IMPACT
“I am stunned by my coaching experience. Jennifer is exceptionally creative, empathetic and attentive. I would give her a tangle of thoughts and she’d use her gift of listening to untangle my words to crack a new way of seeing that was powerful. Jennifer crafted effective practices that deepened my insights and supported the emergence of a new way of leading from my own core values, being in connection and sitting in discomfort as a leader. Jennifer has a gift of deep presence, listening with ears, hands and heart to guide a soul along. She’s a sage doula who gently helps you along a journey of transformation and new growth. She offers old world wisdom and a radiant spark…
I highly recommend Jennifer if you want to reframe how you see yourself as a leader, deeply examine your own patterns and self-talk and examine how to be authentically YOU when you lead.”
“Jennifer is love. There’s a wave of warmth that washes over all who see and hear her. Whoever finds a home with Spark has found a refuge from the distractions that fill the newspapers’ and airways’ Tinnitus, the addiction to the Fitbit, the force that sets us all adrift away from each other.“
“I loved working with Jennifer as a coach. She truly saw me and created a powerful image of my most desirable future state. This image will stay with me forever as I grew into it through my coaching journey and it’s become the foundation for me to continue my development on my own. Jennifer gave me her full attention during our sessions and in between. She has an extraordinary gift to listen to one’s story and identify the gems within it. My personal growth built steadily in each session ending right in my big tender, expanding and indestructible heart. With Jennifer’s kind yet forceful support, I have learned so much about myself, my leadership qualities and how my past life experiences have influenced me. As I expand my leadership potential further, I’m excited to bring my newfound whole self to the areas of health and climate change.”
“I started working with Jennifer after years of longing to step forward confidently into the “third act” of my professional life. I found myself in a holding pattern, uncertain of how and whether to move forward. I knew I needed to effect deep personal shifts in longstanding patterns that no longer served me before I could make any significant changes; but I didn’t have the tools to do it on my own.
I am beyond grateful to have worked with Jennifer in the Ignition Program. Jennifer has such a rare array of gifts as a coach. She’s a deep and creative listener who connects authentically. With a unique approach, Jennifer offers expansive ways of approaching challenges with concrete practices that build the “muscles” to make real and lasting shifts. I especially love her use of metaphor, which I find myself returning to over and over again. Her ability to challenge and support me to develop the capacities I need while embracing uncertainty have been invaluable. While working with Jennifer I experienced a new sense of possibility for what’s next professionally- and in all dimensions of my life- and have moved forward with applying for jobs, even during a pandemic.”
Let go of what’s holding you back and JUMP – your life will never be the same after working with Jennifer.”
“Working with Jennifer is like the experience of a really amazing cup of coffee. There’s comfort of a genuine, warm personality and her ability to jolt and awaken and the stimulating blend of intellectual and spiritual insight. When you’re done, you feel ready to go into the world with a fresh and energized perspective.
For me personally, I was looking to bring more meaning and a deeper awareness into my daily life. Utilizing readings, exercises, awareness practices and more Jennifer has helped me to articulate my search and develop a framework that supported me personally and as a leader. Call it groundedness, connection or openness, the result helped me move to a new place, coloured with more inspiration, joy and the ability to share that with the people around me. “
“Working with Jennifer was incredibly grounding in a time of uncertainty in my life. She supported me in some big changes I was making in both my career and personal life. I decided to invest in working with Jennifer after a great experience in one of her group coaching programs. In her one on one coaching program, she provided gentle and productive guidance as I struggled with purpose and focus in the second half of life.
Through her strong vision and leadership and Jennifer’s creative use of metaphor, I began to name what was important to me and what was no longer important. By the end of our time together I felt renewed and hopeful about what the future would unfold for me. What I loved most about my coaching experience was being seen and understood by Jennifer.
I highly recommend Jennifer if you are experiencing an impasse in your career or life. Jennifer will be a wonderful guide and co-conspirator as you enter in, and through, liminal space.”
“Jennifer’s attentive listening, generosity of spirit, and carefully crafted practices were an incredible gift to me over the past year. In her presence, I felt myself and new possibilities unfolding. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with her – she’s helped me step more courageously and joyfully into my life. “
“I worked with Jennifer during a transformational point in my life. I felt like I was paddling upstream without a paddle. There were rapids and bends and sweepers. This was not a graceful transformation. I was full of resistance and fear and I was complaining to anyone within earshot, which only set the boat spinning.
Dial up Jennifer. Deep breath. Eddy out.
Jennifer helped me define my current way of being. She provided still water – a pause on the journey to allow exploration of alternate ways of being that might better support my current path.
