Alison Atkins, CMC, MBC

In 1994, after twenty years in leadership and executive roles within large, entrepreneurial and community organizations, I launched a Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness consulting firm, Avenir Consulting. 

Our mission: “We inspire individuals, leaders, organizations and communities to generate expansive possibilities & positive results - everywhere, for others and for themselves.”

AVENIR'S CONSULTING SERVICES

My Firm’s core services are as follows: 

¨      Executive & Leadership Effectiveness Coaching.

¨      Leadership Development.

¨      Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & Resilience Training and Coaching.

¨      Group Process Facilitation.

¨      Organizational and Team Development, Change, Transformation and Renewal.

OUR CLIENTS

The clients who place their trust in us for coaching, group facilitation, organizational transformation, team effectiveness, curriculum design and training include:

§        EPCOR

§        Ernst & Young LLP

§        Shumka, Craig & Moore Adjusters Canada Inc.

§        The Brick

§        The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA).

In addition, we have clients in the high tech, retail,  energy, and telecommunications sectors.  Highlights of relevant client engagements are provided in the following sections.

  What Others are saying ...

“Alison is particularly skillful at helping participants develop their communication and group process skills.  She knows how to get people to integrate their personal dreams and development with business reality, smoothly!” DS, 2001

“Alison is a gifted and astute coach and facilitator.  I appreciate the way she invited us all to share work we’d done from last week, then surprised us into learning by asking us to identify the assumptions behind our statements about our work!  Great technique, Alison.  I’m going to try that method.”  G.C.  January 27, 2004

“I began today’s coaching session with a huge load of tough news, but now 30 minutes later I’m excited, my energy is high and I just want to get off the phone to get going!” A.M.U.  May 2004

Contact Alison at:

aatkins@istar.ca