Jan Carley is a Master Certified Executive Coach and holds a PCC credential with the International Coach Federation. Jan is an author, speaker and CEO of Creative Coaching Group in Vancouver, BC, Canada and specializes in coaching executives and teams to clarify their vision, leverage their signature strengths to maximize their performance potential, focus their purpose and create and follow-throu
gh on business strategies to achieve remarkable and sustainable results. Challenging her clients to smash limiting paradigms that are barriers to their success and supporting them as they create transformative new possibilities has made Jan a sought after coach globally. Jan uses her signature “harmony from the inside out” approach to tap into the core values and brilliance of her clients and from that place, access their peak performance potential and possibilities to take them and their organization to the next level of success. With more than 25 years experience working in senior management in the professional non-profit world of the performing arts, Jan brings a progressive whole-brained approach to her executive coaching programs. Jan’s popular book, Harmony from the Inside Out – Creating and Living your Performance Potential, has been critically acclaimed worldwide and is now in its third printing. Besides her one-on-one coaching work with executives and her coaching and facilitation of their leadership teams, Jan has established an important niche globally as the “Inner Coach of Barbershop”. In that role she has coached dozens of internationally competitive a cappella choruses, their leadership teams and thousands of singers worldwide on the power of mindset mastery. She has inspired them to shift and expand their operating cultures to ones of positivity, possibility and excellence, and consequently, achieve significant results as they prepare for the pressured demands of International singing competitions. Jan is currently Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University and co-teaches the coaching foundations and personal mastery components of their prestigious and highly-regarded Executive Coaching Program. She is a certified facilitator of the Strength Deployment Inventory ®, a tool for improving communication and relationship effectiveness and managing and reducing the costs of conflict. "Working with Jan has enabled me to achieve personal and professional results that were too lofty to even dream about previously. She has an uncanny ability to listen in a way that enables her to then ask pointed, powerful questions, and yet she does so with all the care and compassion one could ever ask for. Working with her is a "must have", not a "nice to have", in my business plan and strategy." - Bruce McLeod, Vice-President, Human Resources, Bioniche Life Science
“My coaching experience has gone beyond my expectations. I have grown personally and professionally with Jan…my 2014 will be richer because of coaching – can’t wait!“ – Christina Temperante, CEO/Partner, Volkart May
"Jan helped me open up my thinking, explode some myths and “get out of the quicksand” I was mentally mired in. The regular coaching cadence we established made me accountable to keep moving forward – something I wasn’t able to do on my own.” – Patti Tironi, Director, Internal Communications, Ingersoll Rand
"Jan Carley's coaching helped put me in a place where I am happy, challenged and right where I belong. Her insight, focus and ability to mirror back specific aspects of me that we explored during our sessions really helped me see that my potential is only limited by my imagination.
- Dave Whittier, Manager, City of Vancouver Tactical Training Centre
"Jan has helped me to make one of the biggest transitions in my life. She is fully engaged, adaptive, funny and an awesome listener. She believes in me sometimes more than I believe in myself. My life is fuller and richer for having Jan in it." - Michelle Sharp, Founder, Edge Consulting Ltd. Jan invites you to visit her website at www.creativecoachinggroup.com and contact her to chat about how coaching can help you and your team step into their signature brilliance and peak potential. Email: [email protected]
