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Growth Focused Coaching for Creative Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Unlock your full potential professionally and personally, for a more fulfilling and rewarding life!
What's New?
Services
1:1 Coaching
A powerful combination of supportive and challenging conversation based on the Co-Active coaching model, to support you in overcoming today's challenges while growing your capacity to confidently take on even greater challenges tomorrow.
Facilitation
Leadership workshop and training facilitation customized to meet your organization's needs.
Improve collaboration, communication, strategic planning, time-management, employee engagement, and so much more.
Improve collaboration, communication, strategic planning, time-management, employee engagement, and so much more.
Your Coach
Fred Chapman
Fred is a coach and facilitator with a passion for supporting ambitious established and emerging leaders and entrepreneurs. Through active listening, empathy, curiosity, and experience he supports and challenges his clients to aim high, work through any obstacles that hold them back, and achieve the career success and enjoyment of life they want.
Fred is also a technical artist and manager with over 20 years experience in the film industry bridging the interface between creativity, technology, and people. He has contributed directly to the motion and design many of Hollywood's most iconic creatures and characters, and to the software and methodologies that make the creative work possible, with over 40 credits from Harry Potter to Chappie to Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Dune. His biggest passion though is in empowering leaders, organizations, artists, and developers to continually push boundaries, work effectively and efficiently, deliver outstanding results, and do so with balance, fun, and purpose.
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Fred has been coached for most of the past 10 years, and credits much of his professional and personal growth, success, and happiness directly to the results of the coaching process, fuelling his passion for supporting others on their path.
Fred is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is nearing completion of the 200+ hour Co-Active Training Institute certification program.
He lives, loves, works, plays, trail runs, skis, cycles, hikes, grows vegetables, and cooks awesome pizzas in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Fred is also a technical artist and manager with over 20 years experience in the film industry bridging the interface between creativity, technology, and people. He has contributed directly to the motion and design many of Hollywood's most iconic creatures and characters, and to the software and methodologies that make the creative work possible, with over 40 credits from Harry Potter to Chappie to Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Dune. His biggest passion though is in empowering leaders, organizations, artists, and developers to continually push boundaries, work effectively and efficiently, deliver outstanding results, and do so with balance, fun, and purpose.
IMDB
Fred has been coached for most of the past 10 years, and credits much of his professional and personal growth, success, and happiness directly to the results of the coaching process, fuelling his passion for supporting others on their path.
Fred is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is nearing completion of the 200+ hour Co-Active Training Institute certification program.
He lives, loves, works, plays, trail runs, skis, cycles, hikes, grows vegetables, and cooks awesome pizzas in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kind Words
"My fortnightly 45 minutes with Fred have fast become an integral part of my approach to work and life. Having an objective listener who challenges you to see things from a different perspective is empowering. In exploring how to overcome present obstacles I have learnt more about what makes me tick, and connected with a deeper sense of self than I expected.
If you want to shine a brighter light through the fog that we all navigate on the daily, ask Fred. He’s got the skills!"
If you want to shine a brighter light through the fog that we all navigate on the daily, ask Fred. He’s got the skills!"
- VFX Senior Vice President
Ready to invest in your future?
Contact Fred for a chat about how he can help support your professional and personal growth.
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