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Highly-Rated Trainer & Speaker · Trusted CEO Advisor · Former COO

Clarify. Align. Perform.

Helping leaders and teams cut through the noise to build high-trust, high-performance cultures.

Helping CEOs and Leadership Teams Build High-Trust, High-Performance Cultures.

Whether you are looking to develop your own leadership skills, or need help aligning your team, I provide the tools and guidance to help you succeed. From executive coaching to team facilitation, we work together to achieve clarity and results.

Trusted by leading organizations

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Establish a Culture of Excellence

My clients don't just learn theory; they implement changes that lead to tangible business results. By focusing on trust and performance, we unlock the full potential of your organization.

Typical Client Outcomes

  • Increased leadership confidence and presence
  • Improved team alignment and communication
  • Reduced turnover and higher employee engagement
  • Clearer strategic direction and execution
  • Enhanced ability to navigate conflict
  • Measurable growth in profitability and efficiency

How We Can Help You

Tailored solutions to meet the unique challenges of your leadership journey.

Leadership Training
Leadership Training
Comprehensive workshops and programs to develop essential leadership skills at all levels.
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching for CEOs and senior executives to enhance performance and clarity.
Team Facilitation
Team Facilitation
Guided sessions to align teams, solve complex problems, and build trust.
Keynote Speaking
Keynote Speaking
Inspiring talks on leadership, productivity and AI.
Colin Cox

About Colin Cox

As a former COO and experienced leadership advisor, I understand the pressure of the C-suite. I don't just offer theory; I bring real-world experience to help you navigate the complexities of leading a growing organization.

My passion is helping leaders find their voice and build teams that trust each other. When trust is present, speed increases and costs decrease.

