"Working with Dana Janzen ... on our year-long team coaching journey created a major unlock for our leadership team. We have learned so much about each other on this journey and strengthened our team bonds, ways of working and identified our core purpose. The work has also helped us improve stakeholder relationships and collaboration, helping us to understand each other in a different way and position ourselves in a more credible way. Dana was an excellent coach for us: Proactive, pragmatic and fun to work with. She pushed us to step out of our comfort zones and created a clear path for us to follow over the 12-month journey. She is also a strong facilitator and individual coach who supported me as the team leader through this process. I am very appreciative of the partnership and so glad we engaged in this work. It really has been a game changer for our team."

I highly recommend Dana as an Executive and Leadership Coach. Her strategic insights and tailored sessions have significantly improved my clarity, confidence, and proactivity in leadership. Utilizing 360 feedback and assessments, I identified core strengths and growth areas, enabling me to develop strategies for influencing global stakeholders and navigating complex challenges. Over our three years together, Dana consistently proved to be an invaluable thinking partner, guiding me in cultivating impactful leadership approaches. Dana’s coaching has been crucial to my professional growth, and I am confident anyone working with her will experience significant leadership development.

I was fortunate to attend a Sales Coaching for Leaders session that Dana led in Spring 2024. Dana is a terrific facilitator — highly knowledgeable, engaging, approachable, and funny. In a one-day session she shared so many great insights on how to listen, motivate, observe, provide feedback, and so much more. We finished the session equipped with both actionable tools we can put to work right away and a renewed appreciation for the power of coaching in leadership. Highly recommend!

“I highly recommend Dana Janzen as an Executive and Leadership Coach, Dana provided me with so many tools and techniques to improve my leadership skills. Dana is exceptional, she helped me identify and sequence many opportunities for improvement; she challenged me while ensuring I was forging ahead. Dana is always professional, possesses a wealth of knowledge on leadership development, she is an effective teacher, she is compassionate and has a great sense of humour.”

“I highly recommend Dana Janzen as an Executive Coach to any organization seeking results-based support with developing their leaders. She has coached nine of our leaders in our C-Suite, our Director level and at the manager level. Dana has been tremendously effective with our leaders and very quickly earned their trust and confidence. She has positively impacted our leaders with specific behavioural changes and tactical situation handling. Dana’s work has been an important element in our organization’s overall improvement in leadership and manager quality.”

“My executive coaching experience with Dana was highly impactful and made a positive difference. I have had leadership coaching over the years, however the impact Dana had on me was quite profound and completely unexpected. She not only brought out the leader I wanted to be; but how to do so without giving up who I am.”

“I highly recommend Dana Janzen as an Executive Coach. The biggest impact Dana’s coaching had on me was in improving my confidence by leveraging my strengths, such of being candid and straightforward. I become more vocal and more frequently offered my opinions and ideas during executive team meetings. This allowed me to contribute more towards the strategy and overall leadership within the organization. My growth as a leader has been sustainable as Dana provided me with valuable tools throughout our sessions to continue my personal growth on my own.”

“For the last 6 months, Dana was my executive coach where she partnered with me to enhance my coaching skills that I use to develop my team and deliver results. Dana was able to challenge and support me and I now conduct much more effective and engaging coaching sessions with my team with higher quality feedback conversations.”

“Working with Dana was like having a secret weapon to help achieve my vision. My coaching experience brought clarity by reducing everyday noise and asking myself pointed (even uncomfortable) questions about where I am, what my long-term goals are, and the direction in which I want to take my company. Today, my company growth has exceeded expectations and we have expanded into international markets.

More importantly, Dana’s natural ability as a coach enabled me to verbalize and sidestep mental barriers to success. I learned that amongst a myriad of largely uncontrollable external factors, controlling my own behaviour is a significant force in planning and executing tangible steps towards my goals.

For me, coaching with Dana was like having an honest conversation with myself where she guided me in a positive, forward motion based on my own agenda. I believe this type of relationship to be a critical necessity for any leader or aspiring professional.”

“As a result of my coaching sessions, I was able to create a better balance between a thriving business and lifestyle driven from my values. I now have structures and approaches I have learned to achieve my business and personal goals and aspirations.

Dana has a unique ability to listen and ask questions, helping you discover what steps will bring the next desired outcome. The benefit of coaching has been an increased level of confidence and clarity about my values.”

