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Reviews of Richard Monette

Focus, discipline, calculated risk taking and creativity are essential components of a successful golfer's strategy. In the?Beyond Golf? program, Richard demonstrates how to master and incorporate these key element into everyday business and personal situations.

Gordon Smeaton, Vice President, International Marketing, National Football League

On behalf of the executive committee of 'Sharing the Stage' conference, I would like to thank you very much for your inspirational presentation to our FSL teachers during the conference 'Sharing the Stage' on Jan 29-30, 2007. The purpose of the conference was to help the French as a Second Language teachers better understand their curriculum by using many strategies to reach that goal. Your keynote address gave them hope and helped them understand the important and role that they play as a teacher of a second language. Your very concrete examples based on your own experience convinced everyone of the need to balance their life be it professional, personal, social and spiritual. It is the key to success and happiness! Teachers often feel the pressure to be all to all people. Your presentation made them realize that they must be happy and satisfied with themselves first if they want to successfully fill in the very demanding mandate of answering the many needs of their students. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to our teachers and to help them cope with their very busy life. You were the man of the hour! Teachers evaluations revealed their great satisfaction with your positive message. I wish you good luck in your future endeavours and I hope that many other people will have the chance to listen to your great presentations. Merci encore!

Lise May Sharing the Stage conference coordinator

The complexity and time commitment required from most Executive Change Programs makes many leadership teams shy away from what could well be a value-adding initiative. Richard Monette, however, has a unique style that cuts out the ?fluff? and focuses on simple, easy to comprehend and easy to execute improvements. His background in coaching world-class athletes and sports teams instantly translates into improved performance for corporations, and helps Richard build a proactive, dynamic approach to executive coaching. I recommend Richard to anyone interested in improving the bottom-line results generated by their leadership teams.

Bill Dirks, President and CEO of Tecton Energy

One of Richard's greatest strengths is that he has inherent business wisdom ? it doesn't matter the discipline within an industry or crossing industry boundaries, his grasp of business principles and the inter-relationship of, between and with management and employees comes naturally to him and he grasps a situation quickly. As well, his varied industry sports/business experience bring an effective and highly interesting twist to his coaching ? it allows for Richard to coach an executive and provide them with extremely helpful insights assisting the executive or manager, helping them better understand and manage their daily tasks and deliver the organization?s strategic goals. -- ,

Jim Urquhart Vice-President, Samson Canada

As a technology company, we are experiencing very fast growth. Richard has helped us to develop the skills required to effectively meet the challenges and also capitalize on opportunities. His approach produces tangible outcomes (results than can be measured) and practical strategies that work in our fast paced environment. Richard challenges our team, moving us out of our individual and collective comfort zones and stretching our group to engage in candid reflection on performance and results. We rely less on standard problem solving approaches (a challenge that was holding us back) and place a greater emphasis on social engineering to resolve our challenges. We have a greater degree of candor amongst our management team, and an improved level of communication overall.

Kevin Blanchette, Chief Operating Officer curveDental

Becoming World Champion was the most complicated simple thing I have ever done.... My sport was simply an arena in which Richard helped me learn about myself. An arena in which I became me and achieved my potential!

Jeff Pain, 2006 Olympian 2006 Olympic Silver Medal, Skeleton; 2003, 2005 World Champion, Skeleton; 2005, 2006 World Overall Champion, Skeleton

Richard Monette is a brilliant, powerful and energetic speaker.

Cheryl Ashton, Executive Director National Screen Institute ? Canada

Richard has been a tremendous influence on my season. He has helped me to feel more prepared, more confident, and more relaxed at the start line. He has helped me put everything into perspective and this has allowed me to focus on a much more simple and clear objective going into my races. Now I can compete and enjoy the experience?and not be afraid of the outcome. He has helped me learn how to honestly evaluate every aspect of my competitions and gain as much knowledge as possible from every experience. I am become a better athlete and a better competitor because of this new approach.

Helen Upperton, Pilot Canada One (Bobsled); 2006 Olympian; First Canadian Woman to win a Gold Medal on the World Cup Circuit