Extraordinary Leadership I Dagmara Asbreuk Coaching & Consulting

Extraordinary Leadership is a leadership transformation company that merges executive coaching, deep identity and energy work, and leadership advisory to help executives and teams lead with boldness making lasting impact & living a legacy behind.

We don’t just develop skills. We help leaders evolve from within to drive exponential business growth, team transformation, and a new era of leadership.

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AIIR Consulting

Senior Executive Leadership Coach

Positive Intelligence

Mental Fitness coach | Positive Intelligence

net4tec

Developed and lead 2 editions of a leadership development program for female leaders, focusing on building highly effective teams and growing talents.

EntreNous Program- Building Highly Effective Teams  - design and facilitation 

Kongsberg Automotive

Head of 2 global project purchasing teams serving 2 different Business Units.
Member of BU management teams and Purchasing management team.
Reporting directly to VP Global Project Purchasing & dottet line to (Sr) Executive VP of Business Units (Heads of Business Unit).
My mission was to implement a newly transformed organization focused on project execution, initiation & lead of supplier VAVE and supplier integration in customer projects on time and budget. Build organizational knowledge & develop teams and talents.

Global Project Purchasing Manager

DENSO

My mission was to strengthen the regional purchasing organization and supply base in Europe covering 11 plants. Together with my team of 3 project and commodity leaders, 7 purchasing executives and leaders in Europe we developed and implemented a regional direction and processes in key areas: supplier and risk management, organizational competency, and Supplier Relationship Management. 
Together with my team, we covered the area of raw materials and parts. 
One of my key roles was to develop my own team, guide and develop my members to become regional leaders.
Reported directly to Head of European Purchasing.

European Purchasing Manager

I initiated and led an establishment of a regional direction on Supplier Management for parts and raw materials, through new cross-functional cooperation. I led a project of 7 strategic buyers and managers from different locations in the European procurement organization that focused on developing key regional supplier management processes. 
I recruited, onboarded, and supported the development of a new European purchasing team.
Reported to Head of European Purchasing and dotted line to VP BU Purchasing.

European Purchasing Team & Regional Project Leader

My mission was to assure cost targets and supplier excellence for the whole portfolio of Aluminium & Flux (Raw Materials) for 7 plants in Europe and spend of 80mln€. 
The responsibility was from benchmarks and internal analysis, vision and strategy definition, guidance on market and price trends, alignment with key top stakeholders in regional management and BU’s to execution in cooperation with cross-functional stakeholders and plant buyers including contract management and negotiation of long-term agreements.
Beyond the above key role, I actively contributed to leveling up commodity management in the organization by establishing a regional standard

European Commodity Manager

I led an aluminum extrusion area and was responsible for strategy development and execution, supply base management, and cost management for 7 plants with a spend of over 40mln€.
Beyond that, I proactively contributed to the development of the regional commodity management function for raw materials, by building a supplier market and capability knowledge, and process efficiency.

European Commodity Buyer

FAURECIA AST, Mouzon, France

Responsible for assuring supplier readiness and meeting cost targets for French customers' projects. Managed suppliers for injection molding, stamping parts, and textile.

Project Buyer

Where inner expansion lead to quantum leaps in
leadership, organization & business.

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Dagmara Asbreuk

Starting your own business is one of the most exciting and demanding - career transitions.

Guiding many leaders through their transition into entrepreneurship, and building my own business, one truth became very clear:

Entrepreneurship is more than a career move - it’s your own evolution.

Your business grows to the level of your own growth.

I see there are at least 2 camps on how to build your business:
1️⃣ Chasing best strategies, working very hard, pushing a lot - ending up in exhaustion

2️⃣ Building a business from aligned inner place & from the new paradigm of leadership (energetic, intuitive, conscious)

I am choosing the number 2.

That path definitely requires an inner growth & shift in leadership paradigm.

👉 Here are 9 beliefs that were paradigm shifting in my business.

Some of them are opposite to traditional approaches.

To succeed with your business, you must become the leader your vision and business require. 

That is a strategic priority, not a nice to have.
Everything starts there.

Which beliefs do you run your business with?
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9 beliefs that shifted paradigm in my business

You Don’t Need to Push Harder - You Need to Restore Flow.


