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Coaching for Executive Leaders

Our highly experienced team of leadership experts have coached over a thousand leaders globally. We provide personalized, in-depth executive coaching to develop leaders’ skills and performance in a range of areas, including how to: create more organizational impact; strategically advance in career development; develop DEI and talent management acumen; effectively navigate difficult relationships; engage in crisis management; and more. Our executive coaches employ a range of leading tools, practices, and strategies to inspire lasting behavioral change, and allow leaders to unlock deep-rooted professional and personal joy.

A Personalized Approach to Executive Coaching

We work with executive leaders to deeply understand their particular leadership challenges and opportunities in the workplace, including what is driving their desire for skills development.

We pride ourselves on creating a safe space in our executive coaching relationships that helps to cultivate meaningful conversations and deliver highly practical strategic guidance for leadership skills development, career advancement, relationship management, and cultivating professional joy.

Coaching That Supports Leadership Skills Growth

Drawing on our deep expertise in working with senior leaders of world-renowned organizations, we offer executive coaching across a range of leadership skill areas, including the following four areas:

Shift Leadership Executive Coaching

Based on our work in coaching over a thousand professionals and working with hundreds of globally-renowned organizations, bci’s Shift Leadership coaching provides executive leaders with targeted strategic guidance on how to experience greater professional advancement, success, joy, and wellness.

In particular, Shift Leadership Executive Coaching equips leaders with tools to: create more organizational and personal impact; strengthen their skills and performance; claim heightened experiences of belonging; navigate complex and difficult work environments and relationships; develop greater emotional intelligence; and stand in their power in how they live, work, and lead.

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DEI Executive Coaching

Our coaches have in-depth DEI expertise to help equip executive leaders with foundational and advanced DEI acumen, to help cultivate inclusive environments that are rooted in belonging. Through supportive conversations, our coaches provide a safe space for executive leaders to engage in deep self-reflection and learning about key DEI principles, concepts, and practices.

All of our executive coaches are licensed administrators of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), the leading cultural competency assessment tool. We provide in-depth one-on-one debriefs to executive leaders on their personal IDI results, including a discussion on how to further develop inclusion skills.

Targeted Executive Leadership Coaching

Given the breadth and depth of expertise amongst our executive coaches, we offer coaching across a range of leadership skill areas, including: team conflict resolution; relationship repair; emotional intelligence (EQ); empathy; conflict management; and crisis management.

Our executive coaches also hold qualifications and expertise to apply a therapy and trauma-informed lens to coaching; administer several leadership assessment tools (including the MBTI, EQi, and more); and navigate and diffuse complex talent management issues, including addressing tension related to geopolitics.

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Professionals of Color Leadership Coaching

We are deeply committed to guiding Professionals of Color as they enter and move through leadership ranks, which is why we offer a performance coaching program designed specifically for Professionals of Color.

This program provides targeted coaching to help Professionals of Color harness their power and identities, as they navigate unique challenges in the workplace, in order to thrive professionally and personally.

Our Coaches

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Ritu Bhasin

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CEO & Founder

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Dr. Komal Bhasin

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Senior DEI Consultant
Mental Health Expert-in-Residence

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Dr. Summer Allen

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Leadership and DEI Coach

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Joanna Kirke

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Leadership Coach & Speaker

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The inclusive coaching session that Ritu led our senior team through was incredibly impactful. Her approach is practical, grounded in behavioral science, and starts by asking leaders to look inward.

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bhasin consulting inc. is a world-renowned leadership and DEI consulting firm that’s recognized for shifting leadership, cultivating belonging, growing empathy, and unlocking psychological safety in workplaces.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The bci team primarily works from lands that are part of the Dish With One Spoon Territory, a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee that brought these communities together to share, serve, and protect these lands.

bci is deeply committed to honoring the spirit of this treaty, and we recognize our privilege in enjoying the benefits of these lands, which supports all that we do. We’re passionately focused on undertaking our work in alignment with the values of Truth and Reconciliation, and we actively seek to decolonize societal and workplace systems, as well as our individual behaviors.

Ritu Bhasin, LL.B. MBA

Ritu is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author, global consultant, and world-renowned expert in leadership, talent management, belonging, DEI, and empowerment.

Since 2010, Ritu has worked with hundreds of top organizations and senior leadership teams around the world, presented to hundreds of thousands of people globally, and coached over a thousand leaders. Ritu is a certified cultural competence and neuroscience strategies coach, as well as a yoga and mindfulness teacher and practitioner, and very shortly she will complete a trauma professional certification program.

Before founding bci, Ritu spent ten years in the legal profession – first as a civil litigator and then as the director of legal talent for the preeminent Canadian law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP. Ritu also served as an instructor in the Executive Programs at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto for three years. She regularly appears on national television and radio in the U.S. and Canada as an expert on leadership, talent management, DEI, belonging, empathy, and empowerment.

