About
YIELY HO
15+ Years of Experience:
We love partnering together to cultivate aliveness and fulfilment. Yiely brings hardcore business and organizational development expertise with a flair for wellness and creativity.
Highlights:
- Partners with CEOs, C-Suite leaders, and senior executives across Canada to create meaningful visions and develop strategic action toward a desired future state
- Yiely is a Certified Coach from the Co-Active Training Institute
- Yiely is a trusted Senior Advisor in healthcare with the second largest employer in Canada (130,000 people)
Career:
- Founder of a leadership coaching, graphic facilitation and consulting practice
- 15+ years in business and leadership development
- Focus in women’s leadership, organizational development, visual practice, change management, leadership development and team effectiveness
- 1 year contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- 1 year consultant with The School of Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University
- Currently a Senior Advisor and internal consultant in a provincial healthcare organization in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Education
- Master of Arts in Leadership, Royal Roads University
- Bachelor of Arts in History, University of British Columbia
- Associate of Arts in Global Stewardship, Capilano University
Certifications
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Co-Active Training Institute
- Certified Prosci Change Management Practioner
- EQ-i 2.0
- EQ-i Leadership 360
- Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation
- Insights Discovery, Personality Preference Types
- Insights Team Effectiveness
- LEADS in a Caring Environment Internal Coaching
- International Coaching Federation (Associate Certified Coach, Candidate)
- Situational Leadership II
- Systems Scribing
- Yoga Teacher Alliance (Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 Hours, Candidate)
Organizations
- Health Quality Council of Alberta, graphic recording and systems scribing, 2019-2020
- British Columbia Legislative Assembly, graphic facilitation, 2019
- School District 74 Gold Trail and St’at’imc Nation, graphic recording, 2017
- British Columbia Institute of Technology, graphic recording, 2017
- Dogwood Initiative, graphic recording, 2017
- Royal Roads University, School of Leadership Studies, consulting, 2015-2016
Small, cumulative actions creates big impact.
Yiely partners with leaders and teams to surface creative, meaningful, impactful solutions to complex challenges. Past work includes partnership with C-Suite leaders, physicians and senior executives in healthcare, emerging managers and leaders, government, law, policing, financial services, education, finance and not-for-profit sectors.
Born in China, Yiely grew up in Guangzhou and Vancouver, British Columbia. Yiely resides in Calgary on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all peoples who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
Trusted Partners
TANYA GADSBY
Creative Director & Graphic Facilitator, Fuselight Creative
Tanya Gadsby is the founder of Fuselight Creative and has seventeen years of experience working in event design and audience engagement. Over the last thirteen years, Tanya has focused on health care, collaborations with Indigenous Nations & communities, and climate science. She specializes at strategic and customized use of graphic facilitation so that it deepens dialogue, creates a safe space for sharing, is flexible to the group’s needs, and is a core part of the work moving forward. Tanya is constantly testing new ways of using graphics and technology to facilitate learning and connection — whether it’s virtual or digital graphic recording, augmented reality, interactive infographics, or experimenting with new animation techniques.
Tanya has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre & Writing from the University of Victoria, and is trained in community engagement through the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). Born in New Zealand, and of Māori / Ukrainian / Scottish decent, Tanya grew up in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and Whitehorse, Yukon. She resides in Victoria, British Columbia on the unceded traditional territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.