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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi

Let us help you realize your potential and live the life you are here to live. Learn to Lead with Your Heart and Live your Practice and in so doing, become the authentic, mindful leader, who you are meant to be.

You can choose from our Home Study Program and learn at your own pace with e-learning modules; Participate in our Kaizen Leadership Group Coaching Program, offered in 4 flexible stages, delivered through live webinars and course assignments with the option for Personal Coaching Support. We also have a unique Coaching Certification Program for leaders desiring to share the Kaizen Method with their clients and communities.

Whichever pathway suits you, our leadership development programs are more flexible and cost effective than traditional leadership development programs. We value your commitment and appreciate that every investment you make in yourself,   and while your investment is modest,  the knowledge and skills you’ll take away as well as the tools you have access to are invaluable.

4 Pathways to Choose From! Select the ONE that’s Right for You!

HOME STUDY
GROUP COACHING
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COACHING
KAIZEN LEADERSHIP COACH TRAINING
KAIZEN SYNERGY GROUP
Each path offers a clear roadmap to help you re-pattern the brain, release long standing patterns of behaviour that get in your way, accelerate development and positive behavioural change, build mental health, increase engagement and satisfaction through the structured, yet flexible, Kaizen Leadership Development Process.

Kaizen Home-Study Program – Energize the Leader Within

Feelings of dissatisfaction, frustration, emptiness or incompleteness with your life, can be a godsend if we recognize them, as such, for it is dissatisfaction that makes us want to improve. We CAN do better! We CAN develop our talents. We CAN determine our future. We CAN create the life we are here to live. The Kaizen Energize the Leader Within Home Study Program is a personal empowerment system that guides you, step by step, through a personal development process in 4 stages, designed to help you improve your performance personally and professionally and increase your life work satisfaction.

The Kaizen Home Study Program – Energize the Leader Within consists of 4 workbooks and is organized into 34 lessons. It’s filled with: helpful self assessments that develop awareness, help you gain clarity, focus and momentum; information-rich articles to stimulate visioning and planning processes; thought provoking worksheets, exercises, tips and techniques that inspire strategies and help you take action to achieve your goals and improve your performance personally and professionally.

Book One: Connect and Discover – Energy Management
Book Two: Assess and Accept your Reality
Book Three: Consider your Options and CHOOSE
Book Four: Take Action (Awareness, Action, Accountability)

Choose this option if you are:

  • Self-directed
  • Able to discipline yourself and commit to doing the step by step exercises provided in the workbook
  • Accountable to yourself.

Personal development coaching is available to you at any time while on your journey at a special bonus rate and you are welcome to transfer into the Kaizen Leadership Group Coaching or Personal Coaching program with any investment you have already made credited towards your next step on your personal leadership journey.

Learn more about the 12 Steps to Authentic, Mindful Leadership using the sign-up box to the right.

For questions and to discuss the path that’s right for you contact Julia von Flotow at (416) 686-6463

healers.circle.fountain.lightKaizen Group Coaching Journey to Becoming an Authentic, Mindful Leader

Joining together with a small group like-minded adventurers committed to developing their leadership potential in a coach-facilitated journey offers the safe, compassionate and rich learning environment of personal coaching, balances theory and practice through coach-facilitated webinars, personal assignments and peer support to create an experience of weekly virtual retreats.

The basic level program consists of a leadership development program in 4 stages with each stage consisting of 3 distinct steps, while the enriched level program includes additional assessments, tools and exercises and personal coaching consultations scheduled at strategic points in the leadership development journey. Inspirational emails on Mondays and Fridays throughout the duration of the program offer quotes and practical tips, strategies and techniques on the topic covered in the webinars and are designed to help you sustain your focus.

You may choose to register for and complete one stage of the journey at a time at the basic or enriched level, or you can sign up for all four of the stages of the kaizen leadership journey and start each new stage, any time after completing the previous stage.

The programs repeat and are delivered in 4 consecutive stages with 3 steps per stage. They are delivered in small group professional workshop settings, teleconferences and webinars. Visit our Events Page to learn more.

Stage One: Know Yourself – Connect and Discover
In Stage One of the journey, you will develop self-awareness, personal courage, integrity and self-confidence. Stage One lays the foundation for a life of personal fulfillment and professional success.

Stage Two: Develop Yourself – Envision Your Ideal Life
Stage Two focuses on developing knowledge and skills to transcend judgment, suspend disbelief and play, and engage your imagination and give yourself permission to dream.

