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Insights Vancouver was founded by Joyce Gwilliam in 2000 as one of the first Authorized Learning Centres in North America for Insights Learning & Development of Dundee, Scotland. Insights Vancouver works with Insights Offices in over 16 countries to bring the power and uniqueness of the Insights Discovery System to organizations and teams everywhere.

Insights Vancouver is a solution provider for companies committed to providing their employees with the tools, systems and training for increased personal, team and organizational effectiveness. Our core team of Joyce Gwilliam, Anne Bishop, Kim White, Cheney Cawkwell, Shauna Grinke, and Dr. Rick Thomas are experts in their fields. The team uses a variety of methods, including assessment tools, workshops, coaching, consulting, on-line modules, learning guides and job aids to ensure meaningful and lasting change. On all of our assignments, our two most important resources, our ears and our experience, are included free of charge for every client.

Whether your needs are for coaching, consulting, training or professional keynote speaking, Insights Vancouver can assist you in finding the resources that will meet your needs.

Joyce Gwilliam, M. ED

President

joyce is an award winning, internationally recognized organizational development and change specialist. She is passionate about “bringing hope to a changing world” and is excited about the possibilities that personal and organizational transformation can bring. Joyce specializes in a people-centred approach that is firmly grounded in business strategy. She has used this strategy to assist leaders in public and private sector organizations throughout the world to achieve their results - on time, on budget and with employee understanding and support.

She has over 25 years of combined experience as a management consultant, facilitator, educator and front line manager. She has a warm, dynamic and intuitive approach that combines practical real life experiences with the latest in proven best practices. She is committed to working with leaders to co-create and implement successful strategies for sustained change while respecting individuals’ and organizations’ values, spirit and wholeness.

Joyce is a member of the Human Resource Management Association, the International Society for Performance Improvement, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and the North American Faculty of Insights Learning and Development. Joyce is also active in causes that are close to her heart. In August 2004, Joyce participated in Vancouver’s first annual Weekend to End Breast Cancer. In addition, since 2002 Joyce has contributed her time and expertise to the Minerva Foundation’s Learning to Lead Conference. This conference empowers young women to follow their dreams. Joyce is inspired by this opportunity to mentor our next generation of leaders.

ANNE BISHOP, M.A.

SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT

Anne Bishop is a gifted learning and development professional. She specializes in developing innovative, customized learning solutions that employ world class tools and are engaging, results driven and powerfully delivered.

With over 25 years experience as an educator, Anne brings her unparalleled depth of experience and unique brand of sparkle to all her projects. Current work includes facilitating development in such areas as leadership, team building, change effectiveness and service orientation. Spanning both the private and public sector, her recent successes in shifting performance includes teams from Deloitte, ICBC, the Union Bank of California, and many provincial ministries.

Anne is a senior facilitator and member of Insights Vancouver’s core team. She has a proven ability to guide teams and organizations to discover and leverage their potential. Her mastery in the art of integrating high performance facilitation, coaching and change intervention enables her clients to quickly apply their learning to their everyday work environment.

Anne holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University, a Teaching Certificate and Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia. Within the Insights Learning and Development System Anne is: accredited in Insights Discovery, Team Effectiveness Qualified and is a certified Insights Transformational Leadership Practitioner

Anne’s excellence in delivery of Insights Discovery introductory workshops is a result of her years of experience refining and delivering this program. Her workshop participants, including Senior Executives, CFO's, mangers and frontline employees consistently give her the highest ratings.With her high octane blend of intuition, experience and best practices, Anne is a catalyst for workplace transformation.

KIM WHITE, BA; Cert CR; CPCC

SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT

Kim White is leadership coach and trainer who brings over 14 years of diverse work and life experiences to her clients. Her high-energy, engaging approach inspires client confidence and commitment in optimizing personal and professional outcomes. Kim’s clients consistently value her persistence in getting to the heart of an issue, her skill at guiding strategic conversations and her ability to engage leaders and teams in maintaining focus when faced with shifting and often competing priorities.

