About Us

Several years of experience as a professional speaker, relationship manager and Learning Consultant. Advised, coached and instructed hundreds of people in business organizations and government agencies throughout North America, the Caribbean, Brazil and England. Areas of expertise include coaching IBM employees and customers on developing their interpersonal, listening, presentation, communication and team-building skills necessary for success in the business environment.

Lori's Resume

Vicki is the creator, foundered and sole owner of inneract which serves individuals, companies and entrepreneurs of all sorts in the area of blended learning, otherwise referred to as coaching and training.

She commenced her training and coaching business after 20 odd years of progressive roles with one of Canada’s leading financial institutions; roles in Human Resources, Sales, Sales Management, Training and Coaching. She then moved on to the private sector where she held the role of Vice President of National Sales & Marketing of a GE Capital business.

Vicki’s highly rated workshops, with commendable testimonials, are a strong validation to her abilities, energy and effective presentation skills. She specializes in coaching individuals on building Confidence; how to survive and thrive in stressful environments; and the ins and outs of effective Leadership through Communication Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence. Another area of expertise is coaching corporations through a road map to successful creation, implementation and evaluation of a Mentoring program.

Some of Vicki’s recent clients include Humber College, Scotiabank, Justice Department of Canada, Canada Colors and Chemicals Ltd (CCC), Gardiner Roberts LLB, Johnson Inc., Sunnybrook Foundations, ATI/AMD, The Town of Caledon, St. Georges Golf & Country Club, MHS, the Region of Peel and MS Society.

Vicki also has a highly reputable and longstanding professional relationship and faculty status with organizations such as DBM (Career Transition Services), the Canadian Management Centre (CMC) where she delivers several programs and key notes within their portfolio as well as Women in a Home Office (WHO) and Happen.

Vicki was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she attended St. Mary’s University for her B.Comm. She is also a Langevin certified trainer/facilitator and attended St. FX University for her Adult Education. She is also certified as an EQi® and an Emotional Power™ coach. Her most recent achievement is her graduation from the National Institute of Broadcasting where she certified as a broadcaster. She still visits the East coast frequently and will always refer to it as home.

In addition, Vicki contributes her somewhat limited spare time to several voluntary organizations such as: HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere), where she is a founding member, past president and active member for the past 20 years. As well she is presently serving her second term as President to the Toronto Don Mills Rotary Club.

She is an avid runner which serves a dual purpose of helping her maintain a well balanced body, mind and spirit, as well as keeping a well exercised and healthy German Shepard dog.

"She's effective, down-to-earth and she walks her talk" say clients about Reva Nelson. An accomplished speaker, workshop leader and facilitator, Reva has inspired hundreds of people with her wit, insights and research. Well-known author of "Risk It!" and "Bounce Back" and co-author of the Masters Collection on Leadership, and two books on Speaking, clients find her sessions both practical and stimulating, resulting in mostly repeat and referral business. Since originating her company, Words.Worth Keynotes & Seminars, in 1985, Reva Nelson has presented across Canada, including Nunavit, the USA, Israel and Trinidad.

Clients include CIBC Mellon, AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Greenshield, Sony and many associations and government agencies. Often in demand for media interviews, Reva is known for her facilitation and consulting capabilities, encouraging keynotes, informational workshops, humour and warmth. She encourages companies to believe in their people and people in themselves. Coaching sessions are available for all topics listed.

In 1997, Susan Vaughan left the corporate world after 20 years of service and founded Experience Expanded Inc. Although greatly rewarded and recognized within the technical field, Susan now focuses her energy and talent in helping organizations improve their productivity and quality by educating employees to work more efficiently and effectively together. She does this by leading experiential workshops in Professional Development and Project Management. Resulting from the success of these workshops, organizations started asking Susan to specifically help struggling, dysfunctional work teams to "get things back on track." These requests led to the development of her proprietary Team Repair® process, which facilitates the identification and resolution of the problems unique to the team. Her passion, enthusiasm, and skill in leading workshops and Team Repair® processes for large corporations, universities and the health sector have been evidenced in exceptional participant evaluations.

Do you want to make a professional or personal change in your life? SUSAN JONES is an experienced Certified Professional Coach with an international designation from The Coaches Training Institute. She helps people in all walks of life to achieve their personal best while taking care of their health and well-being. SHE GETS results. SUSAN will work with you to boost your self-confidence and self-image, stretch you to achieve your goals, raise your quality of life and find your life purpose.

Her strong credentials have been built on twenty years of proven success and diversified business experience in professional and career development, employee performance, training, sales, customer service and management gained in the IT, staffing and office furnishings industries.

On a personal level, Susan brings a wealth of experience and perspectives to her coaching having raised four children and having been a professional figure skater.

Susan is a change agent, mentor and trusted advisor who will help you to take control of your life. Contact Susan for a consultation.

Veronica Vito is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional. ("CRSP") and has been successfully consulting with companies on their Health and Safety Training, Safety Programs and Policies, and WSIB Management since 1990.

What makes Ms. Vito's approach unique is her:

Expert insight into the needs and communication styles of both Workers and Management. Focus on worker accountability and responsibility Her contagious passion and commitment to results.

Julie's success as a certified coach comes from a combination of a willingness to talk straight, an ability to see beyond the content of a situation, compassion and a belief that self-awareness is a key to achieving desired results. Her own life reveals common threads of perseverance and determination that ultimately inspire her clients, colleagues, and community. The way that Julie has chosen to deal with her unique personal situation forms the root of her inspiration.

