i guide teams and groups to get clear and aligned on a vision, build strong relationships, have bold kind conversations, ignite new ways of being together, take risks, and trust themselves and each other. find your leadership style. lead with integrity.
who I guide
I guide impact teams and leaders here to make a difference in the world. These are organizations where values are more than words on a wall. Where the care of people meets the impact of the work. And where there is action to create a work environment where everyone can thrive.
After 15,000 hours of facilitation, I’ve learned for team days to work 2 things are present:
Leaders 100% support it — for the team and themselves. They show up for the learning too. Without that, it’s just a checkbox of a KPI.
The team wants to grow. You need to be willing to change in order to shine.
my style
Expect a coach approach, leading methodologies, and relevant practices you can use immediately. I’m known for my ability to distill complex frameworks into easy-to-apply strategies. I use a decolonizing, equity lens that prioritizes creating safer, braver spaces for people can be themselves.
I facilitate:
Senior leadership retreats and team building offsites
New and reforming teams needing to build trust and collaboration
Teams who need help being great leaders
what is leadership?
Leadership is a gathering of unique strengths, lived experiences, personality types, individual and organizational goals, and the dynamics between people that are changing moment by moment. There is no one right way to lead.
Great leaders create conditions for people to shine.
This means we have:
Agency in our choices and actions.
A sense of Purpose in what we do.
Safety to be our whole selves.
Dignity to thrive.
Belonging.
“Always a joy to work with you.”
— Tracy Hutton, VP of People and Team Development, lululemon
“Thank you Ursz! You are incredible. Much appreciation and gratitude.”
— August Bergdahl, Principal Business Development & Operations, Crescent Builds
team sessions
be better together
Level 1: You as Leader
Identify your leadership strengths and style, and where you get stuck and tripped up. Know your triggers and what you need to thrive. And more — understand each other so you can shine together. Includes a comprehensive Enneagram iEQ9 assessment that identifies your core type — personality, strengths, motivation, limitations, and opportunities — creating a roadmap for accelerated, integrative, and sustainable development in individuals, teams, and organizations.
Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
Define and refine your leadership style
Identify your strengths, blindspots, defence mechanisms and triggers
Create bridges of understanding to appreciate your motivations, strengths, decisions, needs and metrics of success
Discover how to impactfully lead through conflict and change
Build trust, understanding and collaboration with your teammates
Level 2: We as Leaders
Thrive as a team. Create new pathways for resolving conflict, building collaboration, and navigating change better together. Builds on Level 1: You as Leader with the comprehensive iEQ9 Enneagram Teams report that maps your team’s leadership style, conflict approach, decision-making matrix, relationship blocks, and opportunities for shared success. Understand why you struggle and why you get along so you can spend more time in synergy moving toward shared goals. Create a roadmap for accelerated, integrative, and impact.
Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
Define and align your team’s leadership style
Identify pathways to strengthen your team’s dynamics through conflict and change
Create bridges to appreciate each other’s motivations, strengths, decisions, and needs
Discover ways to effectively and compassionately work with different people who see and approach things differently than you
Create an action plan to optimize team success
Level 3: Advanced Teams
These sessions support the continuous growth of your team. This is for teams that know who they are, where they thrive, and where they struggle. You’ve identified areas where you need support to be a high-thriving team that achieves results and uplifts one another in the process.
Outcomes are customized to your needs.
Together, we determine learning goals and outcomes to focus your sessions. Here are some areas of growth that I see for advanced teams:
Self-awareness and emotional regulation
Stress and burnout support
Building resilience
Creating conditions for people to thrive
Managing triggers
Leading through change
Making values-aligned decisions in hard times
delivery
format
Sessions can be delivered in person, online, and blended. Think team days, offsites, or multi-month program. I custom design the format you need that works for you. Combine Levels 1 and 2 for an immersive team building experience.
included
Pre-work assessment, a pulse-check survey, kickoff meeting, logistics support, and a debrief with recommendations and insights. Sessions include core concepts, learning frameworks tools and practice to grow stronger together.
1:1 and team coaching
Combine with individual or team coaching to fully integrate the learnings into your leadership, organizational culture and operations. Coaching is a powerful way to help individual team members build their leadership.
iEQ9 enneagram leadership tool
I use a comprehensive assessment tool called the iEQ9 Enneagram that identifies your core Enneagram type: personality, motivation, self-limiting beliefs, blindspots and opportunities. I find this test to be the most accurate and effective of all the leadership assessment tools.
I use professional individual reports and team reports.
individual report
Indentifies individual’s core type and covers Enneagram specific constructs that support self-awareness and personal transformation. Includes specific leadership competencies that influence effectiveness and development like decision-making and strategic thinking.
View a sample professional report.
Included in the report:
team report
Teams are fundamental to performance and yet remain difficult to understand, align and develop. Teamwork and collaboration challenge our organizations and individuals, requiring greater awareness of themselves and how they engage with others in teams.
View a sample team report.
Included in the report:
some of my amazing clients
“Thank you so much Urszula. We haven’t stopped talking about our session. With ourselves and our partners!”
— Leslie Bonshor, VP Indigenous Health, Vancouver Coastal Health