Kim is committed to helping leaders build healthier workplace for themselves and their employees. She believes that healthy relationships are the cornerstone of personal and professional success and has a proven track record of optimizing client capacity by co-creating relationships built on a foundation of trust.

Kim has a Master’s in Adult Behavioural Science with a system’s focus to interpersonal and organizational challenges and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Justice Institute. She is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach and trained with one of the founding coaching schools in the United States. She continues to hone her coaching skills through on-going professional development in the areas of Team Coaching, Creating Powerful Dialogue, Relationship Coaching and Coaching with Insights.

As a senior learning consultant with Insights Learning and Development (Vancouver) she develops curriculum and provides coaching and facilitation on Personal Effectiveness as far afield as France and Africa. She is proficient in debriefing a variety of personal assessment instruments including: Insights Discovery, Insights Transformational Leadership, FIRO – B and the Thomas Killman Conflict Style Indicator. She is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) and has completed all required course curriculum in Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching through the Centre for Right Leadership.

CHENEY CAWKWELL, BA

SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT

Cheney Cawkwell has a great passion for community involvement and development. She has focused her work and studies around issues of social psychology, herbal medicine, food production and consumption, and the relationship to healthy, sustainable lifestyles. Author of “A Cookbook and Guide To A Healthier Earth and Changing Lifestyles”, Cheney has also taught vegetarian culinary classes and presented many informational seminars about environmental awareness and sustainable, healthy lifestyle maintenance. Formerly the creator and owner/operator of “The Thymes Modern Eatery” in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Cheney’s personal mission involves “feeding the world, one person at a time”. She believes that by educating ourselves about lifestyle choices that nourish our bodies, mind and spirits, we can access a whole new world of opportunities for health and well-being.

Her work with Insights Vancouver enables Cheney to continuously develop her own skills, while opening the door to new possibilities for tomorrow’s great leaders.

SHAUNA GRINKE

SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT

Shauna Grinke is an experienced senior HR leader who has recently joined the Insights Vancouver team. She is passionate about the possibilities that Insights opens up for organizations, and has seen the results on people and teams first hand – as a Client Practitioner.

Shauna is a skilled coach and facilitator, with a proven ability to help teams and individuals unlock their potential. Currently, Shauna is introducing organizations to Insights approach to Sales Effectiveness – a topic that is extremely relevant in today’s turbulent economic times.

With a broad experience and education background, Shauna’s approach is practical and outcome-based.

RICK THOMAS, EdD

SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT

Dr. Rick Thomas is an Associate Sr. Learning Consultant with Insights Vancouver with over six years of experience applying Insights in various contexts. He is passionate about how the Insights system can be used to positively transform individuals, teams and organizations.

Rick has over 12 years of experience as a human resources development and learning strategist, facilitator, coach and organization development consultant gained through multiple contexts facilitating leadership development, culture change, and strategic organizational development initiatives for progressive organizations of 55 to 23,000 employees. He is also an active keynote speaker and has been a speaker, trainer and panel moderator at several conferences across Canada, the US, Scotland and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including the 2009 Insights Connecting Customers Conference in Minnesota, MI and the 2005 and 2006 Corporate University Conferences through the International Performance Quality Centre in New York, NY.

Rick holds a doctorate in educational leadership with a focus on human resources strategy and leadership and is faculty with both the Justice Institute and BCIT and he is a graduate of Newfield Network’s coaching for professional and personal mastery program.

In his former life, as manager of people and organization development at the City of Richmond, he led the creation and implementation of Canada’s first municipal corporate university and used Insights Discovery as a strategic lever in its organizational development.

Rick’s passion stems from his desire to experience others tapping into their passion at work and in life. And, he likes to have fun!

Insights Vancouver
Telephone: 604.522.4229
E-mail: info@insightsvancouver.com