Coaching is all about partnering with people to harness their strengths, vision and values to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Connie Goodwin has spent her entire career coaching people – supporting people as they reach for excellence and test the boundaries of what they thought they could do. Connie believes strongly in strong knowledge of self; it is through self-awareness that we build the self-mastery needed to be intentional in what we do and how we do it.
This passion for developing people takes many forms in Connie’s work: executive and leadership coach, instructional designer, workshop facilitator, educational leader and consultant, and yoga and mindfulness teacher. In all of these spheres, she challenges her clients to think again, think more deeply and get connected to what really matters.
Connie brings a wealth of experience in professional development and instructional design to her coaching practice. In designing and facilitating workshops, she is able to create environments and experiences that allow for new thinking, new perspectives, and new approaches to emerge.
Connie is a Certified Executive Coach from Royal Roads University, and a member of the International Coaching Federation. She is a certified facilitator for the Core Strengths’ Strength Deployment Inventory assessment and the Working with Resilience Resilience at Work assessment. Connie splits her time between her homes in Calgary and Cape Breton Island.
Jean-Pierre Taschereau joined the Red Cross as a volunteer in 1991 and spent the two following decades in a variety of assignments within Canada and internationally. He has played leadership roles in large-scale and complex emergencies which included the Red Cross Movement’s response to the South Asian tsunami, the Haiti earthquake, the influx of Syrian refugees in Jordan, the food security crisis in the Sahel and the Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In 2015, Mr. Taschereau returned to Canadian operations and led the organization’s response to the Fort McMurray wildfire evacuation, the asylum seekers arrival in Lacolle, Québec and the British Columbia wildfires of 2017.
When not engaged in emergency operations, M. Taschereau has also contributed to or led the design and delivery of a variety of leadership development programs, such as the IFRC’s Emergency Team Leader training and the Developing Head of Emergency Operations (D-HeOps) program.
Mr. Taschereau is a Certified Executive Coach from Royal Roads University, an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and has a Master of Arts in International Relations from Université Laval, in Québec. He is a certified facilitator for the Core Strengths’ Strength Deployment Inventory assessment and Prosci’s ADKAR change management process. He is the Co-founder of Near and Far Coaching and resides near Ottawa, where he also serves as Lead Coach for the Canadian Red Cross.
Working languages: French, English, Spanish
