Speaking Coaching Consulting
Enabling leaders and teams to navigate disruption.
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CERTIFIED COACH
The pace of change and the degree of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in almost all spheres of our lives today makes it difficult, if not impossible to predict the outcome of our decisions and actions.
OceanBlue exists to help individuals, teams and organizations:
Act intentionally to achieve the most impactful outcomes in their complex and uncertain context.
Make decisions with reflection, analysis of issues and multiple perspectives.
Develop collaborative learning cultures where teams can move forward with radical and respectful candour.
Define their purpose and path to act intentionally in line with their values.
The individual or team has the answer. Vast sources of information, insight and possibly genius level thinking is available within yourself, your team and your organization. What is required is a set of processes, questions, activities and organizing frameworks to draw out that genius.
Using a series of guided conversations, assessments and custom consulting, learning and facilitated working session solutions, OceanBlue acts as a guide to help uncover the right set of decisions and actions for your and your teams’ complex context, challenge or opportunity.
Affiliate of The Summit Group, a leading provider of value creation and business acumen training for sales people and relationship managers
Core member of the Ivey Academy Coaching Network , a group of experienced coaches supporting leaders as they learn to navigate the challenge of addressing society’s issues and opportunities...with competence, character and commitment.
Certified practitioner of Motivation Factor, a unique and scientifically proven approach to measure and increase motivation of individuals and teams.
“Shakeel's leadership coaching has elevated my ability to lead and inspire my own teams. His thoughtful approach to encouraging, motivating and challenging others allows those he works with to flourish, gain self-awareness and achieve the goals they set out to achieve.”
Alyssa Barry, Vice President, Capital Markets and Communications, Sandpiper Group
“Shakeel is a great thinker, listener, communicator, teacher and leader. Shakeel is the person that others turn to when they are seeking inspiration, clear thinking and direction. In addition to being one of the smartest people I have had the privilege to work with, Shakeel is one of the most honourable and sincere people I have ever met.”
Robert Swanborough, General Manager, Europe, Insulet
“I have had the pleasure of working with Shakeel as it relates to a sales organization transformation. We were extremely impressed with the vision and strategic content of what Shakeel had to offer.”
Jeff Knisley, Vice President Sales, Rise People
“Shakeel is a highly-intelligent leader who cares about the development and success of his team. His strategic approach consistently delivers bottom line results and makes him a respected asset to any team.”
Laurie Speed-Stoneburgh, Vice President Sales & Customer Service, Canpar Courier and ICS Courier
“Shakeel has a rare combination of exceptional strategic insight and natural implementation abilities. He has an innate ability to remove obstacles to organic sales growth, understanding customer requirements and clearly articulating the value of a product offering in a way that can be easily embraced at all levels of the organization. He is clearly a thought leader in creating customer value.”
Craig Loudon, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President - Supply Chain, Indigo
“Shakeel is on my list of best leaders. He inspired me and the team with his knowledge, vision, open-minded approach to ideas and overall professionalism. Being on his team was a memorable time in my career – everyone was excited, everyone was motivated, it was fun to go to work and it was all because of Shakeel’s great leadership.”
Gladys Miranda, Marketing Manager, Ricoh Canada Inc.
“Shakeel is not only a great leader but truly a great coach, mentor and visionary! Shakeel is eager to listen and learn. Thinking outside the box is one thing but understanding and being able to articulate the value is quite another, and Shakeel has both abilities.”
Ryan Persad, Director Logistics, Purolator Inc.
“Shakeel combines passion and clear direction to achieve profitable business growth. He worked with our management team to transform our traditional sales approach to a customer-focused, value-added, business solutions team. The result was a direct and measurable increase in profit.”
Sheldon Bell, Retired Chief Financial Officer, Purolator Inc. and General Manager, Purolator Freight
"Melina is a terrific coach that finds a way to bring out the best out of presenters with different levels of presentation experience, background, seniority. She is incredibly thoughtful, engaging, and is great in finding a balance between pushing you to get better, and building you up. It was incredible to see her coach seven of us ahead of a TEDx event and witness how much better we all became."
Antón Blagov, Director Strategy, OMERS
“His passion, professionalism, intelligence and team building abilities were very inspiring to me. Always open to new ideas and a focused listener, Shakeel has that personable touch that makes people feel at ease with him very quickly. Having the unique combination of a results-focused professional, strategic marketer with strong team building abilities.”
Heather Carter,Online Marketing Strategist, Principal, Digital Punch
“I was impressed by his ability to manage people, to bring consensus to a large working group and to remain completely committed to the successful outcome of the project. He used good problem solving techniques that resulted in an intelligent and practical solution for the client.”
Katie Nelson,Global Head of Learning and Development, Oliver Wyman
“Shakeel is a dynamic, passionate leader with demonstrated ability of raising organizations’ capabilities by focusing on people and processes, and by leveraging focused strategies aimed at delivering results. He is fair, honest and direct with people and takes genuine interest in listening and coaching.”
Marc Fuentes, Director Marketing and eCommerce, Livingston International
“I was fortunate enough to experience Shakeel's excellent teaching ability at university. His skills translated very well into providing a course with significant depth and clarity. The case study method led to a dynamic classroom setting. I would be hard-pressed to recall a class that has impacted me greater than this one.”
Darren Matis, Full Stack Developer, SAP
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“I had the pleasure of attending one of Joel's sessions 'Listening: A Soft Skill With A Hard Impact.' Throughout my professional career I have attended numerous sessions, but this was the most engaging, energetic, and impactful session by far. The ENTIRE room was participating through a fresh, new approach to teaching a critical soft skill. their staff and improving skills.”
Lynda Esposito, National Sales and Training manager Dun & Bradstreet