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Redefine Leadership on Your Terms

True leadership isn’t about following someone else’s script. It’s about doing the deep work of knowing yourself, owning your path, and creating change that matters to you and those you love.

We know that leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. It’s deeply personal. That’s why our coaching is designed around you—your goals, your vision, and your unique path forward.

Whether you’re navigating a career shift, recovering from burnout, or striving to lead in a way that feels more aligned with your values, leadership coaching gives you the space, tools, and support to unlock your full potential.

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about doing the real work—getting to the heart of who you are, what you stand for, and how you want to show up in your leadership and your life.

Are you ready to stop settling for "good enough" and start building something worth showing up for?

1:1 Leadership Coaching

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When was the last time you had an hour 100% dedicated to your own growth?

Our 1:1 coaching sessions are designed to help you:

  • Deepen your self-awareness to uncover your unique strengths and challenges.

  • Build clarity and confidence to navigate complex decisions and transitions.

  • Create a personalized growth plan that balances your head, heart, and gut—so you can lead with purpose and authenticity.

  • Provide an accountability framework to help you move from plan to action.

Why Leadership Coaching?

The truth is, the path forward starts with you.

When you take the time to deeply know yourself, take ownership of your thoughts and actions, and align your leadership with your values, everything changes—your confidence, your relationships, your results.

But this work isn’t easy. It requires courage, commitment, and a willingness to dig deep. That’s where we come in. At humanKIND, we walk with you every step of the way, helping you create a leadership style that’s honest, sustainable, and uniquely yours.

This is your time. Are you ready to take the first step?

Who We Work With

We work with leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are:

  • Navigating a career transition or rebuilding after downsizing or restructuring.

  • Burned out and ready to find balance and purpose in their work.

  • Returning to leadership after a leave of absence (parental, medical, or otherwise).

  • Starting a new chapter and leaving a leadership role to retire, start a new opportunity, provide care for loved ones, or follow your heart.

  • Closeted entrepreneurs ready to turn their ideas into action.

  • Founders or executives seeking clarity and a trusted partner to map out their vision.

  • Leaders striving to improve team performance and achieve new levels of impact.

 

Wherever you are right now, we’ll meet you there and help you create a path forward that feels as good as it works.

How It Works:

We design individual programs for each of our clients, typically this looks like:

  • 2-3 sessions per month: Virtual 45-60 minute coaching sessions.

  • Between-session support: Real-time feedback, insights, and accountability to help you stay on track.

This isn’t about following someone else’s playbook. It’s about creating lasting, meaningful change that aligns with your unique leadership style and goals.

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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.

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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