ABOUT ME
For over 30 years, I’ve had the job title of “Coach”.
This career path was inspired by early influences in my own life. When I was a young boy, I had a handful of coaches and teachers who knew how to make me feel a sense of well-being and possibility far beyond what I was experiencing myself. I noticed how that positively changed my performance and thought it would be amazing to have a career where I could do the same for others.
I’ve been entrusted by Olympians, CEOs, students, social impact leaders, professionals in the arts, entrepreneurs, coaches, and more. The diversity of my clients inspires me, yet what keeps me grounded are the changes I get to witness while walking the journey with my clients.
important insights
My professional career has provided many unique experiences, all of which my clients benefit from. I chose to be a coach from the very start of my career and have never looked back. For the first two decades, I was in the high performance sports world, working with elite athletes, including Olympic and World Champions. I moved into roles coaching other coaches and advising talent development experts across a range of Olympic sports.
In 2016 I attended a performance conference in New York City and heard top talent experts from many different contexts - business, arts, education, medicine and sport, all speaking on the same topics. As they shared their stories, I realized that my gift for helping athletes see something new in themselves was applicable to any group of people with ambition, work ethic and a desire to realize their own most inspiring dreams.
That insight led me to begin my current efforts in coaching, where I work with people from all backgrounds who have important goals and dreams, perhaps some hesitation about the right path to get to them, and a deep desire to learn more about their true potential.
Kyle Dine is a great example of this kind of transformation. He had been deep into an entrepreneurial journey for nearly ten years when I first met him. I sensed that Kyle was a guy so deeply committed to the cause he was fighting for that options he could see for what to do next looked as thin as a blade of grass. With a little curiosity and ignorance from yours truly, a whole new world of possibility seemed to emerge. What’s cool is that five years later, his travel and dining business, Equal Eats, has successfully navigated a global pandemic and is now many times the success it was before the pandemic. Kyle learned how to think and see in a new way — that will never leave him.
“I consider myself incredibly lucky to have met Andrew and have him as a coach. It was my first experience with a business coach, and I would now consider him an invaluable part of the future of my personal and business development. Andrew is a great listener who truly takes the time to understand all aspects of his clients and their goals. He helped me stay accountable to myself and helped lead me to discover solutions myself. Like all great coaches, Andrew will challenge you, but if you want to achieve your dreams, he’s definitely the guy you want by your side.”
sources of inspiration
I am a father to four daughters and am inspired by them every day and a big part of how I show up in my own ‘best life’ is driven by the kind of example I want to be for them.
I’m passionate about social issues, especially those relating to youth and Indigenous people in Canada. In 2019, I spent two and half weeks hiking over 600km across northern Canada in memory of the death of a young indigenous boy in the 1960s who was trying to escape from a residential school and return to his family. The movie below was an inspiration to the journey and I shared about it here.
I also do work with Chicago-based One Solution and their inner-city youth program, Rebels for Peace. Through this work, I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting some inspiring young leaders committed to shaping a new future for youth in Chicago by educating them about the mind from as early as Grade 4.
Wherever you are in your life and career, I’m up for a conversation to see if there is some way I can help. Go ahead and schedule a chat.
Nothing will change until you do.