“Dana coached me for one year and it’s changed my outlook on my life and approach to business. Being able to self-reflect and really get to know who I am has helped me learn how to call upon my strengths to successfully tackle any challenge that arises.

I’ll go into sessions sometimes feeling unmotivated or down about my business. At the end of the session, I will come out with a plan and with a spark of energy and creativity that helps me succeed. Getting to know who you are and what makes you tick is essential to discovering the best tools you can use to help you be the best you can be. This is what Dana does for me: she helps me to realize this and how I can call upon my strengths in times of need. I know she can do this for anyone she coaches and I’d highly recommend her.”

“The way I think, feel, communicate, and act has shifted tremendously. That’s pretty powerful stuff! I’ve had coaching sessions previously, and in my opinion, I did not trust the coach enough to open up completely. Dana has taken the time and shown the patience to truly understand how I process information, my thoughts, and how I communicate. She understands me as an individual.

When life presents certain challenges, I am now able to deal with the challenge head-on and know when to find a solution or have the intelligence to close the door and look for a new window to open. It is vital to trust the coach that you choose. Dana can help you find the way to get in touch with all of your strengths to move forward and live the most fulfilling life ever.”

“I had the pleasure to learn from Dana recently at a 3-day event on my leadership development where she was the facilitator. First, working in radio, there are a lot of BIG personalities, present company included! The energy she brought to the room and her keen sense of fun and engagement, instantly had me pay attention to the message. Dana is able to engage a group of savvy, experienced leaders to share their experiences and give each other candid feedback. She is able to hold the room which often includes big personalities and people with differing views. Honestly, I can lose focus at times and she was great to bring us back on point. Hence the recommendation. As an executive coach, she asks great questions that help leaders think differently or consider new ways to look at common issues. Thanks Dana for the knowledge you helped me learn.”

“I recently had the pleasure of working with Dana at a Leadership program put on by Rogers Communications for its Directors and above. I found Dana's leadership and facilitation style promoted learning and engagement from the participants. Her personal experience and insights only added to the course content and in my mind added value. I hope to have the opportunity to work Dana again in the future.”

“I have collaborated with Dana on a number of group development projects and her ability to engage the audience using passion and energy, keep the content relatable, and tailor her style to the appropriate audience has always amazed me. From the start she is detail-oriented and thorough in planning out her sessions meticulously and ensuring she is aligned with client expectations. I have seen her design a development program in thoughtful stages that takes the participants through a 2 year development journey. This process encourages participants to remain engaged, build their accountability, and strengthen their leadership skills. There is no doubt the executives she works with are stronger and more self-aware in the end. Dana is approachable and professional and a joy to collaborate with.”

“I've had the pleasure of working with Dana as a facilitator for our WXN Top 100 mentoring program and peer mentoring program. Dana's experience and insight as a coach, has resulted in the development of very engaging and powerful workshops for our women leaders. She consistently receives outstanding reviews. I would highly recommend Dana as a coach, speaker and designer of high impact learning experiences.”

“Dana’s advice and approach regarding planning and executing high impact presentations was incredibly valuable. She provided excellent concrete advice to help me plan for my talk: everything from considering the perspective of my audience and how to find the ‘why’ of my presentation to how to prep when travelling the night before a big talk. I felt comfortable and confident delivering my presentation thanks to her structured approach and wisdom. I highly recommend Dana’s consulting services if you would like useful tools and advice to help you deliver more targeted, high value presentations in any area of your professional life.”

“I had the opportunity to work with Dana to shape a Ted-style talk I was delivering to a senior audience. This was a new format for me and Dana’s guidance was instrumental in helping me frame my discussion, ensure I stayed true to my core message and inspiring the audience to act. But more than that, she was in my corner from the beginning – truly committed to helping me succeed and that helped instill confidence in my ability. She inspired and supported me - a truly awesome person to work with! Thank you, Dana!”

“I worked with Dana last year as I wanted to "up my game" for a key note address on technology disruption in the automotive industry. Dana encouraged me to reframe the message in a different manner and to make “So what?” the core of the speech. This allowed me to challenge the mindset of the executives in the audience, dramatically change how they think about the impact of this technology change, and inspire them to take immediate action. I now leverage lessons learned from Dana’s coaching for every speech and small group client engagement. Dana’s influence and teaching has paid dividends long after our initial sessions. I highly recommend Dana!”