Your Journey To High-Impact Coaching

Starts Here

How will you coach for impact?

Discover the mindset, skills and soul of high-impact coaching.

Fundamentals of Coaching

(Single Course)

This four-day course will give you the essential mindsets, competencies and skills of coaching. Discover how to actively listen, ask powerful questions and have more effective conversations with your colleagues, friends and family.

Transformational Leadership Coaching Program

(ACC Credential)

Become a transformational coach who helps people and teams both increase their well-being and get where they want to go. Discover the mindsets and tools needed to inspire people to achieve lasting change and access their full potential.

We develop the person behind the coach.

The world needs a new kind of conversation.

One that is rooted in the knowledge that all people are resourceful, creative and wise.

We have designed our program to give you the mindsets, skills and community needed to become a high-impact coach, guiding people to tap into their full potential.

Does This Sound Like You?

  • Do you love helping people change and grow?

  • Want to increase human performance without losing your soul?

  • Are you passionate about your own development personally and professionally?

Join our community of coaches who are dedicated to helping people do the deep work of transformation: offering their best presence and work to the world.

We believe that high-impact starts with you and that no coach can, or should, do it alone.

There’s A Career Path For You

The coaching market generated 62% more in 2022 compared to 2019 (from $2.9 billion to $4.564 billion).
The coaching market is estimated to be a $20 billion dollar industry.
— iPEC Global Coaching Institute

Why Red Maple?

  • ICF Approved Coach Education

  • Practicing, world-class instructors

  • Customized feedback right from the start

  • A schedule you can design to suit your pace

  • Gain all the requirements needed to apply for an ACC or PCC credential with ICF

  • Mentor coaching that increases your confidence and confidence as you apply to ICF

The world doesn’t need more quick answers and easy solutions. We need leaders who have done the deep work, gone to the woods, and come back committed to helping people, teams and communities thrive.
— Raechel Pefanis (Red Maple Founder)

“This course has really given me the confidence and focus to move forward as a coach.”

2023 Participant

“I was skeptical about the power of coaching, but now I get it. I’m inspired.”

2023 Participant

“I learned that there is a science and an art to coaching. This is helping me be a better leader and I’m trying it with my kids too.”

2023 Participant

Why Get An ICF Credential?

  • The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the largest global regulating body for coaches

  • Practice the gold standard of coaching

  • Distinguish yourself from non-accredited coaches

  • Gain instant visibility and credibility with clients

Ready for a conversation? Talk with an admissions coach.

Choose a day and time that works best for you. We would love to help you discover the path forward.

Become a coach who inspires change, starting with your own life.

Meet The Coach Education Faculty

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    Raechel Pefanis

    BA, MDiv, MSW, RSW, PCC

    ADLER’s Director of Coach Education

    Raechel is a thought leader in the world of personal and corporate thriving, authoring the book The Person Behind the Professional. Raechel is an entrepreneur and coach who loves helping businesses innovate and grow into places of deep health and vitality. A previous psychotherapist, Raechel is the mind behind the deep work approach that is Red Maple’s mandate.

    Toolkit: Leadership and Executive Coaching, Working Genius™, Dare to Lead™ Certified Facilitator

    Bucket List: To drive the gold coast in a Mustang convertible. Jackie O sunglasses non-negotiable :).

  • A headshot of Susanna Muntz from Red Maple Coaching & Consulting

    Susanna Muntz

    BA, BEd, PCC-ICF, MA (cand.)

    Director of Faculty & Programming

    Susanna spent 25 years in the not-for-profit sector empowering leaders and teams to catalyze change in their communities. With a grounded and courageous presence, Susanna helps people minimize stress, become effective leaders and live with purpose.

    Toolkit: Leadership Coaching, Team Coaching, Working Genius™, Enneagram, Internal Family Systems, Spiritual Traditions

    Bucket List: To walk “Canada’s Camino.”

  • Headshot of Brian Cyr at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Brian Cyr

    PCC-ICF

    Professional Leadership Coach

    Brian brings over 10 years of experience as a coach and corporate consultant. His supportive and challenging approach ensures that people and teams reach their full potential as they experience the science and art of the coaching conversation.

