Leadership Resources

A curated collection of tools, inspirations, and information

Every organization, team, and leader has unique needs, and the right learning tools can add tremendous value. I will work with you to identify resources—assessments, frameworks, surveys, models, books, etc—that enable you and your teams to move forward with new insights.

My Commitment

I will strive to ensure our work together is meeting or exceeding your expectations. I will continually endeavor to understand and act on behalf of your unique requirements, and adjust as needed; I will share my expertise and resources in an effective manner; I will be bold and candid in my observations; I will listen to you, learn alongside of you, and ask for clarification when necessary.

Assessments and Learning Tools

I use accessible and informative assessment tools to enhance leadership development, self-awareness, and team learning. Whether you are looking for a comprehensive 360-degree feedback assessment or wishing to better understand your strengths, values, or emotional intelligence, I will work alongside you to determine the right tools to support your learning and development objectives.

Leadership Circle

Self/360

The Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP) provides a detailed snapshot in time, enabling leaders to answer the question: “How are my behaviors and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our business performance?”

provides leaders greater insight into how they are perceived, including strengths and current limitations in their leadership effectiveness.
measures the two primary leadership domains — Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies.
Measures the habits of thought
reflects and synthesizes a diverse body of scientific research

Barrett Values

Self/Team/360

The Barrett Values Assessment and informing model provides a proven and extraordinarily useful map for understanding the values of you, employees, leaders, and interest-holders.

Self assessment and 360-degree leadership assessment
Comprehensive diagnostic of values strengths and areas of growth
Transformation Report available to chart self-awareness, personal transformation, and team alignment progress over time
Reports that can be grouped together across a team of business units to provide a holistic view of leadership

Leadership Skills Inventory

Self/360

Gain insight into your leadership skills. Learn what areas you can improve to become a more effective transformational leader. Increase your impact with self, others, teams, and organisations.

Establish agreement to the 12 Transforming Leadership Principles.
Evaluate proficiency in the 60 Transforming Leadership Skills.
Establish a framework and focus points for coaching.
Inform a plan for ongoing professional development.

Leadership Practices Inventory

Self/360

The LPI® helps individuals to measure the frequency with which they demonstrate the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and enables them to act on their discoveries. Leaders gain deep insight into how they see themselves as leaders, how others view them, and what actions they can take to improve their effectiveness.

Leadership development around 5 Universal Practices
Team development and team building
Benchmarking a leader, team, division, or organization
Creating an employee development plan or independent development plan

Narrative 360

Narrative 360-degree feedback draws upon the scholarship of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Before engaging in a multi-rater interview process, we will work together to create a custom question set that takes into account desired leadership culture and skill building objectives. Interview data is collated to produce a thematic overview of strengths and potential areas for targeted development.

Podcast Playlist

An ever-growing playlist of podcasts I have listened to, learned from, been inspired by, cried and laughed over.

This is my Spotify INTWOIT playlist of inspiring conversations between wise and passionate people

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A bit about my coaching and consulting associates

Collaboration and co-creation are key elements of what makes my work meaningful to me and impactful for you. I work with a small handful of incredibly talented associates all of whom are highly experienced, professionally trained, and appropriately credentialed. They are recognized for their depth of expertise, commitment to ethical practices, and ability to build leadership capacity, foster creativity, and help organizations achieve meaningful and lasting results.

Investment

Coaching & Consulting Fees

Tailored programs, custom consulting services and bespoke coaching packages require thoughtful pricing. I will do my best to remain responsive and flexible to your budget and resource requirements while pricing my services at comparable market rates.

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"Yael has an expansive mind, unique perspective and is a creative force. She engages my intellect, my intuition and my heart on any issue or project I bring forward to work on with her. I'm reminded of my strengths, my creativity and my capacity and every engagement results in meaningful movement forward. I trust Yael implicitly."

J. McLaughlin, Former Lead Coaching Services, UBC

"I recommend Yael highly to anyone who seeks a connection with an extraordinarily creative and effective professional".

Dr. Terry Anderson, Chief Leadership Officer at Command College.org and Co-Author of Every Fire-Rescue Professional Is a Leader

"Yael’s ability to build trust—especially with the toughest and most resistant leaders—is the key ingredient. She doesn’t just deliver a curriculum; she ensures deep engagement, adaptability, and lasting impact."

Fire Chief M. Reed (ret.)