Ritu’s personal experiences with adversity and her desire to help others have led her to work as a social justice champion for over thirty years, volunteering with dozens of organizations and mentoring hundreds of youths and young professionals. She has won numerous awards and distinctions for her work, including: Real Leaders Top 50 Keynote Speakers, Success Magazine’s Woman of Influence, The Women’s Center Leadership Award, the South Asian Bar Association Diversity Award, the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce Female Professional of the Year Award, the City of Toronto’s William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations, and Western University’s Young Alumni of the Year Award.

Ritu has written two bestselling books: We’ve Got This: Unlocking the Beauty of Belonging (2023) which is also now a multiple award winner and The Authenticity Principle: Resist Conformity, Embrace Differences, and Transform How You Live, Work, and Lead (2017).

Ritu lives in Toronto, Canada. When she is not working, you’ll find her traveling around the world to eat, swim, hike, dance, and chill.

To explore Ritu’s empowerment tools and resources for individuals, visit her personal empowerment site, ritubhasin.com.

Education:

  • MBA, Rotman School of Management (Executive Program), University of Toronto
  • LL.B. (With Distinction), University of Western Ontario
  • B.A. (With Distinction), University of Toronto
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Dr. Komal Bhasin, MSW, MHSc, DocSocSci

Komal is bci’s Senior DEI Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence and an accomplished DEI facilitator, coach, and strategist. Komal has over 20 years of experience in providing strategic and advisory guidance and program development across a range of sectors, with a particular concentration in mental health and racial inclusion. Komal is also the founder of Insayva Inc., a social enterprise focused on providing accessible DEI and health equity support to charities and non-profit organizations.

Komal has extensive experience in creating and delivering programming in a range of DEI areas, including unconscious bias, cultural competence, mental health inclusion, psychological safety, and allyship. She is passionate about driving transformational change in workplaces and has worked closely with bci clients – corporations, professional service firms, health care providers, and educational institutions – to embed cultures of DEI within their organizations.

Komal has provided one-on-one inclusion coaching to hundreds of senior leaders and brings a unique approach that is informed by her background as a psychotherapist. Using a trauma-informed lens and somatic approaches, she also has experience guiding leaders and teams in mending relationships, and rebuilding trust where harm has occurred due to inequities, intercultural conflict, value mismatches, exclusion, and psychological or geopolitical safety issues, with the goal of creating a more inclusive, resilient or organizational culture.

Komal also offers a performance coaching program designed specifically for BIPOC leaders. This program aims to help BIPOC leaders harness their place, position, and identity to thrive in the workplace and beyond. Komal is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

As bci’s Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, Komal offers tremendous expertise around workplace mental health. As a doctoral trained mental health clinician, certified health executive, and registered social worker, Komal has assisted organizations looking to advance employee mental health inclusion and well-being through offering programming on inclusive dialogue, anti-stigma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, resilience, and self-care. Komal is committed to advancing mental health and wellness across the life course; she currently serves on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario and previously served on the board of Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

When Komal is not working, you’ll find her painting, cooking or snuggling with her cat.

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Dr. Summer Allen, PhD

Summer is an executive level leadership coach, speaker, and consultant with over 15 years of experience in crafting and driving organizational strategy and improving employee performance through her expertise in culture transformation, DEI, and leadership development, through the lens of emotional intelligence. She has her doctorate in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing a second doctorate in psychology from Rutgers University to deepen her research in emotional intelligence.

Summer is also the author of Lose the Debate: A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Successful Dialogue (2024).

Summer is passionate about working with leaders to deeply understand their individual and organizational development needs in order to build cultures that are rooted in DEI, emotional intelligence, empathy, and belonging. Summer holds a range of facilitation designations and coaching certifications, including being a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

Summer has provided one-on-one coaching to hundreds of senior leaders across a range of industries and globally renowned organizations. She is known for her thoughtful, dynamic, and inviting coaching style, and for cultivating meaningful learning experiences around challenging DEI areas like unconscious bias, cultural competence, allyship, authenticity, belonging, and more.

When Summer isn’t working, you’ll find her writing, watching Investigation Discovery, or playing with her dog Coco.

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Joanna Kirke, MBA, PCC

Joanna is a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF), expert facilitator, and consultant with 20+ years of talent management, DEI, and leadership consulting, and executive coaching experience. Joanna is renowned for developing and delivering high impact workshops and coaching programming for a range of sectors including financial services, technology, law firms, consulting, retail, telecommunications, mining, education, and not-for-profits, and across a spectrum of areas including leadership, innovation, leading change, emotional intelligence, DEI, self-awareness, team effectiveness, cultural competence, and women’s advancement.

Joanna has coached hundreds of leaders in global organizations in several areas including inclusion strategies and cultural competence. She can quickly gain trust and build rapport with her coaching clients in order to create greater accountability, behavioral change, and personal growth.

Joanna is qualified to administer the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). Joanna is also qualified to administer several leadership assessment tools including: EQ-i 2.0 Assessment, EQ-i 360 assessment, DiSC, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, the Innovation Aware Simulation, and Experience Change Simulation.

When Joanna isn’t working, you’ll find her volunteering in the community with organizations including Habitat for Humanity, UNICEF, and the Canadian Women’s Foundation.

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