Who We
Are
Three questions inform our choices of
who works as a coach at ELG: one, do they understand
large organizational systems; two, do they have
integrity, and three are they excellent at fostering
growth in others. Our coaches all have graduate
degrees, rich life backgrounds and diverse
professional experience, from MBA’s with line
management experience to PsyD’s with counselling
experience. Their abilities are the asset at ELG that
matters most.
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on each name for credentials and background
Dale Sutton, M.B.A.
Dale has been working in organizations
for over thirty years. Her coaching practice is
enriched by the years she spent as a line manager in
the public and private sectors, before she left to
become a consultant and inspirational facilitator in
her own company, Breakthrough Associates.
During these years Dale lived her belief that people
are an organization’s most important asset, and
translated that belief into a dynamic leadership
coaching practice that began in 1998.
In the past five years Dale has become
a sought-after coach for executive, senior and middle
managers in Canada who believe that their own
professional development and that of their people go
hand in hand. She has worked extensively
providing personal coaching and team development at
the Director level, implemented talent-based
assessment and development programs across numerous
teams, and has coached various CEO and executive
teams around cultural change management processes as
well as merger dynamics.
She is a graduate of The Art of
Leadership and trained with Coaching U., as well as a
contributing author to myleadership.com in both the
coaching and leadership development areas. Dale and
her husband make their home in Bethany, Ontario.
Louise
Klein, PsyD.
Louise Klein
has nearly a decade of experience as an executive
coach, working with top executives, technical
thought-leaders and middle managers in major
corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, healthcare
institutions and government agencies in North
America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Ken
Victor, M.A.
Ken has spent the past twenty years
working with people in organizations. His initial
work in developing human potential began in the late
70’s working for Outward Bound. Years later he
moved up to Canada from the States to direct Outward
Bound’s Professional Development Program in
Canada. After leaving Outward Bound he founded The
Edgework Leadership Group in 1995.
Ken’s involvement with coaching
initially grew out of his work in developing high
performing teams, coaching team leaders to sustain
their team’s effectiveness. His work has focused
on leadership development during the past ten years,
including the design and implementation of in-house
leadership development practices for large
corporations.
His coaching practice has involved
working with clients who are facing career derailment
situations, using 360° feedback in the formation of
personal development plans, and supporting high
potentials to take the next step in their
organizations.
Educated at the University of
Pennsylvania and Syracuse University, Ken has taught
at the corporate universities of Motorola and 3Com
Universities as well as the McGill Executive
Institute, and authored papers and presented several
times at conferences of the international
Organization Development Network. When not involved
with organizations, Ken lives with his wife, and
three children in the Gatineau Hills of West Quebec.
Bill
Templeman, M.A.
Bill is a
coach, facilitator and designer of learning
processes, with seventeen years experience working
with corporate and public sector clients across
Canada and in the United States. Prior to
establishing his coaching practice, Bill worked for
five years as an internal management development
consultant at Royal Trust, where he developed
leadership training initiatives and designed a
management development assessment process. He
also provided coaching to leaders who looked for
guidance in interpreting 360° assessment results. He
has also served as a facilitator with Outward
Bound’s Professional Development Program,
leading numerous team effectiveness sessions for
executives and managers.
Bill’s
commitment to coaching stems from his involvement in
performance improvement initiatives where he learned
that at the end of the day organizational change is
all about changing individual performance and
behaviour. He is an engaging coach who has a solid
understanding of professional development as a means
of improving business performance. Bill encourages
clients to take full advantage of feedback from
others and to embrace the discipline of
self-reflection in order to become more conscious of
one’s patterns of behaviour, both effective and
ineffective. He believes we can always improve our
ability to achieve our goals if we continue to ask
ourselves the right questions and examine our own
conduct.
Bill wrote
the Transformational Leadership Process, a leadership
development program that was awarded two citations
from the American Society for Training and
Development. He has also presented at
conferences and professional association events and
is a presenter at the Faculty of Education at
Queen’s University. Educated at Concordia
University and the University of Toronto, Bill has
taught in colleges in Quebec and Ontario and presents
teamwork courses at Trent University's Continuing
Education Program. He and his family are based
in Peterborough, Ontario.
