Greg brings a passionate commitment to helping leaders and organizations realize their strengths and enable them to achieve their potential through the application of his leadership experience and coaching skills.
He brings extensive, broad-ranging, senior level experience and insight to senior leaders, especially those involved in significant change management and quality improvement initiatives. Greg’s client list is extensive and encompasses both public sector and private sector organizations and leaders.
Greg is a Certified Executive Coach (Royal Roads University) and is recognized as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation. Greg also holds certification in Change Management (PROSCI) and is LEAN Leader trained (BMGI).
He and his wife reside in Edmonton where they are raising their three daughters and train for and compete in triathlons.
Greg characterizes his coaching philosophy and approach as being “Solutions-Focused”. The characteristics of this approach are as follows:
- Individualized/Customized – no two coaching clients are the same, nor are their presenting challenges. Therefore, Greg works to identify and understand each individual’s core values, beliefs, strengths and aspects that makes them unique. Coaching approach then works with and manages within those parameters.
- Strengths-based – focus on strengths, accomplishments and resources available to the coaching client. This is in no way should be interpreted as looking through rose-colored glasses or ignoring challenges facing the coachee or changes that might need to be made. Rather, this approach suggests that each coachee has a track record of success and accomplishment that can be drawn upon as a base to take on new challenges.
- Growth Mentality – each individual has opportunity, and necessity, to continue growing and developing. An individual’s environment is subject to constant change and the strengths that have “got you here” will have to continue to be honed and new skills developed to thrive in new circumstances. Additionally – learning and development can be fun!
- Forward-focused – coaching in general is not “therapy” in that we don’t focus backwards, don’t dwell on what was or wasn’t. Rather, we start from today, get clarity about where we want to go, and start taking purposeful action to move forward to a desired future state.
- Solutions-focused – strongly related to being forward-focused and working from a basis of strengths versus weaknesses, we look for opportunities to test strategies and tactics, to take action and move forward, to move out of comfort zones, take risk, and make change. We don’t simply focus on problems and/or weaknesses.
- Pragmatic – working from a customized approach, tailored to each individual, and an emphasis on being solutions-focused, we make sure we are continuously evaluating the utility of any approach, keep building with success and discarding approaches or tools that either don’t work or frustrate progress.
