Working Together
Most of the people who find me are already carrying a lot.
You have done the degrees. You have passed the exams. You are the person other people lean on when the numbers get complicated or the stakes climb.
What you often do not have is a quiet, genuinely safe place to think out loud about what your work and life are doing to you, with someone who understands the technical world you live in and is willing to stay in the conversation until action becomes possible.
That is what this work is for. Not a program. A longer-term partnership around your judgment, your energy, and the next stretch of your career and life.
How we meet
We talk one to one. No group, no recording, no observers.
Some people prefer video, some prefer phone. Occasionally we are in the same city like Toronto and meet in person. The format matters less than the fact that, for that hour, you do not have to perform for anyone.
Conversations usually run about an hour. Many people begin with one or two meetings close together, then settle into a rhythm that fits the rest of their life, often every three to six weeks. There is no contract and no package. You can pause, stop, or return as circumstances change.
Over time, as we get to know each other, some clients choose to take a conversation off-screen and onto my sailboat on Vancouver Island for a working day on the water. Those days are rare, weather-dependent, and arranged only when the relationship is already established.
What our time is for
An hour with me is not a performance review and not a pep talk. We sit down and look closely at where you are now: the work on your desk, the pressures in the background, the quieter questions you rarely say aloud.
I ask a lot of questions, including many that do not have quick or comfortable answers. We follow the thread of your words, your silences, your hunches. The aim is not to impress me, but to see your situation more clearly than you can from inside your own head.
Between conversations, I will usually invite you to take one or two small steps, if you feel able and willing: revising a line in your résumé, sounding out a trusted colleague, noticing when you say yes out of habit, or writing down what drains you and what gives you energy in a normal week. I am not a pushy coach asking you to “smash comfort zones.” Discomfort is information. If a suggested step feels wrong, we treat that reaction as data rather than as failure and adjust accordingly.
The real work happens in the space between sessions: you reflecting more deeply on your own life, testing small changes in the real world, and coming back with new observations.
Change is hard for everyone. Our time together is there to make that change more honest, more bearable, and more aligned with the person you already are, rather than forcing you into a version of yourself that was never yours.
Fees
I price my time by the level of responsibility you hold and the decisions you are carrying, not by how “worthy” you feel. As a guide:
CAD $250 / hour
Senior professionals and specialists who are not yet in the C-suite but carry significant technical or managerial responsibility.
CAD $500 / hour
Executives and emerging C-suite leaders, including partners in professional firms and senior managers in major financial institutions.
CAD $1,000 / hour
Founders, firm owners, senior partners and board members whose decisions carry broad organisational and societal consequences.
Occasionally, once we know each other well, we may choose to spend a working day on my classic blue-water sailboat on Vancouver Island. Those days are priced by conversation rather than by a strict hourly rate. They are for thinking with a different horizon, not for ticking through an agenda.
You are always responsible for your choices. My role is to help you see more clearly, surface options you may not have considered, and think through the risks, trade-offs, and unseen costs, especially around long-term decisions that cannot easily be undone. Agency stays with you.
How to begin
Our first conversation is not an audition. It is a quiet trial run: two serious people testing whether this kind of ongoing, confidential dialogue would help you turn reflection into action rather than another year of quiet dissatisfaction.
You can visit the Connect page for details.