Engage Jas to speak on topics that ignite a spark and create an inspiring environment.
Clients engage me to inspire, energize and ignite passion for change. I aim for and envision that my participants leave inspired and pay more attention to the world around them than when they arrived. Below are a few topics of interest:
Topics of Expertise
- Inclusive Leadership
- Diversity & Inclusion Fundamentals
- Intercultural collaboration and Cultural Intelligence
- Embracing Complexity & Thriving in the midst of Change: As humans we can do a much better job at understanding the complexity paradox. We have a natural propensity towards connection, creativity and engagement. These are essential skills to thrive amidst complexity and diversity. The challenge is that stress caused by uncertainty makes it hard to tap into this inclination.This topic will offer a set of practices that help you understand this complexity and hack your own brain to bring your natural capacities online.
- Intercultural Effectiveness in an environment of International Assistance & International Business: Intercultural effectiveness is crucial in today’s globalized world. Organizations can support Leaders, HR Managers & staff to develop these competencies they need to succeed. The IRC(Intercultural Readiness Check) is a powerful tool that helps professionals in a global environment to access their potential for better intercultural collaboration. Even if you are not working in an intercultural context, you will find that the competencies are essential for executives and teams to turn the challenges of their complex and changing business context into opportunities for innovation.
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Belonging: “An Inside Job!”: Research has shown that Leaders who truly celebrate diversity create enabling and equitable environments. However, the starting point of inclusion is inside of us. Our beliefs, mindsets and biases invite us to see how we see ourselves. But in addition to examining how we see ourselves and others, what’s also true is that most of us do not value all our parts equally. We don’t celebrate the diversity that exists within ourselves. If we imagine for a moment that we are the CEO and head of HR of our own lives, most of us are failing at creating an internal culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. It is only possible to create sustainable change (vs recycling the same dynamics with in-group and out-group) when we’ve done the inner work first. It is not either/or but rather both/and.
- Inclusive Language: Understand the importance of being sensitive and curious about differences in perspectives and use of words and language. Identify and avoid biases, slang and expressions that discriminate against groups of people based on race, gender, socioeconomic status, and ability. Apply Inclusive language techniques given the current context and increasing diversity.
- Unconscious Bias: Develop an understanding of the concept of conscious and unconscious bias. Examine how unconscious bias is formed. Identify manifestations of bias in the hiring and in workplace. Apply mitigation strategies to counter bias.
- Intercultural Strategy for International Trade & Business
- Human Centered Leadership
- Cultivating Leadership Presence & Curiosity
Jas in the Press
A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to these compelling questions. They open us to new worlds and new knowledge, expanding together in a creative dance.
Verna Allee
International Development 3rd Year Participants
University of Waterloo
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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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.
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