MEMBER: Sylvia Goodeve

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Sylvia Goodeve
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined 06/26/2007

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I am a professional coach and catalyst, dedicated to helping people develop. I elicits strengths in my clients so they authentically achieve their potential.

I have evolved through many significant transitions, through personal tragedy to triumph:

  • from an employee/team member to a manager/team leader
  • from a career in Information Technology to a career in Coaching
  • from employee to self-employed
  • from ill-effects of trauma to healthful recovery
  • from chronic pain on a daily basis to pain management
  • from being an adoptee without a family history to a reunion with her birth family
  • from marriage through separation to divorce

Prior to embarking on a career in coaching, I was in the Information Technology field for 13 years. My career encompasses work in high-tech, telecommunications, financial services, crown corporations, and management consulting.

I coach individuals through my own business, as well as via Career Coaching International in Ottawa. As a corporate coach with the Sage Portfolio Group, I coach senior managers on leadership development and coaching skills.

I live in the beautiful capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and love exploring the nearby Gatineau hills, hiking or snowshoeing; or bicycling and rollerblading along the Ottawa river and Rideau canal. I enjoy an active life. Sailing is my passion and I race keelboats on the Ottawa River. My creative outlets include playing the piano, and writing. I am a volunteer instructor with the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Canada.

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  • Reflect, then Respond

  • A Pashmina and a Cat

    Once you have your dream job, if it involves working from home with lots of flexibility as mine does
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  • Listen to that Still, Small Voice

    You know the one…that still, small, inner voice that speaks in profound messages. It starts out rea
  • Spiritual Practices

    “ Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gra
  • Clear the Clutter for Clarity

    A heaviness has been settling in, with winter on its way. I felt this heaviness in my body, and wen
  • Best Book on Divorce Dilemmas

    The book "Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends" by Bruce Fisher, is a fabulous resource when you
  • A Most Amicable Split

    When I split with my ex-husband, my divorce lawyer said nobody had ever walked out of his office wit
  • Outsider on the Inside...Outside-In or Inside-Out?

    Recently I celebrated a birthday. I celebrated with both my adoptive family and my birth family.
  • Food as Fuel

    I recently completed a 10 day Elimination Diet, designed specifically for me by my Osteopath. I've
  • A Winning Team

    We practiced. We knew our roles. We knew the rules. We were a team. We were ready to take it on t
  • Not to Marry

    When I was a kid, I always said, "I'm never getting married, and I'm never having kids." I only stu
  • Best Book on Relationships

    If you're committed to making your marriage work, get this book: read it, absorb it, follow it.
  • Top 10 Mindfulness Moments

    Top 10 Mindfulness Moments
  • Embracing the Emptiness

    "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."
  • Getting Un-Stuck

    Have you ever felt stuck, to the point where you feel there is no way out? I’ve felt this way a num
  • Getting Out of a Funk

    Being in a funk can negatively affect many areas of your life. I’m an optimistic person, although I
  • Keep an Inspiration Log

    I was inspired by Dan Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind" where he suggests keeping a metaphor log, by w
  • Selfishness before Selflessness

    One of the lessons I have repeatedly learned in the last decade is that it’s important to take time
  • Finish in the top 3 sailboats for Series II of Ladies Racing

    At the beginning of the racing season this year, my team set 3 goals for ourselves. - Fi
  • Guidance through the Labyrinth

    The labyrinth guides us to answers. The answers are within. Last weekend I took time for myself

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