MEMBER: Sylvia Goodeve
Experience
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.
Testimonials
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A Pashmina and a Cat
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 23:58Once you have your dream job, if it involves working from home with lots of flexibility as mine does4 CommentsAppreciation
Monday, December 17, 2007 - 17:46“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words0 CommentsListen to that Still, Small Voice
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 14:47You know the one…that still, small, inner voice that speaks in profound messages. It starts out rea0 CommentsSpiritual Practices
Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 21:27“ Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gra0 CommentsClear the Clutter for Clarity
Friday, November 16, 2007 - 17:07A heaviness has been settling in, with winter on its way. I felt this heaviness in my body, and wen0 CommentsBest Book on Divorce Dilemmas
Monday, November 12, 2007 - 22:35The book "Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends" by Bruce Fisher, is a fabulous resource when you0 CommentsA Most Amicable Split
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 20:21When I split with my ex-husband, my divorce lawyer said nobody had ever walked out of his office wit6 CommentsOutsider on the Inside...Outside-In or Inside-Out?
Monday, October 15, 2007 - 21:23Recently I celebrated a birthday. I celebrated with both my adoptive family and my birth family.1 CommentsFood as Fuel
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 01:34I recently completed a 10 day Elimination Diet, designed specifically for me by my Osteopath. I've5 CommentsA Winning Team
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 01:49We practiced. We knew our roles. We knew the rules. We were a team. We were ready to take it on t1 CommentsNot to Marry
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 01:42When I was a kid, I always said, "I'm never getting married, and I'm never having kids." I only stu1 CommentsBest Book on Relationships
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 01:33If you're committed to making your marriage work, get this book: read it, absorb it, follow it.2 CommentsTop 10 Mindfulness Moments
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 21:40Top 10 Mindfulness Moments0 CommentsEmbracing the Emptiness
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 13:47"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."0 CommentsGetting Un-Stuck
Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 01:00Have you ever felt stuck, to the point where you feel there is no way out? I’ve felt this way a num1 CommentsGetting Out of a Funk
Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 00:54Being in a funk can negatively affect many areas of your life. I’m an optimistic person, although I0 CommentsKeep an Inspiration Log
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - 20:51I was inspired by Dan Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind" where he suggests keeping a metaphor log, by w2 CommentsSelfishness before Selflessness
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 20:43One of the lessons I have repeatedly learned in the last decade is that it’s important to take time9 CommentsFinish in the top 3 sailboats for Series II of Ladies Racing
Friday, July 20, 2007 - 20:20At the beginning of the racing season this year, my team set 3 goals for ourselves. - Fi3 CommentsGuidance through the Labyrinth
Friday, July 20, 2007 - 19:52The labyrinth guides us to answers. The answers are within. Last weekend I took time for myself1 Comments
Comments
- Resource Tip - workbook and workshops... (in response to: A Most Amicable Split)
- Being Courageous, Sharing Wisdom... (in response to: C'mon, you Coaches, get vulnerable and get REAL)
- Resource... (in response to: A Most Amicable Split)
- Healthier Solution... (in response to: A Most Amicable Split)
- Honour Yourself, When You're Not Ready... (in response to: stay together in the abyss or divorse by 12.31.07: finding the truth in committment)


