YOUR
Leadership
Matters

Your
Leadership
Matters

Are you ready to take your leadership to the next level?

You’re a successful leader. What do you want your leadership to achieve?

Whether you’re a successful leader of a large or small corporation or not-for-profit, or a high-achieving entrepreneur, we understand your desire to reach new levels of success, to make a bigger impact and to achieve significance in your work.‍

We also recognize that you’re moving so fast you have little time to think about what you really want your leadership to achieve and how to define what “next level” means to you.

We partner with you to take your leadership to the next level – as defined by you.

Services

Coaching

Today’s fast-paced environment leaves leaders like you with little time for careful reflection or strategic thinking.  Our proven framework provides a space for you to catch your breath and to take the reflection time that enables you to focus on what really matters. The many insights you’ll gain will benefit you immediately…and long after the coaching relationship ends.

Are you a leader that wants to take your leadership impact to the next level, achieve better balance in your life and/or reflect on how to shift from success to significance?   If so, we will partner with you to help you discern what matters the most and to identify the implement the strategies that will make the great difference in your work and life.  

The Leadership That Matters coaching framework is both reflection based and action oriented.   You will receive a combination of pure coaching and mentoring based on your objectives.  We often recommend the integration of a 360 degree and other assessments into our coaching engagement. Coaching engagements are a minimum of six months in duration and start with a Foundation Session to get clarity on your objectives and the right process to achieve them.    

Facilitation

Many of our coaching clients engage us to facilitate impactful off-sites with their teams.  In our facilitations we engage with you and your team to strengthen your leadership and to enhance your team’s collective effectiveness.

Our Strategic Planning off-sites help you gain alignment and build momentum towards shared objectives.   We work closely with you to establish objectives and to obtain input from key team members and other stakeholders in designing the process. 

Our Team Effectiveness facilitations help teams rebuild during times of change, integrate new members to an established team,  or improve their capacity to overcome conflict and solve problems. We can assist your team members in learning to see the world through other people’s eyes, to analyze the strengths of each member and to see how they complement each other. 

Benefits

Our Story

We’ve walked in your shoes!

Jennifer Parr and Susan Richardson are the co-founders and principal coaches at Leadership That Matters. Like you, we’ve excelled at the highest levels of corporate management. Together, we’ve worked for major corporations, start-ups, mid-sized companies and not-for profits. As well, we both sit on not for profit boards. In addition to our successful coaching practices, we’re mothers, friends and active volunteers. We live full lives and constantly practice the art of rebalancing priorities to ensure that OUR Leadership Matters.

We believe that all leaders can grow and have potential far beyond what they believe they possess. We know from our own experience the often unspoken aspirations—and challenges—of senior leaders. We’ve personally faced intense internal and external pressures to take our success to a higher plane. And we’ve also experienced the desire to really make a difference in our organizations… our sectors… and in our communities.

Our coaching has an informed relevance you will find incredibly beneficial.

ABOUT US

Jennifer Parr
Jennifer Parr
Jennifer believes passionately in leaders that aspire to achieve both success and significance. She understands that achieving results is often the price of admission to the positions that allow leaders to make an even bigger impact in their workplace and their community. She is highly motivated by working with leaders who want to live today what they want to be remembered for tomorrow. Over the last 20 years Jennifer has coached hundreds of leaders in the private and not for profit sectors in Canada, the U.S.A., Asia and Africa.

Jennifer is skilled at helping already successful leaders expand their vision from success to significance, assess their leadership style and capabilities, and develop the insights required to scale their impact to the next level. She possesses the innate ability to quickly establish the trust and rapport required to get senior leaders to feel comfortable discussing challenging issues. Her keen strategic mind allows her to get straight to the heart of the matter and provide unique value to her clients.

Jennifer has also served many not-for profit organizations as a coach, a board member and volunteer. She has chaired the Board of Help Lesotho and the Ottawa Mission and now serves on the Board of Help Lesotho and the Fundraising Committee for Cornerstone Housing for Women.

Jennifer has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. Before co-founding Leadership That Matters she worked with the Boston Consulting Group and served as the V.P of Human Resources at Enbridge Consumers Gas and the Toronto Star. She has received coaching certifications through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Halftime Institute, and the Leadership Circle.

Jennifer draws on her diverse experience to bring valuable perspective and wisdom to her clients.

Susan Richardson
Susan Richardson
Susan has extensive senior executive experience with over 30 years experience in the information technology, insurance, finance and software industries. Her diverse areas of focus include; sales, operations, professional services, business development and customer service. She also brings extensive coaching experience in Financial Services, Capital Markets, and advancement of women.

Susan’s career is built with a strong people and management foundation with 14 years’ experience at IBM. She has applied this to the fast-paced world of two start-up organizations which culminated in the executive positions of a North American Professional Services and Customer Care organization. She has now been following her passion for the past 18 years as a certified coach and facilitator. Susan is also active in the not-for profit community. She has vast board experience in the areas of strategic planning, communications, governance, HR and fund raising. She currently retains Directorships in a large independent private school in Toronto, Participation House and Help Lesotho plus is a volunteer with various organizations within Toronto.

Susan is fascinated by the potential of the individual to succeed. She brings a combination of personal experience, leadership models and formal training into her coaching practice. Her passion for people and their ability to maximize their potential by realizing their creative goals is demonstrated in her work with clients. Susan’s personal mission is to tap into her client’s towering strengths and inspire high potential Executives and Managers to embrace and excel in purposeful leadership, in and out of the office.

Susan has an Executive MBA from Harvard and an HBA from Ivey School of Business. She is a certified Coach through Coaches Training Institute (CTI ) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) and holds a number of assessment certifications.

Prepare to Step Out of the box!