You can have the right strategy, vision, and goals but when your flow is blocked, even the smallest action feels heavy.

You start doubting yourself.
Overthinking. Procrastinating.
Feeling disconnected and depleted.

Recently, a client came to me feeling exactly that.

Her nervous system was protecting her - not because she wasn’t capable, but because it didn’t yet feel safe to expand and move forward.

That’s where the real shift begins.
- From doing more → to being more aligned.
- From forcing movement → to creating safety, space, and trust inside.

This is how leadership evolves in the new paradigm - Quantum Leadership.

Leading with awareness of the Law of Resonance.
Prioritizing inner state alignment before action and strategy.

Because who you’re being - not just what you’re doing - shapes your results.

Flow can not be forced.
Flow is a natural state of inner alignment where everything begins to move again with ease and less efforts.

Every journey to restore flow unfolds through three natural stages:
1️⃣ Regulate 
Calm the nervous system, create inner safety, let energy move again.

2️⃣ Elevate 
Release resistance, rebuild confidence, expand capacity for ease and trust.

3️⃣ Stabilize 
Anchor habits that sustain flow and hold more success with grace.

When you restore flow, clarity returns.
Confidence expands.
Creative momentum reignites.

You don’t rise by pushing harder - you rise by aligning deeper.

Your next executive role won’t come because of your experience.


At this level, your expertise and results are already expected.

They’re the entry ticket - not the differentiator.

What truly makes the difference in landing your next executive role and thriving in it - is your magnetic presence & energy you radiate when you speak, listen, and lead. 

The way people feel when they’re with you.
The trust, calm confidence, and certainty you radiate.
That quiet power that makes others feel “I want to work with this person.”

Because presence speaks louder than any resume.

And it’s what creates opportunities that logic alone can’t.

In my work with executives navigating transitions, I often say:
👉 “It’s not about doing more - it’s about becoming & being more.”

To create your next chapter intentionally, you need:

1️⃣ Aligned clarity from within - knowing not just what you want next, but who you’re becoming to succeed.

2️⃣ Courage in letting go - of identities, beliefs, patterns, or environments that no longer reflect your potential or next level.

3️⃣ Embodied presence - transpiring trust, confidence, certainty, and your next-level self.

These shifts help you become magnetic - naturally attract the right opportunities, clients, and roles.

People feel it.
They trust you.
They choose you.

Whether you’re preparing for your next executive move, attracting strategic clients, or elevating your leadership team - the path begins with you “Becoming magnetic”.

This is what we focus on in the first phase of The Legacy Leader™ - helping executives reconnect with their essence, elevate their state, and embody the leader their next level requires.

If you’re standing at the edge of your next chapter - let’s explore 
the faster, and most aligned way forward.

Every time you’re called to your next level…

It’s because your soul desires expansion.

It wants you to grow, serve at a deeper level, impact more people and live from your fullness.

And that requires you to rise.
Again. And again. And again.

After all, you’re not here to play small.
You’re being invited to lead from the bigness of who you truly are.

There are two ways your next level calls you forward:

1️⃣ You aspire for more.
More impact.
More meaning.
More joy, abundance, growth, fulfilment.
More alignment in your career - bigger roles, broader influence, deeper purpose.

2️⃣ Life pushes you forward.
Through challenges, stagnation, misalignment, disconnection, or results that no longer match who you are becoming.

Both circumstances lead to the same invitation:
Rise higher from within.

Every time you choose to rise higher, above the current self and paradigm.

You rise to your truest, highest and most powerful self.
And everyone you lead rises with you.

And here’s the truth:
Each time you go through this process, supported and equipped - you move through it faster.

Your leadership expands faster.
Your impact grows faster.

👉 So here is a reflection for you today:
Where are you invited to rise?
What legacy are you invited to step into?

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✨ If you know you’re meant for your next level - not someday, but now, then The Legacy Leader™ is your space.

It’s where CEOs, executives activate multidimensional growth, and rise into leaders who set a new standard - for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

📩 Get in touch if you want to explore this evolution.

