CEO and Board Testimonials
"Thank you for a great leadership development session with our team. Your approach to providing key learning content combined with a level of personal accountability and candor was a pleasure. There were excellent learning moments as well as some “humbling” moments! Your workshop will help each of us step up to a greater level of leadership."
Launi Skinner
President & COO
1-800-GOT-JUNK?
“Thank you for leading a very focused and results-oriented workshop for our executive team. We all learned new approaches to time mastery that will lead to even greater success for our team.”
Kevin Mahon
CEO
Adera
“Thank you for a very successful strategic planning project. Your facilitation skills and your ability to lead us through strategic thinking to accelerate business results was greatly valued by all of our board and management team members.”
Terry Holland, Board Member
Rob Mitchell, President
B.W. Creative Wood Industries
"Dr. Nancy MacKay is an exceptional executive coach. I believe she brings great knowledge, very valuable expertise, an engaging personality and an extraordinary work effort to each and every project she undertakes. Nancy is insightful, provocative and inspiring!"
Shayne Ramsay, CEO
BC Housing
"Thank you for a great presentation to The Leaders Network on "Strategic Planning Using a Balanced Scorecard Approach" Our group of Chairman and CEOs found your session to be full of practical and valuable advice to help us achieve greater business growth."
George Melville
Chairman & Owner
Boston Pizza International Inc.
"Nancy, Strategic planning was a concept I thought was meant only for large organizations. I am delighted and thankful for bringing you to share your talent, experience and wisdom with my organization and to finally bring clarity to our future strategy. You certainly helped our leadership team develop a high growth strategy to accelerate our business results. You've helped to make our organization a stronger and more successful one by giving us a strategy roadmap for success. Your enthusiasm, love and dedication is contagious. THANK YOU!"
Chad Barr
President
CB Software Systems, Inc.
"Thank you Nancy for facilitating our credit union's strategy and succession planning retreat with our Board of Directors. With your expertise and direction we were able to set plans in place to ensure our long-term success. We are also better positioned to ensure the continuity and excellence of our leadership team into the future."
Will Woudstra
Board Chairman
Christian Credit Union
Nancy, your workshop on CEO Effectiveness and Strategy Execution for our YPO Forum was a great success. We all learned a lot and made commitments to become better CEOs and to apply your strategy execution tips and techniques to accelerate business results in our companies. Thank you for your leadership and strong contribution to our learning and growth during the workshop.
David Schellenberg, YPO member
CEO, Conair Group Inc. / Cascade Aerospace Inc.
Many of the evaluations we got back from our top leaders at our strategy and leadership retreat identified you not only as the best facilitator they had experienced, but many also said that your leadership development training was insightful, informative, fun, upbeat, and impactful. Your participation was invaluable in helping all of us achieve success during the session. Everyone on our top leadership team indicated that they would hire you again. I'm looking forward to continuing to work with you. Great job Nancy!
David Schellenberg
President
Cascade Aerospace Inc.
"Nancy, your strategy work and team building with our CEO and senior team has been very effective. You are a very sincere and caring person with a great deal of business knowledge and strategy expertise which is very valuable for our group of companies."
Tom Fredericks
Chairman
ECL Group of Companies
"Nancy MacKay has made a significant contribution to our strategic planning process beginning with an outstanding strategic planning retreat. Your Inspire Action System for leading strategic change has definitely accelerated our high growth strategy."
Jim Davis
President & CEO
ECL Group of Companies Ltd.
"If you are an executive with very little free time and would like to bring an executive coach into your world, call Nancy. She is able to maintain a fast pace, long hours and VERY aggressive timelines!! One thing I find most beneficial about working with Nancy is that I always gain new insights and approaches to addressing key issues and challenges that I'm faced with."
Jim Davis
President & CEO
ECL Group of Companies Ltd.
“Thank you for the strategy work you did for our company’s senior team. You did a great job for us on getting alignment on our corporate strategy and action plans to accelerate business growth.”
Paul Clinton
CEO
Everything Wine
“Nancy, your passion for helping individuals and executive teams achieve their full potential helped create a meaningful experience for our executive team, at an awkward & even emotional time. Your thoughtful professionalism, and experience really helped us stay focused as we brought our newly formed team together for the first time. Thank you for your important contribution to our successful retreat.”
Dave Gregory
President & CEO
First Calgary Savings & Credit Union
Thank you Nancy for sharing some of your wisdom with our executive team on how to lead change effectively. I'm confident everyone present was motivated to activate ideas which were put forward and we will be a better team as a result. It also seemed clear that "back at home" applications were identified. You are truly "Great"!!
Nils Bodtker
President & CEO
Great Western Containers
“Nancy –thank you for facilitating our strategic planning session. You handled the issues really well and pushed for closure when it was needed. I think you gave us a lot of practical and valuable tools and we will benefit from keeping that in front of us.”
Eric Harris
CEO
Harris & Company
“The workshop you planned and delivered for our executive team definitely helped us fine-tune our vision and our strategy and really focus in on our priorities. Even more valuable though, was the team effectiveness training you did for us. It has made a huge difference in how out team interacts and this, in turn, has made us more effective at implementation.”
Carolyn Rogers
President & CEO
Hydroxyl Systems Inc.
"After Nancy MacKay worked with our executive team for one day, we immediately revised our approach to decision-making and executive team meetings based on her invaluable advice. A day with Nancy was a great investment and we are looking forward to benefiting from Nancy's leadership development and executive coaching expertise in the future."
