France Dubois, Senior Facilitator, Management Consultant, French and English.
A fluently bilingual professional, France Dubois spent many years in direct sales, winning recognition for outstanding performance developing business as a sales professional and as national sales manager. Among her achievements, she has pioneered the start-up of sales divisions for both multinational and entrepreneurial organizations.
Today, as a Big Fish performance consultant, France devotes her energy to the design and delivery of training programs and workshops in such areas as sales, customer service,
leadership, performance management,
communications and change management. Linking individual and organizational issues, she sets coaching in context of environmental goals and obstacles focused on translating insights into action toward profitable results. These include:
Research and feasibility studies
Focus group discussions and audits
Operational and strategic planning workshops
Development of custom training programs, instructional materials and tools
Curriculum development, orientation programs and new employee integration programs
Whether as learning facilitator or speaker, her sessions and workshops are dynamic, interactive and address creative, discovery and experiential learning techniques. She values active involvement as a critical part of learning, growing and performing, and is driven by results, practical application and making a difference.
Gavin Maxwell, High Performance Coach & Team Development, Management Consultant.
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Gavin Maxwell is a high performance coach in the truest sense. Having raced C1 canoe in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for Canada, he knows a thing or two about pushing limits. Gavin balances an intense focus on results with engaging humour when facilitating Big Fish teambuilding events.
You'll see Gavin running our Dragon Boat team building events as well as inspiring positive growth during corporate training. He is a powerful speaker, motivator and high performance coach with a long history of achievement and inspiring the best of people.
To his credit, Gavin has been the driving force within the Big Fish sponsored Dragon Boat Crew. In 4 seasons he's coached the Big Fish team from being a "good competitive team" to now being one of the fastest in the country…a force to be reckoned with.
Lida Preyma, Business Development and Facilitation, Management Consultant.
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Lida Preyma is one of our very resourceful facilitators. She brings a wealth of global life experience to her consultation with clients. Her bold and direct approach grabs attention and inspires results. She is also an accomplished athlete, author, and keynote speaker.
Lida's diverse experience includes being the Director of Trade Policy Research for the G8 Research Group, based at the University of Toronto since 1987. She has been an analyst with the group since 2003, and attended the 2003 Evian, 2005 Gleneagles, and 2006 Moscow G8 Summits.
She ran as a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in Etobicoke Centre in the 2004 federal election and is the former Managing Director of Corporate Citizenship at Magna International Inc. Previously, Lida worked at Guardian Capital Inc. as an Associate on special projects and, from 1995 to 2000, she worked at BMO Nesbitt Burns in various roles until assuming the position of Retail Mortgage-Backed Securities trader in the Securitization and Structured Finance Department.
Ada Tang, Management Consultant, Facilitation.
A University of Toronto instructor and physiotherapist, Ada is an inspiring facilitator who brings a supportive focus into participant issues. As a fishy freelancer, Ada is a quiet, gentle leader who has the rare ability to make each person feel like they are the most important in the room.
When she is not demonstrating leadership in the classroom, Ada is living her leadership abilities in the dragon boat. Ada is a long-standing member of the Big Fish dragon boat crew and the Toronto Women’s crew.
Shilpa Panchmatia, Management Consultant, Facilitation.
Based in London, England, Shilpa is a natural people communicator, with special knowledge in teambuilding, business development, and personal development. Shilpa is also the founder of Human Xpression based in London, England.
Her early background in marketing and business development was followed by IT training and helping get a dot com off the ground. Shilpa is a published business writer in the fields of sales management, stress management and personal achievement. She also appears regularly as a keynote speaker, empowering and motivating entrepreneurs and women in business.
Andrew’s focus on alternative training practices began with his degree in Sociology in the 1980s with a focus on corporate human structures and management systems. Andrew’s focus on alternative training practices began with his degree in Corporate Sociology in the 1980s. It fishtailed into marketing solutions with international players, an experience that whetted his appetite for training professional teams. He cut his teeth with the world’s largest outdoor adventure company. Then he spawned Big Fish Interactive Inc. (1995-96), now one of North America’s freshest, fastest training companies.
Linda blends her time at Big Fish with NLP Canada Training Inc. She joined this firm as a management consultant in the summer of 2002 and has been a Senior Partner and Management Consultant since 2003. As a Senior Partner she is responsible for consulting with corporate and individual clients to improve productivity, motivation and satisfaction. She designs group training and individual programs to facilitate development in business communication, sales and influence, and management. Clients have included individuals and groups from these organizations: the CIBC, the Calgary Police Service, the Michener Institute, Proctor and Gamble, Toronto Dominion Securities, ADT Security, Investors Group, and many entrepreneurial and mid-size enterprises.
Edye St. Hill, Management Consultant & Facilitator, Business Development; Leadership Retreats.