Andrea is an Executive and Leadership Coach with over 35 years of multi-faceted business, leadership development, and technology experience gained across multiple industry sectors in Canada and internationally. Andrea’s breadth and depth of experiences, combined with her interest in life-long learning and people optimizing their potential, creates the foundation for her role as an instructor at PACE and the University of Winnipeg. In her formative career years, Andrea honed her skills as an economist, business and financial analyst. Thereafter, she moved to the vendor side of information technology where she sold, and managed sales, of Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Resources, Workforce Management, and Scheduling systems. During this tenure, she spearheaded and developed new business in multiple industry sectors across North America and Europe. Andrea’s early career experiences led her to focus on the strategic commercialization of technologies and she subsequently worked and consulted with both established and start-up companies to significantly develop business. After completing an MA in Leadership and Executive Coaching accreditations, Andrea moved into the field of leadership development where she led the development and delivery of international leadership learning programs specifically focused on Information Technology teams. Throughout her career, Andrea has focused on client engagement, brand and talent leadership development, strategy, and business development. Andrea’s undergraduate degrees are a Bachelor of Economic Science Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from the University of South Africa, both specializing in Economics and Business Information Systems design. Andrea advanced her academic studies and graduated from Royal Roads University with a MA Leadership in 2013 and as a Certified Executive Coach in 2017. She is also an ICF ACC accredited coach. Her MA thesis, “Organizational Sustainability and Volunteer Engagement,” focused on sustainable organizational environments, engagement, and organizational learning.