Julie has been losing her vision since adolescence and has been legally blind for many years. Julie often voices determination and a positive attitude that have guided her through her many life challenges. Julie often refers to the fact that "I am not visually impaired... I have a visual impairment." Her steadfast work to remove any obstacles Julie sums up as "I refuse to be at the effect of what life hands out", which also speaks volumes about her daily attitude.

A well rounded individual, Julie set herself the high standard of "... I let nothing stand in my way". For example, she has participated in many extreme sports including rock climbing, cliff jumping, parachuting, to name a few. Well traveled, Julie has visited Japan, Hong Kong, Hawaii, the islands of Greece, and Europe. She's also lived in Mexico, visited Belize and the jungles of Guatemala with her dog guide.

Now a formally trained certified coach, Julie brings a clear understanding about coaching coupled with the ability to train her clients to remove their own obstacles. "When people have a paradigm shift, what used to look like a problem now looks like an opportunity." This phrase has helped Julie live a life she has designed, where daily, she has the opportunity to help others find their personal design on life.

Best Selling Author, Speaker Holistic Nutritionist & Creator of Get Out of Your Own Way

Jennifer has dedicated her life to teaching people how to unlock their power to create incredible health, relationships, and abundance in all areas through ease and law of attraction. Jennifer uses her profound gift of intuition, insight and divine connection to provide a bridge to what is possible in peoples' lives. Jennifer works with those who believe that there is more to life, and guides them along a path to remarkable experiences, joy and a miraculous life.

Olly Smolak had a long, varied, and notable career with IBM Canada. He spent over twenty years in Sales and Marketing as an Account Manager, Marketing Manager, and Location Manager.

Olly was promoted to Manager, Management and Leadership Development for IBM Canada. Working closely with the senior executive team; he led the development of a new way of training to be used at IBM. Using experiential learning activities, the Leadership programs that Olly’s team developed helped IBM Canada to deal effectively with the challenges of a major organizational transformation. These training activities became the standard for IBM operations throughout the world.

In 1992, Olly Smolak founded his own company - PeopleKEY Inc. His company specializes in training and educational activities that are fun, exciting and yet make a difference.

He has a particular ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization. He has worked with shop floor manufacturing people, up through management teams, and company executives. These skills have proven to be invaluable in working with the Canadian Federal Government in their Leadership training curriculum.

His cornerstone program is entitled “It’s My Business.” The theme of this program is – regardless where you work within an organization, act like the General Manager of that department. If you make decisions in that spirit; you, your department, and the entire organization will benefit.

Some of the organizations that Olly has worked with include:

• Toyota Canada
• CIBC
• Bell Canada
• 3M in Canada and the U.S.
• Sears Canada
• Department of National Defense
• Canadian Centre for Management Development - the Canadian Federal Government’s management and executive leadership- training centre in Ottawa.

Janis Taylor brings integrity, extensive knowledge, and humour to her work as both a spiritual teacher and a psychic/medium. She uses her powerful intuitive abilities to guide and coach others towards utilizing their own intuition. She provides one on one private consultations for those seeking psychic and mediumistic messages, and is a regular at large group events where she does public spirit messaging. She also teaches a 6 week meditation course and has taught at both the York Board of Education and Forward Motion Yoga Studio where she has introduced students to the 3 Minute Meditation. “Meditation has long been a tool of spiritually centered people and contrary to popular belief, meditation does not take years of practice and discipline to achieve results. Just 3 minutes per day can change your life”. Janis also runs meditation and healing circles for smaller groups. When people come together and direct their energies, not only does a great deal of spiritual self awareness occur, but it allows each of her clients to achieve higher states of consciousness. In all of her classes, students learn how to raise their vibration, how to breathe properly, techniques to quiet the monkey mind, identification and clearing of the 7 chakra energy centers in the body and perhaps most importantly, how to stay in the eternal power of now.

Debbie Ross, founder of Womens Travel Network has been providing travel services to her customers for over 25 years. With this experience she has realized the need for women to have an opportunity to travel without the single supplements or hassle of finding a travel partner.

Debbie graduated from Travel Career school with honours and received her CIT status in the travel industry, with top honours in Ontario. She has owned and operated her own travel agency and now owns and operates her own successful travel consulting service. Her travel around the globe has been extensive. Be it relaxing holidays, trekking or sports related, she has first hand knowledge of many varied travel experiences.

As a woman, wife, mother, daughter and sister she understands women's travel needs. In our hectic world of family and work life it is not always possible to coordinate travel with a companion. Out of a need of her own to find a group or organization catering to women with the same travel desires, Womens Travel Network was created. In doing so she hopes this network of women travelers and women tour companies will fulfill that need. Debbie and her team of professional consultants can help you find that special trip to suit your travel needs and desires. Their goal is to provide you with excellent customer service while answering all of your questions and give you the information you need, to make sure you pick the right trip. This trip should excite you and meet all of your expectations. They will make sure you are completely prepared for your trip. Debbie and her team look forward to helping you in making your dreams come true.

• Mary is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in life skills coaching and confidential career counselling
• Expertise in recruitment, training, resume writing, interviewing skills and mentoring
• Established reputation in the financial field as a Career Consultant with The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario for thirteen years
• Strong background in the manufacturing area. Recruited, counselled and advised all levels of personnel for Hallmark Canada for twenty years
• A Certified Human Resources Professional and a Certified Life Skills Coach, Mary is recognized as a “Coach who cares”
• An active member of the Greater Toronto Area of Career Coaches, Mary volunteers her time at the North York Women’s Centre providing job search workshops

Contact Mary by email at mvigrow@rogers.com