"When dealing with a challenging situation, it's easy to lose parts of yourself in that stress and hurt. You kept saying to me, remind yourself of who you are -- not 'don't be mad' or 'don't be hurt,' just remember who you are as a person. I have held on to that. The exercise to say, 'how would you describe things without defending yourself?' That's an opportunity for anyone who is managing a challenging conversation."

As an Executive Coach, I know that Alisa is there to support me with the challenges, issues, and growth I am faced with. She coaches me, not the problem or issue I am having. She provides me with a safe place to be vulnerable and explore the situations I am faced with. Alisa is an excellent thinking partner that I highly recommend to everyone.

"We hired Alisa to conduct an evalation on the Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-racism Practice Standard. Her guidance in our work was invaluable. She is a skilled, thoughtful and professional facilitator, engaging in dialogue with physicians to gather insight and develop recommendations for future actions. As this was a new initiative for the College, Alisa was also helpful in providing overall direction to our work, leading us through the process of evaluation. Without hesitation, we would work with Alisa again and would recommend her services to others."

Alisa has deep knowledge of BC's Mental Health, Primary Care, and Integrated Primary and Community systems of care, at the macro and micro levels, from rural to urban. She is collaborative and has worked effectively with teams including representatives from Social Ministries, Health Authorities, academia, health care professionals, community agencies and more. Her management skills are excellent, allowing her to establish credibility and trust with a wide variety of stakeholders. She has demonstrated vital change-management skills that enable buy-in, and her written work is high-quality, concise, accurate and easy to read with a strong story line. Alisa is an excellent listener who can tailor communications for any audience, and whose passion, credibility, and flexibility make her a real pleasure to work with.

We retained Alisa's services to support the development and preparation of a complex application for funding that involved a partnered submission with a number of key elements still to be determined, compounded by a short time-line for completion. Despite these challenges Alisa was able to quickly focus our partnership on the work to be resolved and was able to weave together multiple inputs from various sources. Alisa's ability to both analyze and address the ongoing changes was remarkable and we  greatly benefited from her skilled approach. Despite the challenges we were able to deliver a clear and credible application within the stated time frame. Her roles encompassed that of facilitator, conflict resolver, researcher, analyzer, innovator and writer and we were very lucky she was able to support us so capably at a time of significant need.

In coaching conversations, "You mirrored what was in my heart. I didn't know how to verbalize it."