About Us
Aitken Leadership Group specializes in teaching people skills to technically-trained leaders. We offer leadership development, consulting and coaching to professional service companies.
Who we serve
Engineering, design and professional services firms — as well as individual professionals — who want to learn how to grow in challenging times, or simply reach the next level of performance.
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What we're good at
We're good at getting individual leaders and teams unstuck. We specialize in accelerating leadership growth in executives and managers, offering consulting, training and team development to professional service firms.
How we work
Every solution is custom. We learn your strategy, culture, and your desired outcomes — and then we build programs and training that fits.
What we focus on
Personal Mastery. We treat leaders as whole people — and organizations as living systems. Bridging the gap between individual and organizational, we create leadership programs that fit a company’s culture and strategic direction.
Meet the team
Geordie Aitken
Trusted advisor to executive teams and change leaders across North America, Geordie facilitates personal work with innate understanding. His innovative and playful approach disarms complex challenges and makes the hard conversations easy.
David Aitken
An accomplished business leader with indelible wisdom, David is a master executive coach. He combines street-smarts with soulful insight to bring profound change to the people on whom organizations depend.
Magda Dominik
Expert in adult education, Magda integrates sophisticated curriculum design with seasoned facilitation skills. Magda crafts transformative development experiences with sustained results.
What our clients say
Services
Leadership Development
The heart of what we do is developing leaders. We have designed and facilitated — in whole or in part — transformative leadership programs in dozens of organizations over our history. Our approach accelerates leadership readiness and maturity, and can dramatically increase capability in mid-level to senior executive leaders.
Coaching
Get unstuck. Regain your insight, energy, and authenticity. Our rigorous approach enables the personal choices needed to make sustained behavioural change in life and work. We can help you re-discover your purpose, generating master strategies – and day-to-day tactics – to achieve your desired results.
Facilitation
Let us make things easy. The original foundation of our business, facilitation is an art we continuously evolve and refine. Our disarming approach will help you approach the conversations, meetings, and planning sessions that matter.
Consulting
As subject-matter experts in leadership development, leadership succession and cultural change processes, we are trusted advisors to our clients. Working one-on-one with executives or with entire leadership teams, we help senior officers navigate in times of transition.
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Workshops
Masterclass
MasterClass is an invite-only event. It is designed as a ‘decelerator’ workshop for female professionals in Engineering, Science and Technology industries. Part retreat, part recharge, and part transformational learning, MasterClass is for high-achieving professionals who are seeking improved personal sustainability, increased leadership influence and the grail of success: healthy work-life integration.
Next offering TBD
Emotional Self-Mastery
Emotional Self-Mastery is a 2-day workshop for high achieving professionals looking to take their emotional intelligence to the next level. It is for folks who know they may be working/living with this slightly out-of-date emotional operating system, and are ready for a new mindset.
Next offering TBD