Dave Veale

People in positions of expertise are often expected to have the answer. But sometimes the more powerful leadership move is to resist that instinct – and help someone else think their way forward. That idea is at the heart of Stop Being the Answer Centre: A Coach Approach for Modern HR Leaders, a session Vision coach Jeff Green will deliver at the 2026 CPHR Atlantic HR Conference in Saint John, N.B., Oct. 27 to 29.

Coenraad Fourie has spent nearly 40 years as a civil and transportation engineer – someone paid to solve problems and deliver answers. When he encountered the Coach Approach, it landed like a revelation. “That’s a big shift – moving from being the one who has to come up with the solution to helping build people and holding them capable of finding their own solutions,” he says.

Vision Coaching is delighted to welcome Mandy Burke Evans, an executive coach whose wide-ranging practice is driven by a deep curiosity about how people think, grow and change.