Coaching for Your P.A.G
See how a P.A.G Coach can help.
Whether your P.A.G – Personal Advisory Group™ is new or well-established and needs fresh momentum, a P.A.G Coach can help get you on track with advice and guidance tailored specifically for your group. Each Coach is professionally trained and deeply familiar with Family Enterprise Canada best practices. They can help you create or revise a charter or constitution, identify and assign roles, share communication and meeting facilitation techniques and more.
Coaching for new P.A.Gs:
- A P.A.G Coach will be provided for the initial three meetings, starting the group off on the right foot
- They will model the behaviours of a strong Moderator and will assist the group in identifying their own Moderator
- They will equip the group with the agenda, protocols and policies to ensure the P.A.G will flourish once their service has been completed
Coaching for existing P.A.Gs:
- For those P.A.Gs who want assistance to get themselves back on track, ensuring continued benefits from their P.A.G
- P.A.G Coaches provide support with processes and protocols, or additional training with the Moderator role
- Established P.A.Gs have the option to request support from a P.A.G Coach via email by clicking here.
Eligibility for a P.A.G Coach
All P.A.G members must have an active family membership in Family Enterprise Canada
An interview for more details will happen prior to assigning a P.A.G Coach
Group must be in agreement in requesting a coach
Meet Our Coaches
Victoria Brown
Steve Legler
Aileen Miziolek
Val Monk
Trudy Pelletier
Holly Simmons
Julie Westeinde
I’m delighted at the opportunity to support P.A.G members. I know how valuable a peer advisory group can be for support, perspectives and insight to actively make progress towards goals, leap over obstacles and feel more inspired. Most importantly, to have a group of people who are fully committed to your success, happiness and fulfillment is magic! I look forward to meeting you and supporting your group.
Victoria Brown is fiercely committed to guiding family businesses to grow their Famili-ness Factor and move past constraints so the can prosper, maintain family harmony and thrive over generations. Over the past 7 years, Victoria has helped leaders and family businesses transition with concerns about how to grow the business, maintain family harmony, preserve their wealth and enjoy life while making crucial decisions. What sets her apart is her experience, training and perspective. She grew up with an entrepreneurial father, has had decades in marketing and business development and presently is the matriarch of a family business and founder of her own business. She is passionate about helping others understand and align with their natural gifts, developing leaders and assisting founders discover their legacy and significance in one of their most important phases of their life. A Family Enterprise Advisor and coach with multiple certifications and a dedication to lifelong learning, she designs strategies, mastermind sessions, facilitated retreats, workshops, and leadership programs around the requirements of each individual and group.
Key Skills
- Communication catalyst
- Co-active and systems coach
- Facilitator
- Workshop leader
P.A.Gs are such a great opportunity for members to learn from each other – and it’s fun for me to help a P.A.G get off on the right foot together! I want to co-create the best experience for all of the members.
Steve is a Family Legacy Advisor based in Montreal, Canada. He grew up in a business family destined to take over the company his father had founded before he was born. After an unexpected liquidity event, he ended up managing their family office instead. He also married into a business family, where he has witnessed a number of other complex issues. He came across the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) program in Canada, which turned into a career-changing calling for him. Since then, he has been working with other business families as they face the challenges surrounding their intergenerational transitions. He works as an advisor, mediator, coach and author.
Key Skills
- Facilitating Family Council meetings
- Creating Family Governance
- Mediating sibling disputes
- Coaching certification and Facilitation and ADR training
- Creating and Moderating Peer groups
Aileen is a trained professional facilitator in experiential learning techniques. Her goal is to provide effective family meeting experiences with the aim to help families increase their capacity and alignment for improved decision-making and wealth stewardship. She works closely with families and leadership teams, supporting them in navigating the complexities that make family business, as well as life and wealth transitions. Aileen brings a multi-disciplined and integrated approach to her work with family businesses, including 20 years of experience in complex financial and estate planning.
Key Skills
- Succession & Continuity Planning
- Family Systems Coaching & Governance
- Communication & Conflict Resolution
- Next Generation Coaching & Education
I am excited to be part of the P.A.G Coach community that Family Enterprise Canada has launched. Since 1996, I have had the opportunity and privilege to be in a Personal Advisory Group. My P.A.G experience has been invaluable to me on so many levels. I am humbled to be welcomed into your P.A.G to share and learn together, enhancing the value of this program. I look forward to supporting your P.A.G experience.
