The problem is rarely talent. It is how leadership works together.
I work with CEOs and leadership teams to surface what matters, decide with courage, and move forward as one.
clearer executive decision-making under pressure
stronger leadership alignment
fewer people bottlenecks
more confident executive conversations
healthier accountability across teams
less isolation at the top
You have built something that works. The people are good. The results have stalled anyway.
>> The decisions that matter most are the ones nobody quite agrees on.
>> Your team is capable, and still not leading together the way you need.
>> The same issues keep coming back wearing different clothes.
>> Leadership is lonelier than anyone warned you.
Not a sales call. A real conversation.
I am Janet Davie, a CPA and ICF Master Certified Coach. I work with leadership teams and the individual leaders who run them, people who are good at what they do and still find this harder than they expected. That is exactly who this work is for.
MY APPROACH
Clearer thinking under pressure. No more spinning your wheels. A clear path forward, one that reflects who you are and where you are going.
Steadier nerve when the stakes are high. An end to keeping the peace at your own expense. The call made before you feel ready, because waiting costs more.
Change that holds after the work is done. Not another short-lived fix. Results your team can feel, and carry forward without you.
This is a working partnership. Not cheerleading. Not advice you could find in a book. A rigorous, confidential space where the real issues get named and worked through, whether that is one leader thinking out loud or a full team deciding together.
Drowning in decisions
The pressure is nonstop. Every choice feels high stakes. The weight of it does not let up, and there is nobody to think it through with.
Your leadership team is not one team
Capable people, pulling in slightly different directions. Decisions get made in the room and unmade in the hallway. Nobody is behaving badly and nothing is moving.
Growth is outpacing your systems
More responsibility, more complexity, more people looking to you. What worked before is not quite enough for where you are now.
The hard conversations are not happening
Everyone is polite. The real disagreement lives in side conversations and private frustration. The cost shows up months later, in decisions that quietly never got made.
You may have arrived here from any of these places.
The context is different. The weight of it is the same. Wherever you are, this work starts with an honest conversation.
You built something. Now you lead it.
You are a founder, owner, or CEO. The business grew. The team grew. And the version of leadership that got you here is not quite enough for where you are now. You need a thinking partner who understands the stakes, operationally, financially, and personally.
You were promoted. The support was not.
You earned the role. Nobody handed you the playbook. Now you are leading people, managing up, navigating complexity, and doing most of it by instinct. This work gives you structure, clarity, and a space to develop your leadership deliberately.
Your team needs to lead better. Together.
Individual capability is not the problem. How the team thinks, decides, and holds each other accountable is. This work is for leadership teams ready to move from capable individuals to a genuinely cohesive unit.
Your group needs a keynote or workshop.
Lead with Impact is a vetted, approved workshop available to peer groups and leadership teams across North America. It is the entry point into the SCALE Leadership System, and it is built to start something, not just fill a slot.
Why Work With Me?
I started as a CPA. I spent over 20 years in senior financial leadership, inside organisations where performance and accountability had real consequences. I was the most senior finance person in the room, the one the bank and the outside accountants dealt with, making the calls rather than recommending them.
Then I spent a decade as a TEC Canada Chair, running peer groups for CEOs, before building this practice.
Most of my work is with CEOs and senior leadership teams in construction, manufacturing and engineering, including collaborative delivery environments such as P3, and with Vistage and TEC peer group members across North America. I served on the Accounting Policy Advisory Committee for the British Columbia Provincial Treasury through the shift to generally accepted accounting principles in government financial reporting, when public private partnerships were central to the conversation.
When I became an ICF Master Certified Coach, I did not leave any of that behind. I brought it with me. What you get is grounded and direct, built for what leadership actually looks like rather than a polished version of it.
I understand the trade-offs. I understand the stakes. And I understand the things you cannot say to anyone else in the room.
I am based in Vancouver and work with leaders across North America.
It has been a pleasure to have Janet help with our leadership team. With her guidance, we have been able to put a lot into perspective and gained valuable insight and practices in order to move our business forward. We have worked together for over 4 years! I’d recommend Janet in any capacity!
Andrew Lee
I’ve had the privilege of working with Janet nearly 8 years, and her impact on my leadership journey has been both meaningful and lasting. She has a unique ability to create space for thoughtful reflection while also challenging you to think more clearly and act more intentionally.
Janet helped me strengthen my self-awareness and decision-making by asking the right questions at the right time. She doesn’t provide easy answers, instead, she guides you to uncover your own insights, which makes the growth far more powerful and sustainable.
There is no mistake on being held accountable through her process. You must do the work but she can help you find the right path to get there.
What I value most is her role as a trusted sounding board. Our conversations consistently brought clarity during complex situations, and she has a way of grounding leadership challenges in both principle and practical action.
Janet’s approach is thoughtful, authentic, and deeply people-centered. I would highly recommend her to any leader looking to grow their abilities both professionally and personally.
Jonah McEachern
Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Thai United Food Trading
Managing Partner and CCO at Gen C Communications
Principal of Channel Consulting and founder of Uplift Fund.
Credentials
The combination of financial expertise and ICF Master Certified coaching is rare. Most coaches do not understand the operational and financial reality of running something. Most financial advisors do not understand the human complexity of leading people through it.
I hold both. That is what makes this work different.
I also hold the Advanced Certified Team Coach credential, the ICF designation for team-level coaching, and am an approved speaker with Vistage, the world’s largest CEO membership organization.
Held at all three levels: ACC, PCC and MCC. The credential for coaches who train other coaches.
Vetted to deliver leadership development to peer groups across North America
A practical system leaders use to think clearly, decide courageously, and build leadership capacity through everyday conversations.
Clarify the real issue before moving to action. Not the loudest problem or the most urgent one. The right one.
Make decisions that align with your values and the long term, even when the path feels uncomfortable.
Translate decisions into focused, deliberate action. Not more activity. The actions that matter most.
Build trust through steady, predictable behaviour rather than intensity. Your team plans around the pattern, not the moment.
Learn deliberately from experience. Pause, reflect, and adjust, so leadership judgement compounds instead of repeating.
Individual work gives you a place to think, decide, and be challenged in private. Team work changes how the group decides together, which is a different problem and needs a different room. Most engagements start with one and grow into the other. We will talk about which one you actually need.
Because capability is not the constraint. Good people can be individually excellent and collectively stuck, and no amount of individual development fixes how a group makes decisions. That is the work.
No. It takes things off it. Right now you are carrying decisions, stress, and uncertainty alone. This is not another task. It is a way to make the right moves faster, and to stop solving the same problem repeatedly.
Ask me what happened. Most of the time it comes down to one of two things: the work stayed comfortable, or it never touched the thing that was actually in the way. I will tell you honestly in the first conversation whether I think I can help, including when I think I cannot.
Then we name it. I spent over 20 years in senior financial leadership before I coached anyone, so I can usually tell the difference, and I will say so rather than coaching around it.
Ask what the alternative costs. A stalled decision, the wrong hire, a leadership team that quietly stops trusting each other. Those are expensive and they compound. If you are asking about return, you are already thinking about it the right way.