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✨ Lifting the baseline you operate from
✨ Releasing what no longer belongs to your path
✨ Shaping the next version of you
✨ Expanding safety in your body to hold more
✨ Strengthening your ability to lead your mind - so it supports, not sabotages, your expansion
✨ Elevating your state
✨ Embodying new ways of thinking, being, and leading

Your soul desires expansion.

Here’s a reminder I returned to in my own leadership journey this year -
and one I believe many leaders need to hear.


For a long time, we’ve been taught that growth is about becoming.
Becoming better.
Becoming stronger.
Becoming more confident.
Becoming our “next-level self.”

But here’s the truth:
Leadership growth is not about becoming.
It’s about embodying the powerful & true you - you already carry inside.

The one your mind often tries to doubt, minimize, or confuse.

The shift happens when you move from:
❌ “Who do I need to become?”
to
✨ “Who am I being called to embody right now?”

Because the truth is:
Your highest identity isn’t somewhere in the future.

It already exists within you - waiting to be attuned to, not chased.

You do not need to create it.
You need to attune to the frequency that already exists.

This is the paradigm shift that changes everything:
→ your decisions
→ your presence
→ your energy
→ your clarity
→ your impact

Leaders don’t rise by striving.
They rise by remembering their truth and attuning to its frequency.

So if you’re in a season of transition, uncertainty, reinvention or stuckness -
let this be your anchor:

You already hold the identity your next chapter calls for.
Your work is to attune to it - not become it.

This is what we do in The Legacy Leader™ - guiding CEOs, executives, and founders in attuning to their higher identity, so multidimensional growth becomes inevitable.

Want to know more. Let's connect.

Most leaders and teams challenges don’t come from strategy.

They come from inner patterns leaders need to master.

This week on the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, I sat down with Christopher Salem - workplace strategist, bestselling author, and EQ expert - to unpack the real drivers behind high-performing teams:

How leaders manage emotions, communicate, and create psychological safety.

What moved me most was Chris’s honesty.
He shared how early emotional patterns shaped his leadership… until he chose to break through and lead from clarity, grounded presence, and intention.

In this episode Chris share his simple yet powerful framework - “Five Things You Can Control,” - any leader can use to build psychological safety, ownership, and sustainable high performance:

In this episode we unpack each of the 5, and especially:
✅ How assumptions destroy trust and what to replace them with
✅ Shifting from reactivity to grounded response
✅ Aligning behavior with the leader you want to be
✅ How attitude shapes influence
✅ Taking aligned action that actually moves the needle

If you want to elevate your communication, team collaboration and impact as a leader - this conversation is a must.

👉 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dKFcQ3Tr

The 5 EQ Drivers to Master in Leadership and with Teams with Chris Salem

Your mind cannot realize what your body cannot hold.


This year reminded me how vital it is to strengthen the body’s capacity - the nervous system’s ability to hold expansion toward bigger visions and goals.

Because no matter how strong your mindset - if your nervous system isn’t ready, it will slow you down.

In my work with executives, embodiment of the next-level self is always at the forefront - because you cannot realize your next chapter without elevating your inner baseline.

The version of you that got you here - your current identity, beliefs, emotional range, and energetic capacity - cannot take you there.

That’s why ambitious leaders who focus only on strategy or skills often repeat the same patterns again and again.

Because the same inner architecture keeps recreating the same results.

To realize your next-level vision, the baseline must elevate.

👉 The challenge is this:
Your current baseline feels safe and familiar - to both your mind and your body.

So when you step into a new level of growth, discomfort and resistance naturally arise.

The mind starts to overthink, confuse, sabotage.
The body contracts, freezes, or numbs out.

👉 whispering: “You want to expand… but I’m not ready yet.”

If you push through this phase, your nervous system moves into overdrive -
and eventually, it will force you to stop.

It might look like tiredness, exhaustion, lack of clarity, disconnection, procrastination, or even physical symptoms.

You are not falling behind - it’s a sign of expansion.

And your body says: “Pause. Integrate. Expand your capacity within.”

This is where true leadership transformation happens.
The nervous system becomes your gateway.

When your body- nervous system - feels safe to hold more- you can hold higher levels of responsibility, vision, and impact.

➡️ That’s when leadership becomes magnetic.
➡️ That’s when influence feels effortless.
➡️ That’s when results multiply.

Grateful for the new discoveries and somatic tools I now bring to my clients who are navigating the same expansion.

