Training, consulting and coaching people in organizations has been my passion for over 25 years.

In 1960, I began the first 7 years of my career with Imperial Oil in sales, marketing, and management. But I started to find my true purpose in life when I accepted an assignment to design and facilitate leadership and team development programs for managers. An area of which I knew little.

My willingness to embrace learning led to new opportunities. As an organizational development consultant with the Ontario Government's Human Resources Secretariat, I led numerous teambuilding, strategic planning, and organizational diagnosis projects.  I designed and facilitated over 100 intensive five-day residential seminars on such topics as Performance Management, Assertive Communication, Managing Conflict, and Team Leadership, building the foundation to a career of doing what I do best.

My choice to accept that one assignment over 30 years ago was life-changing. As I explored the opportunities for learning that I was to convey to others, I learned about myself and the limitations of my past programming. The more I learned, the more I discovered my gifts. What followed was the deepening of my relationship with myself, including my spirituality, and the awakening of richer relationships with others. The study of psychology and psychological types, particularly from a spiritual perspective, has been so transformative in my life that I have dedicated my practice to the personal and professional growth of high performance individuals, teams and organizations.

As principal of KEN PENROSE & ASSOCIATES for the past 23 years, I have facilitated seminars with over 10,000 participants.  The workshops have included The Myers-Briggs Teambuilding Workshop, Dynamic Presentation Skills, Effective Communications Skills, Advanced Influence Skills, and Raising Emotional Intelligence with the MBTI, to name a few. (Select "Team Development" from the menu for a complete list of available workshops.)

The list of clients who have benefitted from KEN PENROSE AND ASSOCIATES have touched many industries:

Alcan Canadian Mental Health Association DeHavilland Inc. DuPont Canada Inc. Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board Kellogg Canada Inc. Lafarge Canada Inc. Mitsubishi Electronics Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Southern Ontario Library Service United Way

Business Development Bank of Canada City of Mississauga Digital Equipment Hewlett Packard Imperial Oil Ltd. Ontario Hydro King's College Livingston International Inc. Markham Stouffville Hospital Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Training and Development Canada Wentworth Libraries

I consistently receive feedback from workshop participants, describing my seminars as "inspiring, insightful and entertaining." (select "Client Accolades" for more feedback).  I believe that this is largely due to the value I place on being empathetic, authentic and fully open! In doing so, my clients and workshop participants also open to new learning from the assessment feedback they receive, and embrace the potential for improving their life satisfaction.

These values in particular hold great significance, since in 1996, my focus on dealing with organizational change, loss, and transitions was enhanced by a personal interest in hospice care and bereavement support.  Subsequently my wife Marg developed metastatic breast cancer over a three-year period, ending in her death in September 2000.  My experiences as her primary care-giver, and in grieving and mourning her loss, have led to my additional commitment to support others in their personal losses by also offering my services as a Grief Counsellor and Bereavement Educator (Visit www.embracinggrief.ca for more information ).

It is my passion for personal growth and learning that has brought me my education, my experiences, and my extensive professional skills. I hold a personal commitment to stay on the learning cutting edge by studying with the masters in the fields of leadership and organization development in Canada and the United States, so that I can offer you the very most of my potential. I also stay informed and connected in the community of professionals, through memberships in numerous relevant associations (please see below).

If you hold the same passion or have a true desire to improve the quality of your relationships - with yourself and with others, I hope that you will give yourself the gift of learning and transformation through the personality assessments I offer.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.A., Economics and Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Certifications

• New Code NLP Practioner Certification - NUP Canada Inc.


• Enneagram Spectrum Certification - Jerome Wagner, PhD.


• Enneagram Qualification - Riso & Hudson, Parts 1, 2, and 3


• Ba-R-On Emotional Quotient Inventory Certification, MHS


• "Corporate Transformation Tools" Certified Associate - Richard Barrett and Associates


• "Flex-Talk" and "Flex-Selling" - Myers-Briggs Advanced Certification Program;     Brock and Associates, Minneapolis


• Leadership Benchmarks - Accredited Professional Certified by the Centre for Creative Leadership; Greensboro, NC


• Personal Style Indicator - Authorized Representatives; Consulting Resources GroupInternational Inc., Abbotsford, BC


• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualification Program; Otto Kroeger & Associates, Fairfax, VA


• International Transactional Analysis Association - Four-Year Advanced Training Program in Counselling and Organizational Applications


• Life Orientations Certification Program; Allan Katcher International Inc., Van Nuys, CA

Professional Development

Team Dynamics:  Conflict Management, Planning, and Problem-Solving

• Creative Problem-Solving Institute; University of Buffalo


• Beyond Conflict:  The Management of Differences; N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine


• Creativity and Lateral Thinking, Edward De Bono; MICA Management Resources, Toronto


• The Leading Edge:  Advanced Teambuilding Workshop; N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine


• Synectics Creative Problem-Solving Workshop; Synectics Inc., Boston


• Kepner-Tregoe Problem-Solving; Kepner-Tregoe Inc., Toronto

Leadership, Management, and Organizational Change

• First Things First; Stephen R. Covey, Toronto


• Work and the Human Spirit; Dr. John Scherer, Association for Creative Change, Toronto


• Polarity Management; Dr. Barry Johnson, Association for Creative Change, Toronto


• Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, Toronto


• The Dynamics of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in Change and Transition;     Psychometrics, Toronto


• Managing Diversity; Elsie Cross, Association for Creative Change, Toronto


• Managing Change; Pfeiffer and Associates, Toronto


• Power and Organizational Politics; Pfeiffer & Associates, Toronto


• Master Trainer Program - Supervision; Achieve Inc., Toronto


• Organizational Diagnosis, N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine


• Program for Specialists in Organization Development; N.T.L. Institute, Naples, FL


• Consulting Skills; N.T.L. Institute, Chicago


• The Blake Managerial Grid; Scientific Methods, Chicago


• Sources of Misunderstanding in Management; Dr. N.A. Meier, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Staff Development:  Human Interaction Skills, Individual Assessment, And Adult Learning

• Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Training Program, Parts 1, 2, and 3


• Advanced Voice and Presentation Skills:  John Plank, The Personal Performance Group


• Group Facilitation:  ICA Canada


• The Decker Method:  Advanced Presentation Skills; Bert Decker, New York


• Career Planning with the M.B.T.I. - Paul Tieger and Barbara Baron-Tieger


• Stress Management - Joan Borysenko; Life Cycle Learning, Toronto


• Self-Awareness and Transitions; N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine


• NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), 20-day certification program; C. Dunkley & D. Sager, Toronto


• Training Theory and Practice; N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine


• Training Program for Laboratory Educators; N.T.L. Institute, Bethel, Maine

Memberships

• The Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists


• The Association for Personality Type


• The International Enneagram Association


• Ontario Association for the Application of Personality Type


• Enneagram North