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Kathleen Redmond

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Executive Coaching

Why Might You Work with an Executive Coach?
For one or more of the following reasons:

  • You want to ensure authentic, honest communication with your direct reports, peers and your boss
  • You feel overwhelmed with the demands of your job
  • You want to feel fully engaged in your work
  • You want your team to feel fully engaged in their work
  • You want your team to be accountable for their actions and results
  • You want to feel that you are making a significant contribution through your work

Benefits coaching clients experience

  • Solid and objective support by a trained, seasoned, ICF certified Executive Coach
  • A sounding board who is committed to your success
  • A safe place to explore the issues that keep you up at night

What can you expect?

  • You will co-develop (with your Coach) a Service Agreement that outlines your objectives, how you will work together and how you will measure results

How does this work?

  • You will experience a complimentary 30 minute coaching conversation
  • If you believe there is a “fit” between you and Kathleen, an in-person meeting is scheduled to create your Service Agreement
  • Kathleen employs individual, team and organizational assessments as appropriate for you and your goals.

Where is the proof?

  • Please read more about this increasingly employed and researched leadership option.

How to make executive coaching work for your company and executives

Ivey Business Journal – Ungagged executives on executive coaching

Who are our coaching clients?

  • Workplace leaders
  • Please contact us for a list of Coaching Client references

‘Coaching for Engagement Workshop’ for Leaders

Kathleen offers a dynamic, interactive workshop for leaders to engage employees for respect, responsibilities and results.

Kathleen’s primary focus is to support you as a leader

Client objectives typically include:

  • More fully engaging your direct reports
  • Determining effective ways to measure performance contributions
  • Preparing for challenging conversations
  • Clarifying how to hold others accountable
  • Working more effectively with your leader
  • Collaborating with your peers
  • Determining how to create an organizational (or departmental) culture that is energizing, engaging and productive
  • Building trust on your team

Kathleen’s Affiliations

University of Guelph

Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support and the College of Management and Economics.

MA Leadership Program

Kathleen teaches Coaching and Developing Others to MA leadership and MBA students at the University of Guelph.

Visit the MA Leadership Program Website

Coaching for Leadership

Certificate Program  through Continuing Education

Kathleen has written the Coaching for Leadership program and is teaching the 2012 program which starts on January 16, 2012.

Employee engagement and performance management are essential drivers in high performing organizations. The online Coaching for Leadership program focuses on developing your leadership skills using the coach approach.

Visit the Coaching for Leadership Program Website

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Biography

Click to view Kathleen’s full biography in Adobe .pdf

Contact

Kathleen Redmond
905.478.7962
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Testimonials

Kathleen worked with the results of our 2009 Employee Engagement Survey and conducted focus groups with leaders and employees across the province to provide recommendations for fulfilling one of our strategic mandates: building a high performance team and culture. Thanks to her involvement in this important initiative, we are well on the way to building an appropriate strategy and developing relevant tactics. — Lynn Woodcroft, Manager, Organizational Readiness. Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Kathleen shows how communicating honestly and constructively comes from understanding and developing your own character. — Roger HB Davies, CEO, McLuhan & Davies

Kathleen’s unique style of blending personal warmth with professional expertise opened doors for us with staff that were previously inaccessible. I wholeheartedly recommend her. — Lynn Woodcroft, Manager, Organizational Readiness. Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Rules of Engagement for Communicating at Work, by Kathleen Redmond, will prove to be a boon to those supervisors and managers who wish to review communication practices and promote greater satisfaction for internal and external customers. — Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and The Secret

Kathleen’s insights are incisive and enable effective development. I gained more focus and a clearer self-understanding after working with her; this has helped me to work better and engage my colleagues more effectively. — Christopher Chen, Team Lead, Leadership Development Branch Ministry of Education Instruction and Leadership Development

Leadership by Engagement is a must-read for any manager who wants to improve team focus, communication and productivity. — Christine Tomaselli, Director, Service Culture Development. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Kathleen was able to get me interested, motivated throughout our sessions. More importantly for me, she was capable to challenge my pre-conceived ideas and perceptions; she was also extremely successful at gently forcing me to challenge my own thinking while making me feel quite comfortable in the change process. — Jean Rousseau, Executive Business Director, Quebec. Strategic Affairs, Johnson & Johnson Medical Products

Kathleen takes the time to do and in depth review of the issues at hand with you .She is an excellent listener, understands the nuances and accountability issues of the of the workplace and from a coaching perspective challenges you to look at yourself, grow from your strengths and leverage from them, and how to how contain your weaknesses. — John Walker, MBA, Dean – The Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts. George Brown College

I consider Kathleen to be my personal coach. She has helped me in so many areas in my professional and personal life. — Keith Postill, Manager, Confederation Freezers

I have used the services of Center for Character Leadership several times and in particular I have found Kathleen’s Coaching Services and resources extremely valuable in working though complex leadership challenges of the workplace. — John Walker, MBA, Dean – The Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts. George Brown College

I brought Kathleen Redmond into Labatt’s Toronto Brewery ten years ago to help us with training. The program was so successful; National Office implemented the program in all plants across Canada. — Keith Postill, Manager, Confederation Freezers

Kathleen has written a powerful yet simple “how to” guide on engaging employees that can be used by managers and supervisors at all levels. — James Finnigan, Director, Labour Relations & Training, North American Construction Group

I benefited from working with Kathleen in both a one-on-one and group context, when she facilitated my branch’s annual retreat. She was skillful in managing the group’s dynamics and leading people to engage with each other more constructively. We’re following up on the suggestions she provided, and it has helped us to become a more cohesive team. — Christopher Chen, Team Lead, Leadership Development Branch Ministry of Education Instruction and Leadership Development

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