Job Description
Executive Coaching is a service that a Leader can buy to help them grow their skills and judgment and learn to be the best they can be in their professional life. I usually work with senior leaders in companies but my cleints can be self-employed, work for a charity, new university graduates just starting their careers or people about to retire. There's a lot of variety in the people that I work with, the goals they have and the problems they need to solve so my job is never boring!
There are many different types of coaches and each has different specialities. My focus is people in transition or facing a big change. This can be going to university, starting a career, changing jobs, losing a job, retiring and anything in between.
The best coaches are curious, excellent listeners, unbiased and caring. I have my own business so I'm my own boss. I meet all of my clients online right now and the only tool I really need for the meetings, besides my laptop and webcam, is myself!
Relevant School Subjects
- Business
- Guidance and Career Education
Areas of Expertise
- Admin/Business
- Education/Training
- Financial/Insurance/Banking
- Social Work/Counselling
Career Story
I'm a professional executive coach, public speaker and facilitator, author of Amazon International Best-Seller "Lost & Found" and CEO at Jill Moore Coaching & Consulting.
I went to the University of Waterloo for math & accounting and became a designated accountant CPA, CA. I left public accounting to go into the financial services industry where I stayed for 25 years before becoming self-employed in 2019.
My career looks more like a jungle gym than a typical career "ladder". I was brave enough to take many many different jobs that didn't fit a normal career path and this helped me learn new skills. I then applied those skills to learn different jobs. I just kept building on what I knew and what I found challenging and interesting. I was lucky to have people who trusted me enough to give me these opportunities. Over time, my unique experiences helped me take on more senior jobs.
My accounting degree allowed me to be well-suited for jobs that looked at numbers (obviously!) and following processes to get work done. I quickly became more interested in the teams who were doing the work. I wondered why good teams could make bad processes and systems work and poor teams couldn't get the work done with the best systems in place. That led me to jobs in Human Resources where I could focus on the people side of the business.
In human resources I was asked to solve key questions like: "how can we develop our smart people faster" and "how can we find different people to hire so we can be ahead of our competitors on talent". I hired for skills and potential instead of looking only for people who already had experience doing the jobs. I coached talented employees in accelerated leadership development programs.
I left the corporate world to focus solely on the work I love - coaching. I have my own coaching business, a graduate certificate in executive coaching from Royal Roads University and I'm a member of the International Coaching Federation.
I enjoy public and motivational speaking with large in-person and virtual audiences and have experience with career coaching and recruiting.