Mosaic People Development

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Address: Toronto, ON, M3H2C5, CA
Telephone: +14162752253

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Vanessa Judelman
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🌟 Leadership Coach & Facilitator
🗣️ Key-note Speaker

Providing leaders with tools and strategies to inspire their people and drive results. Whether she is facilitating, training or delivering a keynote address, Vanessa’s s***k and tenacity inspire her clients to feel passionate about their work and lives. Over the past 18 years, as a talent management and performance consultant, Vanessa has worked with organizations such as Motorola, Torstar Digital, Blakes, GlaxoSmithKline, Research in Motion, Campbell’s Soup, and CIBC. Most recently she built, led and managed the organizational development and learning department at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Vanessa also worked as a consultant at MICA Consulting Partners. She has a background in theatre arts, a master’s degree in human resource management and training from Leicester University and a bachelor of arts and education degree from McGill University. She is noted as an expert in her industry and has been published and quoted in The Globe and Mail and the National Post. She has also been featured on CKNW Radio and has been a guest lecturer in the MBA program at Ted Rogers School of Management.

09/25/2026

If you're feeling a lack of confidence at work right now, I need you to hear this: it's normal.

Confidence is a feeling, and feelings are not constant.

Whenever your responsibilities increase, your confidence dips.
As your competence grows, your confidence follows.

So if you're in that dip right now, today's blog is for you. I'm sharing 5 steps to help you build your confidence, one small action at a time.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/confidence/build-leadership-confidence/

09/22/2026

I see leaders struggle with confidence all the time.
To be honest, it’s okay to feel that way.
Why?
Well, every time you learn something new, of course you don’t feel confident.

Confidence is something that builds over time.

Here is the tricky part for leaders.
Whenever you take on a new task, a new role or a new job, you will have to learn new skills or behaviours. These learning points in your career are where your confidence naturally dips.

Did you know that there are actually 5 levels of leadership that you will likely have to navigate over your career? With each level of leadership, your learning increases.

For example, in level one, you are an individual contributor. You are a leader of your own work.

In level two, you become a manager. Now you have to learn to get results through others.

From there, it keeps building. Each level requires you to learn something new, like strategic thinking, delegation, coaching or prioritization.

This Friday I’m sharing the 5 key steps that you can take to build confidence no matter what level of leadership you’re stepping into.

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https://www.mosaiclearninghub.com/mailinglist

09/18/2026

Which one are you?

Take a second and think about it. Are you the leader who answers questions quickly or do you need to gather your thoughts before you respond to someone?

It is important to understand your personal preferences because the people on your team likely think and process differently than you do. This difference can drive misunderstandings and sometimes even conflict on your team.

In this week’s Leadership in Focus blog, you’ll learn about the key communication styles that I see most often and how to adjust your style to more effectively meet the needs of your team.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/work-styles/4-communication-styles-every-leader-should-know/

09/15/2026

Have you ever had someone on your team who frustrates you?

Maybe they are too slow at completing their tasks.

Or perhaps they need way more recognition than you think is necessary.

Well, instead of judging them as “wrong”, I’d like to offer a different perspective.

They are not “wrong”; they are just “different”.

Their work style is probably different than yours.

That is okay!

In a recent conversation with Ron Monteiro on his podcast, Love Mondays, we discussed the fact that 75% of the population is wired differently than you are. They have different work styles, different ways of processing and different needs than you do as their leader.

So, when someone on your team is frustrating you, the first move shouldn’t be to fix them. Rather, it should be to pause and take a real look at what's actually going on.

In this Friday’s Leadership in Focus blog, I’m diving deeper into the 4 communication styles that I see most often and how to bridge the gap when there are multiple styles on your team.

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09/11/2026

Stuck in conflict with someone on your team? This mental reframing might help.

When you're stuck in conflict with a peer, it's easy to focus on what they're doing wrong. But conflict rarely has just one side.

