About IRG
WE ALL DESERVE TO FEEL SEEN, HEARD AND VALUED.
Imagine a world in which brave leaders and courageous cultures are the rule, not the rare.
That’s the world we’re working to build.
Imagine a world in which brave leaders and courageous cultures are the rule, not the rare.
That’s the world we’re working to build.
We’re on a mission to create more inspiring leaders in this world, and put an end to command-and-control leadership.
We do the right thing. We’re true to ourselves, each other and to human-centred leadership.
We explore. We ask questions, we listen, we learn, and we invite everyone to come along.
We’re all-in. We hold everyone (us too) capable of discovering, and reaching, their potential.
We collaborate. We create together, journey together, celebrate success together.
Diane Lloyd | IRG Founder & Lead Coach
When I turned 40, I was at the peak of my fundraising career. I’d been a successful leader for two decades and I was sitting at the executive table. But I felt alone. I couldn’t see anyone leading in a way that I wanted to emulate.
It meant I needed to learn to become the leader I wished was at that table. I needed to leave old ideas behind so that I could explore what it truly means to lead, and help others find their potential.
Welcome to the answer.
Inspired Results Group is the culmination of all that I’ve learned, and all I believe, about the transformative power of human-centred leadership. I’m thrilled to share it with you.
Browse our open registration leadership training, 1-1 coaching, and team workshops to get started.
Everyone deserves empowering, courageous leaders no matter who they are, or where they work.
Imagine cultures in which everyone feels seen at work, safe to be themselves, and held capable of going further than they ever thought possible.
That’s the power of courageous leadership.
Working with an IRG coach means stepping into a thinking partnership of belonging and discovery.
We guide you as you develop an authentic self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership presence in alignment with who you truly are.
Welcome, Inspired Leader.
Learn more about working with us.
Our Inspired Collaborators are strategic partners that help extend IRG’s expertise. They believe in our vision of a world in which brave leaders and courageous cultures are the norm.
Our collaborators are experienced, knowledgeable and they are all-in to help people build brave cultures of belonging. It is our privilege to create and impact the world alongside them as they allow IRG to reach further, help more people, and change how we show up in our work.
People and cultures who are open to change and willing to stretch beyond their comfort zone to pursue a new and exciting path.
Our ideal clients are striving for something more and are willing to invest in themselves and their organizations to get there. ‘Fit’ goes both ways. Sometimes we won’t accept a client if we don’t think we can help them. IRG is a hopeful, ambitious place — those who blame others and make excuses need not apply.
Conversations are our primary tool when working with clients. More than ‘talk,’ these are deliberate and intentional exchanges, and they’re the most powerful skill in any leader’s toolbox.
We help you adjust your conversations — with yourself and others — as we work to create the change you seek.
We help you understand that you belong, so that you can become.
We are all experienced leaders, learners and coaches.
We are committed to constantly training and life-long learning in the craft of coaching.
We have all done, and are doing, our own work: developing ourselves, leadership learning, working with our own coaches.
Finally: we know that you already have all the solutions to whatever challenge faces you, and it’s our job to teach you how to know it too.
Extensive. The only way to teach is to be a constant student.
We value training based on the latest and best in behavioural and neuroscience, diversity of leadership and lived experience, and a constant drive to learn.
We’ve attracted collaborators who share the same beliefs. All of us have extensive education and training in leadership and are credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Each comes with years of leadership experience across multiple sectors, and all of us are constantly expanding our knowledge and practice.
Here's the definition of inspire that we like best: “To create a feeling in others”
We love that. We’re not talking here about chasing outrageous goals, or living a big, bold lifestyle. Instead, it’s about understanding how you want to feel in your work, your life and how you’d like to relate to others — then progressing with intention along that path. We are all capable of finding inspiration and of becoming inspirational leaders for others. Those are the leaders we all remember. The one’s who inspired us to achieve more than we thought possible. We want that for you.
“Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires then to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
- International Coaching Federation.
Know that we believe in this definition and abide by the ICF code of ethics.
Coaching is a sacred partnership based on trust. It’s about looking for potential instead of problems. Anchored in action, IRG coaching asks: How are we going to ‘work the plan’ to move you toward your vision? Together, we tackle limiting beliefs and practice behaviours that propel you forward.
We explore essential questions whose answers provide the basis for right action: Who am I? What tools and attributes do I have to contribute to my job and world?
Coaching is team, field and sector-agnostic. And it has nothing to do with title. “Leadership is not a rank,” as Simon Sinek says.
We don’t need the specifics of your domain to work with you as a coach. Our job is to be an expert in leadership and the methodology of coaching — helping you to clarify your goals and holding you accountable to an action plan. You’re an expert in your world, our expertise is getting you from ‘stuck’ to ‘thriving.’
Oh no. If you’re looking for a feel-good conversation, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Coaching is thoughtful, action-driven and focused on results. It’s about getting real with you, your skills, what holds you back, what you truly want, and the hard work to get there. Many coaching approaches tend to be either heart-centric (think some types of counselling) or cerebral (such as tactical strategy coaching). The true power of coaching is in leveraging head and heart — something that makes working with us a little bit different.
