Speaker Biographies

Chris is passionately engaged in all forms of human development including the individual and collective, the pragmatic and spiritual, all at community and global levels.

As well as being on the Faculty for Integral Coaching Canada where he teaches the ACM module and phone coaches the PCM module, he runs his own executive coaching business, facilitates leadership workshops and retreats, and is occasionally spotted around the world doing live cookery demonstrations (his former profession).

Chris’ spiritual practice is where he sources his deep and playful presence and the embodied rigor that he brings to his clients’ and students’ developmental journeys. He has been practicing meditation since his early 20’s and is a dedicated Zen Buddhist with the Hollow Bones Integral Sangha in the Mondo ZenTM tradition.

Chris, originally from England, now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife Helena, who is also an Integral Master Coach™, and together they are committed to waking up, growing up and cleaning up in this ever complex and confusing world we live in.

Steve is a Senior Executive with 25+ years in leadership roles, being accountable for the successful operation of both publicly traded and privately held entities. Steve’s skills are unique – he combines financially grounded, pragmatic business operating experience with a deep academic foundation in and a mastery of applying human and organizational development theories and methodologies. Steve is a CPA and an Integral Master Coach™ – an unusual, yet effective, integration of competencies.
GSO Capital (a subsidiary of Blackstone Financial) has formed various real estate investment funds. Steve has been instrumental in creating GSO’s strategy for these funds and though an asset management company that Steve owns, leads a team of professionals in managing these investments.

Steve is a Principal and co-founder of ParadoxEdge a consultancy and executive coaching firm. Steve works with others in a way that allows them to see a greater range of possibilities and then supports the development of skills and competencies that allows them to produce results that are meaningful to them and their organizations.

Steve received a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Eastern Michigan University and a Masters Degree in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate Institute where he also completed postgraduate studies in Human and Organizational Systems. He has held senior management positions with both public and private companies including positions as Chief Operating Officer and President. Steve lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Arizona where they enjoy golf, outdoor activities, a wonderful family … and chasing those occasional windmills!

Gayle Knight Colman brings a depth of experience to her work as a nationally recognized innovator in the field of finances.  A Certified Financial Planner^©, Certified Master Integral Coach™, and principal in her firm, Colman Knight Advisory Group, LLC, she integrates practical results with inner values, guiding clients to meaningful and prosperous lives. Gayle holds a unique combination of financial expertise, insight and innovation, assisting her clients in realizing – wealth is more than money.

Her firm launched in 1988 and leads the financial planning profession in Integral Wealth. With a rare perspective and deep caring for others, Gayle advocates the key to financial well-being is seeing the interior aspects of money and the confusion they create, then integrating experiences to manifest clarity, wisdom and compassion.

Gayle earned her B.S. in Finance and Investments in 1982, yet as a lifelong learner, she has embodied wisdom studying with thought leaders and masters over decades, including Reginald Ray, Ph.D., Dan Brown, Ph.D., and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D.

Pioneering new ways to embody truth, Gayle developed powerful practices to evolve the money journey, including Imagination Made Real^TM, MoneyMoves^® cards, and MoneyMoves^® Quest. Presently, Gayle dedicates her embodied wisdom to Somatic Finance^®, an expanded view and practices including body intelligence in all matters of money.

Chela Davison is the Managing Director, Leadership and Strategic Innovation with Integral Coaching Canada (ICC), and is one of the lead teachers of the Integral Coaching® Certification Program. Prior to taking on leadership within ICC, Chela founded and ran her own coaching company as an Integral Master Coach™.  In her coaching practice, she’s worked one-on-one and in groups with entrepreneurs and leaders with a primary focus on topics around purpose, leadership and doing meaningful work in the world.

Chela brings an expansive vision to what it means to dynamically evolve and build ethical, conscious businesses of deep service. She is most passionate about community and leveraging the collective on behalf cultivating change that this world so badly needs and is deeply touched to be in a position to be able to do that with some of the most embodied and skilled coaches around the world.

Chela is a mother, sister, daughter and partner and lives in Vancouver BC surrounded by a vibrant and supportive community. Chela likes you.

Nicole loves to help her clients discover their most essential, healthy, and resilient selves and then navigate and design their lives from that deep foundation. She currently works in private practice as a Certified Integral Master Coach™ through her company Unabashedly You.

For over a decade, Nicole has been a producer and connector in the field of human development, bringing diverse content and curriculum to life, and uniting people in their work to help others live good, true, and beautiful lives. She is an original founding member of The Human Program, a project aimed to influence global influencers through customized personal and spiritual growth programs. She is also a co-founder of Core Integral, an educational company offering a comprehensive and accessible approach to learning integral theory. She was co-founder of Women’s House of Integral Practice, a project devoted to the integration of more feminine ways of being in community and culture.

She held leadership positions with Integral Institute Seminars and Integral Life, producing and designing many growth and leadership events and experiences. Prior to this work, she was a successful restaurant and brewery owner.

