Denise Findlay, CPCC, ACC
Facilitator, Instructor, Coach, and Founder of Chameleon Strategies
Throughout her career Denise has filled various multi-disciplinary roles and gained invaluable experience and insight from her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, First Nations individuals and administrations, and small businesses.
Due to a high level of commitment to her own and her clients' growth, Denise has excelled in the areas of personal and organizational development. Denise is passionate about facilitating and building the capacity of groups during times of change and believes people have the innate ability to flourish regardless of circumstances. Whether working with individuals, relationships, teams or communities, her goal is to increase the client's capacity to transcend self-imposed limitations. To elicit existing creativity, skills, and potential from within each client, Denise uses her gifts of intuition, directness and insight in combination with her unique ability as a professional coach. Her approach goes beyond routine problem solving models and leads clients to source their own wisdom and creativity. Clients discover and implement their own solutions leading to sustainable change that is meaningful.
Denise holds a Diploma in Business Management from Capilano University, an Instructors Certificate from the Justice Institute, and a BC Provincial Instructors Diploma from Vancouver Community College. She is one of few First Nations Certified Professional Coaches in Canada, is certified through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and has advanced training in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) from the Center for Right Relationship. Denise is currently studying Process Psychology as it applies to relationships and groups navigating change and experiencing conflict.
Denise was born and raised in North Vancouver to a mother of European decent, and a father of Coast Salish and Tsimshian heritage. She currently resides in West Vancouver on the Capilano reserve with her husband Jay, her sons Jake and Max, and their dog Heidi, where they take a holistic approach to life. Denise feels lucky to have such a beautiful family and grateful that she is able to share her life with them.
Tereasa Haywood Golka ACC, NLPP
Facilitator, Instructor, Coach and Co-Owner of Chameleon Strategies
Tereasa is of Native American descent (non-status) on her father’s side (www.colvilletribes.com), and of European descent on her mother’s side. Her foundational training in individual and systems coaching and facilitation began with a curiosity in personal development due to challenges that she experienced early in life. While employed as an account executive in her early 20’s she found herself drawn to workshops and classes to enhance her understanding of the way people grow and change. She balanced these interests in psychology and self-awareness by studying communications, working in film and television and teaching yoga, meditation, and bodywork and by becoming a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). She eventually started her own successful yoga studio in White Rock.
With the encouragement of colleagues and various mentors Tereasa enrolled in the core coaching courses offered by CTI (Coach Training Institute). CTI is recognized globally as one of the founding institutes of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), of which Tereasa is a past member.
Tereasa’s areas of expertise are supported by: Graduating from CTI’s advanced studies in Co-Active Leadership; Organization Relationships and Systems Coaching (ORSC) through the Center for Right Relationship; Shift-it Graphic Facilitation training; Process Institute of Portland Oregon training; and mentor coaching with Dr. Stephen Schuivtevoerder. She blends all of these core competencies with her deep personal commitment to be of service to the expansion and fulfillment of the individuals and organizations with whom she is invited to work.
In Tereasa’s own words, “I am living proof that no matter what challenges we have to face in life it is possible to fulfill our dreams, in fact, it is our birthright. We are here to succeed in finding happiness and fulfillment. Now it is my privilege to share some of the strategies, practices and knowledge based in indigenous wisdom I have been given throughout my life.”