"Working with Yael has been very enlightening. She has an incredible ability to ask the right questions at the right time, helping me uncover insights I didn’t even realize I had. Her coaching has allowed me to become the best possible version of myself. I've noticed a measurable shift in how I have been able to adapt and lead my team. I can’t recommend her highly enough."

Steven L., Engineering General Manager

“Yael is a very special person who is not only an expert in her field of professional development – she does it with a spirit of humility and caring, which is rare. I have had the pleasure of working with – or in support of – her projects for several years. She is diligent in her actions and brilliant in her execution.”

Ken Keis Consulting Resource Group

“Yael has a calling for the development of mere mortals into outstanding leaders – her passion for this cause is undeniable, her style is engaging, and her skills are exceptional.”

Paul Anand, Sr. Project Manager BCLDB

“The coaching program has been of tremendous benefit to all of us who have participated. Our ability to organize our thoughts and approach to engaging and communicating with subordinates, peers and superiors has evolved in a positive direction. I believe our new gained knowledge and skills will have a lasting effect on our ability to lead the department and our personal lives more effectively. "

Battalion Chief P. Caceres

“Yael is creative, confident and passionate. I feel these qualities really are the heart of her facilitation. Her approach is down to earth, clever, relaxed and seems to be rooted in her own experiences. I left Yael’s workshop feeling inspired and equipped with new ideas, tools and ways of relating and being in the world around me.”

D. Pemberton,Vancouver

“It is so helpful in elected life, to emerge from all the important city issues, documents, meetings, phone calls, e-mails, letters, media and other public events, to take time to sit back, look at the big picture and decide how to be proactive rather than reactive.”

E. Woodsworth, Former City Councillor, City of Vancouver

"I found the way Yael could make sense of what felt to me at times to be a jumble of words is nothing short of amazing. I loved the way she would listen, and then ask questions, so that I could solve my own problems. Yael has inspired me to be more coach-like myself. I view myself as a "reforming knower", I now realize that there is more value in a good question, than in knowing the "right" answer."

Battalion Chief F. Morgan, Wayne Township

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I experience your coaching and consulting process and services?

I offer all prospective clients a complimentary and confidential discovery call. You can explain what you’re aiming for, up against and hoping to achieve. Through this conversation you will get a sense of the level of ease and energy you feel when talking with me and we can decide where to go from there.

How do we go from discovery to agreement?

If after meeting, you have a good feeling, like my approach, ,and value my experience, we can decide on next steps. Confirming a consulting request will be more iterative. After the first or second meeting i usually send a draft proposal and then together we further refine and finalize.

What if I need to postpone or cancel our agreement?

No problem. That’s life. We can work it out. I ask for 24 hours cancellation notice for coaching sessions.

What if I’m looking for a coach for one of my employees?

That’s not a problem, and I am happy to help. We can talk about the opportunity you see for them and consider the following: why coaching? why now? what else? what’s next?

What is your process around offering consulting support?

Generally, I meet with the prospective client(s)-including HR Directors, Executive Directors, Department Directors, Team Leaders, Business Owners, or L&D Directors to learn more about their organization and the impetus behind their inquiry. From there, my general process tends to include preparing a draft proposal that summarizes what I heard in terms of context and objectives, our initial thinking and my suggested approach, along with an estimated investment schedule associated with deliverables. This initial draft sets the course for further conversations that results in a final proposal and agreement to proceed. This can move swiftly or take time and works best when decision makers are at the table and involved in the revisions.

What kind of results can I expect?

That is a question you need to ask yourself and your teams. What are you wanting to get from a coach/consultant/collaborator? Are you ready and willing to try new approaches, look at things from different perspectives, confront your saboteurs, face your critics, and learn from your fans?

What qualifies you as a coach and consultant?

I have been coaching and consulting for more than 20 years, I led the OD Department of the University of BC and have taught and mentored new coaches; I am an active life-long learner and I continue to deepen my organization development skills. Visit my About page for more information.

What tools and resources do you use?

I have favourites for clarifying values, assessing skills, deepening emotional intelligence and strengthening leadership insights and impact. I suggest books, and other sources if i think they are relevant to the cause.

What will we talk about in our coaching sessions?

These are your goals, you drive the agenda, you set the conversational priorities, and you define your desired outcomes at the start of each session; topics may include any of the following: