Our Team
Alex Wray
Alex founded his leadership development firm in 1993 to grow leadership capacity, transform culture and achieve extraordinary business results. Over the past 25+ years, he has served a broad range of clients from small entrepreneurial start-ups in the Silicon Valley to the CEO offices of both Motorola and Ford Motor Company. His experience is broad with a particular depth in energy, financial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and professional services. Their common challenge is change. Alex believes an organization won’t change until its leaders change. He aligns the development of leaders to the results that matter most. As an innovator and implementer, Alex thrives in the practical, “where the rubber meets the road.”
Since 2010, Alex’s focus has been on accelerating the rate at which leadership capacity can be scaled in organizations. It has resulted in corporate leadership programs that bring an innovative blend of business/strategy consulting, executive coaching and team facilitation. At the core of these corporate programs are the principles of Structural/Systems Thinking and ground-breaking insights of Harvard University Professors Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey. Alex has worked directly with David Rock, founder of NeuroLeadership Institute, and Professors Kegan and Lahey in serving one of the world’s largest wealth managers in their multi-year journey of transformation.
Alex Wray is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) – the governing body and gold standard for the coaching field. Although dedicated to the development of leaders and their organizations, increasingly Alex is invited to speak to Leadership Professionals about his MINDSHIFT Model for Changing the Inner Game. Recent events (pre-Covid) include Leadership Circles’ Global Summit and Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.
Alex has a unique ability to simplify complex topics. He frames his message in stories of everyday leaders to illustrate practical lessons from the science of habit change and the field of neuroscience. Alex started teaching executive education in 1996 in his hometown of Vancouver, at Canada’s globally ranked Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the faculty at the Innovation Academy, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Executive Program.
Diane Bonneau
Diane Bonneau is a highly skilled executive coach who challenges individuals, executives and teams to take risks, develop new skills, and become courageous leaders. Primary industries she has worked within include oil and gas, construction, building technology and finance. Diane coaches new and established leaders to remain connected to their core values: who they are and who they want to be, how they want to contribute, and what they need to do to achieve their vision. Ultimately, she helps leaders to remain connected to their authentic selves, establish trust in the workplace, and become the strategic and tactical thinkers their organization envisions for their growth and long-term sustainability. Diane is recognized as a highly respected leader in the growth and development of coaches. In 2015, the ICF Executive honored Diane by establishing the “Diane Bonneau Coach Development Scholarship” to acknowledge and recognize “Diane’s extraordinary contributions to the ICF Calgary Chapter and the coaching community.” Diane demonstrates her commitment to authentic leadership and lifelong learning through her extensive involvement in the coaching community. Not only is she a CoachU Certified Graduate, an International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach and a Professional Mentor Coach, she is also Past-President of the ICF Calgary Chapter and a member of faculty for CoachU.
Gord Theo
Gord is an Agile Leadership Development and Business Agility Consultant as well as an IBM Executive, Agile, and Design Thinking Coach. His agile transformational coaching focuses on executives and teams needing to develop the conscious mindset shifts to acquire the lean-agile leadership capabilities, competencies, and skills necessary to scale their individual and team's collective leadership effectiveness. His focus is on helping leaders master the inner and outer game needed to continuously adapt to change, learn and pivot, deliver at speed, and thrive in a dynamically changing competitive market. Serving as IBM's AgileTA Transformation Lead, Gord received IBM's Global 2020 Enablement award for his leadership development work with individuals and teams. Gord's unique and road-tested "Agile Transformational Leadership System" effectively integrates a leaders' personal developmental inner game directly with the organization's strategic outer game to increase business performance at scale. By leveraging collective agile leadership to develop the organizational business agility to adapt and respond and innovate at the speed of change, lean-agile organizations can realize enterprise-wide business agility as a strategic advantage.
Credentials include: Certified IBM Core Blue Executive Coach, IDM Master Certified Developmental Coach, ICF PCC Certified Professional Coach, Certified Leadership Circle Executive Coach & Leadership System Consultant, IBM Design Thinking Coach, IBM Agile Coach, Certified Agile Leadership Coach, Registered Psychotherapist-Ontario College of Psychotherapists.
Julie Fotos
Julie is passionate about cultivating strong leaders and high-voltage teams. She believes people are capable of achieving greatness by recognizing and “unlearning” their own self-imposed limiting beliefs. Julie has extensive experience coaching marketing, finance, and tech start-up senior executives and teams. She designs and conducts programs for communication effectiveness, leadership development, team development, and change management. Prior to her coaching practice, Julie spent 25 years in advertising building both strong client relationships and high-performing teams at global and boutique agencies in Chicago and New York - experience that serves her well today. Julie is a results-driven coach who brings a unique blend of humor and pragmatism to her coaching process. Certifications include Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CTI), International Coaching Federation Professional Coaching Certification (PCC), Certified in Coaches Training Institute’s Co-Active Leadership Program, Certified Team Performance Coach by Team Coaching International, The Leadership Circle Profile™, Culture Survey™ and Leadership System™.
Wendy Wray
Wendy draws on a diverse background in marketing, sales, business management and operations to ensure we deliver exceptional experiences for our clients. She brings a unique flexible yet analytical style to ensuring a customized approach for each client. Her practical focus, analytical mind, positive energy and drive allows her to consistently deliver high-quality work while managing all facets of the business.
In addition to managing the firm for 30 years, raising three amazing young adults, she actively serves in her community and on boards of several not-for-profit organizations.