Because…
Your vision cannot grow beyond what your body - nervous system - can hold.

👉How much capacity are you allowing your body to build for the next level you’re stepping into?

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Alana Tart Coaching

Certified coach (ICF-ACC, CPCC, NARM), mindfulness teacher (BAMBA, Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body) with a background in psychology working with clients at inflection points (including when quietly asking: “is this still what I want?”).

This work is practical, strategic, and deeply human, helping you reconnect with clarity, capacity, and a sense of meaning that fits from the inside out.

Coaching & Mindfulness (Individual or Group, inc MBSR)

The Legal Director

The Legal Director  (TLD) is a fully regulated law firm that provides businesses with experienced, high-calibre lawyers on a fractional or flexible basis. 

As part of TLD I work with SMEs as a fractional/part time General Counsel advising on all areas of business law including:
- Commercial Law and Contracts (including customer, supplier and distributor agreements)
- Technology agreements (waterfall/agile/SaaS)
- NDAs & Confidentiality Agreements
- Crisis Management
-Cyber security (readiness and breaches)
- Data protection
- Competition and Anti-trust issues
- Dispute resolution
- Risk Management

Client Legal Director

Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC) Inc

Dominant Information Solutions Canada Inc (DISC) is a niche provider of security consulting service. We service industry and government clients by providing services that include: developing cyber security programs, designing and engineering cyber security and IT solutions, breach response services, and providing risk assessment and management services. DISC works with clients to examine new and innovative technologies from the Canada and overseas to ensure customers get an optimal return on investment from their capability. 

Since 2019, DISC has been a leading global innovator in niche satellite engineering and security, receiving multiple research grants for methods to improve the health and operational success of satellites.

DISC also specializes in providing Subject Matter Expert advice to court cases, and has provided court opinions in high profile cases in Canada such as the class action suites against Lifelabs, Capital One, and Facebook.

General Counsel and Board Director

The Mentor Well

The Mentor Well aims to provide teens and young adults with essential life skills, emotional support, and personal growth opportunities through one-on-one mentoring, group mentoring, and various online courses. We focus on fostering long-term development and mental wellness in an increasingly complex world, equipping young individuals to navigate their futures confidently.

COO, General Counsel, Mentor

Philip Morris International

Senior Counsel

Ascential Plc

Ascential is a specialist, global, publicly listed information company that helps the world’s most ambitious businesses (e.g. P&G, Unilever, Nestle, gsk, Bayer, Philips, hp) win in the digital economy by providing business-critical intelligence, world-class events and advice to enable smart decision-making for businesses. It operates from 39 offices around the world serving customers in over 150 countries. Its brands include Edge, Flywheel, WGSN, Medialink, Cannes Lions and Money 2020.

Legal Director (Group) at Ascential

Ooyala (acquired Videoplaza)

A global online video platform, offering best-of-breed online video analytics and monetization solutions that boost revenues from video. Part of Telstra Corporation Limited from 2014 until 2018.

Senior Corporate Counsel (responsible for EMEA)

Videoplaza (acquired by Ooyala)

Videoplaza's mission was to empower broadcasters and video publishers to build profitable and sustainable businesses in the internet-delivered TV world. More than 50% of the broadcasters in Europe run their advertising businesses on Videoplaza's flagship offering Karbon (Videoplaza’s customers include M6 (France) and IP Deutschland (Germany), TV4 (Sweden), Mediaset (Spain), STV (U.K.), MediaCorp (Asia), Sony Entertainment India and Singapore's Mediacorp). The technology, built for video, is device agnostic and empowers publishers to trade across sales channels, maximising the value of their audiences. Videoplaza's services were offered globally and the company had local teams across Europe and Asia.

Head of Legal and Company Secretary

Latham & Watkins

An integrated, multinational full-service law that provides strategic and innovative legal solutions to clients' complex business and legal challenges.

Associate

Virgin Media

The first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, offering television, internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services. It had ~5M customers in 2012 and revenue of £4.1B. Now part of Liberty Global.

