Tikkato Bios

Tikkato is a collaborative hub of counsellors and coaches committed to offering creative personal growth programs and to fostering a learning community for the public and for coaching professionals.

Tikkato Co-creators & Advisors

Anne Carbert, Career Counsellor & Transition Coach

Anne Carbert, Career Counsellor & Transition Coach

Anne emphasizes meaning, creativity, and quality of life as she helps people to craft satisfying careers. Her coaching focuses on assisting her clients to clarify work needs and desires, identify and explore new options, and take concrete and manageable steps towards personally rewarding work. Anne specializes in supporting people in navigating unconventional and self-directed career paths. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and made her own career transition from law to career counselling. www.annecarbert.ca

Marion Langford, Coach & Consultant

Marion Langford, Coach & Consultant

Marion is a skilled coach, facilitator and organizational consultant who works collaboratively with her clients to build careers and meaningful work lives. Marion is a career re-inventor, who mid-way in a successful management career, took an unpaid sabbatical, enrolled in coach training, and invented a new career story. She leads workshops in communications, problem solving and self-care that help people to thrive in their workplace relationships, and to achieve the goals they set for themselves and their organizations. Marion has a masters degree in adult learning, is a certified career coach, and has studied and been certified in the practice of Narrative Therapy. www.creativepeoplesolutions.com

Christine Ardagh, Co-Active Wellness Coach

Christine Ardagh, Co-Active Wellness Coach

Christine Ardagh brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to her work as a co-active wellness coach.  With extensive knowledge of nutritional and energetic healing arts, she works with clients to create effective and lasting change in how they live and “dance” in their everyday lives.  Trained as a macrobiotic counselor and as a coach, Christine enriches client sessions with her knowledge of reiki, shamanism, her long career as a professional musician, her experience as founding Executive Director of the Artists’ Health Centre Foundation, and her life experience as a wife, mother, and grandmother. www.healingcircles.ca

Lianne Krakauer, Career & Leadership Coach

Lianne Krakauer, Career & Leadership Coach

Lianne Krakauer is an experienced Career Coach and Leadership Consultant who helps individuals to create more meaningful work and life experiences. Her approach to career and life transition is collaborative and results-oriented. She applies a Solutions-Focused model which emphasizes strengths and possibilities for positive change. She also designs and facilitates workshops that are interactive and playful. Lianne has a Bachelor of Laws and a Masters of Education (Counselling Psychology) from the University of Toronto. She is an avid yoga practitioner and occasional teacher. www.krakauer.ca

Nicola Holmes, Life Coach

Nicola Holmes, Life Coach

Nicola Holmes, MEd. inspires people to create meaningful lives and move towards fulfillment. Nicola has worked in education and social service for over 15 years, helping clients navigate transition, transform limiting beliefs, and achieve success. As an educator, Nicola has influenced systems-level change, developing curriculum on patient-centered communication and health literacy. Clients value her attentiveness, compassion, and ability to evoke deep insight. Her Masters in Adult Education and her passion for mindfulness and the expressive arts inform her coaching practice. As a Life Coach, Nicola helps clients gain clarity, strategies, and courage to move in inspired, authentic directions. www.nicolaholmes.ca

Tikkato Program Facilitators

Ruth Tamari, Life and Transitions Coach

Ruth Tamari, Life and Transitions Coach

Ruth is a Certified Professional Coactive Coach (MEd, ACC, CPCC) with the International Coach Federation and has built a practice that specializes in the opportunities created by life transitions. She built this expertise on a strong foundation of 20 years experience in the geriatric and health care field where she helped people to navigate the waters of health, lifestyle, career and retirement, and life stage transitions. Throughout her career she has engaged people in the exciting process of personal growth and remains inspired by this mission. www.ruthtamari.com

Invited Facilitators

Invited Facilitators

Our Co-Creators are also often program facilitators but we may invite other facilitators for specific events. Bios for those people will appear here when their programs are coming up.