Mary Stacey
Samina Hashmi
Sergio Montiel
Sandy McMullen
John Gotziaman
Susan Welt
Reilly Dow
Mary Stacey, M.A. Founder and Managing Director
Mary integrates her role as managing director of Context Consulting with a portfolio of client engagements in the private sector, healthcare system, and higher education. Recent engagements include strategic advisement and executive team development with a global biotech company, design of an advanced leadership program in an Ontario hospital, and faculty development in undergraduate medical education.
Mary's work is known for developing collaborative and strategically aligned leadership cultures in complex and rapidly changing environments. She has authored whitepapers on navigating complex systems and developing leadership through action inquiry. A case study of her results is published in The Change Handbook: Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems (2nd ed. 2007).
Mary teaches executive development programs at the University of Toronto and is a faculty member in the global Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA) Institute. She has been a faculty member at the Canadian Medical Association's Physician Management Institute and an invited speaker at the MaRS Discovery District Best Practice Series, The Conference Board of Canada, and the Society for Organizational Learning.
Mary's MA in Leadership and Learning, BA in Psycholinguistics, Diploma in counseling, and executive coaching accreditation (ACTP) are complemented by her certification in various leadership assessments and her membership in the International Coaching Federation (ICF). An active volunteer, she coaches the American Marketing Association's executive mentors as they guide the next generation of leaders. Past appointments include the Board of the Center for Emerging Leadership and the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards.
Samina Hashmi, Associate
For almost a decade, Samina Hashmi worked with Engineers Without Borders Canada, both within Canada and Overseas. As the Director of Leadership & Organizational Learning, she led initiatives related to transformational change, organizational development, social change leadership, and self-organizing communities. Having worked with technical, non-technical and multidisciplinary teams, she harmonizes a unique right and left brain approach.
Samina is an engineer by training, a change catalyst by nature and a designer by curiosity. Connected with M.I.T.'s Presencing Institute, she integrates the social technology Theory U amongst a myriad of methodologies within her work; including Appreciative Inquiry, Complexity Theory, Action Learning, ORID Decision Making, and VARK Learning Styles. She brings a collaborative, creative and people-centred approach to her work.
Most recently Samina was recognized by the Women's Executive Network as one of "Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women." In 2006 she received the Honours Medal for Outstanding Leadership from Carleton University, and in 2005 she was the recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction Award.
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.
Sandy McMullen, 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.
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 complex environments.
Sandy oversees Context's assessment portfolio, and is accredited in several tools including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Emotional Intelligence 360 (ECI), the Enneagram, and the Reiss Desire Profile. She holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
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.
Susan Welt, Associate
Susan is the principal of Susan Welt Design, a New York design consultancy. She leads Context's 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.
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.
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.
