Our Talent

Michael Bungay Stanier, BA LLB MPhil CPCC

Michael has been working with organizations across all market sectors for two decades to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work. He brings together the technologies of facilitation, innovation and coaching to support individuals, teams and organizations in achieving their goals. Recent clients have included American Express, AstraZeneca, Bank of Montreal, British Gas, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, Nestle, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Xerox. He created the Get Unstuck & Get Going on the stuff that matters tool and program which has won several awards and been praised by such leading thinkers as Peter Block, Seth Godin and David Allen. He's been featured in national newspapers and radio and writes a regular newsletter that's read by over 23,000 people in 44 countries around the world. He is a popular keynote speaker, and has spoken to audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and across North America. Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

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Clarity Coaches are experienced and focused senior coaches and facilitators with multi-disciplinary backgrounds residing in Canada, United States and Europe.

We work with organizations that invest in cohesive and productive teams, aspiring to support and harness the full potential of their human resource assets. Our top talent works with FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Oracle, Cap Gemini and Scotiabank to name a few. We also work with a multitude of Fast Company entrepreneurial picks targeted for exponential growth and strategic alliance potential.

Shelly Frank, CPCC, PCC

Shelly is an executive coach and business consultant. She has an extensive entrepreneurial and public company background with a focus on finance and strategy. She received Ernst & Young's Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000 and has held many Leadership roles and accolades to her credit including various Board Member roles within the International Coach Federation Ontario Chapter. Her coaching/consulting practice specializes in assisting executive and management teams with 'next' practices -- transformational strategies. She works with top trainers and organizational developers in a variety of specialty sectors finding her clients the very best and latest in leadership technologies.

Eric Kohner, CPCC, MCC

Eric Kohner is an internationally known life and executive coach, leadership trainer, and keynote speaker. Skilled in working with both individuals and teams, Eric’s coaching clients have or currently include the United States Navy, Capgemini, IBM, The Prudential, entrepreneurs, people in leadership positions, corporate trainers, and other coaches. As a Senior Trainer for the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), Eric has delivered training throughout the United States and in numerous foreign countries including Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and Norway. His stature as a professional coach has been recognized by invitations to be a keynote speaker in Denmark, Israel, and most recently at the first Philippine coaching conference in Manila.

David Darst, CPCC, PCC

David Darst is an internationally celebrated, daring and thought provoking Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and a popular Course Leader at The Coaches Training Institute where he has trained over one thousand coaches in both one-on-one coaching, and relationship & systems coaching. Thought of as a "Renaissance Man," he brings a strong and eclectic background to the profession of coaching with a wealth of accomplishments along his personal path including master carpentry and furniture designing, work in the entertainment industry—both in front and behind the scenes, as well as ten years of experience with people in the recovery of alcohol and drug addiction. He now works with top teams, executives and successful individuals and couples, in redesigning the lives and work they really aspire to. As past President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Coach Federation and a member of the ICF and the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, he joins the ranks of the few with a PCC designation.

Juhree Zimmerman, CPCC, MCC

Juhree is a Master Certified Coach and senior trainer of the Co-Active Coaching, and Organizational Relationships and Systems Coaching curriculum for the leading coach training institute in the world (CTI). Juhree brings more than 30 years of experience as a health care practitioner, administrator, planner and coach to her practice in leadership development training and coaching. Juhree leads workshops internationally in corporations as well as the public sector. She led the first Coactive Coaching course in Israel in 2003, starting a new wave of professional development there. By combining her background in public service administration and leadership with her counseling and coaching skills, she is fulfilling her personal dream of creating organizational cultures that respect and advance the quality of working life for employees, leaders and people served by the organization. Juhree leads coach training workshops for Fortune 100 companies and has developed a series of teleclasses for staff in the areas of Leadership, Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Influential Language, Coaching and Team Diagnostics.

Anne Hurtubise, ACPC

Anne is an international bilingual (English and French) professional coach, helping organizations maximize the performance of employees through seminars and workshops in leadership, emotional intelligence, 360° assessment tools, and executive coaching. Her clients range from managers to CEO’s. She has 3000 hours of coaching, and is currently in process of applying for her Master Coach Certification via the International Coach Federation. She has served as VP of the Ontario Chapter of the International Coach Federation. Apart from studies in Management and Marketing at the University of Montreal as well as in Information Technology, Anne holds many focused certifications through Hay/McBer; Emotional Intelligence Development Corporation; Adler; Coach Training Institute (CTI); and, Team Coaching International (TCI). The industries that she’s served include: banking, mining, information technology, hospital, pharmaceutical, legal, insurance, food, manufacturing, financial and accounting with clients such as: AT&T, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Celestica, CIBC, Citadel, Deloitte, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inco, Inmet Mining Corp, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Merck, Metro Credit Union, The Michener Institute, Norampac, Oracle, PWC, Prudential, Reuters and Scotiabank.