    Toolkit: Leadership and Executive Coaching, Corentus Group Certified Team Coaching, Presence-Based Coaching, Tilt 365™

    Bucket List: To tell the world’s worst dad joke (Ahem: Nobody wants to tell him he already achieved this.)

  • Headshot of Begum Verjee at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Begum Verjee

    MEd, Ed.D, PCC-ICF

    Professional Leadership/DEIB Coach

    As a professional coach, Begum is a co-active partner who inspires her clients to lead with clarity and purpose, realize their full potential, and deliver outstanding results. She works extensively with women and equity-deserving groups alongside her active involvement in coach education and training. Begum is the 2023 winner of ICF’s Volunteer of the Year Award.

    Toolkit: Life, Leadership and Team Coaching, Educational Leadership, Adlerian and Counselling Psychology, Consulting in Justice, Equity, Decolonizing, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDdi), and EQi-2.0™

    Bucket List: To own a condo with a water view.

  • Headshot of Kathy Sauve at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Kathy Sauvé

    BA, PCC-ICF

    Internal Organizational Coach

    Kathy specializes in working with leaders and teams that are in high change, corporate environments. A long-time leader herself, Kathy is the author of Cut Through the Chaos: 5 Practical Strategies to be the Leader People Want to Follow.

    Toolkit: Leadership and Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Everything DiSC™, Working Genius™, Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team™

    Bucket List: To live by the water.

  • Headshot of Michael Hagley at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Michael Hagley

    MSc, MBA, P.Eng, ACC-ICF

    Professional Leadership Coach

    Building better leaders and teams is Michael’s passion. He brings a unique perspective to coaching as a visible minority and as a chemical engineer. His skills have been honed through time spent in industries of every size and type.

    Toolkit: Leadership and Executive Coaching, EQi-2.0™, Hogan Leadership Forecast™, Emergenetics Associate™, Leadership Circle Certification

    Bucket List: To complete an Iron Man.

  • Headshot of Michael Kaufman at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Michael Kaufman

    BSc, MIT, CAC, PCC-ICF

    Professional Agile Coach, Coach Supervisor

    Mike is an executive coach and consultant who has an extensive background in team effectiveness and has helped numerous firms achieve outstanding results. Over the past two decades, he has helped and continues to help people and organizations stretch beyond their current abilities and grow big.

    Toolkit: Professional Coaching, GENOS EQ, Agile Certified, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Dare to Lead™ Certified Facilitator

    Bucket List: To travel to Australia, Japan and China.

  • Headshot of Nicole Jolly at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Nicole Jolly

    BA, MSc, ACC-ICF

    Professional Leadership Coach

    Nicole believes that all people are creative, resourceful and whole. She works with clients to unlock the answers and resources that they already hold inside. As an executive coach, she helps seasoned, senior executives find their stride at work, and in life.

    Toolkit: Leadership as well as Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Living Systems Approach™

    Bucket List: To return to Africa and travel with family.

  • Headshot of Dana Sproule at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Dana Sproule

    BA, ACC-ICF

    Professional Leadership Coach

    After 15 years of working with teams, Dana is convinced that every leader needs two things: they need to know what to spend their time on, and how to bring out the best in their people. After that, they can do anything. Dana is committed to helping leaders access their own wisdom, and develop the skills they need to make a difference.

    Toolkit: Leadership and Team Coaching, MBIT, Internal Family Systems, Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team™, Spiritual Traditions, Trauma-Informed

    Bucket List: To live on the Atlantic Ocean and pick up sea glass every day.

  • Headshot of Kara Steyaert at Red Maple Coaching and Consulting

    Kara Steyaert

    BA, CGFI, PCC-ICF, MA (cand.)

    Professional Life Coach

    With a background in fund management and investor relations, Kara brings years of experience as a coach. Kara helps her clients become champions of thriving lives and careers, where they feel energized and driven with a clear purpose.

    Toolkit: Team Coaching, Career Coaching, Spiritually Integrated and Community-Based Approaches, Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Art Therapy.

    Bucket List: To write and direct a play.