What We Do

Our Services

We work with you as a whole person. As accredited ICF coaches, we work with individuals to develop a mastery of oneself. We help you develop self-awareness, lean into your strengths, and uncover blind spots while you move towards inspired personal and professional goals.

Leading Self

    • Uncover your values

    • Identify and achieve your personal and professional goals

    • Develop your individual and team leadership capabilities

    • Understand your strengths

    • Learn how to work with and through conflict and potentially difficult conversations

    • Create integration between your work-life and your “not-work life”

    • You are the expert on your life with unique talents, insights, beliefs, and values

    • Exploring beyond the current thinking evokes possibility

    • A learning and growth mindset will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals

    • Courage is the gateway to change

We partner with you and your team(s) and we take a systems approach in doing this. We are trained in organizational relationship systems coaching and other group and team coaching methodologies. We help you and your team challenge the status quo and develop collaborative leadership through collective learning which leads to change. With teams evolving in remote work environments, we help your organization support them virtually to create structures such as shared purpose and processes for communication and conflict mitigation.

Leading Others

    • Become aware of team dynamics, strengths opportunities and blind spots

    • Understand the team as a relationship system in and of itself and learn how to work within that relationship system for full effectiveness

    • Come away with tools to enhance relationships and develop trust within your team

    • Curiosity builds bridges

    • The wisdom is in the room

    • Conflict is a sign that something new is trying to happen

    • The output of team trust is psychological safety

    • A resilient team is a productive team (CRR Global, 2022)

We are changemakers, we inspire other changemakers. We partner with you, your team and your organization to determine the current and ideal future and collaborate with you to develop change plans to address the current and ideal future gaps. We engage with the whole system and co-develop solutions with stakeholders, clients, partners and leaders across systems as our guides.

Leading Change

    • Understand itself as a complex adaptive system, with it’s gifts and barriers

    • Engage with people to develop shared understanding of the current state and co-create the desired future

    • Together uncover points of leverage for transformative change

    • Discover the importance of people as your organization’s DNA and competitive advantage in leading change

    • Change is inevitable, so lead the change

    • Leadership is shared in the system and all voices should be heard

    • Transformation happens when relationships between people who make up the system are transformed (Kania, Kramer & Senge, 2018) 

Our Process

How We Work

The scholar-practitioner model sets us apart - we take what we know is the best evidence and then apply it to a real-world challenge and partner with clients to lead through change in self, team, and system. We stay current. We simultaneously work within all areas of change - individual, structural, and relationship- and uncover complex power dynamics. How we work represents our core values.

  • We are intentional and honour the traditional territories and lands of those who came before us

  • We develop authentic relationships and collaborate with many toward collective action for change

  • We engage our associates based on the skill sets required for the client needs and goals

  • We engage with partners and stakeholders with openness and transparency

  • We focus on individual and organizational learning as a foundation for developing leadership and organizational capabilities

  • We work from an appreciative stance grounded in action research and a connection to the natural world

  • We apply academic and professional rigour in our approach

  • We have fun!

“The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimensions of leadership and transformational change. This blind spot exists not only in our collective leadership but also in our everyday social interactions.”
— Otto Scharmer
What Others Are Saying

“One hundred percent of participants agreed or strongly agreed on the coach/facilitator subject matter expertise & facilitation”

“Strength in championing an effective group coaching process, creating a safe environment for learning, demonstrating integrity, sincerity, good listening and powerful questioning skills and acknowledging and championing participants. It was also noted that the coaches/facilitators supported participants in their stretch goals.”

-Participant Feedback, Developing Extraordinary Leaders, AstraZeneca Canada Inc.

“Coaching with the Blueprint Group provided me with directed opportunities to make contact with others and increased my reflection time.”

“Coaching caused me to evaluate my priorities and to consider personal core values. Coaching taught me to take time to think, listen and evaluate my self-talk. My shame and anxiety & fear are controlled and it allowed more time to be a better coach.”

-Anonymous, Coaching Participant Feedback

"Coaching with Maureen has given me the freedom to be as great as I was intended to be.”

“[Coaching] has impacted all aspects of my work. It has increased my productivity, reduced my frustrations, enhanced my ability to be strategic, and improved my communication with all levels of the organization. Given the opportunity to have personal coaching, I would seize it”!

