Coaching for me is a methodical approach to learning and growth where we engage in a creative, collaborative, and reflective process that generates new levels of awareness, accountability, and purpose in achieving positive outcomes with long-lasting effects. Learn more about my coaching philosophy.
I am a 1:1 and group coach at the University of British Columbia, an alumni coach for the UBC Certified Organizational Coach program, and I also operate an external coaching practice through my coaching consultancy Ashiba.cc.
The people I coach
I have worked with:
- Leaders growing into executive-level roles in not-for-profit and public sector organizations
- Experienced leaders entering a new position and inheriting an existing team
- Emerging leaders adapting to growth in fast-paced tech and start-up environments
- High-performing team members growing into leadership roles within their team
- Entrepreneurs entering new stages of business growth
- Mid-career professionals re-orienting their career paths
- Successful professionals seeking work-life balance
- Young professionals navigating the early stages of their career
- New teams learning to work together for the first time
- Established teams learning to work together in new ways
- Teams undergoing business process reviews
- Teams navigating the impact of digital transformation
While every person and every team’s situation is unique, what they all share in common is a commitment to a process that leads to tangible results such as:
- a shift in mindset and perspective
- clarity of vision, purpose, and focus
- increased levels of awareness, accountability, and commitment
- newfound momentum in taking action towards new goals
- improved career satisfaction
- healthy and sustainable work-life balance
- new levels of peak performance
- confidence and excitement with navigating the future
- successfully transitioning into a new job or entirely new career path

Credentials
- Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
- Certified Organizational Coach (COC)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Bachelor of Education (BEd)
- Bachelor of Psychology (BA)
“Sometimes in the waves of change, we find our true direction.”
– source unknown