I believe that in today’s era of complexity and uncertainty leadership needs renewal, reflection and reimagination. Busy executives and people leaders deal with complexity and paucity of time. Most leaders are heard speaking of gap between current reality and the desired goal and no time to reflect and forge a path of clarity. Here’s where coaching helps.
I help leaders to make visible the assumptive patterns, undeclared commitments, and untapped strengths, articulate and express their vision with clarity. With thought partnership I co-create an effective coaching program for my clients.
Intercultural skills, Diversity and Inclusion
Additionally with extensive experience in Cross-cultural work internationally, Diversity & Inclusion, Unconscious Bias & Emotional Intelligence, I help leaders and organizations to build an inclusive and relationship-oriented culture.
I work with global leaders (change-agents, seekers, and visionaries) to build inclusive and human centered leadership skills as they navigate change and create cultures of belonging.
Do you want to live your life fully and authentically, guided by your essence?
Then let us co-create opportunities for reflection and renewal from which you step into whatever is next in work and life.
Coaching & Consulting
Inclusive Leadership begins as an inside job. I believe that we are all leaders and carry an entire universe within us, we lead better when we become conscious of our true nature. We must learn to become aware of the parts of us that are difficult and to hold them with compassion!
Collectively, I build a brave container where the leaders are free to identify those disowned parts and embody a truly inclusive and human centered leadership mindset.
FACILITATION
Facilitate healthy and thriving workplaces that support intercultural effectiveness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, through a participatory approach and commitment to continual learning.
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something for you to stand upon, or you will be taught how to fly.
Jas is a phenomenal facilitator. She sets the dynamic between her and the group very early on as more of a friend to friend type of teaching rather than the typical top down academic lecturing that is the university norm.
Bryan Tomlinson
Senior Policy Advisor (Nuclear Security), Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division, Global Affairs Canada
Jas is highly effective in maintaining high morale. She wonderfully facilitated and very informative class. The conversations were stimulating, applicable to real-life in the department, and I came away with some new strategies. Indeed, this training was very helpful and very relevant to the current challenges that have been blown out in the open with the issues of inclusion and diversity in Canada and abroad. I’ll be moving to a new desk/job in September, and this will certainly be helpful in helping navigate the change/shift!Many thanks indeed Jas for the enlightening training!
Executive
MBA Class, Sprott School of Management at the Carleton University
Jas is an inspiring and a creative speaker with knowledge to communicate possible solutions about those intangible issues that invariably happen in multicultural organizational settings, and which adversely impact on the organization's effectiveness. Her speaking skills, along with a very personable style, are impressive indeed.
Lara Hill
United Nations
Jas has a tremendous gift for coaching : patience, open presence, empathy each comes from a kind of confidence and strength that allows for trust building quickly. In my coaching process with jas, I felt safe immediately. She has a natural way of gaining trust. She checked in regularly and kept me accountable in a caring and a balanced way.
Alejandro Lujan
Engineering Manager, Instacart
I highly recommend Jas to any professional struggling to work with conflicting priorities and self confidence. I came to Jas wanting to be a better professional, instead she carved a path to be a better and wholesome person. I particularly admired her openness to understand my situation, see things from my perspective and her ability to guide my growth as a better professional and an individual. I recommend Jas to anyone looking for professional and personal coaching.
Shastri Institute
University of Calgary
Jas has an intuitive ability to discern who had difficulty adjusting, and she finds just the right touch to help her learners deal with conflicting situations. Jas listens generously and conveys a message of power and privilege quite succinctly. She teaches theory through many practical simulations, has a great sense of humour.
Deepa Nambiar
Director of Partnerships, Asylum Access Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jas was recommended to me as I was transitioning into a bigger leadership role, leading a diverse, multicultural, global team in an international NGO. She is the coach I never knew I needed. Her focus on deep self-awareness, emotional attunement and meeting me exactly where I am allowed sometimes unexpected, but important issues to rise to the surface. I really appreciate her attentiveness, compassion, deep presence, as well as the vast repository of tools, insights and knowledge that she brings to every session. Halfway through our coaching relationship, I can already see a change - I am able to draw from a range of tools we have worked together in challenging moments to be a more present, courageous, authentic and aware leader. I would highly recommend Jas for anyone ready for a journey of transformation professionally and personally.
Joe Goodings
Deputy Director, Mozambique Program | Sub-Saharan Africa Branch (WGM), Global Affairs Canada
I took the course Intercultural Proficiency for Managers in a Canadian Mission in May 2022 and found it very helpful. Even though this will be my fourth posting, it will be my first in a management position managing both Canadians and locally engaged staff. The course provided useful tools to develop self-awareness of my unconscious biases, develop an understanding of intercultural contexts that goes deeper than surface behaviours, and approach difficult conversations with staff with cultural sensitivity. Jas facilitated discussion well and helped us work through scenarios that could lead to misunderstandings if not handled well. I will refer back to the course and what we learned as I head into my posting in Bangladesh.
