EXECUTIVE COACH & FACILITATOR

“Thom is an incredibly talented coach. He has an ability to listen at the deepest level and was able to create connections that enabled monumental insights for me. Thom knows how to walk the line between compassion and accountability in a way that helped facilitate real movement for me…”  – Head of Sales – Business Consulting & Strategy Firm, Toronto

“As the Head of a growing company faced with challenges of balancing the many roles, I hold… I needed a coach that would help me to quiet the noise and stay the course.  Sessions with Thom are dedicated to real time situations… Resulting in the clarity and focus I needed as a Leader.” – Owner/CEO – Bookkeeping and Consulting Services Company, Toronto

COACHING PHILOSOPHY/APPROACH & EXPERIENCE

Thom is an ICF-certified Executive Coach and Facilitator with a passion for stimulating thought, growth, and performance in clients.  With his ability to see through complexity, and a talent for challenging people to open up to different perspectives, Thom creates open, engaging, collaborative learning environments, in which people become more effective leaders and team-players.  

“Thom facilitates people to think bigger and lead better.”

As an ICF-Certified executive coach, Thom empowers people to engage effectively in their personal development within their organizations and systems of relationships.  His thoughtful, collaborative approach encourages individuals to leverage their strengths and enact meaningful change for themselves and their teams, in effect, to become “greater than the sum of their parts”.  People achieve higher levels of peer-to-peer accountability and realize significant goal-driven outcomes in their domains.  Thom loves working with high potential leaders who aspire to reach their potential, have a powerful desire to learn and grow, and who want to inspire others along the way.  

Thom has assisted hundreds of people, including emerging leaders and high-potential individuals, executives and the c-suite.  He has coached clients as they create start-ups, step into new leadership roles in large firms, lead their teams through significant organizational change, increase personal resilience, manage complex cultural shifts including diversity challenges, solve complex business problems, and more. 

With powerful questions and insight, Thom helps clients find ‘aha’ moments and challenges them to act on their insights with intention, discipline and focus, to design powerful actions and to hold themselves accountable to achieve their highest potential.   

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Prior to founding “elucidate!” in 2016, Thom accumulated 20 years of experience in the corporate and financial world, including 15 years with CIBC and TD Bank, leading award-winning teams and people managers in Business and IT.  With “elucidate!”, Thom partners with private and corporate clients, including a number of Career & Leadership development firms.   He has coached hundreds of clients at all levels and facilitated groups and teams on a range of topics including:  Leadership Development, Team Effectiveness & Team Dynamics, Coaching, Change, Resilience, Effective Communication, Political Savviness, and more.  He has worked with clients from a range of industries including Financial, Telecommunications, Government, Health, and many more.   In addition, Thom is a faculty member at the Adler Graduate Professional School where he trains professional coaches in Adler’s ICF-Accredited Coaching Program.  Thom also has a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Queen’s University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND SERVICES  

·      Executive Coaching & Facilitation

·      Leadership Development 

·      Leader/Manager as Coach 

·      Team & Cohort Development 

·      Team Dynamics / Team Coaching / Team Effectiveness

·      New Leader and Team Integration 

·      ICF Professional Coach Training

·      Culture and Diversity

·      Managing Change / Personal and Team Resilience

·      Communications and Conflict Management

·      Performance Improvement Career Management & Development

·      Brand Development

·      Emotional Intelligence

·      Career Transition 

·      Speaking / Keynote Engagements