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What They Say

In their own words

One of the best business growth investments we’ve ever made. Colin has helped us evolve our strategic thinking and planning process to fit where we are as a business, and not just forcing in an off-the-shelf methodology. He brings his vast experience as an operator, and wisdom around strategic execution, to help us focus on our strategic objectives, instead of focusing on the process. The result is that we are now executing on our strategic priorities with more traction, clarity and confidence than ever.

Mike Zusman

Mike Zusman

CEO, Carve Systems

Colin is not a commodity. We see him as a strategic advantage for McElhanney.

Allan Russell

Allan Russell

President & CEO, McElhanney

Colin has built a Leadership Academy for our leaders across North America. He successfully delivered our kick-off workshop with a unique blend of energy, experience, and authenticity. We have been the recipient of Colin’s services many times now, and like fine wine he gets even better with age! If you are looking for an engaged and organized consulting partner to help add value to your business, Colin is your guy.

Aaron Rokstad

Aaron Rokstad

CEO, Rokstad Power

Colin has left a permanent, serious, positive mark on our business. We have made many changes, both large and small from his influence as a coach for our executive team.

Will Stahl

Will Stahl

CEO & Co-Founder, Offworld Industries

Amazingly powerful and practical! Colin’s leadership workshop was full of leadership tools that our leaders can use right away. Our leaders are raving about Colin’s engaging style and practical tools. We can’t wait to have him back again.

Ryan D’Souza

Ryan D’Souza

President, Jim Pattison Lease

No home run speaking for us today. A home run with bases loaded. Great job You walked the talk of Leading Highly Productive Virtual Teams. My members valued your excellent content and appreciated your engaging delivery.

Larry Ohlhauser

Larry Ohlhauser

Master Certified Chair, Mackay CEO Forums

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This was my second session with Colin, time well spent with just as many valuable takeaways. The breadth and depth of topics covered was super helpful, and his presentation on how to use new AI blew my mind.

Jacqui Mendes

Jacqui Mendes

Executive Director, Community Legal Assistance Society

This executive leadership accelerator workshop was hands-on, thought-provoking and left me inspired with many actionable takeaways I can apply immediately. I have no doubt that this workshop will have an immediate return on investment because the information presented is grounded in a sound body of knowledge and can be integrated into most strategies.

Isobel O'Connell

Executive Leader

As a leader, I have attended many workshops and trainings. Today was an incredible day and it was packed with good learning, opportunities to interact and share and connect. It is definitely something, I would recommend to new leaders and to established professionals as it offers something for all levels.

Alison Silgardo

Alison Silgardo

Chief Executive Officer, Senior Services Society of BC

Colin's mastery is a blend of real-life experience, approachable delivery, and practical application. His teachings are current, and interactive and the day flies by - while the learnings remain. I highly recommend learning from and teaming up with Colin.

Ute Preusse

Ute Preusse

Founder CEO, Will

We recently hosted our first ever company offsite and Colin provided a Business Presentation and Communications workshop. It was an awesome session. Colin provided great tips and actionable insights. His presentation style was interesting and entertaining. After the session I had multiple people from my team requesting access to his deck (which he kindly provided). I think improving communication and listening skills is something everyone can benefit from, all the way from our junior sales rep to the CEO and I feel our team got a ton of value by having Colin share his insights and ideas.

Jason Lindstrom

Jason Lindstrom

CEO, Bucketlist

Colin helped us design and deliver an annual leadership program that has positively impacted over 100 leaders in our business. We are very happy with what Colin has done to help us become even better leaders.

Lee Rogers

Lee Rogers

CEO, Acera

You rocked the Leading Highly Productive Teams talk yesterday. Everyone loved the tools, and your presentation. I’ll be recommending you to everyone as a WOW speaker!

Joy Playford

Forum Chair, Mackay CEO Forums

We asked Colin to assist with the planning and facilitation of our annual management strategic planning session. Colin’s wise counsel leading up to the session and deft facilitation of the two day meeting resulted in renewed clarity of purpose and energy for the entire team. Colin brought not only excellent facilitation skills, but also his own experience and insight to enrich and enable deep, productive sessions.

Miranda Lam

Miranda Lam

Chief Legal Officer & Senior Director, Business Development, Acuitas Therapeutics

Colin assisted Acuitas Therapeutics by planning and facilitating our annual strategic offsite. Colin was absolutely effective in this role, combining excellent facilitation skills (ensuring clarity, moving the discussion along, and keeping us on track) with insightful and relevant examples from his own experiences. After the event, there was uniform agreement that Colin really helped us and that the event was better for having him there.

Abi Coman-Walker

Abi Coman-Walker

COO, Acuitas Therapeutics

Having our leadership team in alignment is critical in delivering on our strategy. Thank you for the great session! You have a powerful way of bringing people together in a session like this.

Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes

CEO, Coho Collective

Colin has been incredibly effective at helping me ACHIEVE NUMEROUS PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GOALS. He’s built an incredible process that adds a layer of structure around achieving goals and keeping your accountable to your own progress and development. I never thought I’d work with an executive coach, but now I can’t imagine not having Colin as part of my team.

