Alexandra Wright comes to the leadership and wellness space with a decades-long global corporate career as a strategist and communicator for some of the world's largest organizations, and equally, an array of boutique organizations.
Over the years, Alexandra began to diversify her career by training as an executive and leadership coach, a resiliency coach, a yoga instructor and more recently, embarking on a masters of leadership. Today, Alexandra draws upon her varied credentials and experience to deliver individual and team coaching, and boutique leadership and wellness trainings, strategy and retreats.
Alexandra holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, a Diploma in Public Relations and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching (PCC, CEC). Alexandra is also a Certified Yoga Instructor (YTT260), a Certified Resiliency Coach and a Certified Tetramap® Facilitator. In the autumn of 2023, Alexandra embarked on a Masters of Arts in Leadership.
Alexandra and her family, along with their Yellow Lab, Teddy, currently call Vancouver home. She is an avid traveler, and also loves to hike, ski and play tennis. Alexandra is also news junkie and a lover of architecture and design.
After completing her Bachelor of Business from UBC in 2008, Katie began her career in the business world, with a passion for training and development and organizational change. Soon after she recognized she needed to return to her passion for learning and healing, and has since pursued certifications to include; Adult & Workforce Learning, Expert Registered Yoga Teacher, Craniosacral & Somatic Therapy, and her Masters in Counselling Psychology. On this journey Katie founded a beloved yoga studio and community space, founded a highly regarded Registered Children's Yoga School, created an App, and has won many awards for her work.
At 22, while completing her undergrad, Katie had a near death experience which reconnected her with her childhood breath work and meditation practice. During this time she took a deep dive into exploring the nervous system and somatic works of Bessel Van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Stanley Rosenberg and others.
Katie brings a holistic approach to health and wellness, with a compassionate lens towards change. Her work is based in honouring body-wisdom, something many of us in a disconnected world have learned to tune out. Katie appreciates the fear that can arise through change, and most importantly, the peace and joy that flows when we consciously create alignment with our values, vision, and body-wisdom.
Katie enjoys spending time with her family and young girls, learning, travel, being creative, and immersing herself in nature and physical activity, especially skiing, running, and ocean swims!
Hilary has over 20 years of global experience in executive and leadership coaching, leadership and team development, positive psychology, human resources - employee relations case management and strategic business execution. She has led her own North American and Canada-wide teams in different business contexts. Hilary's roles include Director, Human Resources and Organizational Development and Vice President Peopleworks, Canada.
Hilary is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Certified Executive Coach, having completed Royal Roads University Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching program. She is in her final year of obtaining her master's degree in Executive and Organizational Coaching and currently serves as a Board member of the ICF Vancouver Chapter. In addition, Hilary is an EQ-I 2.0 and EQ 360 Certified Practitioner, helping leaders lead with Emotional Intelligence.
Hilary's approach uses empathy, challenge, and support to enable her clients to fulfil their potential and maximize performance, all with tangible results. She takes her clients on a journey founded on accepted coaching models and approaches, with other perspectives from management theory, psychology and neuroscience.
She is an ultra-marathoner and has completed Racing the Planet, 4 deserts Gobi March, a 250 km self-supported foot race named by TIME magazine as one of the world's toughest races.
Sharon Ryan is a facilitator and learning specialist with a passion for empowering leaders to achieve their life-affirming purpose. Drawing from a diverse toolbox, she aspires to create and facilitate meaningful learning and development journeys for self-awareness, relationship building, storytelling, belonging and resilience. Sharon is a Certified Tetramap® Facilitator, an Endorsed Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators, trained in the Way of Council and Narrative Coaching, and has a Master of Environmental Education and Communications, a Bachelor of Public Relations and a Bachelor of Arts. Previous senior leadership roles in organizations such as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, ground the insights and passion she brings to the work.
Niki’s early love of art, photography and design led her to her Masters in Architecture at Dalhousie University and a career in Universal Design here in Vancouver BC. It was in this arena that she began to feel the joy of helping people. One formative project was reworking the plans for the Vancouver Library so that all users could feel comfortable in the space.
As a young woman, she noticed that movement, and yoga in particular, eased the difficulties of three pregnancies, and she immediately sought her 200 Hour teacher certification, making a major career shift. Twenty years later she has taught thousands of hours of private and public classes, 25 international wellness workshops and retreats and over 20 teacher trainings. In 2015, following a strong desire to improve the quality of teaching in yoga teacher training programs, she obtained her Masters in Education from UBC.
The difficult times of the pandemic motivated her to further deepen her studies of the human nervous system. She is expanding her knowledge and the value that she brings to students and private clients by earning her Masters in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She is co-director of the yoga teacher training school, Whole Body Paradigm, which offers traumasensitive, socially-just, traditional and science-based teacher training programs in Vancouver BC and Costa Rica.