“If life is a game,
these are the rules.”

— the title of the first personal growth book I read, at 11 years old.

It was gifted to my big sister, but I was the book nerd with a disposition to learn about the human experience, so it found its way into my hands instead. I’ve been exploring questions about life and fulfillment ever since.

At 15 years old, I became actively engaged in my career path, when my high school law teacher’s storytelling and passion inspired me to pursue law, right then. I promptly enrolled in my high school’s internship program, and within weeks, joined a law firm to help draft shareholder agreements, search zoning bylaws, produce wills, and finalize real estate closings — all while deliberating between using “Attached please find” or “Please find attached” in emails at least once daily…

Since then, I’ve played many roles (none of which were lawyer, by the way) across many scenes – in social services, youth engagement, international development, higher education, student affairs, and events and program management.

It led me to work in career advising for the world’s largest university co-operative education program, where I supported the next generation of leaders and students as they navigated their first years of work.

I travelled from New York to the Silicon Valley, Seattle to the Yukon, to hear from students and managers about what they want and need from our modern workforce.

Now, I write, speak, mentor, and facilitate on topics related to communication, emotional intelligence, and personal and professional growth.

Today, my work is my playground.

But I didn’t always see it that way…

“I don't know what I want, but I know this isn’t it.”

Early in my own career, this thought was my repeating contemplation. The gruelling discomfort of it led me on a path to discovering how to close the gap between what I was doing and who I was yearning to become.

For months on end, there was a creative calling I felt burning inside me that I couldn’t figure out how to make space for, no matter my efforts to set boundaries around my salaried responsibilities.

I started to feel the unexpressed parts of me bubbling up, and the daily grind was suddenly distracting, not motivating. My work that I once loved began to stifle my spirit, not excite it.

Though I kept performing, I knew I wasn’t thriving.

In the fullness of time, I came to learn that my restlessness at work was the catalyst for change, but not the cause. The cause was that I was neglecting my inner dreams in service of outer needs. In service of following the world's rules to be good and smart and nice and strong and perfect.

I BEGAN YEARNING TO LEARN,
WHO AM I WITHOUT MY WORK?

AND WHOEVER I AM,
WHAT DO I REALLY WANT TO DO ABOUT IT?

I share everything about what I did next in my audio story:

FROM DREAM LIFE TO REAL LIFE

Listen to this free audio story from Gloria
and get inspired to start living the life of your dreams, and doing the work of your life.

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And now?

I help leaders, like you, with big hearts and creative minds navigate the pains of growth so that they live and work consciously and joyfully towards the fulfillment of their dreams.


I’m committed to helping you love what you do,
be your own best mentor,
and communicate yourself in all relationships with integrity and impeccability.

  • I hold particular gratitude for:

    — University campus residences and student orientation programming had been the first places I explored, expressed, and developed the practice of constructing intentional spaces of community and intimate gatherings. There is where I learned the core principles and approaches to “making the big feel small.” I am an educator and experience maker at heart.

    — the guides and teachers that have influenced my approach to transformational leadership and coaching:

    • Joanna Lindenbaum of Applied Depths Institute for my training as a Sacred Depths Practitioner.

    • Tara Mohr for the coaching tools and concepts I learned through my training as a Playing Big Facilitator.

    • Shawn Phelps for the guidance in accessing my intuitive nature and propelling me into my forever soul work.

    — my access to formal and traditional education, where some of my most pivotal learning moments and life growth took place:

    • Master of Professional Communication, Ryerson University

    • Joint Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Human Communication, University of Waterloo

    — my mentors and community members that have encouraged me to become more of myself and to zone in on my natural gifts.

  • BELONGING

    in community and with ourselves.

    LOVE

    as the way in, out, and forward.

    KINDNESS

    in our words, thoughts, and actions.

  • Gloria serves as a guide for emotionally intelligent humans who have big dreams, fierce hearts, and creative minds. She helps leaders navigate the pains of growth using conscious leadership, kind communication, and transformational self-mastery so that they fulfill their life's work in their own way, on their own terms, and by their own rules.

    Drawing on her studies in sociology and human communication, her research in the art of authenticity and meaning-making, her training in transformational depths coaching, and her experience building inclusive educational communities and high-performing teams, her mission is to build a more expressive and inspired world by helping individuals unlock their creative abilities and become their most loving selves.

    Gloria believes that true leadership is not a form of doing, but a way of being. With that, her coaching is a collaborative, creative, heart-driven process where she supports her clients to activate the mindset and energy required to live and work on purpose.

    She sees communication as humanity's most important characteristic and the life of every relationship, and believes that what we do for work can, and ought to, make our lives better.

What if approaching life and work with joy, creativity, and a guidance from within went better than you could even imagine?