Meet Your Coaches & Trainers
Lisa Anna Palmer (a.k.a. ‘The VP Coach’), is Founder of Light Your Leadership Inc., has established an outstanding reputation in the field of leadership development. Lisa is the internationally bestselling author of "Light A Fire In Their Hearts: The Truth About Leadership" and the creator of the LYLTalks podcast. She works with vice presidents and other leaders to help them to be their best, so they can unleash forces for good. Her expertise as a trusted coach across sectors has been refined over 30 years of experience as a trusted coach, advisor, and strategist in a range of senior leadership, and HR&OD roles and as a community leader. Lisa gives back as a Director on two Boards, including the Community Navigation of Eastern Ontario (CNEO) and the Obsidian Leadership Development Centre. Further, she is collaborating to establish Mustakabali Wetu–Our Future as an international foundation to support education and nutrition for disadvantaged children in memory of her late friend, Geoffrey Kihara Ndoigo, a Kenyan philanthropist. Lisa is inspiring global change with her commitment to compassionate, courageous, and competent leadership. She can help you connect with your passions, purpose, and your inner leader to boost your confidence and help you elevate and scale your leadership.
Lisa shares valuable insights through her work, highlighting the significance of fostering human connections and inspiring enthusiasm in workplaces. She’s been recognized internationally as a multiple award winner, including being selected as a top leader/professional by CIO Business World, MoRe 2.0, Industry Era Magazine, and Canada’s Top 100 professionals, and most recently as one of the Trailblazer at the Helm: Celebrating the Top 15 Women Coaches by theWomen’s Journal in the UK.
Anna Robson-the Assertive Introvert is a Transformative Mediator, Ethicist and Executive Coach, Anna loves working with progressive leaders who recognize that when building an inclusive company culture, you need to prioritize it and put processes and strategies in place and it all starts with Self-Leadership. It has always been her path, walking with visionaries from the start-up inception stage through expansion stages as their consultant and trusted advisor. Transformational Leadership and Community Building is her passion-do you know how to integrate theory into practice with confidence? It's important to set ourselves up for success in our decision making and actions that follow them. It’s a mentality that you foster and support as you become the leader you want to be. It’s about helping yourself by designing your own self care tool kit. And together, we will work on this today.
Anna’s personal Code of Ethics starts very simply: "Peace Comes From Within" and she’s happy to be here for you today.
Colleen Woodhead is more than a Leadership and Relationship Coach; she is a catalyst for change.
With an unwavering commitment to her clients, Colleen excels in helping individuals clarify their deepest desires and craft actionable strategies that yield rapid results. Her approach, honed over 30 years of experience in customer service and team management, is both compassionate and strategic.
Colleen's own journey overcoming depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem fuels her passion to guide others from darkness to light. She emphasizes the power of positive communication, self-love, and setting boundaries, ensuring that every client who fully engages in the process witnesses transformational success within weeks. As a Coach, Speaker, and Author, Colleen's message extends beyond personal sessions, inspiring a wider audience to embrace change.
Her vision is a world where everyone experiences love, joy, peace, and confidence, and she invites anyone ready for 'more' to join her in this pursuit.
Discover how Colleen can illuminate your path at Personal Growth Services: https://personalgrowthservices.ca/
Donna-Lea Bowman is a solutions-driven strategic business advisor. She possesses core skill sets in business development, strategic relationship building, client relationship development and management. She employs organizational skills and her process-driven nature to effectively drive change for clients in a wide array of complex industries.
She is a committed, people-focused mentor and trainer. She has extensive experience working with a portfolio of businesses and institutions across diverse industries to help build value-based strategic initiatives and partnerships. She has also worked with executives to empower them to meet their goals, develop meaningful relationships, and grow impactful networks. She’s worked at major business schools such as Manager, Strategic Recruitment & Business Development, at the Telfer Business Executive MBA program at the University of Ottawa, and was a QICSI Founder at the Dunin-Deshpande Queen's University Innovation Center.
Glenda Kroll: As a Life Reinvention Mentor dedicated to women aged 40 and beyond, I'm deeply committed to leading individuals through a transformative path from adversity to achievement. Through my established three-step method, I empower women to conquer hurdles, tap into their inner resilience, and shift from fear to liberation, enabling them to reconstruct their lives despite any challenges they encounter. It's your moment to ignite your radiance and embrace a more confident, empowered version of yourself. Together, we'll construct a life that allows your true brilliance to shine brightly.
Glenda is known as being resilient and resourceful, pragmatic, yet passionate. She is the dynamic empowerment transformational mentor, successful businesswoman, and real estate investor. Hailing from Toronto, the mother of two has had her fair share of heartbreak and happiness. Through her trials and tribulations, she has become a voice for others. She draws on her unimaginable experiences and has dedicated herself to helping people worldwide to reinvent and transform themselves by overcoming lack of confidence, self esteem, divorce, and other setbacks more specifically—teaching people that age or past failures is not an option and transformation is, in fact, possible with perseverance, vision, planning, and by taking action just one step at a time
John D. Allen of Allen Small Business Coaching. I specialize in helping coaches and online solopreneurs (service-based businesses) with their LOR (Loss of Revenue) or COI (Cost of Inaction) teaching them how to sign up an extra 2,3,4 + of their current leads without spending any extra money on leads through Fall In Love With Your Prospect’ Problems, NOT Your Solution Or Program.
Selling Without Selling – With NO Pitching or Sounding Salesy Using Strategic Marketing To Transform Relationships Into Revenue. This is done through:
• learning how to create real connections,
• Adapting a new mindset around marketing.
