Your Success Is Our Highest Priority
At Managers By Design, we believe that strong leadership and aligned management teams are the foundation of every successful organization. With decades of experience in the military, public and private sector and non-profits, we know that good managers and leaders can be developed in the workplace.
We partner with businesses to build sustainable leadership growth, empower managers, and foster a culture of excellence through learning, coaching, and mentoring on the job.
Our approach is simple. Every organization is unique, and so are its challenges. That’s why we take a personalized approach to your leadership and business development, equipping your managers and executives with the individual and team skills, confidence, and strategies they need to drive long-term success in your industry.
Whether you're looking to enhance leadership capabilities, strengthen team collaboration, or streamline operations, we’re here to help you build a future-ready organization.
Great organizations don’t just keep up—they outpace the competition.
Our solutions empower you to lead, innovate, and always stay ahead.
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“Working with Joel has been a transformative experience. He created a safe and supportive environment that encouraged honest reflection while challenging me to step outside my comfort zone.
Through his ability to listen, ask thought-provoking questions, and provide actionable insights, I have developed stronger leadership skills, improved my decision-making, and gained greater confidence in navigating complex challenges.”- Natasha W.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Coaching is a professional development strategy that involves a coach working with an executive, manager, or other employee to unlock their potential, enhance their performance, and achieve their goals.
The primary aim of coaching is to improve leadership and management performance, often by developing the individual's self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and capacity to influence others. -
Leadership is motivating people and resources to achieve a common purpose. Management is organizing people and resources towards achieving a common purpose.
Leadership is fundamentally about getting people to do the right things (effectiveness), while management is about getting people to do things right (efficiency).Great organizations have people that do both well.
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We can help learning departments with outside support for design and analysis. We can administer personnel development tools objectively and without bias. We can help struggling managers, new managers and junior executives, and high potentials become GREAT managers and leaders!
We build action plans for your company or teach your people how to do it themselves. -
A strategy is a long-term vision. Action planning is the skills and techniques to translate that vision into an actionable plan with timelines, milestones, measurement criteria, performance and measurement criteria, risk assessment, RACI analysis, and process maps.
An action plan brings everyone to the same perspective in implementing the strategy as a team, mutually supporting each other with mutual understanding. -
At Managers by Design, we believe that leadership, management, and business team development are best learned on the job in the business environment, not in the woods or an escape room.
Working within your organization, dealing with your current challenges is the best way for your most precious resources—your people— to learn about and tackle your real-world business problems.
Owner| Senior Consultant Joel Kam
Joel spent 30 years with the Canadian Armed Forces, in an operational role as a Naval Warfare Officer and then as a Training Development Officer, designing and managing learning programs.
Joel supported operational and leadership training for the military, the public service, various non-profits, and the private sector.
Joel holds a master’s degree focusing on the development of high-performance teams and leadership and institutional management. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching and is a member of the International Coaching Federation.
