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Esther is an experienced consultant in personal and organizational change, assisting individuals, teams and organizations to build capability. With individuals, she works to help them identify their strengths and their challenges and coaches them in tackling these challenges. With teams, she works to help them improve the dynamics of their interpersonal relationships so that they are enabled to make decisions, take risks and learn and grow in ways that increase their effectiveness as a team. In her work with organizations, she assists them to develop or enhance their performance management systems, with, for example, tools such as 360-degree feedback, to ensure that the goals and objectives of individual performance provide leverage to the organization in reaching its goals.
xxxHer early expertise has been developed through managing education and development functions in the accounting, insurance and banking industries. She has designed and facilitated intensive, high-impact experiences in which people get deeply involved in learning and making decisions. These processes are characterized by an integration of the learning with the work of solving real business issues.
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We believe that our clients have more of their own wisdom and within themselves and their organizations than they are using to full advantage. Our job is to help them discover that for themselves and put it to use, rather than to impose impractical ideas and programs from outside.
xxxOne of Esther's specialties is a deep understanding of the cutting-edge opportunities and challenges facing people in highly technical or professional roles in organizations. Such roles have included finance professionals, engineers, actuaries and securities professionals, and bankers. The challenges include moving from working in a transaction-oriented, gate-keeping way to the deployment of tools, knowledge and techniques to serve the external and internal customers of their organizations. The opportunities for these professionals comprise the rewards and benefits of exercising real leadership (being seen as critical to the organization's success) while defining success as building financial capability, creating shareholder value and generating a team of people who support each other's learning.
xxxEsther has worked in many sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, education, theatre, financial services, building management, high-tech, pharmaceutical, and the not-for-profit sectors.
xxxEsther holds a Masters of Adult Education degree from the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with a focus on the Changing Role of Finance Professionals in Organizations.
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