What People Are Saying
“I highly recommend Lori and Growing Ideas to anyone looking to take their business and life to the next level. The incredibly enlightening coaching sessions provide practical tools and strategies to overcome challenges and maximize potential.”Curtis Beswick, President, CJ Campbell Insurance'I’ve worked with Lori for many years and have valued her direction in a great many ways. There are few people that I’ve met that have the breath of ability as Lori, from helping create multiple year strategy documents and BHAGs to helping drive those concepts into daily habits for my team and I. I’ve seen her lead a group of highly skilled professionals, to provide me with one-to-one coaching. Her versatility, breadth of knowledge and approach has been foundational for my learning and my business success. There’s not a business challenge that I can imagine would stump Lori. I’ve benefitted from Lori’s insight, candour and humour. My highest recommendation."Rohit Joshi MSc. JD, CEO – Brightsquid“I think of Lori as a thought leader who has diverse wisdom and an innate ability to help individuals or teams get to the fundamentals or underlying issues of a problem and help solve them.”Todd Richardson, Dealer/GM, Lexus of Royal OakLori’s leadership coaching, experience, knowledge and friendship have helped make my company stronger, as well as myself a better person. Brian L’Heureux, President, LineStar Utility Supply“Lori has coached me through many difficult business decisions. She is insightful, intuitive, and asks the difficult questions to identify the underlying cause of an issue and then helped me work through strategies to find a working solution to those problems. Lori’s coaching has helped me grow as a leader.”Barry Paxton, President, Alpha Better Landscaping Inc“Lori is a good listener and an even better prober: she has the experience and the aptitude to get to the crux of the issue quickly. We can then spend our precious time on understanding the issues, it's drivers and perspectives."Matt Faure, CEO, Trimac Transportation"We worked with Lori Ell to develop an overall strategic plan for our company to enable our growth. Lori worked meticulously with our team to understand our organization and facilitated a full-day session to get laser-focused on how our company differentiates itself, our focused customer base, and where we need to focus to create meaningful growth in the next 3 years. After our session, Lori provided us with a detailed strategic plan that we use as our guide and checkpoint when making important decisions for the prosperity of our organization. We have also been able to test, build and refine our strategy with Lori as we have worked with her in the months since our engagement and she has provided valuable coaching to our leadership team in staying focused on our strategy and goals.Danielle Mayhew, President & CEO, Patchmaster"Professional and prepared, Lori guided our company through core values and purpose and helped our team achieve our goals. She did this eloquently, allowing everyone to provide their feedback and build it into one simple document.”Shafeen Mawani, President, Fortress Insurance Company"Having worked with Lori as a TEC Chair, a facilitator and a coach, I can say with conviction that she possesses a unique skill set that allows her to get to the heart of the matter in a way that supports you as a leader to “discover the solution” that accelerates your ability to use it to move your company ahead. Her in-depth knowledge of how organizations function from finance to technology to people positions her in a way that she can create impact at multiple levels of your organization. Lori has worked with me at an individual level to help create clarity in my strategic thinking as well as facilitating sessions with my leadership team that got us “unstuck” in regards to our corporate strategy. If you are looking for a coach that will get the job done and empower you in the process, I highly recommend you connect with her.”Tyler Chisholm, CEO, clearmotive“Lori made an immediate and lasting impact on our business and continues to do so. Complex issue processing and strategically thinking through opportunities and challenges with actionable outcomes has had a profound impact on our ability to grow and develop our team and meet customers' demands in a complex business environment.”Ira Laughy, Founder & CEO, Rapid 3D Ltd.
