Welcome to our directory of member coaches of the Vancouver Island Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF). As ICF members, we are governed by Codes of Ethics which establishes the professional code of conduct that you can expect as a client. ICF Member coaches are enrolled in or have at least 60 hours of coach specific training. “Credentialed” coaches (ACC, PCC, MCC) have additional training and experience that allow them to qualify for these designations.
Cristine Saxon, MA is a Certified Leadership Coach with private and corporate, domestic and international clients, working remotely and in person from her home on Vancouver Island.
A graduate of Cambridge University, England, Peter Scott has lived for over a decade in each of three countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, giving him a unique perspective on the cultural differences of those nations. For thirty years he has provided services to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and been an author, trainer, and educator in information technology; for him, “rocket science” is a vocation, not a barrier.
He earned his masters certificate in NeuroLinguistic Programming under John Grinder and has spent thousands of hours working in self-development seminars. He is presently co-authoring a book on life purpose with human potential leader Terry Tillman. His life has been a diverse blend of science and psychology, business and self- help, the rational and the intuitive. This eclectic combination yields a coaching style that blends business acumen with penetrating insight into human nature.
In 2017, Peter authored the book “Crisis of Control: How Artificial Superintelligences may Destroy or Save the Human Race,” about how exponentially-advancing technology creates great peril as well as great benefits. He has spoken at TEDx and keynoted around the world on how the solution requires all of us to become more aware of what makes us and others ‘tick’ – in other words, a coaching call to arms.
Peter’s cosmopolitan background gives him the ability to relate to most members of the Western world from a shared cultural experience: to put it pithily, he is fluent in both Home Counties and L.A. dialects. He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and two daughters in a house he designed, overlooking the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
Lily Seto, MA, PCC, is an Executive/Leadership Coach, a Certified Mentor Coach, and is one of the first Coaching Supervisor in Canada (Diploma). She supports global clients (currently New Zealand, Thailand, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, US, and Canada). She is an Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University, teaching the “Intercultural and Global Coaching” course in the Advanced Coaching Certificate Program and “Coaching to Motivate, Engage and Empower” in the Continuing Studies Program. Lily is a Past President of the International Coach Federation Vancouver Island Chapter.
What her clients say…
“Lily’s coaching has had a significant impact on my leadership capacity and on my life. She created a safe place to explore ideas, helped me challenge and clarify my thinking and held me accountable for results. She is warm but firm and is very quick to grasp the essence of leadership issues.” D – Edmonton
“…she listened deeply and demonstrated responsiveness by in the moment, reflecting back for me, what I was saying. She was non-judgmental, even when I was being judgmental to myself…Lily’s coaching helped me get really clear on next steps forward and also steps to address aspects that are holding me back from my vision. She helped me assess the impact of my current decisions on future results, including the impact of the whole system in which I live. .. I was able to create experiments to challenge some of my potentially limiting assumptions and to explore alternative ways of looking at things” R- Ireland
“I can testify to Lily’s ability to help people work through issues that are holding them back from reaching their true potential. I have witnessed in a group setting, as well as through face to face coaching, Lily’s ability to help individuals move through their “stuckness” and develop methods and strategies to achieve results in the workplace and in life”. S – Florida
I have believed in coaching from the time I started working with the Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching at Royal Roads University in 2005. Since becoming a Certified Executive Coach through Royal Roads Univeristy; coaching has become a way of being for me. I have shifted my listening and my way of conversing at home, at work, with friends, in organizations that I am connected to…not a huge shift…however, an impactful shift.
Believing in and being are two different pieces. I learn from each and every coaching conversation that I am engaged in and am finding that everyday conversations are turning into coaching conversations so naturally now. I have had the mindset of a “coach approach” with teams and colleagues throughout my career. I have participated in many leadership programs as I am curious about how people rise to the challenges they face in their lives.
I have been involved with local and global organizations linked to the coaching profession for a number of years and have been intrigued by the different ways of thinking and the common value of helping others. Being part of these organizations has helped me realize that this is something I would like to be part of not only in my career but also in my life. Some of the organizations that I have been involved with are:
Currently on the Steering Committee for the Western Regional Advisory Council for the International Coach Federation (ICF) (3 years)
Currenty a Team Coach for one of the Community Action Project Teams and have been a Mentor with Leadership Victoria (3 years)
Past President, Past Membership Director, current team member of our Coaching in Community initiative with the ICF Vancouver Island Coaches Association (on the Board of Directors for 6 years)
Past Project Manager for the Public Relations team for the HeroWork Rainbow Kitchen Radical Renovation
Past Secretary and Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO) (6 years)
Past Board of Directors for WorkLink (8 years)
Past Mentor with the Rees Society, Mentoring Project at Victoria Cool Aid Society
Past Swimathon Volunteer Coordinator for Victoria Hospice (4 years)
I am an enthusiastic coach who will create a safe, positive environment, ask you thought provoking questions while opening up a whole new world of possibilities together.
Wade retired from the Canadian Forces in 2015 and created Brisance Coaching, a heart-based life coaching practice, where he works with individuals and groups to combine authentic living, joy, success, heart and being in the moment. He is a graduate and affiliate member of Accomplishment Coaching and is a member of their Victoria Coach and Leadership Training Program leadership team. Wade lives from essence and for his life purpose, and he looks forward to new intellectual, spiritual and emotional growth, as well as an active lifestyle for the next 45 years!
