Montreal, Quebec, Canada
👥 People • 🌍 Planet • 📈 Profit I’m a Master Mariner by training and a purpose-driven Senior Executive, Business Coach, and Adjunct Professor of Leadership. I help individuals and organizations navigate complexity with integrity, translating purpose into sustained performance and meaningful societal impact. My principles-based leadership is about creating the conditions in which people can truly thrive. Policies, procedures, and regulations define the minimum standards below which we should never fall. Culture determines how high we can rise. Building cultures of trust, confidence, and ambition that inspire people to bring their best, unite around a shared purpose, support one another, and achieve extraordinary results together sits at the heart of everything I do. ✔ Executive Coaching & Culture Transformation ✔ Organizational Alignment & Strategy Execution ✔ University Teaching (Leadership, Values & Purpose) ✔ Sustainable Ocean Transport ✔ Bringing (Medical) Hope and Healing to Africa ✔ Fighting World Hunger My True North is simple: to grow into the best personal, professional, and human version of myself. To be a little better tomorrow than I was yesterday, and in doing so, leave the world a little better than I found it. Always in the making - never made
As an ICF-certified executive and leadership coach, I support individuals and teams in navigating complexity with clarity, courage, and coherence — aligning purpose, performance, and wellbeing. Rooted in ethics and purposeful presence, my coaching is deeply reflective yet always practical. Every session ends with something tangible you can walk away with — a decision, a shift, an insight — to generate better, more desired results. Towards my client's best life.
I partner with candidates through career transitions, accompanying them as they chart new courses toward meaningful work, and guiding them to make best use of Right Management’s world-class resources. My focus is to create clarity, foster confidence, and guide the practical steps of branding, job search, preparation for opportunities ahead, to then land the next, meaningful role. Career change can feel adrift, yet it can also become a defining waypoint of a life well lived. While we don't command the wind, we have unconditional response-ability to set our sails to get to our destination. My role is to help each candidate do exactly that - and move forward towards their best lives.
👉 Mentor emerging coaches enrolled in the PGCC program on their journey to become impactful coaches in the service of their clients and toward mastering the International Coaching Federation (ICF) core coaching competencies - to NAIL IT ! 👉 Support participants through the program’s three-phase structure (Foundations → Coaching Skills → Influencing Change & Growth), combining coaching theory with supervised practice to help candidates develop goal-oriented conversations, self-discovery, action plans, and a sustained growth mindset. 👉 Provide feedback to integrate coaching ethics, refine coaching agreements, and build confidence and reflective skills needed for a professional, goal centric coaching practice.
Teaching leadership-centered electives to Master’s students enrolled in SKEMA’s globally top-ranked MSc in Global Supply Chain Management & Procurement — a program distinguished by the heritage of France’s top-tier business schools, enriched through collaborations with institutions such as MIT and Harvard, and designed to develop future-ready, impact-driven supply chain leaders. Elected Teacher of the Year 2024/25 by SKEMA students. Key Contributions ✔ Designing, continuously improving, and delivering the elective "Leadership, Career, Values & Purpose ... towards a life worth living" (Fall semester) — enabling students to define their personal mission, leadership identity, and purpose-aligned decision-making. ✔ Designing, continuously improving, and delivering the elective "Position Yourself in Life and Career" (Spring semester — equipping students with the mindset, tools, and strategies to navigate complexity and build fulfilling, high-impact careers. ✔ Facilitating transformational learning experiences rooted in real-world leadership, coaching psychology, and actionable reflection — bridging personal growth with professional excellence. Result: Consistently receive top-quartile student ratings for outstanding learning and discovery experiences.
✔ VEER.Voyage – Advisory Board Member (2025 to date) Supporting the Founder and CEO in shaping clean ocean solutions and advancing zero emission shipping. ✔ E2G Food – Ambassador (2024 to date) Championing the mission to fight global hunger by creating transparent and sustainable nutrition systems. ✔ Mercy Ships Canada – Treasurer, Board Director, Chair Finance & Audit Committee (2023 to date) Providing strategic oversight and fiduciary guidance to the world’s leading non-profit hospital ship organization. ✔ Maritime Anti Corruption Network (MACN) – Member of Board of Directors (2022 to 2024) Advancing a maritime industry free of corruption to enable fair and transparent global trade. ✔ Det Norske Veritas (DNV) - Member of the North American Technical Committee (2019 to 2024) Contributing technical and operational insights to strengthen safety, classification standards, and innovation across the maritime sector. ✔ Lloyd's Register (LR) - Member of the North American Advisory Committee (2020 to 2024) Providing industry perspective to guide classification priorities and future focused maritime solutions. ✔ Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Class NK) - Member of the North American Committee (2016 to 2020) Supporting the development of workable high quality classification standards that promote safe and efficient global shipping.