Jonathan Becker

Jonathan Becker

Founder and CEO, Thrive Digital

Hiring Colin to work with me on everything I do as the leader of a successful construction company was and is ONE OF THE SMARTEST DECISIONS I HAVE MADE IN YEARS. Colin tactfully prods me to re-engage with my own thoughts and challenges me to re-think how I approach and engage with my family, team, and my business without ever making me feel 'lesser than'.

Erik Jensen

Erik Jensen

Owner, Sprucehill Contracting

Colin delivered a highly valuable talk for us on high performing teams. Our staff found the talk engaging, practical, and thought-provoking.

Kirk Forbes

President, Brunette Machinery Co

Colin is a highly rated speaker with Mackay CEO Forums. His high impact presentations are sought after by many of our CEO Forum groups.

Nancy Mackay

Nancy Mackay

CEO, Mackay CEO Forums

A powerful workshop for our team on Mindset and Productivity. Our people left the workshop equipped with practical tools to better execute when back in the whirlwind of both their responsibilities at our firm and of their personal lives. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from staff and believe anyone would benefit from this workshop.

Levi Stoelting

Levi Stoelting

Principal, Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers

The workshop gave our leaders practical ideas for better leading themselves and others that they can apply immediately.

Colin Cashin

Colin Cashin

Senior Director, Blizzard Entertainment

Colin’s talk for us about what qualities make a great team was well received. He left us with practical tools and some common language that our team can use to become even more tight-knit and focused on our collective goal.

Sven Butenschon

Sven Butenschon

Head Coach, UBC Men’s Hockey Team

Colin's talk on productivity gave our people practical, immediately useful tools. Most importantly, our people can apply these tools to help in their whole lives - not just the time they spend for the Rick Hansen Foundation. It's not often a speaker can have that kind of impact.

Doramy Ehling

Doramy Ehling

CEO, Rick Hansen Foundation

The productivity workshop was hugely helpful! it gave us a common language and set of practical approaches for improving our individual and team productivity. We are now focused even more on being as productive as possible with our valuable and limited time.

Michelle Grady

Michelle Grady

EVP, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Wow is all I can say, I’m still absorbing it all! the experience during our strategic offsite with you was exactly what I had hoped it would be and I cannot wait to get at 2020. You are truly a master of your craft - It was a great experience and very valuable. We appreciate you and look forward to seeing you soon.

Neil Currie

Neil Currie

Managing Partner, CEM

Colin’s productivity workshop for our 50+ person department was informative, helpful, and delivered clearly. I had fantastic feedback from the group. I’ve been putting these practices into place and have seen a tremendous improvement in my productivity and general stress level so thank you!

Brandi Halls

Brandi Halls

Director of Brand Communications North America, Lush

I needed space to think out loud and hear myself. Colin is a great listener and asked excellent questions that helped me find my own answers. He provided good insight for me on running my business even more effectively.

Jeff Cote

Jeff Cote

President and Founder, Pacific Yacht Systems

Colin has been helping our product team/leadership for almost a year now. The return on that investment has been excellent

Phil Edgell

Phil Edgell

President, Vantage

Colin delivered a very insightful session for our group for over 100 managers. The content was highly relevant given today’s working conditions, and our managers took away practical actions they can use immediately to better lead their virtual teams.

Tanya Sadlo

Tanya Sadlo

Executive VP, Internal Operations & General Counsel, McElhanney

Colin, you received perfect scores on our speaker feedback forms. Congrats my members all thought your talk was outstanding!

Tim Dumas

Tim Dumas

Certified Forum Chair, Mackay CEO Forums

Thank you for speaking to my CEO Forum - the feedback was extremely positive. The members really appreciated your thoughts, insights and the workshop format. One member said it was as though you had been listening to our earlier discussion! With this group, practical takeaways are what they crave and cherish, and you gave them lots to think about.

Paul McCullough

Paul McCullough

CEO Forum Chair, Mackay CEO Forums

Thanks again for a great leadership workshop! We all gained valuable insights that we can immediately deploy.

Allan Russell

Allan Russell

President & CEO, McElhanney

Colin’s talk on productivity for our entire team was jam-packed with practical takeaways. Many immediately started applying what we learned. To quote one, 'this was game changer' and has already led to increased feelings of control and less stress.

Simon Dannatt

CEO, The Source

We’ve done lots of workshops in the past. Not too often is it one where the rubber hits the road, and it helps you in your daily life right away.

Ryan Anderson

Ryan Anderson

CEO, Anderson Air

Colin helped us set a good baseline for working together on a complex project. I felt our teams were in a good position already, but after our session with Colin, I’m more encouraged that we can continue down the path to a successful project.

Sat Oberoi

Sat Oberoi

Design Build Manager, Ledcor

I found the Limitless Leadership session a good session for any 'c' suite leader, especially in these turbulent times. Great tools shared that can be applied in the real world immediately in my day to day leadership of a high performing team. Thanks Colin. First class.

