INtwoIT Leadership Development & Coaching

Leadership Coaching

At INtwoIT Leadership Development & Coaching we believe leadership is a choice governed by thoughtful action, emotional intelligence, self-awareness and a deep desire to lead, support and mentor others. Leadership coaching offers seasoned, emerging and aspiring leaders the opportunity to consider their “signature leadership style”, craft their plan and take action toward ongoing development and success.

Often leadership coaching is pursued at a timely point of professional transition. Coaching targets outcomes that a client or their organization has deemed vital for their existing or anticipated future role. Goals for the coaching engagement are often designed around the results of a leadership assessment and/or feedback from a recent performance review. In other instances, a client may have an acute awareness of the gaps in their leadership abilities and seek out coaching as a way to more swiftly and strategically develop their capabilities.

Coaching Works:

Our OptimizeD Approach

INtwoIT’s OptimizeD Approach has emerged as a powerful, effective and easily understood framework for the coaching process. Represented by a five-phase cycle of inquiry, it ensures clients remain focused on desired outcomes, gain enhanced systems and strategic intelligence, and commit to timely action and accountability for results.

DISCOVER Where you want to be
DEFINE How you will know when you get there
DETERMINE Where you are right now
DESIGN How you will get there from here
DELIVER Meaningful results

Your OptimizeD Results

Accelerated Learning & Development
Enhanced Communication & Coaching Skills
Refined Leadership Skills
Improved Relationships
Elevated Self Regard
Increased Self Awareness
A more purposeful and accountable presence

The INtwoIT Promise

I will consistently do my part to confirm that our work together is meeting or exceeding your expectations. As the client, it is your responsibility to fulfill your commitments and speak up when you believe adjustments need to be made. It is within this spirit of mutual trust and accountability that I promise to give you my very best and expect the best from you.

People need a great deal from their leaders. They need information, access to one another, resources, trust and follow-though. Leaders are necessary to foster experimentation, to feed the system with information from multiple sources- all while helping everyone stay clear on what they wanted to accomplish and who they wanted to be ~ Margaret Wheatley

For A Leader” by John O’Donohue

May you have the grace and wisdom
To act kindly, learning
To distinguish between what is
Personal and what is not.

May you be hospitable to criticism.

May you never put yourself at the center of things.

May you act not from arrogance but out of service.

May you work on yourself,
Building up and refining the ways of your mind.

May those who work for you know
You see and respect them.

May you learn to cultivate the art of presence
In order to engage with those who meet you.

When someone fails or disappoints you,
May the graciousness with which you engage
Be their stairway to renewal and refinement.

May you treasure the gifts of the mind
Through reading and creative thinking
So that you continue as a servant of the frontier
Where the new will draw its enrichment from the
old,
And may you never become a functionary.

May you know the wisdom of deep listening,
The healing of wholesome words,
The encouragement of the appreciative gaze,
The decorum of held dignity,
The springtime edge of the bleak question.

May you have a mind that loves frontiers
So that you can evoke the bright fields
That lie beyond the view of the regular eye.

May you have good friends
To mirror your blind spots.

May leadership be for you
A true adventure of growth.

For a full list of Assessments and Learning Tools available

“Yael is a very special person who is not only an expert in her field of professional development – she does it with a spirit of humility and caring, which is rare. I have had the pleasure of working with – or in support of – her projects for several years. She is diligent in her actions and brilliant in her execution.”
Ken Keis , Ken Keis Consulting Resource Group

“Yael has a calling for the development of mere mortals into outstanding leaders – her passion for this cause is undeniable, her style is engaging, and her skills are exceptional.”
Paul Anand , Project Manager LDB

“It is so helpful in elected life, to emerge from all the important city issues, documents, meetings, phone calls, e-mails, letters, media and other public events, to take time to sit back, look at the big picture and decide how to be proactive rather than reactive.”
E. Woodsworth , Vancouver

Yael has proven to be focused and multi-skilled as an Executive Coach. She asks the right questions to rekindle a desire for what deeply matters to me, and enables me to clarify my vision and values. She encourages me to be open to change, to be responsive to new opportunities, to reveal old patterns, and to build new patterns of beliefs and behaviors. Her effectiveness as a coach is attributed to her wisdom, compassion, and uncanny ability to be candid in offering clear feedback.
P. Kasprow, , Vancouver

“Yael is creative, confident and passionate. I feel these qualities really are the heart of her facilitation. Her approach is down to earth, clever, relaxed and seems to be rooted in her own experiences. I left Yael’s workshop feeling inspired and equipped with new ideas, tools and ways of relating and being in the world around me.”
D. Pemberton, Vancouver

“I was given the option of consulting with a coach or participating in a job relocation workshop. I opted for the coach and it turned out to be the best decision I have made in a long time…Yael, with her persistent, probing and insightful questions helped me to find focus, to define specific career objectives and the steps to achieve those objectives…Yael’s ability to listen and provide honest feedback, with a good dose of humour, made our sessions a pleasure.”
R.Bastier, Vancouver

“As a business owner, I have found my coaching relationship with Yael invaluable. Through her support I have discovered more about what I want, where I am going and how to get there.”
S. Cutt, Victoria

“After sessions with Yael I always feel I have clarity and focus and this is reinforced by a variety of exercises and resources she provides to enable it to be a day to day process.”
R.Heard, Victoria

“Having Yael as my coach was instrumental in getting me to a state where my head, heart and gut are finally in synch.”
K.Reucker, Vancouver

“I have benefited from Yael’s ability to provide a comfortable place to attack deeply challenging questions…She guided me to consider troubling elements from other points of view. Consequently, I have uncovered capabilities in my professional and personal life that serve me well.”
L.Chan, Calgary

“I truly appreciated Yael’s honest and open outlook and I really believe that she has placed me on the right track to helping me find the right kind of work… she helped me to keep a continued positive outlook on life, and to think outside my immediate realm.”
B.Gill, Vancouver

“I really valued the time I spent with Yael. Yael has a knack for drawing out thought, and simplifying what seemingly are complex situations. For me I was left with a focus of what I need to accomplish over the next month, year and ten-year period. I am left with a confidence that I can accomplish great things in environments that are important to me.”
J.Jensen, Vancouver

“Yael helped me through my feelings of being completely overwhelmed. She helped me remove internal blocks and negotiate the stuff outside and she gave me clarity about how to arrange my life to achieve my goals.”
M.Habell, Seattle

“I have never felt threatened or intimidated during our sessions…Yael is supportive yet firm and able to keep my mental meanderings in line, which is no mean feat.”
M.Mordan, Victoria

It's nonsense to assume that leadership is genetic. There's no hard evidence to support that assumption, and worse, it dooms every one of us to accept our limitations as our destiny. ~ Kouzes and Posner