She has studied extensively and worked alongside Ken Wilber (Integral Theory), Daniel Brown, PhD (Tibetan Buddhist lineages, Self-Development, Attachment, and Positive Psychology), and Sofia Diaz (Hatha Yoga and Feminine Embodiment). From these wisdom keepers and the many others she’s encountered in her diverse work, she has gained priceless knowledge of the most intelligent, effective, and compassionate paths to help humans grow.

As the VP of Operations & Culture at Bill Baren Coaching, Lisa serves as a key member of the executive leadership team and oversees building a scalable infrastructure and company culture for a growth-stage transformational company.

Lisa’s systems orientation is deeply rooted in believing that good systems and processes help people make better decisions, communicate transparently and lead more effectively. She is passionate about creating a company culture that fosters outstanding performance, an enjoyable working environment and long-term employee retention and satisfaction by empowering employees to tap into their core strengths and passion, show up authentically and embody a sense of ownership in the company.

Previously, Lisa designed and developed behavior change programs and digital content for Chrysallis, launched and managed a 12-coach division at Integral Life, served as operations and communications consultant for a variety of companies and coached entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and teams from around the world.

Lisa holds an MA in Integral Psychology from JFKU where she concentrated her thesis on researching and evaluating coaching schools from an Integral lens.  Lisa is a Certified Integral Master Coach™.

Micheline Green, M.Ed, a Integral Master Coach™ and a Certified School Counselor is the creator and founder of The Essence of a Teacher, Pure Essence Parenting and the course Mothers Rising Together. Micheline’s mission is to effect change in the current paradigm of raising and teaching children, so the children of today have the skills and capacity to consciously create a brighter future and adapt to the increasing complexities of our world.

Micheline’s extensive knowledge stems from 20 years of experience working with families and schools; (Waldorf, Montessori, child protection, at risk youth, Self Design home learners, private and public schools), fostering healthy sustainable, brain smart collaborative relationships between child and parent, child and teacher and parents and school.  She hosts, teaches and coaches online courses and events with clients from around the world.

As a Mother of three, and through her own life’s journey she has passionately pursued the question, “how do individuals and organizations create sustainable change?”.  She embodies all that she has learned about the transformational process and adeptly applies it to the parenting/teaching paradigm. She is a powerful and graceful leader and a masterful public speaker that moves, inspires and impacts audiences.

Joanne is the co-founder of Integral Coaching Canada, co-developer of the Integral Coaching^® method and training programs, and visionary for ICC strategic initiatives. A voracious learner, she has studied over the last three decades with a variety of training institutes in fields such as coaching, systemic change, leadership cultivation, and adult human development.

Working for fifteen years in senior leadership positions in three multi-national corporations prior to entering the coaching field, it was Joanne’s exceptional ability to get to the ‘heart of the matter’ that enabled her to powerfully lead change initiatives that ranged in scale from small groups to large-scale corporate programs. Not only able to envision and create, Joanne also has a unique capacity to cultivate deep commitment across diverse groups with ‘competing’ values and perspectives such that phenomenal results are attained.

Joanne has dedicated the last 15 years to her work as a lead instructor for ICC’s programs and in the strategic development of this world-renouned school of coaching. She is known for her clear, direct and skillful attention to what people truly need as they build the competencies necessary to resiliently respond in these dynamic times. Joanne mentors the ICC leadership team, bringing vision, deep integrity and wisdom to the building of the company’s future.

After 15 years as an award-winning, high-impact senior leader in the tech industry, Deborah left corporate America and spent the next decade pursuing her interest in leadership development and coaching.

In addition to building her practice and developing, designing and delivering curriculum for women’s integral leadership development programs, she earned an M.A in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle, an M.A. in Human and Organizational Systems and a Ph.D. in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University. Her dissertation, The Impact of Integral Development on Coaches’ Use of Self as Instrument, was acknowledged as an iconic example of a scholar-practitioner approach to research.

Deborah’s scholarly work was paralleled by ongoing professional development, and she has completed over 400 hours of coaching education and holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the ICF.

As a passionate life-long learner, Deborah continues to explore new areas of interest. She is currently at work as an internal coach at a high growth tech company supporting the leadership development of millennials. Active in the outdoors and committed to a healthy life style, she enjoys down time with her adult children, friends and cocker spaniel Maggie.

Susan’s background and professional experience is in adult learning design.  She is experienced in developing internal coaching programs in support of leadership development, including responsibility for the design, implementation, evaluation and professional supervision of various organizational initiatives.

Susan’s research for her Master’s degree in education focused on examining the learning outcomes from executive coaching as well as the conditions that support those outcomes. Her work was presented at a series of international seminars in France and Belgium in the fall of 2015.

Susan’s individual coaching practice includes behavioural development with executives in role transition and “high potentials”. She also works with students and professional coaches in the enhancement of their capabilities.

Susan has an undergraduate degree in Languages and Literature. She completed graduate studies in Change Management and Management and will be completing her Master’s degree in the spring of 2016.

