I'm a transformational coach for ambitious, mission-driven leaders and builders seeking the confidence that comes from depth and a life worth wanting.

Engage your whole self.

 

I've spent over two decades at the heart and nerve center of building conscious, progressive businesses and supporting the communities around them. I co-founded Montreal-based Rise Kombucha and Crudessence, leading in the groundswell of clean and healthy food business. I am invested in other progressive food and beverage companies. I have accompanied founders and leaders in over a hundred high-impact ventures, and taught entrepreneurship through MBA programs and grassroots settings.

Mine has not been a linear career path. I love blending and integrating the worlds I am privileged to inhabit. Engineering. Business. Yoga. Competitive sports. Meditation. Sun-gazing. Deep nature. Moonwalking. Tide-skipping.

 

Explorer, edgewalker, and creator of a world worth wanting.

For the first thirty years of my life, driven by ego and ungrounded ambition, I was in a perpetual rush. I tried to be everything to everyone. The success I was seeking wasn't mine. It was the familiar crusade for material achievement, high performance, and a life that looked full from the outside. Until it all caught up with me.

In burnout, fresh off a stint at a top-tier management consulting firm, I had my first deep revelation: slow down and take stock. Multiple solo trips to South Asia awoke the undernourished poet, philosopher, and seeker in me. I sat on mountaintops and river banks, listening, learning, and conversing with life. I became a yoga teacher, student of meditation, and devoted practitioner of contemplative arts that continue to inform everything I do.

This journey returned me, each time, to the importance of vocation and right work. I've spent the last twenty years in this sandbox, starting and scaling conscious businesses, accompanying ambitious, mission-driven leaders on their own journeys of building and becoming, and convening gatherings where transformation becomes possible.

 
 

An elder around the campfire.

Now I’m a Certified Integral Coach (from New Ventures West) and have completed Aletheia Coaching’s Advanced Coaching Program levels 1 & 2.

I bring the full breadth of what I have learned and lived: somatic and cognitive intelligence, intuition and empathy, academic rigor and deep business experience, all in service to my clients flourishing.

I work inside some of Canada’s leading impact accelerators as a mentor and leadership development guide, and convene gatherings for leaders and builders seeking more depth, coherence and aliveness in their work and lives.

I hold an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor's of Engineering from McGill University. Based in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, you'll find me regularly in wild places, seeking adventure, solitude, and the restoration of reconnecting with the living world.

 
 
 

Core Tenets: my guiding principles

  • Heart of Impact

    Wholeness

    It is all connected

    The circle reminds us that above all else, everything is connected and works together. We are not separate from our environment, and cannot not exist in isolation.

  • Heart of Impact

    Doing and being

    Relative and absolute

    The intersection of two complementary states: vertical, the absolute or ethereal, and horizontal, the relative or material. We are being and doing simultaneously.

  • Heart of Impact

    Heart

    The centre of being human

    Physiologically, emotionally, energetically, the essence of human existence is at our heart centre. Learning to live more from the heart brings all of you into play.

  • Heart of Impact

    Dynamic polarities

    The tension of opposites

    Life is taking place at the tension between oppositing forces, changing dynamically. Can we balance both, and live in the dance between them?

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