Pam Marchant
CEO
Island Savings Credit Union
"There was unanimous feedback from the senior management team that our leadership development and strategy retreat with you was a huge success. We really value your focus on strategy execution and tools for speeding up business results. You helped us achieve our objectives in record time and we thank you for your strong contribution."
Steve Akazawa
President
Jim Pattison Lease
“Your workshop on extraordinary leadership kept us focused on our accountability to one another to achieve the extraordinary results that we are shooting for as an executive team. We are more committed than ever to our strategic plan and we would like to thank you for inspiring us to take our leadership team to the next level.”
Tom Schramski, Ph.D
CEO
Metro Care Services, Inc.
“Nancy, thank you again for the board strategic planning session. It was awesome. Your ability to facilitate our strategic discussions enabled the board to achieve all of our objectives.”
Mike Cordoba
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Lube Canada
"Nancy sees the strategic issues and opportunities of our business in a deeply insightful way. She's helped us find solid solutions that consider all the stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders. Everyone she works within the company not only listens intently to what she says, but looks forward to her assistance. Nancy not only knows how to get things done right, but how to have fun doing it. She's been a tremendous asset to our organization and I look forward to a long relationship."
Bill Ticknor
President
Mr. Lube Canada
"Thank you Nancy for being such an excellent facilitator. Your expertise, energy and enthusiasm really made our culture workshop for company leaders at our annual convention a great success."
Bill Ticknor
President
Mr. Lube Canada
"You certainly helped focus our strategic planning efforts and your facilitation skills are excellent, whether that be in a group setting or one-on-one. Your executive team effectiveness workshop was invaluable to our entire executive team. You have made a significant contribution to the success of our organization and we are looking forward to a long-term relationship with you."
Chris Catliff
President & CEO
North Shore Credit Union
“Thanks for doing a great job on our 2-day executive retreat. You helped us significantly accelerate our team performance and enhanced our ability to lead positive organisational and culture change effectively.”
Robin Silvester
President & CEO
Port Metro Vancouver
"At our recent executive team 3-day retreat, Nancy MacKay worked closely with us on developing our HR Strategy and on delivering our first ever leadership development program. We made the decision to engage Nancy for two main reasons: we wanted to expedite the implementation of our strategic plan and we wanted to invest in our executive team as part of their professional development.
We believe that the investment we made will continue to provide benefits as we apply what we learned from Nancy about how to enhance our leadership effectiveness. Our entire executive team was pleased with the results of the workshop and we are looking forward to having all of our senior leaders participate in the Inspire Action Leadership Development program this year."
Peter Blake
CEO
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers
"Over the past 6-months you've done an outstanding job at developing and delivering our 360 degree Executive Coaching program and our Advanced Coaching Skills program for our executive team. Thank you for guiding and challenging us to apply your very practical and valuable approaches to making all of us better leaders.”
Peter Blake
CEO
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers
“Our 2-day executive team retreat with Nancy MacKay was a great investment in strategic planning and leadership development. The immediate impact was enhanced candour, cohesion, leadership team effectiveness, and overall team performance. I'm confident that we now have a compelling vision, a common purpose, and greater engagement, responsibility, accountability, and commitment of our leadership team to achieve and exceed our goals and objectives. Thank you Nancy for challenging all of us to raise the bar on our ability to lead our organization into the future."
Kirk Dudtschak
Regional President
Manitoba, Saskatchewan & NW Ontario
Royal Bank of Canada
"Over the past six months, your leadership development, team coaching and strategy execution work with our senior management team has really improved our ability to achieve our business goals and objectives. Your positive, practical and challenging approach to helping us move forward together is greatly appreciated."
Simon Duncan
President
Skaugen PetroTrans
“Thank you for facilitating our strategic planning retreats involving board members and our senior management team. Your ability to connect with all of us, in a positive and challenging way, to guide us along to become more strategically focused has been very impactful. Your team coaching and strategy execution work with our senior management team has enabled them to accelerate business results.”
Morits Skaugen and Paul Wogan
Chair and Vice-Chair
Skaugen PetroTrans Board
"Nancy, over the past 6-months you've done an outstanding job at developing and delivering our executive coaching program, our advanced executive development program, and our succession management plan to assist us in strengthening our leadership talent pool and "winning the war for talent". Everyone I spoke to thought you were awesome! This was overall an A+ performance. Well done, and thank you!
Bjorn Moller
President & CEO
Teekay Corporation
"In her Consulting work with our company, Nancy MacKay has proven herself to be a world class management coach."
Bjorn Moller
President & CEO
Teekay Corporation
"We are a global company in a highly competitive business. We were looking for an external resource to work with us to help us continue our rapid growth without losing our entrepreneurial edge. Thank you Nancy for the great executive coaching, leadership development, and succession management work that you've done with our CEO and his Senior Management Team to get them better prepared to lead the company to the next level of high growth."
C. Sean Day
Director and Chairman
Teekay Shipping Corporation
Over the past year, your leadership coaching has helped me become a more effective leader. Your team coaching has created more candour, trust and cohesion within our senior leadership team. And, your facilitation of our strategy development and execution planning has lead to the acceleration of business results. Thank you for your on-going support and contribution to the success of our team.
Paul Wogan
President
Teekay Tanker Services
Teekay Shipping Corporation
"Your facilitation, keynote speech and team-building session for our Executive Team and Sales & Marketing Team helped make our strategic planning retreat a huge success. Thank you for helping us launch our new company."
Bob MacDonald
President & Owner
Wakefield Canada Inc.