Secondee from Latham & Watkins- Associate Counsel (Regulatory and Digital Entertainment)

Executive Coach | Mindfulness teacher | General Counsel (ex BigLaw, ex Fortune 100) | Outdoor enthusiast

Values driven leaders and high achievers turn to me for the hidden dynamics that make or break careers. Most come to me for one of three reasons:

✨ They’re facing huge change and uncertainty and want someone in their corner who understands.

✨ They don’t know what they want and are looking for clarity about their next steps.

✨ They’re ready to create more meaningful impact.

Beneath each of these challenges are the same hidden dynamics, the patterns that leave people feeling like they’ve lost the map, unable to see what’s really driving their choices or holding them back.

Maybe you’ve been putting off reaching out to a coach. I did the same. Self-sufficiency works… until it doesn’t. (If I’m honest, it cost me professionally. Years.)

Maybe you’re not even sure coaching would help. Or hardest of all, like many of my clients, you’re not sure what you want anymore, and you’re starting to wonder if you ever really did.

As a certified coach (ICF-ACC, CPCC, NARM), mindfulness teacher, and with my background in psychology and law (I am still also a General Counsel), I help clients rewire their brain and nervous system, align with their values and who they are becoming, and build the self-awareness to not only recognize but confidently overcome or use the hidden dynamics to intentionally shape their lives and careers.

I offer private coaching, practical tools and group classes.

Book a call: tidycal.com/alanatart

Alana Tart

Most people on business flights choose a solo seat

I do the opposite

Some of my most interesting conversations have started at 30,000 feet: with senior leaders, founders, people in career transitions 

A few have turned into ongoing relationships or unexpected opportunities 

(Yesterday I was with a VP of marketing for a Canadian high end distillery)

People talk a lot about influence, access, and opportunity

In practice, they often start in very ordinary moments, like commenting on the cheese served on your Swiss air flight

(Which led to a conversation about pairing cheese with Canadian whisky, which led to sharing that I once worked in the industry, which led to exchanging business cards…)

I don’t treat these chats as a break from the work I am doing on the plane, I treat them as part of it

Sometimes the most valuable “meeting” of your week doesn’t come with a calendar invite

Coach, Teacher, Trusted Advisor | Also a General Counsel (ex Fortune 100, ex BigLaw) and Board Director | Soft heart, steel spine.

If I could give my younger self one piece of career advice, it would be do more of this 👇 

Yesterday I wrote to the litigation lawyers I met at the County of Carleton Law Association conference last week in Montreal
 
Some would call that “networking,” but that makes it sound transactional.

We’re human. We’re built to connect

Early in my career, I prioritised getting work done over building relationships. I also worried about seeming self-interested or opportunistic

But I’ve realised I’m always grateful when people reach out to me, whether for help or just to say hello

Avoiding outreach so you “don’t bother people” isn’t humble, it’s protective

You’re protecting your own comfort instead of giving others the chance to say yes

Most careers don’t stall because of a competence problem, but because of a connection problem

The best thing you can do for your career is to build relationships proactively and give generously.

Not because you want something, but because this is the actual work of a career: letting other people know you, trust you, and think of you when it counts.

P.S. That colourful postcard went to my family. My fellow litigators prefer email; the point is to show up in the way that connects best with each person.

“This job title doesn’t reflect your value.”

My CEO’s comment named something we rarely say out loud

Job titles are about who and what is valued in an organization

This is why 70% of office workers prefer a better job title over a raise*

Dismissing that as “just ego” is a morally comfortable way to ignore how organisations really work

Feeling valued is a fundamental human need

We lose compassion and connection when we deny that

My CEO’s comment reflected what he values: Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC) Inc's ability to develop its people

One way we do this is by providing expert witness testimony and litigation strategy and support in cyber and tech cases

(For our mostly ex-military team, used to briefing Generals and senior politicians, cross-examination simply exercises a well-trained muscle)

On paper, this is our lowest ROI activity

Yet we’re looking to grow it because it builds confidence, visibility, and team glue (it is fun!)

As a lawyer and executive coach, I play a key part in that

Which is why my CEO says the title on my card doesn’t reflect my value

The paradox: once you really understand this, you care enough about titles to use them wisely, but you stop needing them to tell you what you’re worth

*see https://lnkd.in/ekBV7Gn5

Happy US Thanksgiving!

Canadian Thanksgiving was last month. The same…and different.

