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executive advisory & coaching in Ottawa 

Decision-Focused 
Guidance
for Leaders at Pivotal Moments  

Step away from daily pressures and focus on your most important career or leadership decisions. Sessions are held at 222 Queen Street, a private downtown Ottawa space steps from Parliament Hill and City Hall — designed to support confidential, high-impact executive thinking

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A Central Hub for Focused Leadership Thinking

Ottawa sessions are designed to give you uninterrupted time and perspective for pivotal career and leadership decisions. The downtown location offers:

  • Centrally accessible: Located in Ottawa’s civic and business core — minutes from Parliament Station and major transit routes, steps from Parliament Hill and Ottawa City Hall, with convenient public parking.

  • Private & professional: Secure meeting rooms maintain confidentiality. A modern, thoughtfully designed client space supports calm, focused thinking, with subtle local artwork adding perspective without distraction.

  • Focused & energizing: A downtown environment that supports deep reflection, strategic clarity, and high-quality decision-making.

This space isn’t the point of the work—it supports it. By removing friction and distraction, your attention stays on the decisions that shape your impact and define your next steps.

For leaders seeking in-person executive coaching support in Ottawa, this downtown location offers the accessibility, discretion, and focus required for high-consequence decision-making.

Only 20–30% of leaders deliberately remove digital distractions during critical thinking — yet those who do make clearer, faster, and more deliberate decisions.

About the Ottawa Sessions

Tailored Advisory in the Heart of Ottawa

Each session is designed for senior leaders and accomplished professionals navigating pivotal career or leadership decisions. At 222 Queen Street, sessions are delivered in a professional environment —blending reflective coaching, strategic sensemaking, and advisory perspective.
 

Whether you choose a Clarity Intensive or a longer Strategic Engagement, the focus remains the same: helping you leave with clear direction, confidence in your choices, and actionable next steps.

"Kristina is a highly effective executive and organizational coach. She understands complex organizations and what it takes to move a big ship in the right direction."


Nicholas, Deputy managing director

Make Your Complex Decisions Strategic

Imagine dedicated space — across a single session or several — where you can step away from urgent pressures, reflect deeply, and align on what truly matters. Instead of tackling decisions in isolation, we work with the interconnected challenges and opportunities shaping your leadership trajectory.

When thinking is sequenced and deliberate, you can:

  • See the bigger picture and align multiple priorities 

  • Make consequential decisions with confidence, even in ambiguity

  • Translate insight into clear, actionable plans or roadmap

You invest time and focus to drive results for your organization — why not do the same for the decisions that define your career and leadership journey?

 

Even Experienced Leaders Hit Moments of Uncertainty

Complex, layered decisions are a natural part of leadership. When priorities compete and conditions keeping shifting, clarity can feel elusive.

Common challenges include:

  • Layered decisions & competing priorities: Interconnected choices, multiple stakeholders, and long-term implications

  • Transition & growth pressures: Career pivots, role expansion, or organizational change that require sequencing, not reaction

  • Conflicting signals & limited time: Input from stakeholders, teams, and consultants pulling thinking in different directions often with competing time horizons and sense of urgency

  • Cognitive overload: Balancing immediate demands with long-term leadership choices

Here's the truth:

You Don't Need Certainty to Lead with Clarity

You don’t have to let external pressures, organizational uncertainty or market volatility, or forced change dictate your next move. With structured perspective and personal strategic insight, you can step back, see options clearly, and make deliberate choices that align with your priorities and appetite for risk.

Introducing Decision-focused Leadership Experiences

Structured Reflection. Sequenced Decisions.
Lasting Clarity.

Trusted 1:1 Partnership

Work with someone who’s navigated consequential decisions across leadership, entrepreneurship, board roles, and complex environments.

Custom Roadmap

Clarify interdependent decisions, weigh trade-offs, and map next steps you can act on faster.

Focus & Strategy

Structured exercises and advisory perspective support deliberate, grounded yet agile action.

Your Strategic Experience Starts Here

Clarity, Confidence, and Actionable Insight

Prepare & Reflect

Pre- and Post-Session Exercises


Thoughtfully designed exercises sharpen thinking before sessions and consolidate insight afterward.

Tailored Time Blocks

Flexible Session Lengths


Choose a two-hour Clarity Intensive for a bounded decision, or a longer Strategic Engagement for layered challenges.

Modern, Confidential Space

Decision Lab Experience


Meet virtually or in-person at 222 Queen Street, combining focus, perspective, and discretion.

Guided Perspective

Expert Advisory Input


Draw on insight from experience across public, private, and tech sectors in Canada, the US, Europe, and the Caribbean—helping you see what others might miss.

How does this sound?

Expected Outcomes

  • Clarity on complex, interrelated career or leadership decisions

  • Confidence in your preferences and direction

  • A strategic, sequenced plan of next steps you can act on immediately

  • Optional ongoing perspective in a confidential space

"Kristina is a very effective coach. She helped bring new perspectives to ongoing challenges. Her coaching made me more confident in my skills as a leader."


Stephanie, Director

 

Which path will accelerate your next move?

Ottawa-based leaders can engage through a focused Clarity Intensive or a longer Strategic Engagement, depending on the scope and complexity of the decision space.

Clarity Intensive

Focused Time. One Decision. Clear Direction

  • 2-hour high-focus session (or optional 3-hour Deep Dive) 
  • Designed around a single pivotal career or leadership decision 
  • Structured reflection and advisory insight 
  • Clear map of options, trade-offs, and next steps 
  • Confidential 1:1 experience 
EXPLORE

Strategic Engagement

Complex Decisions. Sustained Clarity.

  • Multi-session experience (5-10)
  • Designed for layered or interdependent decisions, such as organizational, team, role, or career transitions. 
  • Sequenced decision-making across time.
  • Strategic roadmap with intentional momentum and actionable follow-through 
EXPLORE

Meet Your Coach

Hi, I'm Kristina

I work with leaders and accomplished professionals at moments when the usual playbook no longer applies. When decisions are complex and consequential, my role is to help you slow the thinking just enough to see clearly — and then move forward with intention.

My background spans entrepreneurship, senior roles inside organizations, board appointments, and work across public and private sectors, including high-growth and regulated environments. I’ve lived the pressure of decision-making when certainty is unavailable and trade-offs are real.

That experience shapes how I work today. I blend non-directive coaching with thoughtful advisory perspective — offering a structured, confidential space to test assumptions and make sense of competing signals, without prescribing outcomes.

Ottawa is a natural place for this work. It’s a city I know deeply, where many leaders operate at the intersection of policy, governance, enterprise, and public trust. Whether we meet here or online, the focus remains the same: helping you make decisions you can stand behind — clearly, calmly, and on your own terms.

This Is for You If:

  • You're a senior leader, mid- to late-career professional, or business owner navigating a pivotal decision. 
  • You want a confidential, neutral space to think beyond organizational or stakeholder pressures.
  • You value structured reflection and decision clarity over prescriptive advice. 

This Isn't for You If:

  • You're seeking tactical career advice, job placement support, or someone to decide for you. 
  • You want performance coaching, organizational consulting, or system-fixing.
  • You're not ready to slow down your thinking, and engage with complexity. 

Ready for a Decision You Can Stand Behind?


Whether you need focused clarity or sustained strategic support, this work is designed to help you move forward calmly, confidently, and with intention.

DISCUSS YOUR NEXT MOVE

Frequently Asked Questions

 

In-person executive advisory and coaching sessions are available in downtown Ottawa at 222 Queen Street. Online sessions are available for leaders across Canada and internationally.