Erika Engel, A.C.P.C., (Adler Trained Professional Coach) B.A., M.E.S., M.C.I.P., R.P.P.

Erika has devoted her life to self-discovery, personal and professional growth and nurturing her family and friends. Erika understands the challenges in this journey, which requires successful navigation through numerous transitions. As a life and executive coach, Erika’s coaching focus is to increase awareness to create more choice in personal and professional pursuits. Her approach is appreciative and strength based, client driven with a focus on self and relationships. Clients, both individual and corporate, notice improvements in their style of interaction, collaboration and communication skills, greater trust in self, improved performance and ability to handle stress and change, as they navigate through various aspects of their lives. They are empowered to have better professional and personal relationships and to take more risk in the pursuit of happiness and balance.

Erika is a certified life and executive coach, a masterful facilitator, an urban planner and a teacher. Prior to establishing her coaching practice, Erika worked for 22 years as an urban planner with some of Canada’s most dynamic corporations and has built her own consulting firm. Through these experiences, she learned the art of leadership, to weave together a team that produces excellence, using individual strengths. She honed her strategic, entrepreneurial, leadership and management skills, and she now assists clients to thrive in a corporate, academic and consulting milieus.

Erika has developed a workshop to enhance collaboration among academic and architectural teams, which she has implemented at the University of Toronto. In collaboration with Reg Lang; Professional Planner, Adult Educator and Life/Work Coach; Erika helps planners and design professional to identify and understand their own preferences and learn how these preferences find expression in every day practice as it relates to creative problem solving, decision making, communication and conflict resolution.

Erika is keenly devoted to living a balanced life. She has developed and conducted a life balance workshop, which she has implemented for the Canadian Breast Cancer and York University Foundations. In partnership with Susan Osher; Registered Dietitian, Lecturer and Researcher; she created a unique workshop which enhances wellness by integrating the knowledge of nutrition with coaching tools to help implement the individual’s nutritional goals.

She has worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches masters level courses at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design and Department of Geography and Planning. Erika has provided her services to various charities and foundations on a pro bono basis, including: The People Bridge Charitable Foundation, Wellspring, the Canadian/Hungarian Kidney Foundation, and the Canadian Urban Institute – Eastern European. She is also on the advisory board of Mentoring Ties at Upper Canada College.

Erika is a member of the International Coaching Federation. She is a certified coach, trained by the Adler School of Coaching. She has also completed the advanced course curriculum with the Coaches Training Institute and is qualified by Psychometrics Canada to administer the MBTI. Erika holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from York University, where she specialized in urban and regional planning. She is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and International Association for Public Participation Practitioners.