Impact & Results

"This was my second session with Colin, time well spent with just as many valuable takeaways. The breadth and depth of topics covered was super helpful, and his presentation on how to use new AI blew my mind."
Jacqui Mendes
Executive Director, Community Legal Assistance Society
"This executive leadership accelerator workshop was hands-on, thought-provoking and left me inspired with many actionable takeaways I can apply immediately. I have no doubt that this workshop will have an immediate return on investment because the information presented is grounded in a sound body of knowledge and can be integrated into most strategies."
Isobel O'Connell
Executive Leader
"As a leader, I have attended many workshops and trainings. Today was an incredible day and it was packed with good learning, opportunities to interact and share and connect. It is definitely something, I would recommend to new leaders and to established professionals as it offers something for all levels."
Alison Silgardo
Chief Executive Officer, Senior Services Society of BC
"Colin's mastery is a blend of real-life experience, approachable delivery, and practical application. His teachings are current, and interactive and the day flies by - while the learnings remain. I highly recommend learning from and teaming up with Colin."
Ute Preusse
Founder CEO, Will
"We recently hosted our first ever company offsite and Colin provided a Business Presentation and Communications workshop. It was an awesome session. Colin provided great tips and actionable insights. His presentation style was interesting and entertaining. After the session I had multiple people from my team requesting access to his deck (which he kindly provided). I think improving communication and listening skills is something everyone can benefit from, all the way from our junior sales rep to the CEO and I feel our team got a ton of value by having Colin share his insights and ideas."
Jason Lindstrom
CEO, Bucketlist
"Colin has built a Leadership Academy for our leaders across North America. He successfully delivered our kick-off workshop with a unique blend of energy, experience, and authenticity. We have been the recipient of Colin’s services many times now, and like fine wine he gets even better with age! If you are looking for an engaged and organized consulting partner to help add value to your business, Colin is your guy."
Aaron Rokstad
CEO, Rokstad Power
"You rocked the Leading Highly Productive Teams talk yesterday. Everyone loved the tools, and your presentation. I’ll be recommending you to everyone as a WOW speaker!"
Jay Playford
Forum Chair, Mackay CEO Forums
"We asked Colin to assist with the planning and facilitation of our annual management strategic planning session. Colin’s wise counsel leading up to the session and deft facilitation of the two day meeting resulted in renewed clarity of purpose and energy for the entire team. Colin brought not only excellent facilitation skills, but also his own experience and insight to enrich and enable deep, productive sessions."
Miranda Lam
Chief Legal Officer & Senior Director, Business Development, Acuitas Therapeutics
"Colin assisted Acuitas Therapeutics by planning and facilitating our annual strategic offsite. Colin was absolutely effective in this role, combining excellent facilitation skills (ensuring clarity, moving the discussion along, and keeping us on track) with insightful and relevant examples from his own experiences. After the event, there was uniform agreement that Colin really helped us and that the event was better for having him there."
Abi Coman-Walker
COO, Acuitas Therapeutics
"Having our leadership team in alignment is critical in delivering on our strategy. Thank you for the great session! You have a powerful way of bringing people together in a session like this."
Andrew Barnes
CEO, Coho Collective
"Colin has been incredibly effective at helping me ACHIEVE NUMEROUS PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GOALS. He’s built an incredible process that adds a layer of structure around achieving goals and keeping your accountable to your own progress and development. I never thought I’d work with an executive coach, but now I can’t imagine not having Colin as part of my team."
Jonathan Becker
Founder and CEO, Thrive Digital
"Hiring Colin to work with me on everything I do as the leader of a successful construction company was and is ONE OF THE SMARTEST DECISIONS I HAVE MADE IN YEARS. Colin tactfully prods me to re-engage with my own thoughts and challenges me to re-think how I approach and engage with my family, team, and my business without ever making me feel 'lesser than'."
Erik Jensen
Owner, Sprucehill Contracting
"Colin delivered a highly valuable talk for us on high performing teams. Our staff found the talk engaging, practical, and thought-provoking."
Kirk Forbes
President, Brunette Machinery Co
"One of the best business growth investments we’ve ever made. Colin has helped us evolve our strategic thinking and planning process to fit where we are as a business, and not just forcing in an off-the-shelf methodology. He brings his vast experience as an operator, and wisdom around strategic execution, to help us focus on our strategic objectives, instead of focusing on the process. The result is that we are now executing on our strategic priorities with more traction, clarity and confidence than ever."
Mike Zusman
CEO, Carve Systems
"Colin is a highly rated speaker with Mackay CEO Forums. His high impact presentations are sought after by many of our CEO Forum groups."
Nancy Mackay
CEO, Mackay CEO Forums
"A powerful workshop for our team on Mindset and Productivity. Our people left the workshop equipped with practical tools to better execute when back in the whirlwind of both their responsibilities at our firm and of their personal lives. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from staff and believe anyone would benefit from this workshop."
Levi Stoelting
Principal, Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers
"The workshop gave our leaders practical ideas for better leading themselves and others that they can apply immediately."
Colin Cashin
Senior Director, Blizzard Entertainment
"Colin’s talk for us about what qualities make a great team was well received. He left us with practical tools and some common language that our team can use to become even more tight-knit and focused on our collective goal."
Sven Butenschon
Head Coach, UBC Men’s Hockey Team
"Colin's talk on productivity gave our people practical, immediately useful tools. Most importantly, our people can apply these tools to help in their whole lives - not just the time they spend for the Rick Hansen Foundation. It's not often a speaker can have that kind of impact."
Doramy Ehling
CEO, Rick Hansen Foundation
"The productivity workshop was hugely helpful! it gave us a common language and set of practical approaches for improving our individual and team productivity. We are now focused even more on being as productive as possible with our valuable and limited time."
Michelle Grady
EVP, Sony Pictures Imageworks
"Wow is all I can say, I’m still absorbing it all! the experience during our strategic offsite with you was exactly what I had hoped it would be and I cannot wait to get at 2020. You are truly a master of your craft - It was a great experience and very valuable. We appreciate you and look forward to seeing you soon."
Neil Currie
Managing Partner, CEM
"Colin’s productivity workshop for our 50+ person department was informative, helpful, and delivered clearly. I had fantastic feedback from the group. I’ve been putting these practices into place and have seen a tremendous improvement in my productivity and general stress level so thank you!"
Brandi Halls
Director of Brand Communications North America, Lush
"I needed space to think out loud and hear myself. Colin is a great listener and asked excellent questions that helped me find my own answers. He provided good insight for me on running my business even more effectively."
Jeff Cote
