What our clients say.

“I have been involved in many types of Personal Development systems and change processes during my career as a Clinical Psychologist and manager. Your approach to coaching and mentoring is one of the most powerful that I have encountered.”

Debra Hughes – M.B.A., Ph.D., C. Psych.

“I have worked with David on several projects. He is an excellent facilitator — well prepared, creative with questions and skillful in engaging participants in dialogue.”

Arden Brummell, President, GBN Canada and Past President, Alliance for Capitalizing on Change

“You are highly skilled at understanding and organizing detailed and complex oriented material. You communicate this material in meaningful and effective ways. You get the things that need to be done, done. In doing so, you make it easier for CEOs and Senior Executives to focus on managing their key roles & responsibilities.”

Ron Chase, Chairman of the Board, Highwood Business Development Corporation

“You have been a coach, a mentor and a good friend. You have been there for me through the rough and tough times when others may have quit on me. You do not quit on your people, no matter how tough it gets. The comprehensive Coaching Preparation Forms that I completed before the coaching sessions really assisted us during the coaching sessions to get to the core issues, and to better focus and understand why these issues were controlling my life for many years.”

Morris Lukowich, President, Maximum Goal Scoring System

“Listening to our needs and providing the appropriate solutions made your work superior to other consultants. Your results driven, service oriented approach to our organization has proven you to be a dedicated and responsible professional.”

Milton Bogoch – Executive Director, Calgary Apartment Association

“I have engaged David’s services twice and both times have yielded awesome results. I am very happy with the outcomes. The process through which David guided me was one of depth and patience. I value his approach as it allowed me to uncover and to see more of my natural talents, and then begin to unfold a path that best suited my situation at the time. Our working together helped me navigate through the transition with purpose, grace and ease. If you want to make “shift” happen, and you are feeling in need of assistance and guidance, call David and employ his services, now. He is an excellent confidant and coach.”

Adam Joyce, Chief Activation Officer, Business Instincts

“While you were President, I was impressed with your ability to demonstrate leadership at a critical time while staying focused on the essential issues. You chaired our meetings with high standards for efficiency and action, while maintaining your values of principle-centered leadership. In spite of the often difficult, emotional and personal attachments surrounding many issues, you maintained your professionalism and reasoned thinking.”

Dr. Dave Merrell, Past Board Member Calgary Centre for Positive Living

“You have proven yourself time and time again to be a person of integrity, and perhaps most of all, someone who knows how to set goals and put into action the steps required to achieve them. I, as well as other members of the Society, have come to rely on your business expertise and your superior negotiation, time-management and organizational skills. Your guidance, support and facilitation of the joint fundraising initiative I embarked upon as part of my own objectives to raise awareness, services and funding for Calgarians living with brain injury were extremely valuable. As a result of your involvement, this objective was achieved, and I must say that the level of acceptance, understanding and trust the Executive Directors of the four organizations have achieved through this process is truly remarkable. Your commitment, dedication and energy have been both a pleasure to observe, and exciting to be a part of.”

April C. Slemko, M. Sc., Ph.D Candidate – Ex-Executive Director, SABIS – Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society

“What attracted me to you as a leadership coach was your methodical approach to problem solving. You helped identify one of my problems as one of goal setting, but not just the short term ones, which are the typical fire fighting goals, but the medium and long term goals as well. You have helped me to see the bigger picture.”

Bob Morrell, President/CEO, Resource Link Software Inc.

“The mission statement we created came in part from your Ph.D. of Life™ Personal Mastery program and in part from your ability to sift through layers of beliefs, perceptions and values to find the heart of what is important to me. You have an impressive ability to listen and elicit from people key areas of truth. Thank you also for the level of integrity that you brought to our coaching sessions. Your persistence, sense of personal dignity and talent to look through the obvious cleared the path for me to gain new levels of meaning and understanding in life.”

Steve Rickard – President, Rickard Realty Advisors Inc.; Past District Governor Rotary International

“You are remarkable. Within our first meeting, you had me focusing my energies back in the direction that I wanted them to be going. You have helped me to spot the issues that were distracting me from the road I wish to be on, and you have helped me to not only clearly recognize what my goals are, but also to stay on track to do what it takes to achieve them.”

Nancy Marano, President and Producer, Marano Productions

“You have shown to me a notable talent for making sense of the chaotic; illuminating paths without actually creating them for me; assisting in identifying and working through the limitations and constraints in the way of the personal success I wish to achieve, and showing understanding and patience along with hard-edged persistence in helping me stay the course.”

Kimberly Kiel, Kiel Financial

“Working with you has improved my ability to listen more effectively and enhanced my communication skills. I now have an expanded self-awareness and am better able to sense how others see me. By helping me establish deadlines and timelines to get things done, I have become a much more effective advisor and manager.”

Robert Rothenberg – Managing Director, The Rothenberg Group

“Our time together has been one of the most productive and rewarding experiences of my life. You have taught me the power of action and I am living proof of its success.”