-N. Martin, Supervisor, Technical Service, LifeScan Canada Ltd. (a Johnson & Johnson Company)

“[Maureen] was encouraging yet firm and helped us to embrace the discomfort so that optimal growth could happen.”

“I really enjoyed Maureen’s Team Coaching style. She had great industry experiences to draw from. She showed respect to the whole advisee group.”

–Student, Fundamentals of Personal Leadership, Communication and Leadership in Groups and Teams, Royal Roads University

“As a faculty instructor, Maureen was very engaged and approachable.”

“She challenged me appropriately to think beyond my current comfort and way of operating and to think beyond the box.  She provided thoughtful feedback and was very supportive”.

- Student, Fundamentals of Personal Leadership, Communication & Leadership in Groups & Teams, Leadership in Systems, Royal Roads University

“This is a much more constructive planning process than in other places I have worked.”

  “I like the way [Maureen] kept the work going forward and created interesting and thought-provoking discussions. You include all voices and ideas and use a fresh approach”. 

-Sr. Manager, Operationalizing the Strategic Plan, Salmon Arm Savings & Credit Union

“I have a better goal in mind of the kind of leader I aspire to be and what style might be the most effective for me.”

“The most valuable aspect of this program was the triad coaching calls because you rarely in life get to talk about leadership experiences/opportunities and what they FELT like.”

-Participant Feedback, Developing Extraordinary Leaders, AstraZeneca Canada Inc.

“This leadership course had been the most enjoyable one I have participated in.”

“I felt engaged throughout all phases of this course.  My goal is to apply what I have learned in my day to day activities.  I need to be curious, ask questions and understand that my role as a leader can impact others. Asking the right questions and looking for the perspective of the other person has helped in my daily interactions.  It will enable me to allow my staff more opportunities to take more responsibility and ownership. It was very timely and I learned a lot.  Thank you Maureen!”

-Participant Feedback - Leading the Way, Salmon Arm Savings & Credit Union

“She is a true asset to the program.”

“Maureen is a seasoned facilitator. Her ability to ask questions leaves me in awe. Knowing what to ask and how to ask it in the way she does makes people think more deeply about everything we are learning. She is a true asset to the program”

–Masters Student, Fundamentals of Personal Leadership, Communication & Leadership in Groups & Teams, Leadership in Systems, Royal Roads University

“Maureen was a really dedicated and encouraging instructor.”

“I'm so grateful for her dedication to my success even with a million things on her plate during the pandemic.”

- Masters Student, Engaged Leadership Project, Royal Roads University

“Maureen was able to push me to deliver a better-quality report“

“When I was feeling very defeated, she took the time to show me empathy and cheered me along to get back on track.

- Masters Student, Engaged Leadership Project, Royal Roads University

“The best help Maureen gave me is coaching me to trust myself and the process.”

“She gave me tips to take all of my doubts and throw them away, so by the end of the process, I was depending upon her less and less, and trusting myself more and more. I highly recommend future students work with Maureen throughout their OLP journey. She was a great support, a wonderful guide, and most importantly, a fantastic coach.”

- Carolyn Stern, Emotional Intelligence Expert, Author, Professor, and CEO of EI Experience, Masters Student, Royal Roads University

“With Maureen's support I was able to achieve my goals and I highly recommend her as a Faculty Supervisor.”

“Maureen challenged me to explore different perspectives, encouraged me to be more reflective, and prompted me when I hit a roadblock. Maureen was very responsive to my questions and concerns, supportive, and when needed advocated on my behalf in navigating university protocols.”  

-Enid Mitchell, Manager Membership Education & Events Team, and Ontario Nurses' Association, Masters Student, Royal Roads University

“Maureen as my academic supervisor held me accountable, pushed me gently, helped me keep an appreciative stance through the process, and encouraged me to really go deep with my academic thinking.”

“She really helped me figure out how to say things clearly, using my voice, through academic writing.”

–Masters Student, Engaged Leadership Project, Royal Roads University

“Working with Maureen helped me to clarify what is important to me and has enabled me to live my life more authentically."

“Before working with Maureen, I was caught up in the day to day activities of working and caring for a busy family. I was feeling tired, trapped and overwhelmed. Even worse, I had stopped dreaming and seeing possibilities for fulfillment. Working with Maureen helped me to clarify what is important to me and has enabled me to live my life more authentically.”

—C. Parker, Breast Health Nurse, Vancouver Island Health Authority 

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