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We are a team of smart, wise, certified professionals committed to making work better for Canadian professionals and organizations.
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Alan Kearns
Coaching, Leadership Team
Alan Kearns is a leading thought leader on all things work. Author and contributor to The National, The Globe & Mail, National Post and CBC Radio, he shares the latest trends and changes in the Canadian workplace. Voted one of the Top 40 under 40, he is the Managing Partner...
Amanda Beselt
Leadership Team
With a background in web content design and a passion for helping others, Amanda excels at making her clients’ lives easier through clear communication practices and plain language writing.
Andrea Nicholls
Coaching
Andrea is well-known for her ability to capture attention with creative and surprising marketing solutions. Having done so for over a decade, Andrea is now changing the ‘engagement’ landscape. Her drive to achieve exceptional results was proven in senior strategic marketing positions with prestigious brands and now her passion for...
Andrea Phippen
Coaching
Andrea Phippen is an executive and career coach with over 10 years of HR experience. Andrea believes in developing others and is passionate about building future leaders. As a lifelong learner herself, she embraces the power of self-discovery, introspection and reflection and has an authentic approach to coaching, facilitation and...
Brit Wynne-Jones
Leadership Team
I am what you would call a "busy bee". You can generally find me joyfully juggling a zillion balls including operations, communications, recruitment, client success, marketing, management, sales, branding, event coordination, administration, training- always while in brainstorming mode, and always with a smile.
Carole Sandy
Coaching
Carole Sandy (MEd, CCC) is a Counselling/Therapist who has worked as an educator in several post secondary institutions. She has counselled and coached a variety of clients in collaborative conversations from a strength-based approach to build skills to enable them to navigate challenging circumstances, crises in relationships and life transitions....
Cynthia Dennis
Resumé & Branding
Cynthia's passion for Human Resources has guided her to devote her career to helping people and companies collaborate and succeed together. Her multidisciplinary career has led her to focus across many of the HR specialities including recruitment, training, organizational development, resume writing and career coaching.
Cynthia Hannigan-Thaw
Leadership Team
After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science from Carleton University and a Graduate Certificate in Victimology from Algonquin College, Cynthia discovered her passion of working with people through an internship as a Gender and HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator in Malawi. She went on...
Debbie Sprowl
Leadership Team
Debbie has worked in the non-profit world for many years, doing financial and database management. Helping others is what attracted her to working with CareerJoy.
Debora Dekok
Coaching, Resumé & Branding
Debora has been a Resume Coach with CareerJoy since 2005 and is also one of CareerJoy’s Biographical Career Report (BCR) analysts. In this role she gets to know her clients’ most satisfying life accomplishments and analyzes those accomplishments to uncover common threads to propel their career direction forward.
Ekim Tam
Leadership Team
Ekim is a journalist by training, who transitioned into HR. She was born in Turkey and made her way to Ottawa, Canada after spending several years in San Francisco and a very fun 13 months of traveling around the world. Prior to CareerJoy, she was a Human Resources Consultant at...
Erin Patchell
Director of Operations
Erin, as a former entrepreneur, demonstrates a diverse skill set as Director of Operations & Government Programs. Her role is to “make work better” at CareerJoy, for both staff and clients, continuing to find creative ways to scale and hone service delivery while maintaining our core values to our clients...
Fleur Trubert
Resumé & Branding
Fleur is passionate about languages and writing. She lived in multiple cities, working in a variety of jobs in retail, marketing, sales, customer service and the public service commission. She thrives to live a balanced life by staying active, healthy and disciplined. Finding a career that relates to ones values...
Garen Jemian
Coaching
“I communicate clearly, to the point and I fearlessly provide objective feedback to my clients. What you see is what you get, increasing the focus and impact of coaching sessions.” - Garen Jemian No matter the size or shape of your goals and ambitions, Garen can help you in your...
Greg Zador
Coaching
A collaborator and facilitator by nature, Greg has worked in partnership with representatives of the business, community and education sectors and all orders of government including the World University Service of Canada, Commonwealth of Learning, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, the City of Winnipeg, the Federation...
