Business Coaches

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Farah Mocquais (M.A.L.T., B.HSA)

Farah Mocquais

Farah Mocquais holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Training as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services Administration. Her experience includes management coaching sessions designed to meet the needs of each manager in their specific working environments. She has provided coaching for corporations, municipal governments, and the Not for Profit sector. Her experience owning and managing businesses and managing an Immigrant Services Agency makes her coaching pertinent and viable for clients from a variety of backgrounds. Farah’s international work includes a stint with the United Nations in Afghanistan.

Farah’s volunteer work includes: providing training for Boards of Directors, serving on community development committees and working with youth around issues of addiction to gambling and excessive video gaming.

Farah’s coaching strengths:

• Ability to personally relate to the range of a manager challenges and to provide practical suggestions based on a proven track record.
• Focus on both personal development and professional performance.
• Quick and effective client need analysis and immediate movement towards achievable goals.

A coaching success story:

“I was contracted to conduct a 360 degree evaluation and learning plan for a young executive who was managing 100 employees.  Although she was very capable, she experienced resistance from her subordinates who were older than she and did not want to cooperate with a young boss. Her immediate need was to be able to get her subordinates to work with her and to recognize her authority while contributing their expertise. After attending one of her management meetings, I realized she needed coaching in validating her employees and learning to pitch her objectives with confidence. Within a short period of time, she was able to name her leadership strengths, engage her employees an achieve her confident presentation objective and has continued to perform well.”

Derrick Shirley (M.Sc., CCC., NWS)

Derrick Shirley

Derrick Shirley holds a Masters Degree of Science in Applied Psychology. He is a registered counsellor, coach and motivational speaker, an avid writer and active community volunteer. He sits on the board of Directors for the Alberta Association for Multicultural Education, is a Sessional and guest instructor at the University of Calgary, and formerly held the position of Human Resources Advisor on Diversity and Inclusion with The City of Calgary. Derrick has made appearances on local and national TV, radio, and print media outlets, organizes various community events, speaks nationally and internationally, is an active triathlete and father of one teenager.

Derrick’s coaching strengths:

• Ability to recognize and address patterned thinking and behaviours and see the “big picture”;
• Ability to motivate people to move beyond limiting beliefs by emphasizing and exercising their strengths;
• Familiarity and comfort working with culturally diverse clients and client groups.

A coaching success story:

“In 2008, I had the opportunity to work with a male client in his mid-50s. Despite his repeated successes in the workplace, promotions to higher positions of authority, and the increasing opportunities his company afforded him, for years he struggled when having to speak publicly to groups or privately to employees. As these were both regular activities of his employment position, we explored his challenges and triumphs, his current coping strategies, and brainstormed new possibilities related to communicating with others in varying contexts. However, what we discovered to be the most significant factor affecting his communication outcomes was a negative mindset he had going into a conversation or group facilitation. He often expected the worst to happen. This mindset led to feelings of anxiety, nervousness, and even avoidance of basic conversations. Once this was identified, we incorporated strategies to replace this mindset with one that would create more desirable outcomes. At last report he was practicing these new strategies daily and was purposefully booking speaking engagements in order to capitalize and build upon his successes.”

Karen Gingras

Karen Gingras

Karen Gingras, President of The HR Diva Corp., has been providing leadership, coaching and project management experience for over 20 years. With several years experience in: risk analysis as a business lender with one of Canada’s largest banks and as Manager of the Provincial Loan program for the Alberta Women’s Enterprise Initiative Association and Executive Director of Edmonton’s award winning microenterprise lending organization, she can help your company get to the root of your firm’s performance issues. For companies too small to employ a CFO, Karen provides financial analysis and coaching so that cash flow surprises are a thing of the past. She also addresses other challenges that affect financial performance that are linked to employee competencies and performance management. Through her work as Food Processing Retention Manager Consultant with Alberta Agriculture, Karen has helped companies improve their training effectiveness through training audits and evaluations.

Karen’s coaching strengths:

• As a member of the Objective Management Group Karen knows how to improve practices in hiring, managing and training sales people to accelerate bottom line profits.
• Karen has provided strategic planning services to non-profit organizations and businesses since 1997.
• As a certified coach with Gazelles International, Karen is authorized to provide the practical and actionable strategic planning workshops of the Rockefeller Habits that focus your team on annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly goals.

A coaching success story:

“When asked to evaluate the effectiveness of a leadership training program for lead hands and mid managers in a food processing company, my first step was to attend each of the sessions and observe the facilitators and participants. I observed that the company’s facilitators were upper management – trained in their role in the plant, but not trained as adult educators. The result was that participants were not contributing to discussions, few were even paying attention, and some of the facilitators were intimidating. After presenting my findings that included a cost estimate to the company, they cancelled the program, hired a skilled trainer and revamped their training program with much better results.”