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Sue SmarkalaB.Math, A.T.C. (Adler Trained Coach)

Sue Smarkala is an Executive Coach who offers coaching to senior directors, managers, supervisors and staff to enable them to achieve their corporate goals. Coaching goals may include: new strategies for great results in the workplace, gaining visibility within the team, enhancing communication skills, building positive relationships, honing clarity of focus and effectiveness in a particular area of life, greater career satisfaction, increasing leadership success. Sue also offers career coaching to students and mid-career clients. Sue's work with career clients matches their vision and values to the post secondary education and/or work they most want to do.

Sue also facilitates customized group coaching programs for diverse groups and organizations. These Leadership Dialogues are a hybrid service of individual and group coaching, where participants are challenged to apply the new concepts/skills in their workplace each month, gaining valuable personal experience. See Leadership Dialogue Series.

As a manager in the Ottawa high tech sector for more than 25 years (e.g. Nabu, Mitel, SystemHouse, AMEC), Sue built strong technical teams to deliver software project objectives by facilitating communication, supporting individual development and creating an open environment in which people's contributions were encouraged and recognized. Sue has been an Associate with the Adlerian Counselling and Consulting Group since 2001. Sue is an Adler Trained Coach, a graduate of the Toronto based Adler School of Professional Coaching Inc.

Sue has a keen interest in developing strong communities as President of the Women's Business Network of Ottawa - a network of entrepreneurial, management and commissioned sales women and through her volunteer work with her church community.

"The power of coaching for me is in the intention the client brings to the coaching process. Building on the strengths inherent in every person, together we create an awareness of their world, and develop a variety of choices that are available to them. Guided by the client's best intentions, we build a framework to achieve the goals and to continue the learning and growth throughout life. It is my privilege to walk as coach with my clients as they choose their path. With that inner pull toward possibility, progress is assured."

Articles

Setting Goals

Creating Positive Self Talk

Building Community with Our Children

Coaching Your Child as School Begins

Coaching Your Child for Life Balance

Creating the Practice of Being a Contribution

The Cycle of Change

Defining Purpose—Rules of Engagement

Facing Today's Challenges with Optimism

Giving You and Your Child an ‘A'

Manage Energy — Not Time

Social Intelligence: The Vibrations of A Family

The Power of Choice

The Way Things Are



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