Leadership Unleashed

Uncertainties surrounding the pandemic have created uniquely challenging conditions for leaders. Massive disruptions are requiring them to summon all their skills in communicating and motivating in order to manage operations effectively. After a long and successful career as a leader in the public service, Sylvie Levesque-Finn knows how important it is for leaders to be able to step back from a problem or issue, give themselves space and reflect on their world in a broader co

From her vantage point, leadership coach Lisa Haydon can see clearly that sales will be the key to survival and growth for many companies in the post-pandemic world. Indeed, she is convinced future success will depend on honing a competitive edge in sales. “Companies ambitious about growth are going to have to drive it through sales. They can’t do it through more cost containment,” says Lisa, one of the latest coaches to join the Vision Coaching roster. “They are going to wan

Sean Ryan named his company Whitewater International Consulting, Inc. because he liked the image it creates of helping organizations, businesses and entrepreneurs navigate turbulent change in the marketplace. But as Sean knows, the coronavirus pandemic has turned the rapids into tsunamis and plunged world economies over the edge of the falls into what he calls “the next normal.” “It will be interesting to see when things begin to gravitate towards what I call the next normal,

For David Savoie, president and CEO of one of Canada’s best-managed companies, everything changed the day the state of emergency was declared. For a man that exudes a calm confidence in the face of chaos, it was that pivotal day in March when it became abundantly clear that COVID-19 would no longer be just a worry – it would be a full-scale disruptor. He set up a “war room” with desks six feet apart and immediately began working with his management team on three scenarios for

Several weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, Lianne Krakauer began noticing a subtle shift among some of the people she works with as a leadership and career coach. The intensity of constant crisis management was beginning to relent, if only slightly, to allow for the possibility of a future without chaos and fear. And for those who haven’t yet arrived, she’s carefully broaching the prospect of getting there. “There are quite a few people grappling with ‘How do I kee

Throughout his career, Stewart Pollard has been influencing change – among leaders, among teams and throughout organizations. An engineer by trade, he spent over 20 years working with companies to implement process improvement and drive organizational change. He then moved out on his own to become a leadership coach, and is today part of Vision Coaching’s roster of exceptional coaches. He caught some attention recently on LinkedIn when he shared with his network a photo of a