Val has worked in the field of human dynamics and family business systems for over 35 years. As someone who grew up in a family business, she has firsthand appreciation of the incredible energy and commitment that goes into a family business, succession planning and leadership development. Val has offered her professional expertise as a family business advisor, leadership coach, mediator and communication facilitator to businesses, organizations, families and individuals throughout Canada, United States and Mexico. She is an advisor and facilitator with the Alberta Business Family Institute and has designed and delivered programs for Business Families Foundation. With her combined expertise in family business systems, organizational learning, leadership, and psychology, Val possess a unique ability to integrate a diverse range of knowledge, skills and experiences. Clients have referred to her as “the best insurance policy we could have invested in” and “our vision keeper who supports our mission”. As a true entrepreneur, in 2016 Val started an additional business with her husband Ted. Together, they own and operate “Monk’s Lake Place” located in Lake of the Woods. It is a beautiful lakeside destination for private retreats that focus on workshops for personal and professional development, family business education, couple and family relationships, and therapeutic counselling.
Key Skills
- Extensive experience and skills in business family facilitation, succession planning, communication, mediation, leadership development, strategic planning, managing change & transition, coaching, counselling
- P.A.G Member for 21 years
I am pleased to be a member of the Personal Advisory Group Coach Community, supporting members to have an extraordinary experience.
As a Communication Specialist, Trudy enables business families to grow and succeed by connecting family members to what really matters to them. Expanding communication effectiveness and listening levels, while developing governance and process unites families as they create new futures. Trudy facilitates difficult conversations for legacy, succession, and continuity planning such that business families resolve emotionally charged issues and are empowered to navigate the complexities to make decisions through and for transition.
Key Skills
- Specialize in difficult conversations
- Facilitation
- Communication Specialist
- Coach
- Trainer
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with Central Ontario P.A.Gs. I look forward to supporting and providing guidance to members through their P.A.G experience.
Holly Simmons is a Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA™) who provides coaching, facilitation and educational services to successful family businesses looking to discover their true north, articulate shared values, improve communication and create a legacy together. Holly Simmons hold an Honors Business Marketing Management Diploma from Fanshawe College and is an independent Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker with John Maxwell Team. Before starting her own business in 2008, Holly spent 8 years working in the technology sector. Holly’s business has evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of her customers. She works with a wide range of family businesses to help them articulate their brand values, build trusted relationships and develop leadership skills. Industry knowledge includes manufacturing, technology, service companies, luxury goods, hospitality, franchisees, and e-commerce.
Key Skills
- Facilitated a Family Business Leaders Peer Group for a year and a half with monthly meetings, guest speakers, and hot topic discussions. Provided framework, teaching topics and mid-month educational resources for the group.
- Work with a number of successful multi-generational family business to help family members understand their roles, expand their communication tool kit and raise their level of leadership.
- Provide coaching, training, facilitation and thinking partner services.
What a privilege it is to be involved in the development of a new P.A.G group; experiencing the powerful learning, support and breakthroughs that come to life for P.A.G members!
Julie Westeinde is the founder of Breakthrough Learning Connections. She has contributed to transformational change processes around the world; working the interdependence between strategy, culture, multi-stakeholder engagement, leadership, learning, and conscious communication development with edgewalking individuals, teams, organizations and communities for 30 years. She holds a Bachelor in Biochemical Engineering from UWO, and an International Masters in Business Administration from Institut Superieur de Gestion (a multi-campus MBA working, living, and learning in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Ecuador, and China). Her ways are also informed by compassionate communication, the wisdom teachings of indigenous culture, NIA dance, and OnePlanetLiving. She pioneers the application of a living systems lens and creative conversations to strategy, leadership, executive and life coaching, and culture development to awaken a simpler, holistic and more sustainable way of being, and doing and communicating good work in the world. Her pioneering work re: social innovation and conflict evolution for social and environmental sustainability in contexts including urban development, the global textile industry, and First Nations engagement was recently shared at the International Organizational Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Key Skills
- Conflict Evolution
- Empathy Skill Dev’t (NVC)
- Business Strategy Development
- Family Healing
- Team Development
Victoria Brown
Steve Legler
I’m delighted at the opportunity to support P.A.G members. I know how valuable a peer advisory group can be for support, perspectives and insight to actively make progress towards goals, leap over obstacles and feel more inspired. Most importantly, to have a group of people who are fully committed to your success, happiness and fulfillment is magic! I look forward to meeting you and supporting your group.
