Martha Lasley, MBA, is a Certified Trainer with the global Center for Nonviolent Communication. She is an Executive Coach and founding partner of Leadership that Works, a firm that trains and coaches visionaries. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Training, custom-designing programs to facilitate profound personal and organizational transformation. In 2006, she co-founded Coaching that Works, where she designs and delivers coach training programs to ignite transformation. She wrote the book Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization published in 2004.

Martha’s expertise includes:

• Coaching leaders and social change activists to develop a compelling vision, improve interpersonal communications, bring spirit into team building, and mentor others.
• Facilitating strategic planning, dynamic meetings, appreciative inquiry initiatives, and change management.
• Facilitating organizational development, conflict resolution, group process, building relationships, and succession planning.
• Designing and delivering results-oriented leadership development programs and retreats that improve productivity and open the way to exciting opportunities and new perspectives.

Henry Wai is a certified NVC Trainer who has led public introductions, trainings and practice groups in England, Canada and the U.S. He provides trainings, facilitation, and adult education in social service, community, business, university and religious settings. Based in Southern Ontario, Henry delights in supporting individuals and groups to develop and use their capacities for making a difference in our communities.

Henry's first social engagement was as part of the North American co-operative movement in student co-op housing. Later he was active in a consumer food co-op and also worked for the Canadian Co-operative Association introducing youth to co-ops and credit unions as a democratic economic alternative model internationally and locally. Henry's other experience includes coordinating volunteers for various community organizations, counseling and training youth in employment and life skills, doing outreach for a community literacy program and being a part of the first BASE Social Engagement Program of Buddhist Peace Fellowship. As well he was a business partner in a social enterprise linking local organic farmers and other producers with families in the city. While living in England, Henry was very active supporting the growth and collaborations within the UK NVC network including organising the first UK NVC conference in 2004.

Facilitated by Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainers: Henry Wai and Martha Lasley. For more information, contact Henry at 416-913-8861, wai_renooy@sympatico.ca or Martha at 570-297-2270, Martha@LeadershipthatWorks.com