Our Coaches
Jessica Dumas
Jessica Dumas is a certified life coach and inspiring speaker coach who is passionate about helping entrepreneurs speak with clarity for online and virtual audiences. Jessica has always been enthusiastic about personal growth and her career started in customer service then took a turn to restorative justice where she realized her love for facilitation. She’s earned a certificate in restorative justice and mediation but her love for innovative facilitation styles inspired her to attend the Rotman School of Business and obtain a certificate in Advanced Business Design Facilitation, as well as a facilitation certificates
She is an award winning professional and avid volunteer. She was recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2015 and a Future Leader of Manitoba in 2017. She served as the Chair of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, and the Chairperson for the Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce as well as numerous other board and leadership positions. If you are looking for tips for speaking, you can follow her on Instagram
Maureen Johnstone
Maureen is a Leadership Coach for passionate, socially conscious leaders and entrepreneurs. Drawing on more than 20 years as a leader, executive and mentor, Maureen’s coaching and facilitation empowers and inspires individuals to lead authentically and create results that matter in their work, their families and communities. She specializes in supporting individuals to deepen how they know themselves accessing their inner wisdom, the ultimate source of their strength-to boldly lead from a place of courage, authenticity and inspired vision.
Based in Whitehorse, Y.T., Canada, Maureen is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the internationally recognized Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and accredited as a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. Maureen is also a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator and incorporates the courage building and shame resilience work of Brené Brown into her individual and group coaching, and facilitation processes. Most recently, Maureen became certified as Trauma Informed and Grief Coach. As a coach she weaves in vulnerability and courage building practices into her coaching practice. Maureen works with individuals from business, government and community, in the North and globally.
Maureen is a citizen of the Tahltan First Nation in Northern B.C., with family ties to Kwanlin Dun First Nation.
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult”
- Walter G. Bennis
Vicky auf der Mauer
Vicky auf der Mauer is a proud Inuk from the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, turned Urban Inuk living on the the land of the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, the Chippewa, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations, that we call Toronto.
She is a former 5-star event manager for A-List celebs, and co-founder of the small restaurant business, Porchetta + Co., turned intuitive life, business, and money mindset coach, serving mainly Indigenous Womxn. She is on a mission to help Indigenous (and all) Womxn uncover the money beliefs given to us by the very systems that historically and currently oppress us, so that we can have a greater impact in our own life, our families life, our work and creative contributions, our communities, and ultimately the world. She has created a program and process called Decolonizing Money to help guide the process.