President and Founder, Pacific Yacht Systems
"Colin has been helping our product team/leadership for almost a year now. The return on that investment has been excellent"
Phil Edgell
President, Vantage
"Colin delivered a very insightful session for our group for over 100 managers. The content was highly relevant given today’s working conditions, and our managers took away practical actions they can use immediately to better lead their virtual teams."
Tanya Sadlo
Executive VP, Internal Operations & General Counsel, McElhanney
"Colin has left a permanent, serious, positive mark on our business. We have made many changes, both large and small from his influence as a coach for our executive team."
Will Stahl
CEO & Co-Founder, Offworld Industries
"No home run speaking for us today. A home run with bases loaded. Great job You walked the talk of Leading Highly Productive Virtual Teams. My members valued your excellent content and appreciated your engaging delivery."
Larry Ohlhauser
Master Certified Chair, Mackay CEO Forums
"Thanks again for a great leadership workshop! We all gained valuable insights that we can immediately deploy."
Allan Russell
President & CEO, McElhanney
"Colin’s talk on productivity for our entire team was jam-packed with practical takeaways. Many immediately started applying what we learned. To quote one, 'this was game changer' and has already led to increased feelings of control and less stress."
Simon Dannatt
CEO, The Source
"We’ve done lots of workshops in the past. Not too often is it one where the rubber hits the road, and it helps you in your daily life right away."
Ryan Anderson
CEO, Anderson Air
"Colin helped us set a good baseline for working together on a complex project. I felt our teams were in a good position already, but after our session with Colin, I’m more encouraged that we can continue down the path to a successful project."
Sat Oberoi
Design Build Manager, Ledcor
"I found the Limitless Leadership session a good session for any 'c' suite leader, especially in these turbulent times. Great tools shared that can be applied in the real world immediately in my day to day leadership of a high performing team. Thanks Colin. First class."
Dick Vollet
CEO, St. Paul’s Foundation
"I can honestly say it’s the most tangible and relevant information I’ve received in a one-day session of this kind. There are so many direct take aways that I brought out of our time together and it was very timely with where I am at in my career. You’re great at what you do!"
Alana Martens
CFO, Fraser Valley Building Supplies
"The time spent with our teams today was incredibly impactful and the few minutes of chatter in our reference room and amongst our collective teams was an overwhelming: 'Wow' and 'How can we see more from Colin' and 'I can’t wait to bring this back to my team'. Can’t say it enough. Thank you for the value you brought to our teams today and we look forward to seeing you again soon."
Michael Moyski
Director, C.H. Robinson
"Thank you so much for facilitating our team alignment session, and for all the prep work leading up to it. It was extremely valuable for the team. I genuinely felt a notable difference right away in how we are showing up and engaging with each other!"
Jennifer Chan
CMO, Coho Collective
"Attended a phenomenal one-day leadership event given by Colin Cox this week and have been reading all I can since then about the difference between strategy and tactics. This was just one of several key insights on C level leadership and I took away. Thank you Colin!"
Angela Doll
COO, Legible
"Colin’s Limitless Leadership event was refreshing, meaningful and practical. His engaging and collaborative delivery style kept me engaged for the full day. A diverse group of C level leaders worked together on solutions for today’s complex leadership challenges, and had an excellent opportunity to build relationships with other business leaders."
Mike Wrinch
President, Hedgehog Technologies
"Today’s event with Colin helped me have a greater self-awareness of where and how I can work on getting rid of my negative self-talk, as well as understanding my weakness and strengths as a leader. The day flew by as Colin make the lessons engaging through a great balance of teaching and interactive sessions. Colin has a gift to help others bring clarity amongst the busyness and chaos in business."
Derrick Westbrook
CEO, Su Casa
"Thank you for an inspiring day covering so many relevant leadership topics. Your humble and effective leadership style made it very easy to share and discuss with other C-suite leaders. I really appreciated this personal growth opportunity. Thank you!"
Laura Bolster
COO, Meson Fitzpatrick
"I recently attended Colin’s Limitless Leadership event in Vancouver along with a group of high performing business executives. It was an excellent way to share ideas and focus on improving our presence as leaders and elevating our effectiveness. In particular, I was impacted by the discussions on challenging our assumptions and preconceived beliefs in order to be better leaders. An excellent session!"
Mike Rusch
SVP, The Jim Pattison Group
"Through this session I was able to gain a clearer perspective on how to better build trust, give and receive quality feedback, and how to navigate difficult conversations, all the while staying connected and building and maintaining trust with the people on my team. Colin masterfully stewarded our group through activities that had us think deeply about how we show up with our teams now, and how we might build new tools and approaches with people into the future. I walked away feeling like my tool box was full of new skills and perspectives in areas that needed refreshing."
Angela Clancy
Executive Director, Family Support Institute of BC
"Colin delivers outstanding content, masterfully presented through thought-provoking exercises and group engagement. Very highly recommended."
Patrick Finucane
Managing Director, CEM Advisory
"Colin’s workshop fundamentally shifted my thinking around leadership communication. I returned to work refreshed, refocused and eager to try out the skills learned."
Jacqui Mendes
Executive Director, Community Legal Assistance Society
"Colin’s workshop was a great reminder to get out of auto-pilot and survival mode, and to think strategically and mindfully about how I communicate and operate. This workshop was a great reminder of who I can be as a leader if I pause and reflect before jumping into action."
Julia Boyle
Executive Director, AutismBC
"I got so much out of the one-day session with Colin Cox! I return to the template on crafting clear executive messages again and again and it greatly reduces the work it used to take to prepare various communications. This is just one of the several practical tools I gained. Thank you Colin!"
Tracy Humphreys
Chair and Executive Director, BCEd Access Society
"Amazingly powerful and practical! Colin’s leadership workshop was full of leadership tools that our leaders can use right away. Our leaders are raving about Colin’s engaging style and practical tools. We can’t wait to have him back again."
Ryan D’Souza
President, Jim Pattison Lease
"Colin's genuine care to have an impact on you personally and your business is authentic and real and his gift to take a confusing and complex issues and help you to narrow them down to your next step action item is remarkable. Small, medium or fortune 500 company he’s your guy."
Derrick Westbrook
CEO, Su Casa
"Colin brought a fresh approach to our strategic offsite. He had our executive team thinking differently. We left with a clear focus and the inspiration to execute."
Harj Johal
CEO, Alpine Building Maintenance
"We significantly increased our meeting effectiveness by applying what we learned in Colin’s workshops. It’s amazing how applying just a few simple ideas has had a big impact."
Dustin Ross
Executive Producer, Offworld Industries
"That was fantastic. Team is already raving as we are starting our next session and I was flooded with awesome comments during your talk!!"
Marcus Larsson
Managing Partner, Isaac Operations