Victoria Brown is fiercely committed to guiding family businesses to grow their Famili-ness Factor and move past constraints so the can prosper, maintain family harmony and thrive over generations. Over the past 7 years, Victoria has helped leaders and family businesses transition with concerns about how to grow the business, maintain family harmony, preserve their wealth and enjoy life while making crucial decisions. What sets her apart is her experience, training and perspective. She grew up with an entrepreneurial father, has had decades in marketing and business development and presently is the matriarch of a family business and founder of her own business. She is passionate about helping others understand and align with their natural gifts, developing leaders and assisting founders discover their legacy and significance in one of their most important phases of their life. A Family Enterprise Advisor and coach with multiple certifications and a dedication to lifelong learning, she designs strategies, mastermind sessions, facilitated retreats, workshops, and leadership programs around the requirements of each individual and group.
Key Skills
- Communication catalyst
- Co-active and systems coach
- Facilitator
- Workshop leader
P.A.Gs are such a great opportunity for members to learn from each other – and it’s fun for me to help a P.A.G get off on the right foot together! I want to co-create the best experience for all of the members.
Steve is a Family Legacy Advisor based in Montreal, Canada. He grew up in a business family destined to take over the company his father had founded before he was born. After an unexpected liquidity event, he ended up managing their family office instead. He also married into a business family, where he has witnessed a number of other complex issues. He came across the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) program in Canada, which turned into a career-changing calling for him. Since then, he has been working with other business families as they face the challenges surrounding their intergenerational transitions. He works as an advisor, mediator, coach and author.
Key Skills
- Facilitating Family Council meetings
- Creating Family Governance
- Mediating sibling disputes
- Coaching certification and Facilitation and ADR training
- Creating and Moderating Peer groups
Aileen Miziolek
Val Monk
Aileen is a trained professional facilitator in experiential learning techniques. Her goal is to provide effective family meeting experiences with the aim to help families increase their capacity and alignment for improved decision-making and wealth stewardship. She works closely with families and leadership teams, supporting them in navigating the complexities that make family business, as well as life and wealth transitions. Aileen brings a multi-disciplined and integrated approach to her work with family businesses, including 20 years of experience in complex financial and estate planning.
Key Skills
- Succession & Continuity Planning
- Family Systems Coaching & Governance
- Communication & Conflict Resolution
- Next Generation Coaching & Education
I am excited to be part of the P.A.G Coach community that Family Enterprise Canada has launched. Since 1996, I have had the opportunity and privilege to be in a Personal Advisory Group. My P.A.G experience has been invaluable to me on so many levels. I am humbled to be welcomed into your P.A.G to share and learn together, enhancing the value of this program. I look forward to supporting your P.A.G experience.
Val has worked in the field of human dynamics and family business systems for over 35 years. As someone who grew up in a family business, she has firsthand appreciation of the incredible energy and commitment that goes into a family business, succession planning and leadership development. Val has offered her professional expertise as a family business advisor, leadership coach, mediator and communication facilitator to businesses, organizations, families and individuals throughout Canada, United States and Mexico. She is an advisor and facilitator with the Alberta Business Family Institute and has designed and delivered programs for Business Families Foundation. With her combined expertise in family business systems, organizational learning, leadership, and psychology, Val possess a unique ability to integrate a diverse range of knowledge, skills and experiences. Clients have referred to her as “the best insurance policy we could have invested in” and “our vision keeper who supports our mission”. As a true entrepreneur, in 2016 Val started an additional business with her husband Ted. Together, they own and operate “Monk’s Lake Place” located in Lake of the Woods. It is a beautiful lakeside destination for private retreats that focus on workshops for personal and professional development, family business education, couple and family relationships, and therapeutic counselling.
Key Skills
- Extensive experience and skills in business family facilitation, succession planning, communication, mediation, leadership development, strategic planning, managing change & transition, coaching, counselling
- P.A.G Member for 21 years
Trudy Pelletier
Holly Simmons
I am pleased to be a member of the Personal Advisory Group Coach Community, supporting members to have an extraordinary experience.
As a Communication Specialist, Trudy enables business families to grow and succeed by connecting family members to what really matters to them. Expanding communication effectiveness and listening levels, while developing governance and process unites families as they create new futures. Trudy facilitates difficult conversations for legacy, succession, and continuity planning such that business families resolve emotionally charged issues and are empowered to navigate the complexities to make decisions through and for transition.
Key Skills
- Specialize in difficult conversations
- Facilitation
- Communication Specialist
- Coach
- Trainer
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with Central Ontario P.A.Gs. I look forward to supporting and providing guidance to members through their P.A.G experience.
Holly Simmons is a Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA™) who provides coaching, facilitation and educational services to successful family businesses looking to discover their true north, articulate shared values, improve communication and create a legacy together. Holly Simmons hold an Honors Business Marketing Management Diploma from Fanshawe College and is an independent Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker with John Maxwell Team. Before starting her own business in 2008, Holly spent 8 years working in the technology sector. Holly’s business has evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of her customers. She works with a wide range of family businesses to help them articulate their brand values, build trusted relationships and develop leadership skills. Industry knowledge includes manufacturing, technology, service companies, luxury goods, hospitality, franchisees, and e-commerce.