When you only look at the other person's part, you miss the part you're playing too, and that's usually what keeps you stuck.

In my latest blog, I share a story about a leader who realized she was half of an ongoing conflict with a peer. Find out what happened when she stopped trying to win and asked a different question instead.

Check it out to learn what to do the next time you're stuck in conflict with someone on your team.

http://mosaicpd.com/conflict/what-if-youre-part-of-the-problem/

09/08/2026

"No agenda, no attenda."

That's one of my favourite lines from a recent conversation with Ron Monteiro on his podcast The Love Mondays Podcast.

If nobody prepared for the meeting, why are you even having it?

An agenda doesn't need to be formal. It can be a few bullet points jotted down five minutes before you hop on the call, but it needs to exist.

Without one, you're not running a meeting. You're just gathering people and hoping something useful happens.

Next time you're about to book a meeting, ask yourself what you actually want to walk away with. Then jot down two or three bullets before you send the invite.

I go deeper on this and tons of other practical leadership tips in the full podcast episode.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/resources/

09/04/2026

Before you decide someone on your team lacks motivation, ask yourself these questions first.

When someone is struggling on your team, it's not that they don't want to succeed. It's probably because they are wired differently than everyone else.

When you ask people to work in ways that don't align with their natural work style, it can actually decrease their motivation and engagement.

In my latest blog, I share a story about a leader who assumed one of her steadiest team members just wasn't driven enough. Find out what changed when she stopped trying to make him fit the mould.

Check out my blog to learn what to do when someone on your team doesn't work the way you do.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/work-styles/how-to-motivate-someone-with-a-different-work-style/

09/01/2026

A CFO once asked me to "keep an eye" on one of his employees during a workshop that I was facilitating for his team. He was thinking about letting her go and wanted my opinion of her.

I wasn’t thrilled with this request, but I was curious to observe his team member in action. Turns out she wasn't underperforming. She just didn't work like everyone else on the team and I LOVED her!

While the rest of her team was detail-oriented, valued accuracy and was very process-oriented (all great qualities for their role), she was flexible, collaborative, encouraging and strategic.

Not only did I tell the CFO to keep this team member, but I also told him to promote her to a leadership role! He did, and she became his right-hand person for many years to come.

Through this experience, the CFO learned an important lesson: You can’t force everyone to work in the same way that you do.

As a leader, you have to learn to change or adjust your style to meet their needs.

I'm breaking down exactly this in this week's Leadership in Focus blog.

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08/28/2026

Would you consider yourself self-aware?

One study found that 95% of people believe they're self-aware, but only 10 to 15% actually are.

That gap matters! As a leader, it is important that you understand how your behaviour impacts your team. For example, you might think that you are being supportive when your team actually experiences you as micromanaging them.

Or you might think that you are being decisive when they're perceiving you as dismissive.

In this week’s blog, you'll learn specific strategies that you can leverage to improve your self-awareness.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/self-awareness/how-to-improve-your-leadership-through-self-awareness/

While you're there, you'll also find details about the Lead Your People Program, which starts September 8th. In the program, you'll complete the DiSC Profile assessment and learn more about yourself and how to work best with others who may have different work styles.

08/25/2026

Would you say that you are a self-aware leader?

Whenever I teach a leadership program, I always start with my first pillar of leadership success, which I call "KNOW YOURSELF".

Why? Well, you can't grow as a leader if you don't understand your own strengths and weaknesses first.

One of my favourite tools to develop self-awareness is the DiSC Profile self-assessment. It shows you whether you tend to be more dominant, influencing, steady or conscientious. It also gives you a real window into how you operate and work with others.

Inside my Lead Your People Program, you'll take the DiSC assessment as part of the process. You'll walk away understanding yourself better and knowing how to work with the different styles on your team.

Curious what your work style says about you as a leader? Let's dig into it together this September! Registration closes for my Lead Your People program on August 31st, and group rates are available so you can develop with your team.

https://www.mosaicpd.com/lead-your-people/

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