Course Chair
Allison Wolf — Lawyer Coach, Shift Works Strategic Inc., Vancouver
About the Course Chair
Allison Wolf, PCC is a senior coach with a practice focused on helping her clients thrive in legal practice. She works with lawyers from across North America from her home base on Salt Spring Island.
Allison is the founder of the AMP (Associate Mentoring Plus) program designed to help junior lawyers establish a foundation for a flourishing legal career. In 2021, AMP has grown to include a collective of five coaches and a large group of mentors all dedicated to supporting junior lawyers. You can learn more about the AMP Program here https://www.ampclub.ca/
Allison is also a sought after writer and presenter for law firms, legal organizations, and legal media. For more information, please visit her website https://www.thelawyercoach.com.
Faculty
Janiene Chand — Life Coach, Janiene Chand Coaching, Burnaby
Rob De Toni — Executive Coach, National Capital Law/Cynosure Coaching Inc., Ottawa
Karmen Masson, CEC — Professional Certified Coach, Your Best Practice—Coaching for Lawyers, Edmonton
Lora McInturf — International Executive Coach, The Inner Advocate, Germany
Kathryn McNaughton, PhD, CEC, ACC — Director of Education, AMP, Salt Spring Island
Erin Peters — Erin Peters Counselling, Vancouver
About the Faculty
Janiene Chand has over 12 years of experience in the legal field. During this time, she worked as a legal assistant, a paralegal, and a lawyer. She was called to the bar in 2018, and as a junior lawyer, encountered many challenging experiences. This led Janiene to becoming a certified professional life coach. She decided to utilize her own experiences to support and provide guidance to other new lawyers. As a lawyer and coach, Janiene believes in "living a life anchored with alignment and empowerment."
Rob De Toni is a litigation lawyer with over 25 years in practice in both small and medium-sized firms. Recognizing the value that coaching provided to him, Rob decided to become a professional coach and obtained both his Certified Executive Coaching Certificate and his Certified Resilience Coaching Certificate. As a lawyer and a coach, Rob is uniquely positioned to help new lawyers set the foundation for thriving in their legal careers. Rob's philosophy: "Being intentional about planning from the very outset will ensure you are the puppeteer of your career and not the puppet."
Karmen Masson is described as a person who "brings out the best in you." She brings over 20 years of experience in private and public sector practice combined with senior management and leadership roles in law. At the height of her legal career, she had two children, led the development of a charitable organization, and instructed law at the post-secondary level. While some called her "Superwoman," she is not shy to say that she learned a lot the hard way and had to redefine what success meant to her. Since becoming a certified coach in 2017, she loves to help lawyers step into their potential, and create practices and careers that they define as meaningful and successful.
Lora McInturf is a former business and finance lawyer having worked in BigLaw firms on two continents. When Lora was an early career lawyer, she experienced many of the familiar challenges of the legal profession (including high pressure, perfectionism, dealing with difficult people, stress, self-doubt, work-life balance, overwhelming expectations, and more). Today, as the executive coach behind The Inner Advocate®, she now works with lawyers and other successful professionals around the world on many of these same challenges. At the heart of Lora's coaching approach is "To change the results in your outer world, you must first put focus on your inner world." By courageously working on yourself and your challenges, you can discover and walk your own unique life path that feels more authentic, free, and fulfilled, both professionally and personally. Lora is thrilled to join AMP and today's early career lawyers proactively shaping not only their careers but also their lives.
Kathryn McNaughton is the adult learning expert ensuring that the educational component of AMP is impactful, engaging, and fun.
An award-winning leader, coach, and former vice president of a large post-secondary educational institution, Kathryn is a highly experienced educator and organizational planner who has designed and taught a variety of diploma and degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a coach, she is known for intuitive questioning that leads her clients to breakthrough insights.
Erin Peters is an accredited psychotherapist and former lawyer. Before training as an integrative, relational psychotherapist in London, UK, she worked as a lawyer for over 10 years in the corporate energy sector in both Canada and the UK. Since moving to Vancouver in 2018, her professional interests have collided, where she now has a private psychotherapy practice and also consults to support the mental health and wellbeing of lawyers. You can read more about Erin and her work at https://erinpeterscounselling.com.