Dr. David Weiss, Ph.D., ICD.D, CHRE, PCC, is President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd., a firm specializing in innovative thinking, leadership coaching, and HR consulting. David is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation and a Ph.D. Registered Psychologist. He has over 25 years of experience working with executives and high potential talent. He also has provided consulting on 1000s of projects, delivered over 230 conference presentations, and authored 7 books including the bestseller "Innovative Intelligence." David’s doctorate is from the University of Toronto, and he has three master’s degrees. Previously, he was VP and Chief Innovation Officer at a multi-national consulting firm, Affiliate Professor of the Rotman School of Management, and Senior Research Fellow at Queen's University. David received many international awards including the lifetime designation of “Fellow HRPA.” Please follow his daily LinkedIn infographic posts along with his over 145,000 followers.
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Alecia Banting is Project Coordinator and Executive Assistant with Weiss International Ltd. She manages project activities for large- and mid-scale projects and, as Executive Assistant to Dr. David Weiss, she ensures that requests and requirements of our clients are met with high quality and in a timely manner. Read More

Jane Graydon, PCC, is a Senior Associate of Weiss International Ltd. She is an accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She also is the International Coaching Federation Toronto Chapter President (5+ years on Board). She is an experienced thought partner who inspires leaders to realize their full potential and deliver unprecedented results through feedback, self-discovery, and accountability. Read More

Aileen M. Edwards, ACC, is a Senior Associate of Weiss International Ltd. She is an experienced Leadership Coach and Human Resources (HR) Executive with extensive experience coaching individual leaders and facilitating complex business change and operations. Aileen is a Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, a Business Coaching Advantage Certified Coach, and a Registered Corporate Coach. She also has over 25 years of experience in training and leadership development in areas such as diversity, equity and inclusion, organizational development, and human resources. Read More

Dr. Begum Verjee, PCC, is a Senior Associate with Weiss International Ltd. She is an accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and completed her Professional Coach training with the Faculty of Coaching at the Adler Graduate Professional School, an accredited coach training program. She has worked in the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) space for over 25 years as a consultant, trainer, and educator. Begum has a doctorate in Educational Leadership & Policy, and a master’s in Counselling Psychology, both from the University of British Columbia. She is a member of Adler’s Coaching faculty with Red Maple Coaching and Consulting; on faculty with Adler’s Master of Psychology program; on faculty with the Inclusion Coach Certification program; and on faculty with the International Committee of Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI). She also is the recipient of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Toronto Chapter 2023 'Volunteer of the Year Award.' Read More

Laurence Pichon, PCC, is a bilingual (French and English) Senior Associate with Weiss International Ltd. She specializes in executive and leadership coaching for many clients from a wide range of business sectors including consumer product manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and health services. Laurence has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the EDHEC Business School (France), she is an accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, and she is certified as a coach with the Canada Coaching Academy. She also has expertise as a bilingual facilitator and trainer in the areas of leadership development, team building, change management, personal resiliency, and career management. Read More

Dan Bigonesse is a bilingual Senior Associate of Weiss International Ltd. and works in French and English as a management consultant, speaker, coach and trainer. Dan has spent the past 25 years helping people expand their thinking, develop their skills and discover new possibilities. Dan also is a past trustee of the Creative Education Foundation and is on the faculty of the Creative Problem-Solving Institute and the Schulich Executive Education Centre. He is also a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Facet5 Personality Profile, the FOURSIGHT™ (Creative Thinking Styles), and NeuroColor, a unique, neuroscience approach to personality assessment. Read More

Megan Mitchell is a Senior Associate of Weiss International Ltd. She is an accomplished consultant in Leadership Development, Innovation, and Change Management with over twenty years of experience. She is also the part-time Program Director for the Schulich School of Business at York University designing and delivering the Applied Innovation Management program. She is also a member of the World Futurist Society, the Institute for Performance and Learning, and Facilitators Without Borders. Megan is the author of Creativity 201 for Futurists and the co-author of Orchestrating Sustainable Innovation: A Symphony in Sound Bites, 2018. Read More

Teri Nghiem (M.Sc.) is a Senior Associate and Researcher of Weiss International Ltd. She is a specialist in strategy and transformation, organizational effectiveness, human resource management and planning, organizational design, business and functional analysis and talent management. Teri holds a Master of Science from Washington University with a specialty in Cognition and Neuroscience, and an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto. She is a co-author of the role of the gap effect in the orienting of attention: Evidence for express attentional shifts which appeared in Visual Cognition. Teri has been recognized as a member of the transformation project team which received the IPAC/Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Silver Award for Leading the Transformation in Stewardship.
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Joseph Weissgold, MFA is a Senior Associate with Weiss International Ltd. He has spent his career leaning into the most complex problems he could find as a designer, educator, and social entrepreneur. Some recent projects include leading strategic planning and a brand relaunch, driving strategy leading up to the opening of a large private gallery space and art collection, building a large-scale train-the-trainer program for a rapidly scaling educational initiative, launching a company providing tools and workshops to help people plan for end of life, and designing a start-up studio and incubator focused on launching social impact enterprises.
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Dr. Nora Gold is a Senior Associate of Weiss International Ltd. Formally, she was an Associate Professor of Social Work at McMaster University. She also was the Scholar-in-Residence and subsequently the Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Women's Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her projects include research and training on issues related to cross-cultural communication and diversity. She has written four books and many articles. Follow her daily infographic posts on LinkedIn along with her over 100,000 followers. Read More