i help teams trust each other. from here everything becomes possible. get clear and aligned on your vision. have bold kind conversations. build strong relationships. lead with confidence. get results.

who I guide

I guide teams here to make a difference in the world. Organizations where values are more than words on a wall. Where the care of people meets the impact of the work.

After 15,000 hours of facilitation, I’ve learned for team development to work, two things exist:

  1. Leaders 100% support it for the team and themselves. They show up for the learning. Without that, it’s a checkbox of a KPI.

  2. The team wants to grow. There’s a willingness to try new things and change.

my style

Expect a coach approach, leading methodologies, and relevant practices you can use immediately. I’m known for my ability to distill complex frameworks into easy-to-apply strategies. I use a decolonizing, equity lens that prioritizes creating safer, braver spaces where people can be themselves and forward-moving dialogue can happen.

I facilitate for great leaders:

  • Senior leadership retreats and team off-sites

  • New and reforming teams needing to build trust and collaboration

  • Teams that need help being great leaders

what is leadership?

Leadership is a gathering of unique strengths, lived experiences, personality types, individual and organizational goals, and the dynamics between people that are changing moment by moment. There is no one right way to lead.

Great leaders create conditions for people to thrive.

This means people have:

  • Agency in your choices and actions.

  • A sense of Purpose in what you do.

  • Safety to be your whole amazing self.

  • Dignity to thrive.

  • Real Belonging.

“Always a joy to work with you.”

— Tracy Hutton, VP of People and Team Development, lululemon

“Thank you Ursz! You are incredible. Much appreciation and gratitude.”

— August Bergdahl, Principal Business Development & Operations, Crescent Builds

Great Leaders Program

Three levels of team development to help you thrive as leaders and as a team. Investment varies by team size, format, and depth. Book a consult and we'll scope the right fit for your team.

Level 1: You As Leader

Identify your leadership strengths and style, and where you get stuck. Know your stressors and what you need to thrive. And more — understand each other so you can thrive together. Includes a comprehensive Enneagram iEQ9 assessment that identifies your core type — personality, strengths, motivation, limitations, and opportunities — creating a roadmap for accelerated, integrative, and sustainable development in individuals, teams, and organizations.

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:

  • Define your leadership style

  • Identify your strengths, blind spots, defence mechanisms and triggers

  • Understand what guides your motivations, decisions, and metrics of success

  • Identify your type under stress and how to lead from your strengths

  • Build trust, understanding and collaboration with your colleagues

DELIVERY:

  • Format: 1.5 in-person session, or split across 2 half-day virtual sessions

  • Coaching: 1 × 45-min coaching session per leader to support individual growth

  • Team size: up to 14 people

BOOK LEVEL ONE
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Level 2: We As Leaders

Thrive as a team. Create new pathways for resolving conflict, building collaboration, and navigating change better together. Builds on Level 1: You as Leader with the comprehensive iEQ9 Enneagram Teams report that maps your team’s leadership style, conflict approach, decision-making matrix, relationship blocks, and opportunities for shared success. Understand why you struggle and why you get along so you can spend more time in synergy moving toward shared goals.

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:

  • Define your team’s leadership style

  • Leverage your team’s strengths to build collaboration and take risks

  • Strengthen your team’s response through conflict and change

  • Learn how to effectively and authentically work with people who see and approach things differently from you

  • Build trust to make decisions as a team

DELIVERY:

  • Format: 1.5 full-day in-person session, or split across 3 half-day virtual sessions

  • Coaching: 2 × 45-min coaching session per leader to support individual growth

  • Team size: up to 14 people

BOOK LEVEL TWO
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Level 3: Advanced Teams

Increase your impact. Building on Levels 1 and 2, Advanced Teams development sessions
focus on the 9 core competencies, leveraging the insights from your individual and team
iEQ9 reports. These sessions are customized to your team’s unique needs and to what’s
needed within your organization.

Advanced Teams development sessions focus on the 9 core competencies, leveraging insights from your individual and team iEQ9 reports.

  • Self-awareness + Regulation

  • Communication

  • Relationships

  • Conflict + Change

  • Growing leaders

  • Strategy

  • Decision making

  • Inner Development

  • Time + Task Management

DELIVERY:

  • Time: 3–6-month engagement (most teams choose monthly or bi-monthly sessions)

  • Format: customized based on the competencies you choose to focus on

  • Team size: up to 14 people

SCHEDULE YOUR OFFSITE

iEQ9 enneagram leadership tool

I use a comprehensive assessment tool called the iEQ9 Enneagram that identifies your core Enneagram type: personality, motivation, self-limiting beliefs, blindspots and opportunities. I find this test to be the most accurate and effective of all the leadership assessment tools.

I use professional individual reports and team reports.

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LEADER report

Identifies each team member’s core type and covers Enneagram specific constructs that support self-awareness and growth.. Includes specific leadership competencies that influence effectiveness and development on decision-making and strategic thinking.

View a sample professional report.

Included in the report:

team report

Teams are fundamental to performance and yet take continuous care and effort to understand, align and develop. Teamwork and collaboration challenge our organizations and individuals, requiring greater awareness of themselves and how they engage with others in teams.

View a sample team report.

Included in the report:

some of my amazing clients

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“Thank you so much Urszula. We haven’t stopped talking about our session. With ourselves and our partners!”

— Leslie Bonshor, VP Indigenous Health, Vancouver Coastal Health

you are here to shine.

GROW YOUR TEAM