Dick Vollet

Dick Vollet

CEO, St. Paul’s Foundation

I can honestly say it’s the most tangible and relevant information I’ve received in a one-day session of this kind. There are so many direct take aways that I brought out of our time together and it was very timely with where I am at in my career. You’re great at what you do!

Alana Martens

Alana Martens

CFO, Fraser Valley Building Supplies

The Leadership Academy gave our team practical tools we're already using every day. Colin's approach was engaging, relevant, and exactly what we needed to grow as leaders.

Alana Martens

Alana Martens

CFO, Fraser Valley Building Supplies

The time spent with our teams today was incredibly impactful and the few minutes of chatter in our reference room and amongst our collective teams was an overwhelming: 'Wow' and 'How can we see more from Colin' and 'I can’t wait to bring this back to my team'. Can’t say it enough. Thank you for the value you brought to our teams today and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Michael Moyski

Michael Moyski

Director, C.H. Robinson

Thank you so much for facilitating our team alignment session, and for all the prep work leading up to it. It was extremely valuable for the team. I genuinely felt a notable difference right away in how we are showing up and engaging with each other!

Jennifer Chan

Jennifer Chan

CMO, Coho Collective

Attended a phenomenal one-day leadership event given by Colin Cox this week and have been reading all I can since then about the difference between strategy and tactics. This was just one of several key insights on C level leadership and I took away. Thank you Colin!

Angela Doll

Angela Doll

COO, Legible

Colin’s Limitless Leadership event was refreshing, meaningful and practical. His engaging and collaborative delivery style kept me engaged for the full day. A diverse group of C level leaders worked together on solutions for today’s complex leadership challenges, and had an excellent opportunity to build relationships with other business leaders.

Mike Wrinch

Mike Wrinch

President, Hedgehog Technologies

Today’s event with Colin helped me have a greater self-awareness of where and how I can work on getting rid of my negative self-talk, as well as understanding my weakness and strengths as a leader. The day flew by as Colin make the lessons engaging through a great balance of teaching and interactive sessions. Colin has a gift to help others bring clarity amongst the busyness and chaos in business.

Derrick Westbrook

Derrick Westbrook

CEO, Su Casa

Thank you for an inspiring day covering so many relevant leadership topics. Your humble and effective leadership style made it very easy to share and discuss with other C-suite leaders. I really appreciated this personal growth opportunity. Thank you!

Laura Bolster

Laura Bolster

COO, Megson FitzPatrick

I recently attended Colin’s Limitless Leadership event in Vancouver along with a group of high performing business executives. It was an excellent way to share ideas and focus on improving our presence as leaders and elevating our effectiveness. In particular, I was impacted by the discussions on challenging our assumptions and preconceived beliefs in order to be better leaders. An excellent session!

Mike Rusch

Mike Rusch

SVP, The Jim Pattison Group

Through this session I was able to gain a clearer perspective on how to better build trust, give and receive quality feedback, and how to navigate difficult conversations, all the while staying connected and building and maintaining trust with the people on my team. Colin masterfully stewarded our group through activities that had us think deeply about how we show up with our teams now, and how we might build new tools and approaches with people into the future. I walked away feeling like my tool box was full of new skills and perspectives in areas that needed refreshing.

Angela Clancy

Angela Clancy

Executive Director, Family Support Institute of BC

Colin delivers outstanding content, masterfully presented through thought-provoking exercises and group engagement. Very highly recommended.

Patrick Finucane

Patrick Finucane

Managing Director, CEM Advisory

Colin’s workshop fundamentally shifted my thinking around leadership communication. I returned to work refreshed, refocused and eager to try out the skills learned.

Jacqui Mendes

Jacqui Mendes

Executive Director, Community Legal Assistance Society

Colin’s workshop was a great reminder to get out of auto-pilot and survival mode, and to think strategically and mindfully about how I communicate and operate. This workshop was a great reminder of who I can be as a leader if I pause and reflect before jumping into action.

Julia Boyle

Julia Boyle

Executive Director, AutismBC

I got so much out of the one-day session with Colin Cox! I return to the template on crafting clear executive messages again and again and it greatly reduces the work it used to take to prepare various communications. This is just one of the several practical tools I gained. Thank you Colin!

Tracy Humphreys

Tracy Humphreys

Chair and Executive Director, BCEd Access Society

Colin's genuine care to have an impact on you personally and your business is authentic and real and his gift to take a confusing and complex issues and help you to narrow them down to your next step action item is remarkable. Small, medium or fortune 500 company he’s your guy.

Derrick Westbrook

Derrick Westbrook

CEO, Su Casa

Colin brought a fresh approach to our strategic offsite. He had our executive team thinking differently. We left with a clear focus and the inspiration to execute.

Harj Johal

Harj Johal

CEO, Alpine Building Maintenance

We significantly increased our meeting effectiveness by applying what we learned in Colin’s workshops. It’s amazing how applying just a few simple ideas has had a big impact.

Dustin Ross

Dustin Ross

Executive Producer, Offworld Industries

That was fantastic. Team is already raving as we are starting our next session and I was flooded with awesome comments during your talk!!

Marcus Larsson

Marcus Larsson

Managing Partner, Isaac Operations