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Business Coaching + Consulting for Founders, Executives, and Entrepreneurs

Whether you need clarity on your vision or actionable strategies and deliverables that drive sustainable growth, we’re here to help you lead, build, and succeed with purpose.

At humanKIND, we believe that businesses thrive when their leaders thrive. That’s why we offer both business coaching and business consulting—to help founders, executives, and entrepreneurs grow personally while creating businesses that reflect their values and vision.

 

Whether you’re launching a start-up, scaling an existing business, or navigating challenges in leadership, we partner with you to address both the personal and operational sides of success. Our high-impact approach ensures that you have the clarity, tools, and strategies to take intentional, courageous steps forward.

 

This isn’t about shortcuts or one-size-fits-all solutions. It’s about creating a plan that works for you, your business, and the people you serve.

What's the Difference Between Business Coaching + Business Consulting?

In business coaching, the focus is on you as the leader. We create a reflective, growth-oriented space where you do the deep, personal work around your business vision, strategy, and growth.

 

With business consulting, the focus shifts to your business. We provide actionable advice, hands-on support, and deliverables, helping you tackle areas like strategy, branding, operations, marketing, and culture.

 

Think of coaching as empowering you to lead authentically, while consulting is about rolling up our sleeves to co-create strategies that drive results.

Business Coaching

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Business coaching focuses on you as the leader

Business coaching is about helping you dig deep to uncover your strengths, define your goals, and align your leadership with your values. Coaching provides a space for reflection, self-awareness, and growth so you can show up as your best in your business and beyond.

 

We help you:

  • Gain clarity on your leadership style and goals.

  • Navigate transitions, challenges, or new opportunities.

  • Build confidence and decision-making skills.

  • Create a personal growth plan that aligns with your professional vision.

  • Develop a framework for accountability

  • Support you as you move into action

 

Coaching is collaborative and personal—it’s about empowering you to lead authentically and effectively.

Business Consulting

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Business consulting focuses on the operations and strategy of your business.

Business consulting is about diving into the systems, processes, and opportunities that drive success. Consulting provides actionable advice, strategy, deliverables and hands-on support to help you design and execute strategies that align with your goals.

 

We help you:

  • Define or refine your vision, mission, and values.

  • Build strong branding, advertising, and marketing strategies.

  • Develop operational plans and achieve operational excellence.

  • Scope new business opportunities or plan for start-ups.

  • Analyze your organizational culture and align it with your goals.

 

Consulting is direct and results-driven—it’s about giving you the tools, strategies, and hands-on support to elevate your business to the next level.

Business Coaching - Areas of Expertise:

Each of our business coaching engagements are customized to meet your unique needs. Here’s where we shine:

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  • Leadership development for founders, executives, and entrepreneurs.

  • Navigating transitions like scaling, restructuring, or launching new ventures.

  • Building confidence, resilience, and clarity as a leader.

  • Empowering leaders to align their personal values with business success.

Business Consulting - Areas of Expertise:

We start with a 1:1 briefing to understand where you're looking to go and what you want to build.  From there we will develop a plan to deliver the result you need. We specialize in:​

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  • Organizational vision, mission, and values.

  • Branding, advertising, and marketing strategy + implementation.

  • Product development and product marketing.

  • Cause marketing and fundraising.

  • Operational planning and operational excellence.

  • Employer brand strategy and implementation.

  • Annual and strategic planning.

  • Culture analysis and team alignment.

  • Scoping new business opportunities and start-ups.

 

From strategy to execution, we work with you to create tangible, sustainable results—helping you move from ideas to action.

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About humanKIND

At humanKIND, we believe leadership is personal. Founded by James Powell, we specialize in leadership coaching, team coaching, and business consulting to help leaders, teams, and organizations achieve courageous growth. We work with leaders, executives, founders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are tired of the grind and ready to lead with truth, ownership, and connection. Whether that means redefining your leadership style, rebuilding after a setback, or simply finding space to breathe, we meet you where you are and help you create a path forward that feels as good as it works. Our approach is rooted in authenticity, connection, and sustainable success—at work, at home, and in the world.

Our Services

Leadership Coaching: Personalized 1:1 coaching to help leaders deepen self-awareness, build confidence, and achieve high-performance outcomes.

  • Leadership Coaching Specialization: career growth, career transition, leadership performance & resilience, finding purpose at work, finding balance, job downsizing, layoffs, restructuring, returning from maternity leave, returning from sick leave, burnout recovery, mental health in the workplace,

Team Coaching: Foster connection, collaboration, and empathy to build thriving, high-performance teams.

  • Team Coaching Specialization: team performance, team purpose and shared vision, role clarity, responsibilities, and expectations, new team formation, team norms and agreements, building trust and psychological safety, effective communication and active listening, conflict resolution and healthy debate, navigating difficult conversations, managing up, down, and across, understanding leadership styles across the team, leading through change and uncertainty, decision making frameworks (RACI, DACI), goal setting and alignment (OKRs, KPIs, SMART goals), understanding team strengths, motivations and work styles (MBTI, DISC, CliftonStrengths, Enneagram), retrospective analysis, strength & weakness mapping, team health check surveys, visioning & long-term planning

Business Coaching & Consulting: Transform your organization with strategies for growth, culture, and operational excellence.

  • Business Coaching & Consulting Specialization: Organizational vision, mission, values, brand, advertising & marketing strategy and implementation, operational planning, operational excellence, product development, product marketing, cause marketing, fundraising, employer brand strategy, employer brand implementation, business opportunity scoping, annual planning, strategic planning, culture analysis, new business start-ups.

Locations we serve

Based in Toronto, Quinte West, and Prince Edward County, we proudly support leaders and organizations across Canada and globally through virtual coaching and consulting.

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