Profile

Jean-Yves has been coaching and facilitating for over 10 years and brings 25 years of experience as a senior executive in Canadian and international organizations.

An accomplished facilitator, he is known for his superior ability to elicit trust from others, bring people together to develop lasting collaborative relationships and accelerated business results through thorough preparation and focus on the client's needs.

His uniquely deployed personal alignment approach and results-focused coaching, helps leaders achieve harmony between performance imperatives and a culture that sustains employee engagement and wellness.

His focus on training and coaching men and women to take total responsibility to achieve personal resiliency, wellness and balance in their lives forms the basis for his clients' success at maintaing sustainable performance and attracting and retaining employees.

Professional Accomplishments

Jean-Yves' professional accomplishments include:

? Trained and coached key leaders (VPs, GMs, Managers) in two of Canada's leading corporations through company-wide organizational change processes resulting in higher employee satisfaction and engagement, increased power of influence for leaders of virtual teams; improved business results and significant gains in safety performance

? Coached over 50 executives and directors for the Canadian Federal government on objectives ranging from improving performance, cross-organizational leadership influence, managing stress and attaining work-life harmony for themselves and their people

? Trained and coached over 100 management trainees to integrate coaching behaviors as an integral part of their leadership competencies

? Facilitated meetings, strategic visioning/planning sessions and events for groups ranging from 8 to 800 participants and trained as an Open Space facilitator

Education and Background

Jean-Yves holds an MBA from the University of Athabasca. He is a Certified Business Coach (B-Coach Systems), a Certified Association Executive and is professionally trained as an Open Space Technology facilitator. He has served as a leader of several business, professional, educational, and international and community organizations.