-being;
Leadership Assessment & Development for Individuals & Teams

Credentials:

Professional Goal-Centric Certified Coach (PGCC), Concordia University
International Coaching Federation (ICF) Member
Certified Leader Character Practitioner, Ivey Business School, Western University
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Psychology & Psychometrics, University of Ottawa

Industry/Sector Experience:

Federal/Provincial/Territorial/Municipal levels of Government, Crown Corporations, National Associations, Healthcare, Technology (both entrepreneurial start-ups and established, evolving organizations), Financial Services, Natural Resources, Transportation and Service Sectors in Canada, US and Europe.

Areas of Expertise:

Executive Coaching for Professional and Career Development; Individual and Team Effectiveness Assessment & Development; Leader Character Assessment & Development for Individuals and on an Enterprise-wide basis; Leadership & Team Branding; Team and Individual Transition within a Change Context; Psychometric Assessment and 360 Degree Feedback Processes; Tailored Approaches and Programs to Promote Individual Self-Awareness, High Performance, Team Excellence, and Well-being.

Christine founded her consulting and coaching business with a belief that “you lead based on who you are’, underscoring that leadership impact extends far beyond competence-based results to organizational culture, resilience, strategy, innovation, employee engagement and even well-being.

In growing and evolving her business over the last 30 years, she has established service lines, offerings, assessment tools, coaching practices and resources that reinforce and guide individual development in these key areas.

• Personal Development — optimizing contribution, a growth mindset, resilience, and life satisfaction by leveraging personal strengths, balancing leadership character dimensions, and strengthening competencies required to meet challenges with consistency and integrity;
• Leadership Development — building awareness and accountability associated with consistent and credible, character-based leadership, within a current role and in collaboration with clients, colleagues, and across key relationships/partnerships; and,
• Career Development – a focus on delivering with excellence, while exploring avenues for continued growth and advancement that fulfills aspirations for “success” and life satisfaction.
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In her work as a Leader Character Coach, Christine has advanced Character based leadership across teams to integrate Leader Character with performance and talent management processes, recruitment and selection processes and as a framework for culture change.

Selected Coaching Highlights:

Leadership effectiveness assessment and coaching of over 5,000 private and public-sector executives and managers for development and career advancement. Involves selective psychometric assessment, qualitative and quantitative feedback processes, and the design and implementation of customized development action plans integrating a wide range of tailored approaches, as well as the structured coaching of these clients in realizing aspirations for “success” and well-being.

• Engaged by the Privy Council Office to coach 20 individuals who had completed the Leadership Character Insight Assessment or LCIA in the 360-degree feedback format. This work was designed to instill across the team a common understanding, language, and a well-balanced expression of the Character-based leadership dimensions to strengthen leadership across the organization.
• Worked with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to introduce Leader Character across several teams accountable for delivering on one of the Prime Minister’s key commitments related to our oceans. Team members completed the Leadership Character Insight Assessment, received individual coaching on their results, and then participated in a series of workshops designed and delivered for teams to achieve balance among the character dimensions and promote greater collaboration in the engagement of complementary strengths.
• For a Territorial Government team who had completed the Leadership Character Insight Assessment, designed and delivered a workshop that linked character-based leadership with building trust and credibility internally, within the team, across the broader organization, and with external partners and stakeholders.
• Christine has had the opportunity to administer the Leadership Character Insight Assessment to many of her senior executive coaching clients as an important focus for their ongoing coaching work together. Typically, they will work through the LCIA report to validate the ratings, interpret results, and then identify priority/most relevant and meaningful areas for development and coaching in the course of their ongoing coaching engagement.
• Clients are typically at the President, Vice-President, Executive Director, Deputy Minister, Associate DM, ADM and Director General levels. Representative Departments include Privy Council Office, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Crown- Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Health Canada, National Defence, Global Affairs Canada, Canada Border Services Agency, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Industry Canada (ISED), Agriculture Canada, and Indigenous Services Canada, among others. Christine has also been retained by Special Operating Agencies and Crown Corporations such as the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Export Development Canada, Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, Western Economic Diversification and the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.