My expertise comes from formal education, extensive real-world experience, direct training with subject matter experts, and explorations of wisdom from diverse studies. Below is a selection of the creative, personal development and professional training that contributes to my consulting and coaching.

UC San Diego, Centers for Integrative Health

• Mindful Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge (mPEAK): mPEAK is a cutting-edge, intensive applied mindfulness training program for heightening personal and professional performance. mPEAK is built around work with world-class athletes and the latest brain research on peak performance, focus, and flow. The program enhances the human capacity of mindfulness and emotional resilience through established and empirically supported practices and exercises.

MIT Sloan School of Management

• Neuroscience for Business: The brain-body connection, accessing intuition, using creativity, and diversity of thinking. As a leader, it is important to be aware of your natural thinking preferences and the pathways within your brain that are underdeveloped. Neuroscience for Business draws on principles and tools that can be used to promote personal resilience, leadership development, and business performance. This program explores practical applications of the latest brain research to build emotionally intelligent leaders who can effectively adapt to change and drive innovation.

Cornell University

• Leadership Agility | VUCA Training Program: VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) was first used as a training concept by the U.S. Military, preparing their leaders to understand and counteract VUCA-world impacts. The concept has subsequently taken root in emerging ideas for strategic leadership that apply to a wide range of organizations, from corporations to non-profits. This program explores the internal strengths and strategic skills needed to lead with agility.

Cornell University

• Executive Presence Certificate Program: eCornell’s program for developing the presence of a leader, and effective communication even in the most intimidating circumstances. Instruction, exercises, and performance evaluations are based on insights from the core skills and tools of theatre performance. The main focus of the training involves speaking, connection, and motivational skills when engaging an audience.

Positive Intelligence

• Mental Fitness Coaching Program: A program for coaches that trains the capacity to see past limiting beliefs and tap into one's best thinking. Sustained change requires laying down neural pathways that form new habits. Based on rigorous research and curriculum refinement through thousands of global participants, the Positive Intelligence platform is a single operating system developed for a wide range of applications including stress reduction, leadership, creativity, and performance.

Flow Genome Project

• Flow Fundamentals: Being in flow is the optimal state of consciousness in which you feel your best and perform your best. When in flow, engagement and productivity skyrockets. Based on neuroscience and optimal psychology, Flow Fundamentals is an extensive training program that develops the ability to reliably access flow, and live with the most inspiration and impact possible.

Vinh Giang

• STAGE Academy: International Keynote Speaker Vinh Giang’s course on the foundations of public speaking and powerful communication. STAGE Academy is a comprehensive toolkit that includes vocal mastery, storytelling and body language for all forms of communication: online, in-person, one-to-one, and one-to-many. Some applications of the skills trained: pitching ideas, public speaking, building rapport, inspirational leadership.

Science of People

• People School: A twelve-part science-based advanced interpersonal skills training program and competency exam. Subjects include charisma, body language, capturing attention, decoding people, building trust, being engaging, mastering conversion, increasing influence, and strengthening connections.

VTSL Improv Comedy Institute

• Complete Core Improv Training Program: Development of the skills of improvisation, creativity and collaboration through improv comedy theatre performance training. This core program included the four components of spontaneity, character, environment, and story. As a method of personal development, improv training builds presence, the ability to “think on your feet”, and the courage to step into tension.

Meisner International

• Foundation of Meisner: Acting instruction by NYC-based teacher, director, and actor Steven Ditmyer. Despite the specialized nature of acting training - I have found there to be many practical benefits for personal development. Acting training deepens emotional intelligence, the ability to take risks, presence and listening skills. It also builds the power to “get out of your head” and really connect with what you know, without the head chatter that interferes with your best performance.

JIBC Centre for Conflict Resolution

• Conflict Resolution Certificate Program: 210 hours of experiential training and competency assessment in interest-based conflict resolution and negotiation. This program teaches the foundations of collaborative conflict resolution with a focus on self-awareness in conflict. Experiential learning and theoretical concepts are balanced to enhance understanding.

Crucial Learning

• Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue: This course covers the key skills for leading difficult conversations, teaching participants how to speak up quickly, directly, and effectively when it matters most. Grounded in decades of social science research, this course introduces the foundations of holding impactful dialogue and takes a deeper dive into mastering the most challenging conversations, at work and at home.

McGill University Executive Institute

• LeadershipNow: Created in collaboration between McGill University and TELUS, LeadershipNow is TELUS’ signature leadership development program for selected high-performing leaders. It is a deep, cohort-based program covering subjects such as the strategic leadership mindset, emotional intelligence, influence, leading change, unbiased decision making, and developing innovative ideas.

The Litvin Group

• Coaching Elite Top Performers: This program deconstructs insights from coaching sessions with world-class entrepreneurs, executives, and practitioners from various fields. The curriculum includes a study of the core frameworks for deep, transformative coaching, with a focus on the key nuances for guiding elite-level top performers.