A Master Integral Coach™ since 2008, Susan has mentored students, contributed to the Certification committees and began chairing the Certification committee in 2014. She joined Integral Coaching Canada as a faculty member in the fall of 2015.

Susan is a member of the Québec association of “L’Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés” (CRHA/CHRP) and of the International Coach Federation.

Nuno Matos has a PhD in Sports Science (Exeter, UK) where he studied overtraining and burnout supported by Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory. Later on, he worked in a Tennis Academy and helped build the project “Parents in Sports” whereby he started coaching tennis parents. Whilst doing this work Nuno decided to create his own company Integral Performance Coaching company, returning to Portugal in 2013.

Nuno coaches full-time and works with athletes, parents and sports coaches. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice on the theme of Integral Sports. He has just recently created a new project called “Collective Change Integral” (blended the ICC method with Otto Sharmer’s U-Theory) that aims to promote change in groups and focuses essentially on corporate and sports contexts (www.ccintegral.org).

Nuno hopes to make elite sport healthier and bring integral consciousness to sport. As part of his integral life practice Nuno loves surfing and whole-body workouts

Leader, coach, facilitator, mediator, and trainer, Kathleen has directed individuals, group and organizations to become more able, resilient and effective in proactively addressing issues related to communication, conflict and change.

With over 25 years of experience in Human Resources, Kathleen has a rich background in coaching, change management, organizational development and conflict resolution.    As Director, Kathleen has built and led a highly respected conflict resolution practice that provides support to more than 4500 clients across Canada.  Kathleen has led a number of multi-stakeholder groups to design, develop and deliver leading-edge organizational initiatives and professional development programs, as well as communities of practice focused on leadership, communication and conflict resolution.   Kathleen has also developed and delivered numerous workshops on conflict resolution, conducted dozens of mediations and coaching sessions, and also led group interventions.

Kathleen holds a Masters degree in Public Administration, a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution, and certificates in Applied Negotiation and Organizational Development.  Kathleen is an Integral Master Coach™ and a certified Conflict Coach with CINERGY ^TM.

Meg Salter is an internationally experienced Executive Coach and Management Consultant. Based in Toronto Canada, she works with corporate, public sector and non-profit clients nationally and internationally.

As a management consultant with 20 years’ experience, she focuses on change management services.  As an Integral Master Coach™, Meg supports leaders to develop the mental, emotional and interpersonal capacities needed to handle the greater complexity required at pivot points as their careers or organizations change. These involve the abilities to frame context, direction and outcomes needed; to engage productively with stakeholders who bring differing perspectives; to transform problems into creative solutions; and to develop the self-awareness and motivation to become the leaders they aspire to be.

A skilled teacher of mindfulness, she incorporates mindfulness and self-awareness techniques into coaching programs and leadership development. Meg earned an MBA from the Boston University of Brussels, is certified PCC with the International Coach Federation, is a Certified Senior Organizational Development Professional and speaks conversational level French. She is a faculty member Phone Coach with Integral Coaching Canada.

Dr. Kirsty Spence has worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, since her graduation from doctoral studies in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in 2005.

In her empirical research work, Kirsty focuses her work using Wilber’s All Quadrant, All Level Theory and the Leadership Development Framework to uncover the processes that support leadership development. While she researches both leader- and student-leader sample groups, her findings help build upon the literature in undergraduate curriculum design; leading Kirsty to be most intent on using research findings that help to improve upon curricula to stimulate students’ leadership development. As an award winning university educator, Kirsty’s value of experiential learning pedagogy as a method for students’ development underlies all learning activities in the courses she teaches at Brock University.

In her work as an Integral Master Coach™, Kirsty works with leaders on a variety of work- and leadership-related topics. Currently a faculty member of Integral Coaching Canada, she works with coach trainees in the Apprentice Certification Module. Additionally, Kirsty has both developed curriculum and taught the Leadership Coaching for High Performance course, hosted online by Athabasca University in Edmonton, Alberta. Kirsty has presented at scholarly conferences on coaching topics and is interested in empirically measuring the impact of coaching in leadership development interventions, using the ICC method as a focal point of inquiry and a variety of social scientific methodologies to measure such impact.

Kirsty is an appreciator of all things nature based, and is thrilled to live in the town of Blue Mountains, Ontario, where she often frequents the Bruce Trail to hike with her partner Bart and their two Golden Retrievers.

Deb has worked with people in their quests for healing, growth and change for over twenty five years as clinical psychologist. She has been deeply impressed by the power of Integral Coaching® in her private practice as a platform on behalf of lasting human development, with a particular interest in topics of work-life balance, career direction, self-care, fitness, wellness, weight loss, body image, and communication skills.

Deb strives to bring her most open, clear, light, compassionate and practical self to all her coaching relationships, along with her deep appreciation of people’s complexities and potential. With three almost grown and partially launched children and one baby (in the form of an Airedale), Deb turns to her family, friends, music, dancing, running, spinning, art, poetry and reading for renewal and joy.