Our Coaches
Kelly Dobson
Kelly has an MA in Leadership and an Executive Coach Certification from Royal Roads University.
Kelly has a life long interest in teams and how effective leadership can create results greater than the sum of individual efforts. Striving to create that leadership dynamic is what excites Kelly to do this work.
Kelly is also the current leader of a four generation farm at Fairfax, Manitoba. His two plus decades of tenure has given him direct experience with family business dynamics, and managing through cyclical markets. Kelly has also chaired agricultural groups provincially and federally.
Darrel Thiessen
Darrel is a Certified Executive Coach from Royal Roads University.
Darrel is passionate about life-long learning. In his thirty-plus years as a manufacturer he has experienced many diverse perspectives while being led, studying and learning, leading and working with other leaders. Starting out as a welder, Darrel is a former owner and president of Cancade Company Limited and is currently a vice president at Cancade CBI Ltd., a manufacturing business in Manitoba. Darrel holds an interprovincial red seal journeyperson welding certificate, a degree in religious studies, has taken numerous courses at bachelor and graduate levels in clinical counselling and psychology, and has served on several boards including the Brandon John Howard Society.