Guided by a vision to transform workplaces, homes, and communities, we strive to enhance well-being, foster peace, and drive positive social impact. We shape and strengthen working relationships, resolve conflicts constructively, and prioritize the well-being of organizations, teams, and individuals, ensuring lasting, meaningful change. At our core, we believe in interactivity of the whole - person, team and systems - is vital to achieve this vision now and into the future.

We provide personalized, integrative solutions to drive deep and meaningful change, guided by four key Sustainable Development Goals from the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The four SDGs are: #3 Good Health & Well-Being, #16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, #4 Quality Education, & #5 Gender Equality.

With our clients and our partners reach being global, no matter how we connect - be that in person or virtually - know:

We Care: We care about it all - all of you, the entire team and all the stakeholders
We Create: We create simple and effective synergies
We Connect: We make space for the hard stuff to be safe and to transform
We Critically Think: We expand thinking to generate win-wins
We are Courageous: We have the courage to face the truth

A seasoned Executive & Team Coach, Mediator and Speaker. She brings 20 years of experience leading teams and engaging audiences through her innovative and interactive designs, engaging topics and immersive experiences.

The ‘Calzolaio’ Analogy

Amanda’s last name is Calzolaio. Calzolaio is Italian for ‘Shoe Maker’. Shoes support our feet, and our feet shape and bolster our entire body’s posture and balance. If our feet are comfortable and well supported, we can walk or run farther, stand longer, and do more of the things we want to be doing in ways we want to be doing them.
Amanda is your partner co-creating your best fitted shoe(s) to support you and your team one step at a time - at work, at home and in your community.

Actively incorporating living systems, diversity and inclusion, leadership best practices, strategic futures, and the arts into coaching, education and mediative applications. Amanda applies her experiences and training in Compassion, Focusing, Internal Family Systems, and Positive Intelligence to go even deeper with her clients. Her clients value her ability to remain compassionate, energizing, and supportive while challenging and strengthening their mental models to make continual progress towards creative and actionable ways forward.

Amanda is a graduate from the Adler Graduate Professional School. She holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) designation as a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is an Executive Coach with McMaster University’s School of Medicine Bridging Leaders Program, their Advanced Leadership Program, and with Fora: Network for Change Rise on Board’s Program. She is an executive and team coaching member of the Epiphany Coaches, the Leadership Intelligence Community of Practice, and the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching (GSAEC). She currently teaches and designs courses at Conestoga College’s School of Business and within McMaster University’s Bachelor of Health Sciences Program. She is an Affiliate Partner with Tilt365 Academy, certified in the Tilt365 Suite and the Leadership Circle Profile, and proficient with a variety of psychometric tools.

A former healthcare and higher education leader in large and complex institutions. Amanda was awarded the Proficiency in Focusing Award and is an Associate Member of The International Focusing Institute. Amanda holds a Master’s degree in Management of Innovation and a Bachelor of Honors in Psychology and Human Behavioral Biology – now Neuroscience - from the University of Toronto.

To learn more visit her LinkedIn profile.

We partner with families, children and youth knowing their future will shape the workplace, our homes and our communities.