Stage Three: Nurture Yourself- Create and Design Your Life
As a result of what you learn and experience in Stage Three, you will enjoy more life-work balance, have developed a strong suite of positive rituals and self-care practices, cultivated emotional self-control and are more able to respond rather than react in challenging situations; have become more open, resilient and more able to direct your focus, take initiative and apply yourself.

Stage Four: Sustaining Momentum – Attracting Success
Stage Four helps you integrate what you’ve learned through awareness, action, and accountability, learning to apply the knowledge gained by leading with the heart and powered by the mindfulness practices that help you sustain your commitment to yourself. In this stage, we will explore the role of evaluation and celebration, as strategies for renewal and focusing. Tools for applying your knowledge to aspects of your life will empower you to live with a greater sense of autonomy, acceptance and authenticity.

Each journey is limited to a maximum of 12 participants and begins once a minimum of 6 participants have registered. Participants receive a Certificate of Participation and Energize the Leader Within, The Kaizen Personal Empowerment System in four e-books:

    • Book One: Connect and Discover- Energy Management
    • Book Two: Assess and Accept your Reality
    • Book Three: Consider your Options and CHOOSE
    • Book Four: Take Action (Awareness, Action, Accountability)

Choose this option if you:

  • like to learn from the convenience of your own home
  • like small group learning

Program Objectives :

Our 4  4-week live coach-facilitated webinar program helps you deepen and apply the knowledge you gain through the Energize the Leader Within, The Kaizen Personal Empowerment System Home Study Program organized into 34 lessons.

Remember, at Kaizen Leadership Institute, there’s nothing we love more than to help you grow. Any investment that you make in our programs is credited towards your next step on your personal leadership journey.

“Coach in Your Ear” audios, guiding you through mindfulness practices, visualizations, meditations and mental affirmations, are also available for purchase from our store.

Learn more about the 12 Steps to Authentic, Mindful Leadership using the sign-up box to the right.

For questions and to discuss the path that’s right for you contact Julia von Flotow at (416) 686-6463

Illuminated.MindPersonal Development Coaching

Successful people hire coaches – corporate leaders, athletes, performers, independent professionals and business owners. They have a sense of what it takes to achieve their goals and they know, from experience, that coaches help people exceed their expectations and get exceptional results. Personal development coaching is a powerful, interactive, thought-provoking and creative process that allows you to deepen your learning, improve your performance, enhance your quality of life, discover and develop your potential, create a vision that’s aligned to your values and apply yourself wholeheartedly to the realization of your goals.

Personal development coaching is custom designed to help you develop personal autonomy, mastery and purpose and starts with an easy conversation. Ours is a solution and possibility-focused approach to help you manage your personal energy, improve your work-life balance and enhance your personal fulfillment and professional success.

Learn more about the 12 Steps to Authentic, Mindful Leadership using the sign-up box to the right.

For questions and to discuss the path that’s right for you contact Julia von Flotow at (416) 686-6463

servant.leadershipBecome A Certified Kaizen Leadership Coach

This program is designed for coaches, health care and other professionals who want to work more holistically with their clients.

The Certified Kaizen Leadership Coach Training Program provides you with a powerful framework and step by step system, tools and processes to help you help your clients transcend and transform their condition of living, develop and realize their potential and achieve the positive, lasting success and fulfillment they want and see you model.
The Kaizen Leadership Coach Certification Program

Our leadership coach training program is designed for you, if you are a coach, consultant, human resource or other health care professional. It offers two levels of certification. Level 1 develops Self-directed Personal Leadership, recognizing that to lead others, leaders must first be able to lead themselves. Level 1 focuses on cultivating Self Awareness and Self Management through a 12 step process, in 4 stages; provides a roadmap, building blocks, tools, systems and process for becoming and helping others become an authentic, mindful leader.

Our webinars, Practice Circle, an online forum for sharing responses and experiences with a worldwide community, inspiring email messages designed to keep you focused, moving and on track and an inner VIP Inner Circle to engage with Julia on specific areas of interest or concern.

