Life and Leadership Coach

In 2019 I was Nominated as Canada’s Trusted Advisor of the Year.  

I support people of all races, genders, and ages.

A natural coach since I was a teen, in 1999 I founded ViA Vision Into Action Consultants, custom designing corporate wellness programs and facilitating executive Vision, Mission, and Future Focus retreats.  

In 2007 I co-founded Veraxis Coaching, Training and Consulting, focusing on leveraging the benevolent power of leaders.  

Naturally insightful, I assist clients to swiftly gain ‘ahas’, mobilizing formerly latent and ‘stuck’ energy to achieve remarkable outcomes.  

Guiding clients with an abundant treasure chest of ‘tools’ and ‘maps’, I specialize in Emotional Intelligence including gentle healing processes, which together address and liberate tremendously vibrant energy in clients’ personal and professional lives.  

I’ve guided clients into careers, through expansions and successions, and through recovery from unexpected transitions and crises.  

I typically support leaders who are attuned to people*planet*profit – individuals and groups who seek to truly better the collective wellbeing of this world.

Global Visionary

A visionary leader with a deep and compassion heart, I’m quick to gain insights, the gifts of which are immeasurable for my clients.

I’ve been a global visionary since I was 10, perceiving integrative solutions on local to global scales.  

In 1992 I participated as an independent citizen in the UN Earth Summit’s parallel Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro, then convened the Post Earth Summit Conference in Vancouver.  

With a deeply engaging ‘visionary process design’, this conference began with an Indigenous Elder and 108 people in a Talking Circle.  It was a day that profoundly changed people’s lives.  

In Rio, David Suzuki and I sat in quiet contemplation whilst I posed the reflective question, “What will it take for humanity to become pro-active rather than re-active?”

I’ve met personally with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other world leaders to discuss my Visions of ‘A New Model of Exemplary Global Leadership’ and more recently ‘A New Map for Humanity’.  I’ve written 2 manifestos including ‘A Call for Global Cooperation’.

In February 2019 I flew to India to foretell to the Dalai Lama that, “Humanity is within less than a year of a global scale crisis”.  Within months we were in the pandemic, followed swiftly by an irrefutable acceleration in climate change, the outbreak of two devastating wars, the unregulated emergence of AI, and more.

I continue to perceive the potentiality for transformation – metamorphosis – amidst the rapid acceleration of change and disruption.  This potentiality exists on any and all scales.

Indigenous Learning and Decolonizing

I am privileged to live and work amidst the land, water, sky, wind and creatures in Treaty 7 territory, traditional home of the Iyarhe Nakoda, Blackfoot and Tsuut’ina First Nations, as well as Métis region 4.  

I am actively, intentionally engaged in decolonizing my mind, perspectives, thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions, such that my presence in this lifetime may be a meaningful contribution to true embodiment of Truth and Reconciliation.  

I have participated in the Iyarhe Nakoda Language and Culture course in the community where I live.  

I have invited Indigenous neighbours to open local non-Indigenous events with Prayers in their language, and with Smudging.  

I have participated in Sweat Lodges, Round Dances, and intertribal dances in Powwows, and have attended numerous arts and culture events in which Indigenous knowledge and traditions are shared – including film, opera, dance, theatre, literature, music and visual arts.

In 1992 I invited an Indigenous Elder to co-facilitate with me a Talking Circle with 108 people, as the highly effective opening of the Post Earth Summit Conference that I convened in Vancouver.  

I have asked Elders to lead Sweat Lodges as the opening of numerous H.O.P.E. Retreats.  

In 2024 I was grateful for the opportunity to ask an Indigenous ceremonial leader to co-facilitate with me a Talking Circle as part of a ‘Good Grief’ community gathering.

I am very fortunate to coach Indigenous physicians, medical students, policy makers, and Associate Deans of universities.

This is an honor and a gift.

All My Relations

International Touring Artist

I began dancing when I was 7, training with the Professional Division of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, as well as at The Banff Centre and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.  

I toured internationally with the acclaimed Anna Wyman Dance Theatre and Judith Marcuse Dance Company.  

From a very early age my unique gifts were recognized, with world-renowned choreographers asking to create solos for me.  

In 1988 I fractured a knee and hand.  At the leading edge of mind-body medicine, I completely healed and – 9 months later – leapt over dance companies to tour solo.  The press called this a “miracle”.  

I’ve continued touring – returning to the stage following 14-, 9-, and 5-year “temporary retirements”, performing full-evening solo productions to 5-star reviews, sold-out theatres, and “must see” buzzes as recently as 2021.  

13 internationally recognized choreographers have asked to create solos for me, including Dutch Master Toer van Schayk. 

Writer

I’ve been a prolific writer since my teens, intuitively knowing how to ‘gestate’ wisdom. This allows profound concepts to be expressed through me with articulate clarity and accessibility.  

I’ve been published in international magazines including Resurgence, Explore!, Synchronicity, and Issues, as well as in local newspapers.  

I’ve written over a dozen books, including retreats, workshops, and online courses based on several of them.  For book titles see Books and Courses. 

Interests

I’m passionate about bringing out the best in people – including supporting people to clarify what they do want, mapping the courage and inspirational steps to bring this to fruition – personally, locally and globally.

I’ve been a daily yoga practitioner since I was 14, as well as a meditator.  

I love being outdoors, in motion in nature as frequently as possible.  I hike, paddle, cross-country ski, swim, cycle and garden.