Jennifer’s gentle, steady guidance helped me step closer to a kind of leadership that honors who I am. The effects are far reaching. I’m paddling less and floating more. My boat is full of other paddlers who are laughing and singing and we could paddle upstream if we felt like it but mostly, we are moving with the water and taking in the landscape.
Jennifer is highly talented, immensely patient and incredibly insightful. If you are interested in exploring your current way and alternatives, and in stepping into a truer version of your beautiful being, I hope you will give her a call.”
“Coaching with Jennifer has been a growth journey that helped me uncover a depth of leadership and inner strength that I didn’t know existed. As a result of our work together I experienced true confidence leading. Jennifer’s encouraging words and guided exercises brought light to my personal sense of knowing. I also learned how to balance between my mind, heart and gut to be an impactful leader and make decisions that align with my values.”
“Jennifer provides invaluable, experienced peer-level support for senior executives and leaders. Her broad base of knowledge of both the practical realities of social justice oriented leadership as well as her grounded, embodied and sincere approach to personal emotional growth make her uniquely suited to guide leaders in transition. Jennifer is flexible to the needs and goals of her clients, while maintaining the integrity of the transformative learning process she offers. As a senior leader who hadn’t ever considered a coach as an option, Jennifer’s support was refreshing and healing. She helped me truly explore my passions, talents and deeper goals, and supported me to take concrete steps to make major life changes. I am grateful for her kind, patient support during this difficult year full of meaningful changes.”
“Jennifer is an excellent facilitator who can take curve calls with grace. Before I worked with Jennifer I was worried about tension and differences within our group. Working with her grounded and honest approach, enabled us to clearly face what might get in the way. Since working with her, I feel relieved and re-energized because our team had honest conversations, identified our values, and nailed down a clear path forward. I admire you Jennifer- you care deeply about people and are impeccably professional. Hats off to you!“
“Before working with Jennifer, I didn’t realise how significantly I was living for others, leaving myself out, and scrambling to respond to my harsh inner critic. Jennifer helped me identify and respect each of my powerful, beautiful and essential facets, and to dance in confidence to my own music. Jennifer’s unique mix of active listening, creative and insightful observations and perfectly tailored practices has led me towards a more authentic and hopeful future. An extraordinary feat, and an absolute pleasure.”
“Jennifer listens deeply, guiding with perceptive questions and insights. She picks up the subtle undercurrents and complexities and sheds light on key issues and constructive possibilities. Through her attentive, creative inquiry she empowers you to embrace new perspectives and discover a deeper sense of purpose and contribution.
Jennifer embodies a grounded and sensitive wisdom. Her approach puts you naturally at ease to discover your own breakthroughs and higher purpose, with effective tools and practices for integration and implementation.
I highly recommend Jennifer to guide an individual or group through a fulfilling and revealing process to meet current challenges, inspire change, dream big, and reveal a transformative outcome. Working with her is dynamic, meaningful, and fun!”
“As a new acupuncturist and business owner, I chose to seek Jennifer’s support through Spark Coaching when I found myself facing the growing pains of being in the early days of launching a practice. I was struggling to hold all of the pieces that this new role asked of me, and witnessed myself experiencing resistance to the administrative dimensions of the work. Through her gentle, kind, and buoyant presence, Jennifer helped me see the underlying emotional patterns contributing to my resistance, and supported me to lean into the struggle and transform the narrative I’d been carrying.
Jennifer works with sparkly deftness-through her clear and swift ability to see the heart of my struggle, she helped me create simple, fun, and digestible tools to shift my relationship to running a business. What was a huge block is becoming a fun avenue of inquiry in my life.
I highly recommend Jennifer and Spark Coaching for anyone wanting to step more directly and compassionately into their innate capacities for leadership; Jennifer will tease it out of you with the utmost care, a dash of humour, and her highly skilled approach.”
“If you are struggling with deep purpose I highly recommend this grounding coaching experience. Jennifer gracefully reminds you of your righteous truth and creates a framework that can be used for a life of depth and integrity. Our time together was a much needed purge of an old way of operating.”
“Jennifer is a focused mix of insight and integrity. She’s able to hone in on the juiciest areas for growth in ways I couldn’t anticipate. Before I worked with Jennifer I struggled so much with honouring my own time before diving into the next big task. I thought that I’d never be able to set clear boundaries and had accepted feeling exhausted and over-extended as normal. Since working with Jennifer, I shifted my perspectives on boundary-setting and began honouring my authentic needs so I can sustain my whole self and business.
Investing in this unique coaching is an accelerator if you’re wrestling with honouring your needs and want clarity and empowerment.”