Key Skills
- Facilitated a Family Business Leaders Peer Group for a year and a half with monthly meetings, guest speakers, and hot topic discussions. Provided framework, teaching topics and mid-month educational resources for the group.
- Work with a number of successful multi-generational family business to help family members understand their roles, expand their communication tool kit and raise their level of leadership.
- Provide coaching, training, facilitation and thinking partner services.
Julie Westeinde
What a privilege it is to be involved in the development of a new P.A.G group; experiencing the powerful learning, support and breakthroughs that come to life for P.A.G members!
Julie Westeinde is the founder of Breakthrough Learning Connections. She has contributed to transformational change processes around the world; working the interdependence between strategy, culture, multi-stakeholder engagement, leadership, learning, and conscious communication development with edgewalking individuals, teams, organizations and communities for 30 years. She holds a Bachelor in Biochemical Engineering from UWO, and an International Masters in Business Administration from Institut Superieur de Gestion (a multi-campus MBA working, living, and learning in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Ecuador, and China). Her ways are also informed by compassionate communication, the wisdom teachings of indigenous culture, NIA dance, and OnePlanetLiving. She pioneers the application of a living systems lens and creative conversations to strategy, leadership, executive and life coaching, and culture development to awaken a simpler, holistic and more sustainable way of being, and doing and communicating good work in the world. Her pioneering work re: social innovation and conflict evolution for social and environmental sustainability in contexts including urban development, the global textile industry, and First Nations engagement was recently shared at the International Organizational Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Key Skills
- Conflict Evolution
- Empathy Skill Dev’t (NVC)
- Business Strategy Development
- Family Healing
- Team Development
Victoria Brown
Steve Legler
Aileen Miziolek
I’m delighted at the opportunity to support P.A.G members. I know how valuable a peer advisory group can be for support, perspectives and insight to actively make progress towards goals, leap over obstacles and feel more inspired. Most importantly, to have a group of people who are fully committed to your success, happiness and fulfillment is magic! I look forward to meeting you and supporting your group.
Victoria Brown is fiercely committed to guiding family businesses to grow their Famili-ness Factor and move past constraints so the can prosper, maintain family harmony and thrive over generations. Over the past 7 years, Victoria has helped leaders and family businesses transition with concerns about how to grow the business, maintain family harmony, preserve their wealth and enjoy life while making crucial decisions. What sets her apart is her experience, training and perspective. She grew up with an entrepreneurial father, has had decades in marketing and business development and presently is the matriarch of a family business and founder of her own business. She is passionate about helping others understand and align with their natural gifts, developing leaders and assisting founders discover their legacy and significance in one of their most important phases of their life. A Family Enterprise Advisor and coach with multiple certifications and a dedication to lifelong learning, she designs strategies, mastermind sessions, facilitated retreats, workshops, and leadership programs around the requirements of each individual and group.
Key Skills
- Communication catalyst
- Co-active and systems coach
- Facilitator
- Workshop leader
P.A.Gs are such a great opportunity for members to learn from each other – and it’s fun for me to help a P.A.G get off on the right foot together! I want to co-create the best experience for all of the members.
Steve is a Family Legacy Advisor based in Montreal, Canada. He grew up in a business family destined to take over the company his father had founded before he was born. After an unexpected liquidity event, he ended up managing their family office instead. He also married into a business family, where he has witnessed a number of other complex issues. He came across the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) program in Canada, which turned into a career-changing calling for him. Since then, he has been working with other business families as they face the challenges surrounding their intergenerational transitions. He works as an advisor, mediator, coach and author.
Key Skills
- Facilitating Family Council meetings
- Creating Family Governance
- Mediating sibling disputes
- Coaching certification and Facilitation and ADR training
- Creating and Moderating Peer groups
Aileen is a trained professional facilitator in experiential learning techniques. Her goal is to provide effective family meeting experiences with the aim to help families increase their capacity and alignment for improved decision-making and wealth stewardship. She works closely with families and leadership teams, supporting them in navigating the complexities that make family business, as well as life and wealth transitions. Aileen brings a multi-disciplined and integrated approach to her work with family businesses, including 20 years of experience in complex financial and estate planning.