• Inspiration and motivation
Carol Davies: Known as the Passion Motivator, is a beacon of inspiration for entrepreneurs and business leaders across Canada and the United States. As a certified Professional Coach and Reiki Healer, Carol has dedicated her life to empowering individuals to discover their passions, focus their efforts, and achieve remarkable success.
With over 20 years of experience working with diverse clients, Carol’s holistic approach to coaching incorporates mindfulness, meditation, positive affirmations, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Her masterful techniques in overcoming resistance and facilitating change have earned her acclaim, with clients consistently achieving emotional and work-life balance under her guidance.
Carol’s unique blend of coaching and healing, including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Reiki, allows her to address the needs of the whole person, not just isolated goals. This comprehensive method has proven to yield astonishing results, as evidenced by the numerous success stories shared by her clients.
Whether through personalized online sessions or her engaging workshops, Carol Davies, the Passion Motivator, remains a trusted authority in life coaching, helping individuals awaken to their true potential and live a life brimming with passion and fulfillment.
Louise Buchanan is a professionally certified leadership coach with over 25 years of experience working with leaders at all levels and across all functions in the financial sector. Before launching her coaching business, Louise had a successful career as an innovative and results-oriented Senior Human Resources professional in the banking industry. She continues to be a strategic advisor, partner and coach to all levels of management on a range of people-related initiatives. Leaders highlight that Louise is an empathetic people connector, naturally curious, highly adaptable and effective at building strong and trusting relationships.
Louise is an inspiring and thought-provoking coach who is motivated to help others succeed. Her experience and passion enable clients to become clear on opportunities and actions that align with their purpose and maximize their success.
She truly believes that the alignment of people’s values with their organization’s purpose and culture is key to career success and personal happiness. Through coaching, Louise helps others gain greater clarity on this and partners with them on development plans and actions that unlock their full potential!
Jeff Veale is an Australian living in the Manilla in the Philippines. He is the CEO & Founder of The Business Gurus Online Digital Marketing. They have an amazing team in Manila, Phillippines and have Virtual Assistants, Graphic Artists, Social Media, Web Design Experts, Media Specialists, Email Experts, SEO, Gurus, and more. Jeff uses his extensive experience growing a successful international business to offer mentoring and advice on branding and business growth.
Mary E. May: Mary, an MFT Leadership Strategist who has a background as a Relationship Therapist, specializes in positioning you for promotion and next levelling-up your career. Mary has a unique style of guiding mindset with the strategy to secure promotions and negotiate higher pay – while creating the life and career they deserve. Mary is a highly regarded speaker in the space surrounding leadership, behavioural health prevention and workplace harmony for team/individual growth. Mary is also regarded in the development of cohesive teams and a work-life culture that supports bridging the gap of wellness by integrating diverse and equitable solutions to executive-level management. As a leadership strategist, Mary offers consulting, coaching, prevention, and team-building narratives that result in sustainable outcomes.
Afaf JanJua - Greeetings! I’m happy to be here and be of service to you. Wherever you are, I see you because I believe that all of us are humans who need each other. I’m happy to share of myself, my life story and hear yours. We can all learn from each other. My life path, the woman I am today is the result of committed work on my self-leadership and self-respect. I have worked to create tools and strategies to help me stay true to myself. And have through the years helped and supported many who came to me to hear my story and have shared my knowledge from the painful lessons that have tried to overcome my life.
I do so have a story to tell! And it’s coming- a book is in the works: “Right from Wrong” where I share not just the ebbs and flow of life, as we all go through them but I start from before I was a 24 years old woman from Pakistan who had never left her house without a chaperone, when I moved to Canada independently and knew no one in the city. To now, where I participate in this charitable fundraiser to save the life of a young woman only a year younger than myself.
All those struggles and fears we all feel when we’re at the place I am at my life, a young professional with big dreams, with family and friends, I built my life my way and am happy to show you how to start doing that for yourself. Show up for yourself, I have learned that well and wish that self-trust in yourself as well.
See you in my trainings and on-line!
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Yvonne A Jones is your Trusted Relationship Building Strategist | Personal Business Coach and Mentor | International Speaker | Best-Selling Author
Yvonne provides a holistic approach to coaching and mentoring that empowers mature online entrepreneurs to thrive in an increasingly competitive online business landscape by building strong relationships with clients, peers, and networks. She does this through her Profitable Relationship Building framework.
Her holistic approach is a comprehensive method of coaching and mentoring, as she incorporates all aspects of an entrepreneur's business and personal development.
Yvonne has been practicing customer love for over 40 years and has been recognized by HuffingtonPost.com as "One of the Top 100 Customer Service Pros on Twitter to Follow" and Alignable's Local Business Person of the Year for 2021, 2023, and 2024.
She enjoys her tropical lifestyle where she gets to engage in her hobby of gardening.
Her Mantra is: “Focus on Relationships, the Money will Follow."
Peter Beckenham is an Aussie guy who lives and works online from a remote Thai village. His tagline is "The Village Marketer." He’s a passionate coach, mentor, speaker, and author.
Nobody likes to be pitched…ever!
And when you feel you are being pitched there is always a level of discomfort and very likely a complete absence of trust.
So why pitch people if there is so much disgust, discomfort, and delusion?It’s not worth the risk to your reputation.
That’s why I work with online solopreneurs and show them how to hold conversations, not sales calls or sales pitches.
My sales advocate role involves working with online solopreneurs to build their businesses by treating people as people, not as numbers or robot recipients. It’s all about having trust-based conversations help small business owners grow their businesses by deliberately NOT trying to sell anything. Yes, it sounds contrarian, but it works wonders and it’s all about getting to the TRUTH, not the SALE.
