Testimonials
“Alvin has been a significant influence on me and my leadership team over the past year, driving sharper thinking, greater adaptability, and stronger personal effectiveness. His ability to offer candid, unfiltered feedback - while championing our goals - has surfaced crucial insights, helping us see blind spots and pursue meaningful growth.
The coaching relationships Alvin has led have enhanced our leadership proficiency and personal development. His approach is thoughtful and personalized, diagnosing individual challenges and working side-by-side with each leader to co-create practical, effective strategies.
More than a coach, Alvin has proven to also be an effective thinking partner at the C-Suite level. His unique perspectives have helped with our ability to address complex challenges, and he’s become a trusted partner in our ongoing development. I’m excited to continue our work together!”
- Launi Skinner, Chief Executive Officer, First West Credit Union
“I am delighted to share my heartfelt testimonial for Alvin’s exceptional work, which has made a significant impact on me and my leadership team.
Alvin's contributions have been instrumental in transforming our approach to leadership and personal effectiveness. Through his consulting and coaching, we have gained deeper self-awareness and acquired practical new skills that have resulted in substantial improvements in both team engagement and business outcomes. The increased clarity and self-mastery we've achieved led to better decision making, which in turn, has led to remarkable results.
We have become a more cohesive unit through improvements in confidence, problem solving, and collaborative communications. With Alvin's continued coaching and expertise, I am confident that our team will continue to reach new heights.”
- Mimi Vanderwalt, Director, TELUS Corporation
“Alvin’s coaching and methodologies have helped me become a more effective leader and more importantly, a better person. Our coaching sessions helped me become more cognizant of my strengths and weaknesses. The deepened self-awareness allowed me to then deploy the array of tools and frameworks Alvin provided me. After just a few sessions, I became a significantly better communicator and collaborator in professional and personal life. The growth has been crucial to my role as Innovation Director as it helped me earn the trust and confidence of the individuals and teams I work with.”
- Anton Ricafort, Director of Innovation-Americas, Acciona Infrastructure, Canadian Construction 40 Under 40 Award Winner
“My work with Alvin has had a profoundly beneficial effect across my personal and professional life. He has been keenly interested in fostering my personal growth, helping me manage my mental saboteurs, and embrace a life long journey towards personal mastery. I often share his pragmatic insights with others. I’m grateful for his support and look forward to our continued work together.“
- Mike McCarthy, Founder & CEO, McCarthy Pacific Growth Advisory
“Alvin delivered an engaging, interactive, and tailored workshop for BCIT, providing many practical tools for the participants. The feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing that the session was incredibly informative and left them wanting more. One wrote, ‘Overall, an excellent experience. The amount of high-value information that Alvin managed to communicate was impressive.’
It was wonderful collaborating with Alvin to support participants in building meaningful connections and achieving professional success. I highly recommend Alvin for his coaching expertise in personal mastery and interpersonal effectiveness.”
- Tule Tran, BCITSA, British Columbia Institute of Technology
“Warren Buffet says the greatest investment we can make is in ourselves. It's the one that will continue to yield dividends. Coaching with Alvin has been a self investment that has stretched the level of commitment I have toward a higher personal standard.
I also became able to see some of my hardest truths. Alvin helped me think differently and I came to recognize my own capacity to grow. The coaching has become a way to wake up to the insights I already hold for how I want to live... and creating ways to live it, over and over.
This is the kind of work that builds confidence. The is the kind of time invested that results in worthy findings about who I am and what I have to offer those around me.”
- Amber Clarke, Board Chair of The Collective Bunch Society
“Working with Alvin has not only been incredibly productive for identifying and pursuing my goals, but it has also been a very enjoyable experience overall. He has been able to help uncover challenges and different ways to approach them, as well as open my eyes up to potential opportunities that might have gone unnoticed. I always look forward to our coaching sessions together.”
- Nalini Raman-Wilms, Certified Organizational Coach, Account Executive, Cisco Systems Inc.
“Alvin was very supportive in helping me identify and work on my weaknesses. He is a great listener and knows what questions to ask. Besides the coaching, Alvin provided practical activities that addressed the identified weaknesses and actually turned them into strengths! Alvin’s coaching was very motivational and I really enjoyed the experience. I look forward to working with him more in the future.”
- Mark Zhou, Director of Operations, Immunize.io
“Working with Alvin has changed my life. He has helped me take on a greater workload and balance that with a healthy personal life at the same time. His coaching guided me to embrace energy management principles that led to increased personal capacity. This resulted in the ability to take on more challenges with the mental clarity to perform them well.
One of Alvin’s gifts is his ability to go beyond pure coaching on a wide variety of topics. He also worked with me on tackling a lifelong struggle. He challenged the way I was thinking about it and offered me the skills and support to make incredible advances. I am grateful to have met Alvin and would highly recommend him to anyone interested in taking their personal mastery, leadership and professional skills to the next level.”
- Liam Maclure, Community Engagement Manager, Canadian Mental Health Association