Challenge. Growth. Meaningful Change.
We bring the highest standards and ethics of a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation to our coaching sessions (which are 100% confidential).
This is a safe space to explore your thoughts, dreams and fears in a way that respects your vulnerability and courage. Expect us to show up prepared for our sessions with a dedicated focus on you for the time we are together. Guiding our clients and helping them find success through coaching is what gets us out of bed in the morning.
We can work together no matter where you are.
Many of our clients reside outside of Victoria and we regularly connect with them online or by phone. In fact, some of our most loyal clients have never been in the same room with us and it has no bearing on the quality of our connection (bonus: no commute required!)
All you need is a distraction-free environment, a good internet connection, and a commitment to approach our coaching sessions with focus and an open heart. Ensuring we’re the right fit matters far more than where you live.
Depends on what you’re looking to do.
If you want to sharpen your coaching & leadership skills, then by all means, register for any of our trainings sessions here.
If you’re looking to level up your life, pursue a new challenge, work through a specific problem you’re facing, or even you’re not sure what you want, just that you’re stuck and you don’t want to be, then one-on-one coaching is for you.
Some people prefer to dip their toes in a workshop or webinar, before moving on to individual coaching. Others want to get started right away and seek the intimacy and accountability of a one-to-one relationship.
A good place to start? Reach out! You can book a free consultation call with us or send us an email at any time.
Let’s talk!
You can either sign up for our open-registration courses, book a discovery call or send us an email. We’ll discuss your goals, assess fit and answer any questions you might have.
We can’t wait to help get you, your team or organization on the path to inspired results.
What your people need most: Hope and Clarity
As I guided our Inspiring Midlife Leadership cohort through another transformative session last week, I was struck by the profound wisdom emerging from these remarkable women.
I’m Done Performing for Patriarchy
I’m enjoying midlife and up until recently, I couldn’t really pinpoint why. I feel powerful, creative; my relationship with myself and my intuition has never been stronger. In a word, I feel free.
I am noticing a theme in the incredible midlife women I am surrounded by these days. We are picking our heads up, scanning our lives and wondering ‘how did we get here’? The years have gone quickly, and there is so much more for me, I know there is. But how do I figure that out? And where to from here?
Midlife is often portrayed in our culture as a time of decline, a season where growth slows, and possibilities narrow. I caught myself buying into this narrative as my 57th birthday approached in early January. I was feeling so much resistance to this age because I don’t want my growth to slow or opportunities to disappear.
Your inner wisdom is calling! Will you answer?
For most of my life, I haven’t been very good at listening to my body. It’s not like I ignored it on purpose; it was more that I didn’t understand the language it was using. My body has been calling out, but I haven’t been willing to pick up. That wasn’t going so well for me.
As I've written before in this space, on June 28, 2024, Brené Brown made an important announcement to the Dare to Lead™ facilitator community that she had sold the training rates for the program to the digital coaching company, BetterUp. (You can read my original piece on the subject here).
Since that time, there has been a great deal of hard
I want to have conversations. Deep conversations. About the way midlife women are programmed by the world and how we navigate our mindset, our physical and emotional wellbeing, our purpose and how we show up as leaders.
I am, at this moment, deep in the experience of navigating change. The kind of change that happens to you, not the kind you initiate.
Even though I’ve been changing things up for the past 13 years as an entrepreneur, I did all of that on purpose, eyes wide open. This time, it was unexpectedly thrown at me and that’s new territory.
One year ago today, work and life had thoroughly kicked my butt. I was exhausted, frustrated and disappointed with how my year and business was unfolding.
Fortunately, the pattern was interrupted with a 5 day “off grid” backcountry camping trip that turned out to be the unexpected catalyst to a process of rediscovering myself.
It was this spring when I first said those words.
I was working with a student in the executive coaching program at Royal Roads. He had just asked me, “How do you go back to the real world, into your life and everyday conversations now that you see what’s possible with a coach approach?”
I’ll lead off with an idea split into two, see which one sticks with you. (See @Gary Vaynerchuk)
1. Bad news sells. Like rubbernecks at a fender bender, we turn our attention to the drama of others, or in the world of work perhaps we want to understand just what latest work culture phenomenon is happening to us.
As someone who works in the area of learning and teaching, I have long been interested in how learning and productivity take place. Here’s a scenario for you to consider - Have you ever had the experience of being so drawn into distractions like trying to solve the daily Wordle or engrossed in a debate with a colleague
I recently hosted a workshop for an organization that was reviewing their business’ values to build the foundation that they could then layer working agreements on to. As the work progressed over a number of weeks it became clear that there was a step missing between identifying the values and creating the working agreements--
I recently read a report done in collaboration between Deloitte Canada and Auticon. This report highlights a number of barriers individuals on the autism spectrum face when it comes to obtaining and retaining employment. The study showed that 33 per cent of adults on the spectrum…
I have always been someone who had a difficult time answering that age old question- “What do you want to be when you grow up?.” It seemed I had broad strokes of an idea, but the details were always a little fuzzy.
The Efforting Trap
Yesterday at the end of a yoga class the instructor shared a sentence that made me pause. "We’ve got one body. We've got one life. Let's enjoy it."