I’m Canadian and have spent most of my career abroad.

Now that I mostly work with Canadians, it feels…easy.

How people communicate, decide, and build trust just makes sense. 

That ease reveals a tension I see with coaching clients:
👉You want to succeed anywhere
👉Yet your impact depends on speaking the local “social and emotional language”

Organisations and countries face this too: How to be inclusive and still keep our culture

A few truths I keep coming back to:

💠 Cultural fluency is a skill to hone; “cultural fit” often hides bias.
💠 In another culture, you’re playing an away game; your usual signals land differently.
💠Power often comes from reading the room and attuning with intention

The work, for many of us, is to:
💠Notice where things feel effortless and what that shows about your style.
💠Build range to flex (tone, pace, directness) without losing yourself.
💠Stop reading struggle as proof you’re not enough.

You can be most fluent in some places
And still grow the capacity to show up powerfully anywhere.

Same person. Different context.

Same…and different.


Picture taken by me last week in Montreal airport. The Christmoose is in front of the departure gate to the US (Etats is States in French).

When asked what we want, we still default to work:

a title, a promotion, more money, a different way of working, perhaps not working at all

We still respond like children being asked what we’ll be when we grow up

As if career is the only language we’ve ever been taught to dream in

Me?

At this time of year I want a four-meter Christmas tree forklifted onto my car.

(picture taken by me at the Christmas tree farm this weekend)

One of the biggest myths that holds people back:

You can and should apply your craft to any company 

Lawyers are particularly good at this self-convincing BS

Especially because we are awesome at compartmentalizing

Here’s the truth: when you don’t believe in the company, your career will struggle

Instead of having energy for:
💠 better thinking
💠authentic communication
💠relationship-building
💠strategic action
💠participation 

You are burning mental and emotional calories on:
💠reconciling contradictions
💠managing internal discomfort
💠navigating moral tension
💠suppressing disagreement

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿

If you want to excel, at a minimum work where you don’t have to fight yourself to do your job

This is why I am so grateful to be part of Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC) Inc, a gold sponsor for next week’s Space Canada | Espace Canada ‘s SpaceBound conference

(who wouldn’t find satellite cybersecurity fun?)

Most are unaware of the real drivers of their outcomes 

Blind spots, the unconscious, the power dynamics that shape our world…

It’s ongoing work to bring these to the surface and to face them

But they’re always there. 

When I started my career, I had a clear dream: to build a life that held both my and my husband’s cultures and geographies

(For context: I’m a Canadian with a British husband, now living in Switzerland.)

That dream was specific to me. Yours will have been different

I was told it was unrealistic, not sensible, unconventional, unworkable...

So I stopped consciously dreaming, and let myself be blindly guided instead

Now, in the second half of my career, I’m living that original dream

Not by fate, but by leaning into it and forces of power: my position, resources, relationships, and reputation

Once you understand what really shapes your path, you can start to design your life instead of explaining it.

(Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, where I am this week. It’s –9°C… this dream really is uniquely mine 🥶)

The difference between a career that suffocates and a career that excites often comes down to how you communicate your value. For most, that’s hard. You can improve by doing it for someone else.

For example, here’s my colleague at Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC) Inc,  Rip, PEng, MSc, CD:

Rip provides clear, defensible expert opinions in complex technology, cybercrime, and privacy matters. 

He translates dense technical events into evidence that courts, regulators, and decision-makers can confidently rely on.

He is:
-a nationally recognized cybersecurity and cyber operations authority
-an experienced leader of complex technical and intelligence operations for Canada and the United States
-a recipient of the U.S. Defense Meritorious Service Medal, awarded by President Biden
-recognized as the top hunter on the World Economic Forum’s international cybercrime hunting team
-a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario
-a former leader of cyber capabilities within the Canadian Armed Forces

Rip is also humble, collaborative, and a quiet leader.

Give it a try: tell me about one of your colleagues.

Because the more you practice naming the value you see in others, the easier it becomes to claim your own

And then move toward the career you actually deserve, not just the one you ended up in.

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I’m halfway through the first Power, Purpose, and Presence cohort, helping people build the skills, and overcome the barriers, to the careers they deserve. This week is all about reputation, positioning and visibility.

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