Colin Holbrow, CPCC, PCC

Colin works with leaders and management/project teams seeking to maximize performance and achieve real results in a positive and fun-filled environment. With over 30 years of experience in a multitude of business and board member roles, Colin is an accomplished speaker and presenter. He employs his deep understanding of organizational culture and dynamics in tandem with a range of formats and strategies to provide a customized framework to meet client needs and outcomes. He actively draws on a wealth of diverse experience having worked as a resource and community planner, youth employment strategist, industrial development specialist, international business consultant, event manager, and strategic planning facilitator with a host of public and private sector organizations. Colin received his professional training and certification through the acclaimed Coaches Training Institute. He is an accredited member of the International Coach Federation and has served on the Toronto chapter’s Board of Directors. Included in Colin’s cadre of clients are CEO's, senior executives and partners employed by national banks and law firms as well as international accounting, consulting and service - based firms. Colin also supports a diverse range of individual clients from the biotech, IT, healthcare and education communities.

Tom Schulz, ACPC

Thomas Schulz is a seasoned senior corporate and public sector executive who inspires and energizes his clients enabling them to turn their ideas and projects into reality. Thomas came to the coaching and facilitation professions as a senior negotiator and human resource executive and with a reputation for delivering results as promised and on time. He is an experienced presenter having held high profile positions in both the private and public sector as chief negotiator and spokesperson. Thomas has made many appearances before quasi-judicial tribunals and has spoken at many conferences on topics ranging from human resources and labour relations to organizational mergers and knowledge management.

Ann Dinan, PhD MSSA CPCC

Ann specializes in systems coaching and training in higher education. She earned her doctorate in social science research from Washington University, her master’s degree from Case Western Reserve, and she is a designated CPCC from the Coaches Training Institute. She was also the first in the U.S. to conceptualize, devise, and implement the first coaching program offered to all university students at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. Additionally, Ann has lived and worked overseas and brings those experiences to her work through cultural competency and expatriate training and coaching. She also trains, consults, and coaches in the areas of performance coaching, team building and assessment, coaching in higher education, in addition to wellness and disability coaching. Ann enjoys a mix of private and corporate clients.

Lloyd Gilbert, MSc, MSc

Lloyd has the ability to see through exterior appearances and to the heart of individuals and relationships. His particular gift is authentic, intense and gentle, effective leadership. He has four decades of experience in psycho-analytics and couples therapy with over 20,000 clinical patient hours to his credit serving over 8,000 individual patients and hundreds of corporate clients with assessments and performance programs. He augments his psychology background with the latest studies and instruments in Leadership, EQ-i and Organizational and Relationship Systems work.

He holds a M.Sc in Clinical Psychology and M.Sc in Counselling Psychology with a PhD designate from Emporia State University.

Kathy Dingwall, BSc.

Kathy's coaching focus is on individuals, teams and executives as they evolve their personal and professional objectives. She has diverse leadership skills based on a thirty year corporate career with a large global enterprise where she held management roles in Professional Development, HR Research, Employee and Customer Satisfaction, Sales and Marketing. Her corporate work was preceded by a five year career in education. From her early days as an educator Kathy has been dedicated to motivating and inspiring people. Kathy's various corporate roles have provided her with the opportunity to continue her work coaching individuals and use that opportunity to expand, facilitate and develop local and global teams: in-person, remotely and virtually. The scope included international diversities and working with varied organizational cultures in partnering scenarios, mergers and acquisitions. Kathy completed her coach training through the Coaches Training Institute which included the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching specialty. In addition to her extensive corporate background and coaching experience Kathy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto, Ontario Teacher Certification, an Alternate Dispute Resolution Certificate from the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Certification in The Leadership Circle Assessment Program and a certificate in Literacy training. She was most recently the Director of Membership for the International Coaches Federation - GTA Chapter. Kathy has worked with clients in the varied fields of IT, Management Consulting, Marketing and Higher Education.

Mary Flaifel, PMP, CPCC

Mary is an Individual, Team and Executive Coach, as well as a Business Consultant - she works with teams to manage change, enhance productivity, improve communications and Leadership skills. Mary’s background is 28 years of Project Management and working with business teams to implement ERP systems in global and fortune 500 companies. As a Coach she is credentialed as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and is a Master NLP Practitioner, and is a graduate of (ORSC) Organizational Systems Relationship Coaching – she is also certified to conduct and coach around the Leadership Circle 360 degree Assessment for individuals and the Leadership Culture Survey, and is authorized to facilitate the Team Diagnostic Assessment from Team Coaching International.