James Amarelo
Coaching
James Amarelo has spent the last 12 years in wealth management and financial services focused on the training and developing of financial advisers across Canada. His is passionate about succession planning, developing coaching cultures, leadership and professional development. His coaching philosophy uses a proven process, to be strategic in allowing...
Jan Kincaid
Coaching
Jan Kincaid is a Human Resources professional with over 30 years experience spanning several sectors from manufacturing to pharmaceutical to the not for profit sector. She has been at the executive level for several years overseeing the various disciplines of HR including recruitment, total rewards, leadership development, organizational development, HRIS,...
Jan Williams
Coaching
Jan Williams knows from personal experience what it takes to attain excellence. As head of her own successful cross-cultural training company in Europe, Jan achieved considerable success in training managers to communicate effectively in international environments. Jan counts among her top clients executives from Shell, Numico, Bols, Deloitte & Touche...
Jason Parks
Leadership Team
Jason has 20 years of proven business development expertise and believes in creating raving fans from every client experience. Coming from a background in printing and education, the balance of growing business while managing ongoing client projects comes naturally to Jason.
Jennifer Cowan
Resumé & Branding
Jennifer writes, mentors and consults. She has created stories for television, radio, print, interactive game apps and corporate websites. Her television work has garnered multiple awards and her first novel was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Sharing her love of writing, Jennifer teaches media, screenwriting and comedy writing at...
Josh Clements
Resumé & Branding
Josh's writing career began with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and creative writing, and a Master’s in film studies. His love for language started at the age of six, and hasn’t dimmed since. Josh’s greatest strength is helping individuals from all walks of life find their unique voice, and present...
Judith Cane
Coaching
Judith has worked in the financial services industry for 27 years first as an insurance agent, then as a full service adviser and finally, since 2010, as a Money Coach. She has worked with hundreds of clients to create a clear picture of their financial situation, build a realistic spending...
Karen Haas
Coaching, Resumé & Branding
Karen takes an analytical approach to coaching & resume writing, deciphering each client’s driving factors for success and what sets them apart in the marketplace. In previous lives as a competitive figure skater, financial planner, and tutor, the creation of favorable outcomes was achieved by strategically setting and reaching goals....
Kathleen McLean
Coaching
Kathleen is a fluently bilingual Certified Professional Coach. She specializes in assisting clients to make effective and lasting change. Her approach is by exploring and identifying personal goals, identifying solutions to leadership challenges and setting objectives and plan to advance their careers.
Kevin Schafer
Coaching
Kevin has been a Career and Leadership Coach and Certified Career Strategist since 2005. He is passionate about providing career development strategies to help his clients work towards improving their situation. He has developed expertise in resume development, interview preparation, career goal setting and especially networking.
Laurie Fenske
Coaching
Laurie’s coaching successes are shaped by a passion for engaging clients with powerful questions to find the best solutions within themselves. She focuses her high-energy coaching sessions to achieve substantial improvements in the areas of both our identity and search programs and applies her unique experience to specialize in business...
Lillian Thomsen
Coaching
Lillian enjoyed a full professional career in the Canadian Foreign Service serving in culturally and linguistically diverse positions both in Canada and abroad. In her final position with Global Affairs Canada she served as the Director General and Dean of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, which is comprised of four...
Lisa Pierosara
Coaching
Lisa is a senior certified professional coach, facilitator and collaborative program leader with a history of fostering transformative change, communications excellence and leadership effectiveness. She has a particular focus and advocacy in supporting the inclusion of women.
Louise MacLeod
Resumé & Branding
Louise is a naturally curious and enthusiastic storyteller and resumé writer who delights in tracing the arc of a life and finding the perfect words to illuminate an individual's unique passions, achievements and potential. Prior to joining the CareerJoy team in 2018, her ability to identify, craft and tell compelling...