Level One Kaizen Leadership Coach Certification Program includes

Step One:
Satisfactory completion of the Kaizen Group Enhanced Coaching Journey to Becoming an Authentic, Mindful Leader or a comparable Personal Development Coaching Journey and consists of:

  • 12 webinars
  • 2 additional assessments
  • 2 hours of personal coaching
  • Energize the Leader Within, The Kaizen Personal Empowerment System in four e-books:
    • Book One: Connect and Discover- Energy Management
    • Book Two: Assess and Accept your Reality
    • Book Three: Consider your Options and CHOOSE
    • Book Four: Take Action (Awareness, Action, Accountability)

Step Two:
Successful application to register in the Level One Kaizen Leadership Coach Certification Program

  • 12 webinars
  • 12 hours of personal coaching with 1 hour of coaching scheduled following each webinar.
  • 7 days of training including all training materials (1 full day of in person training at the beginning of the journey, a full day of training upon completion of each of the four stages of the journey and two additional days of coach training with special guests

Step Three:
Upon successful completion of Step Two:

  • Receive and conduct 12 hours of supervised coaching (may include group coaching)
  • A written assignment

Join the VIP Inner Circle of Certified Kaizen Leadership Coaches and:

  • Receive 12 additional hours of business and practice mentoring and coaching for successful participants who join the Kaizen Leadership Institute Coaching Team.
  • Reciprocal relationships
  • Cross promotion
  • Become a member of the Kaizen Mastermind Group.

Licensed Level One Kaizen Leadership Coach Certification entitles you to:

  • Use all materials provided in the training program for 1 year, renewable annually upon attending a 3 day live, in person retreat for $1,000.

For those, who want business and practice development coaching, we will custom design a program that’s right for you upon completion Certification, at which time you may want to joining our Kaizen Synergy Group, to help you build a successful practice or following the Kaizen Leadership Coach Training Program.

Licensed Level 2 Kaizen Leadership Coach Training Program:

The next level of Leadership Coach Training builds on Level 1 and focuses on developing situational leadership skills by cultivating Social Awareness and Relationship Management aptitudes.

We are committed to helping you integrate and apply what you are learning into an existing practice, management or leadership role you are performing, through a customized coaching program, during the second step of the learning journey.

colour.spiralThe Kaizen Synergy Group

The Kaizen Synergy Group is a coach-led, business accelerator and mastermind group for independent professionals and social entrepreneurs who see a bigger future. want to develop professional brilliance, build sustainable business success and enjoy personal resilience and fulfillment and freedom while contributing to a saner, safer, more sustainable world.

Members of the  Kaizen Synergy Group have completed the Kaizen Group Coaching Journey to Becoming an Authentic, Mindful Leader (link to the program above) and have a gross minimum annual income of $85,000.

The Kaizen Synergy Group provides a means for independent professionals and social entrepreneurs to reconnect with their purpose, embrace and reintegrate their values, define personal and professional success, explore the meaning of excellence. renew their professional commitment and build the personal, professional and business practices that will enable them to love what they do and do what they love.

Kaizen Synergy Group Program

  • 4 future-focused 1.5 day Invitational Workshop Retreats/year with a personal follow up coaching session after each.
  • 4 webinars to provoke, motivate and inspire
  • 4 quarterly surveys to help focus intention, review progress and recommit to action

Invitational workshops consist of a series of focusing exercises, regular reviews of progress, planning for the next quarter, and sharing with peers to increase learning and accountability.

Progress builds in stages, and after three years of the Program, or 12 quarterly workshops, most independent professionals and social entrepreneurs have significantly transformed themselves and their businesses to support greater productivity, unlimited growth, and greatly expanded personal freedom.

The Kaizen Synergy Group gives you the tools and structure to make quantum leaps in your productivity and business results while also increasing your enjoyment and energy in all areas of your life. Designed for successful, established entrepreneurs, the Program provides what is needed to transcend and transform current obstacles and gravitational forces, whether these stem from the economy, regulatory or industry-related challenges, individual circumstances or personal habits.

For questions and to discuss the path that’s right for you contact Julia von Flotow at (416) 686-6463

“And you, my friend? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ~ Rumi

At Kaizen Leadership Institute, we are always only a phone call or an email away for Just In Time Coaching support.

JuliavonFlotowJulia von Flotow founded KAIZEN Lifestyle Management in June 2007 to help individuals, who feel stuck, trapped or overwhelmed, see new possibilities and take action to build an inspired life and went on to found the Kaizen Leadership Institute in January 2012, to help individuals and organizations develop their leadership potential for sustainable success. Julia von Flotow’s distinguished executive career spans 25 years in the cultural sector. Connect with us by phone at 416 686 6463 or via our online contact us form 

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