Mary Stacey
John Gotziaman
Sergio Montiel
Laura McGrath
Sandy McMullen
Reilly Dow
Susan Welt
Mary Stacey, M.A.
As founder and managing director, Mary collaborates with our Associates and partners with executive teams who need to align their organization with business strategy.
Mary brings a breadth of experience and proven strategic acumen. She creates clarity that cuts through complexity and her initiatives create high engagement and innovatively practical results. As a coach, Mary creates customized environments where executive and high potential clients think systemically, navigate complexity, and become more effective leaders. Clients include The Canadian Space Agency, Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd., Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd., Kingbridge Collaboration Institute, and Aviva.
A case study of Mary’s work is published in The Change Handbook: Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems (Berrett-Koehler, 2007). Her Action Learning program was designated an enterprise best practice by the CEO of the 57,000 member Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd. The Information Management Forum profiled her strategic change results. She is the author of the whitepaper Addressing Today's Business Challenges While Developing Leaders for Tomorrow.
Mary has been an invited speaker at the MaRS Discovery District Best Practice Series, the Conference Board of Canada, and the Society for Organizational Learning. She currently serves on the Mentoring Exchange Advisory Committee of the American Marketing Association (GTA), and previously served on the board of the Center for Emerging Leadership and the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Organizing Committee. While a Professor and Faculty Development Coordinator at Sheridan College, Mary founded the Collaborative Learning Network to evolve practices in adult learning. She has since taught in executive education programs and worked with the Council of University Vice Presidents. Mary is a faculty member at the 2010 Shambhala Summer Institute, co-leading Action Inquiry: Transforming Leadership in the Midst of Action with Bill Torbert, Director of Research, Harthill Consulting Ltd. UK. She participated in the first Global NeuroLeadership Summit at CIMBA, Italy and recently facilitated The Intergenerational Leadership Exchange.
Mary’s MA in Organizational Leadership and Learning, BA in Psycholinguistics, and Diploma in Counseling are complemented by her Newfield ACTP, membership in the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and various assessment certifications.
John Gotziaman, Associate
John Gotziaman works with individuals, groups, and organizations to achieve identified changes and goals. As a trained CTI coach, he has 15 years experience coaching senior executives and facilitating groups and workshops. He has extensive experience building effective teams and managing conflicts. John employs an integrated approach in his work with corporate clients, impacting performance, leadership skills, and organizational capabilities.
John currently divides his time between Context Consulting and the Yonge Lawrence Centre for Consulting and Counseling. Prior to consulting, he was a college professor and head basketball coach. His college team attained a national ranking in Canada. John is MBTI accredited and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo.
Sergio Montiel, M.S. Associate
Sergio has worked internationally with both Fortune 500 and start-ups as an organizational learning consultant, facilitator, designer and coach. He has multicultural experience and a multidisciplinary background in management, business and social entrepreneurship. He brings systems thinking, leadership and change, art and philosophy, marketing and communications into a strategic design approach. He is also a certified executive coach and a senior ontological coach.
As the co-founder of Being Essence S.C., a global collective intelligence think-tank, Sergio had the opportunity to work with thought leaders in the theory, design, and practice of transformative learning organizations. Sergio founded a boutique communications firm in Mexico City and also led the communications strategy and strategic alliances for Laborum.com Mexico, the first jobsite for Latin America. Earlier, he founded and directed of a social networking enterprise which implemented leading edge technologies in the Ibero-American marketplace.
Sergio has a B.S. in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and holds a M.S. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and University of Texas in Austin (UT). He recently finished his first year as a doctoral student at the California Integral Institute.
Laura McGrath, B.A. Associate
Laura McGrath is a coach, facilitator, and writer. She brings her writing and editing capabilities to Context’s program designs and her experience in coaching and leadership development. She has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors and clients have included Engineers Without Borders Canada, the World Bank Youth, Development, and Peace Network, and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Trained in consensus-building, mediation, conflict resolution, and anti-oppression practices, Laura also is completing her program in Co-Active Coaching and studying at the Transpersonal Therapy Centre.
Laura holds an Honours B.A. in psychology, linguistics, and anthropology, and brings approaches from all three disciplines to understanding organizations and helping organizations understand themselves. She is extremely flexible in adapting to group needs, keenly perceptive of group processes and dynamics, and supportive and challenging as a one-on-one coach.
Laura has volunteered with environmental and social justice organizations, resident associations, and currently donates her time to the Toronto Cyclists Union. Please visit her website at www.readyforchange.ca
Sandy McMullen, B.A. Associate
Sandy has completed training with The Coaches Training Institute and BCoach and is a certified member of the International Consortium of Business Coaches. In 2006, she was a recipient of the International Coaching Federation’s Prism Award for Coaching Excellence.
Sandy engages individuals and teams to deepen their self-knowledge and to access multiple intelligences in their role as leaders. She integrates her understanding of imaginative processes and the DNA of innovation into her work as a professional coach, guided by the principle that leadership is not a mechanical operation rather it is an art form built on something deeper and intangible.
Over the past eighteen years Sandy has built recognition as a professional artist and was a founding partner in a gallery in Toronto’s Historic distillery District. She integrates executive coaching with gallery and studio visits, using the arts to support personal visioning and team development. Her clients find that integrating the arts with the insight gained through assessments helps them to access the territory demanded of leaders in this Conceptual Age.
Sandy is accredited in several assessment tools including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Emotional Intelligence 360 (ECI) assessment. She holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Please visit her websites at www.sandymcmullen.com and www.presentandaccounted4.com
Reilly Dow, Graphic Recorder
Reilly is a graphic recorder, artist and teacher. She brings to Context her unique ability to capture and record the words, images, and metaphors of conversations and collective thinking. Through Reilly’s recording, participants see the story and themes of their discussions, and have their thoughts and contributions reflected back to them. Reilly is able to work and record in both English and Spanish.
Reilly received her training in graphic recording from Carlos Mota, founder of Human Management Systems in Mexico City and global steward for the World Cafe Foundation. Her clients include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Metrix Group, Philip Morris Mexico, the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (University of the Environment), ALiA (Authentic Leadership in Action), and regional/community clients for discussions including Sustainability in Poor Areas: Chimalhuacan, and the Boyne River Project in Ontario.
She taught at the Modern American School in Mexico City for two years, where she also volunteered at Copilco Integral Development Community, teaching English to young children from low-income families. She designed and taught the Teaching Young Children diploma course for adults at St. George College in Toronto, where she certified students from abroad to teach English to young children as a second language, and encouraged them to look at teaching and education systemically.
Susan Welt, Associate
Susan is the principal of Susan Welt Design, a New York design consultancy. She leads our business identity and product development team. Susan brings an extensive list of accomplishments to her projects, including two illustration awards from the Society of Illustrators Annual Show, a Grammy Award based on her work with Tokyo-based Eiko Ishioka, and Excellence Awards gained during her tenure at Reader’s Digest General Books. Susan is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design, New York.