Key Skills
- Succession & Continuity Planning
- Family Systems Coaching & Governance
- Communication & Conflict Resolution
- Next Generation Coaching & Education
Val Monk
Trudy Pelletier
Holly Simmons
I am excited to be part of the P.A.G Coach community that Family Enterprise Canada has launched. Since 1996, I have had the opportunity and privilege to be in a Personal Advisory Group. My P.A.G experience has been invaluable to me on so many levels. I am humbled to be welcomed into your P.A.G to share and learn together, enhancing the value of this program. I look forward to supporting your P.A.G experience.
Val has worked in the field of human dynamics and family business systems for over 35 years. As someone who grew up in a family business, she has firsthand appreciation of the incredible energy and commitment that goes into a family business, succession planning and leadership development. Val has offered her professional expertise as a family business advisor, leadership coach, mediator and communication facilitator to businesses, organizations, families and individuals throughout Canada, United States and Mexico. She is an advisor and facilitator with the Alberta Business Family Institute and has designed and delivered programs for Business Families Foundation. With her combined expertise in family business systems, organizational learning, leadership, and psychology, Val possess a unique ability to integrate a diverse range of knowledge, skills and experiences. Clients have referred to her as “the best insurance policy we could have invested in” and “our vision keeper who supports our mission”. As a true entrepreneur, in 2016 Val started an additional business with her husband Ted. Together, they own and operate “Monk’s Lake Place” located in Lake of the Woods. It is a beautiful lakeside destination for private retreats that focus on workshops for personal and professional development, family business education, couple and family relationships, and therapeutic counselling.
Key Skills
- Extensive experience and skills in business family facilitation, succession planning, communication, mediation, leadership development, strategic planning, managing change & transition, coaching, counselling
- P.A.G Member for 21 years
I am pleased to be a member of the Personal Advisory Group Coach Community, supporting members to have an extraordinary experience.
As a Communication Specialist, Trudy enables business families to grow and succeed by connecting family members to what really matters to them. Expanding communication effectiveness and listening levels, while developing governance and process unites families as they create new futures. Trudy facilitates difficult conversations for legacy, succession, and continuity planning such that business families resolve emotionally charged issues and are empowered to navigate the complexities to make decisions through and for transition.
Key Skills
- Specialize in difficult conversations
- Facilitation
- Communication Specialist
- Coach
- Trainer
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with Central Ontario P.A.Gs. I look forward to supporting and providing guidance to members through their P.A.G experience.
Holly Simmons is a Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA™) who provides coaching, facilitation and educational services to successful family businesses looking to discover their true north, articulate shared values, improve communication and create a legacy together. Holly Simmons hold an Honors Business Marketing Management Diploma from Fanshawe College and is an independent Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker with John Maxwell Team. Before starting her own business in 2008, Holly spent 8 years working in the technology sector. Holly’s business has evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of her customers. She works with a wide range of family businesses to help them articulate their brand values, build trusted relationships and develop leadership skills. Industry knowledge includes manufacturing, technology, service companies, luxury goods, hospitality, franchisees, and e-commerce.
Key Skills
- Facilitated a Family Business Leaders Peer Group for a year and a half with monthly meetings, guest speakers, and hot topic discussions. Provided framework, teaching topics and mid-month educational resources for the group.
- Work with a number of successful multi-generational family business to help family members understand their roles, expand their communication tool kit and raise their level of leadership.
- Provide coaching, training, facilitation and thinking partner services.
Julie Westeinde
What a privilege it is to be involved in the development of a new P.A.G group; experiencing the powerful learning, support and breakthroughs that come to life for P.A.G members!
Julie Westeinde is the founder of Breakthrough Learning Connections. She has contributed to transformational change processes around the world; working the interdependence between strategy, culture, multi-stakeholder engagement, leadership, learning, and conscious communication development with edgewalking individuals, teams, organizations and communities for 30 years. She holds a Bachelor in Biochemical Engineering from UWO, and an International Masters in Business Administration from Institut Superieur de Gestion (a multi-campus MBA working, living, and learning in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Ecuador, and China). Her ways are also informed by compassionate communication, the wisdom teachings of indigenous culture, NIA dance, and OnePlanetLiving. She pioneers the application of a living systems lens and creative conversations to strategy, leadership, executive and life coaching, and culture development to awaken a simpler, holistic and more sustainable way of being, and doing and communicating good work in the world. Her pioneering work re: social innovation and conflict evolution for social and environmental sustainability in contexts including urban development, the global textile industry, and First Nations engagement was recently shared at the International Organizational Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Key Skills
- Conflict Evolution
- Empathy Skill Dev’t (NVC)
- Business Strategy Development
- Family Healing
- Team Development
Request a Coach
If you would like a coach for your P.A.G, please email us by clicking here to arrange a time to discuss the needs of your group and determine next steps. Please note that you cannot request specific coaches.