Lynda Peto
Coaching
Lynda has 10 years of experience supporting and assisting her clients in meeting their career and employment goals. Working with HR professionals, Lynda has a strong connection with the business community and diverse job opportunities. Lynda has 20 years of business experience as a sales and marketing professional and entrepreneur....
Margaret Van Amelsvoort-Thoms
Coaching
Margaret Van Amelsvoort-Thoms is a bilingual CareerJoy Senior Leadership Facilitator. She is also a former Director General with the Treasure Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS). After a 35 year career in the public service, of which 30 years were spent in human resources. Before her retirement, she was on assignment...
Michelle Horne
Coaching
Michelle helps her clients as an Image and Branding Coach to discover their Personal Brand statement, define their style identity and use that image to create success in personal and professional situations. Michelle has been described by clients to dig deep to help her clients define their authentic brand and...
Mileta Vinerte
Resumé & Branding
Mileta Vinerte has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in Software and Hardware Engineering, IT Technology, and Recruiting. As an entrepreneur, mentor, recruiter, and technical writer specializing in government and private sector resumes, Mileta combines high work ethic with creativity and enthusiasm. Her goal is to coach candidates through...
Rebecca Bartley
Resumé & Branding
Rebecca has always had a passion for writing and the art of telling a great story. With over 7 years of experience in public relations, communications, marketing and writing she has worked alongside a number of organizations from international corporations to small businesses and from government to online outlets. She...
Richard Rochefort
Coaching
Richard is an expert in leadership development, management excellence and learning. He is perfectly bilingual (English and French). Richard is a certified executive coach, excellent facilitator and outstanding public speaker. Richard is certified in the application of various psychometric assessment tools. He has extensive experience designing and facilitating innovative conferences,...
Ross MacLeod
Coaching
Ross is an experienced senior executive, who relishes the challenge of solving difficult problems and achieving meaningful results for clients, employers and colleagues. He specializes in enterprise transformation and management excellence through clear results, values and ethics and human resources management.
Sandra Bobkin
Coaching
Sandra has more than 15 years of private and public sector experience in a variety of learning, leadership and management roles. This includes service in the retail, financial and health care industries. Her coaching has focused on leadership and team development, effective communication, emotional intelligence, career transition/management and 360 feedback...
Shoshana Allice
Coaching
Over the past fifteen years, Shoshana has coached, mentored, and advised leaders, at all levels of organizations, across North America and abroad. With almost a decade in the Federal Public Service as well as rich experience in Health Care, she brings a deep understanding of the dynamics of leading within...
Stephen Williams
Coaching
Stephen Williams came to CareerJoy with a comprehensive HR background. He has more than 25 years of experience as an HR Leader specializing in Employee Development, and possesses the solid business acumen, pragmatic thinking and bottom line focus to guide leaders in gaining what they need to grow and advance...
Taryn Brady
Coaching
Taryn's love of science and technology has been a common thread throughout her career. After her first job as field biologist with Canadian Wildlife Service she knew that working with people was more her passion than tracking elk. As a Career Coach, Taryn helped hundreds of engineering students through the...
Tudor Robins
Resumé & Branding
Tudor enjoys writing anything that tells a story and considers resumes to be the ultimate “short story” of a person’s life. As a professional resume-writer for more than a dozen years, Tudor has created over a thousand resumes for roles from Architect to Zookeeper. She specializes in re-organizing and re-writing...
Valerie Legge
Coaching
Valerie Legge’s career coaching experience spans individual coaching, group coaching and intercultural transition. Valerie employs solution-focused coaching to help her clients build up their strengths, highlight possibilities and expand their perceptions. Her experience working as a Research Coordinator in brain plasticity and transformation at the Montreal Neurological Institute has contributed...
Victoria Miles
Coaching
Victoria has 25 years of experience in helping organizations shape and deliver strategies centered around the intersection of commerce, culture and community. Whether it has been through leadership roles in global brand companies, as an entrepreneur in a leading-edge corporate consultancy, or working for international and national non-profits, she has...