Jason Hay - President, Elements Inc. the Patagonia Store

“By your planting the right seeds and nurturing the ideas that grew from them, in a persistent and dedicated manner, you have helped me experience a growth in areas of my life that were lying dormant for many years. I am far from being the ideal ‘coachable’ student, but your perseverance and self-determined commitment to helping others shows through on an ongoing basis, and results occur because of it.”

Orlin McMillan – Owner/Sales Manager, Loreck Homes

“I have never sought the assistance of a personal coach, nor until now had I considered it a worthwhile endeavor, likening it more to something in which people with little self-worth participate. However, you are unlike the typical personal coach I had imagined and your program similarly unique. Our sessions are intense, and as promised, delve deeply into key personal attributes which consciously and subconsciously dictate my results and outcomes. With a great deal of courage, and your help, I am learning what I must do to achieve success in life in accordance with my core values, beliefs and philosophies. This is not an easy task, and often involves uncovering unpleasant behaviors, attitudes and habits which, if left untouched, would fester for years and limit my success. Your self confidence and integrity, along with the absolute faith you carry in your abilities, are qualities I admire and respect.”

Jack Smedley, Investment Representative, Edward Jones

“I wanted to write you to tell you how inspiring it was to work with you…You have an ability and a calling to communicate truth as well as a clear sense of personal dignity and natural moral instincts. Your intensity and penetrating insight give you wisdom beyond your years. Above all, David, you are a survivor who has enormous inner resources upon which to draw and give to others.”

Jean Bundschuh, Principal, Sportswise

“The things that I appreciate the most about working with you are your ability to listen, to focus, and to stay in stride with the client…Through dialogue with you and doing the exercises in the workbook, I’ve become aware of the limiting beliefs that have held me back. You’ve asked the questions that I didn’t want to ask myself.”

Kim Wright, Excalibur Gemini

“I have said in the past that I have lived a life conspicuously devoid of introspection and that has as much to do with fear as anything else. Overcoming that fear, which I accomplished with your help, was an important first step…You have already helped me begin to develop an honest and realistic assessment of who I am and where I am in my life. Your ability to burrow beneath the surface and read between the lines has been invaluable in this process.”

Steve Curson

“…your keen insight into the deeper aspects of my ways of being allow me to uncover the limiting beliefs, perceptions and behaviors that keep me from achieving the results that I want for my life…The coaching work is an essential discipline that is supporting me to establish healthier boundaries between my personal and business life…You demand and encourage me to maintain high standards for myself and others, and you absolutely walk your talk. You provide a high level of comfort and safety in our work together as I pursue a deeper, more intimate understanding of myself.”

Michael Burns, President, Cosbit Inc.

“…despite all the success achieved in my professional and business life I had a general sense of loss of focus, desire and enjoyment in my life and in what I was doing…after working with you and your program I have succeeded in re-affirming that all of the results which I achieve, come from me and the actions that I take…where I had a loss of focus and became vague I now have clarity.”

Peter Minnema, Assante Financial Management Ltd.

“I appreciate your inspiration and encouragement in my endeavors to transition into a new career that aligns with my values. Your coaching process has enabled me to reconnect to a more enthusiastic state in which I believe that I am truly capable of achieving all that I envision.”

Donna Wheatcroft, President, Hearts Work

“…you have given me the courage and authority to make competent decisions that matter for my family, my business and myself. Helping me define who I am, ensuring I maintain my focus, keeping and honoring my commitments are now becoming a habitual part of my life. Your support has been honest and sincere. Your thoughtful, and often provoking, critique have allowed me to take greater control and ownership of my life. Thank you for your guidance.”

Terry Ritchie, President, The Cross-Border Advisory Group Inc.

“When I initially hired you as my coach with a view to assisting me to develop my business, I did not realize how significant the work would be. Has it helped with developing my business? Absolutely, and not in the ways that I would have expected! The coaching work has assisted me in better defining my key strengths and weaknesses that needed to be addressed in order to continue moving my business forward…(to) be more disciplined in my personal and business affairs, which has led to higher productivity and efficiency.”

Dagmar Viberg, President, Equilibrium Pilates

“I am grateful once again for your assisting me with the momentum of my own coaching practice. Your continued commitment to staying true to your own passion and vision is obvious, and truly inspiring to be around. Your ability to share openly and allow yourself to be vulnerable demonstrates to me the amount of personal work that you have done, and is a real gift to the people around you. It gives us a feeling of safety to speak our own truths and to be vulnerable as well. These are some of the principles from which I will be launching my own coaching business - so thank you - for reminding me to stay in touch with this by your modeling it and living it and being willing to share it.”

Tina Willard-Stepan

Past clients include:

• Mount Saint Vincent University
• Nova Scotia Community College
• Alberta Non-Profit Voluntary Initiative
• Alberta Economic Development
• Alberta Environment
• Alberta Energy
• Global Business Network Canada
• Highwood Business Development Corp.
• Virtual Business Communities Inc.
• City of Calgary
• Rickard Realty Advisors
• Calgary Apartment Association
• Alberta Mentors Association
• Calgary Technologies Inc.
• Career Development Association of AB
• Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society
• Cosbit Technologies