Team Of Experts
The Soft Skills Group team is passionate about seeing our clients succeed. We are here to ensure you get the very best in communication skills training.
Diana Kawarsky, MA, CCP
President
Diana has over 20 years of experience working with more than 20,000 business professionals, effectively improving their management and communication skills to achieve higher impact results. She holds an MA Degree, is a Certified Coach Practitioner and is certified to use profiling tools including Certified Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ-i), True Colors®, and Life Skills.
Sheldon Kawarsky, PhD
Vice President
Sheldon has over 20 years of experience holding manager and director roles in the private and academic sectors, focusing on business development and fostering relationships with companies, universities, government organizations, and venture capitalists. His strength is in relationship building and clarifying the needs of clients to ensure their training maximizes their return on investment.
Lindsay Collins, MBA, CCP
Associate
Lindsay Collins, MBA, CCP
Lindsay has over 12 years of experience working within diverse organizations as an advocate for the development and recognition of human capital. Her core capabilities include Executive Leadership and New-Manager training, Strategic Thinking, Communication and Career Coaching. She holds an MBA in Marketing and Organizational Behavior is a Certified Coach Practitioner and is accredited to facilitate DiSC®, Lominger Voices 360 and Predictive Index.
Mark Federman, PhD
Associate
Mark Federman, PhD
Mark has extensive experience as an executive, manager, consultant and academic in areas spanning Organization Development, Organizational Therapy, Executive and Leadership Coaching, Organizational Transformation and Change, Playshop Facilitation, Creating Great Environments of Engagement.
Stefano Maiorana
Associate
Stefano Maiorana
Stefano is a bilingual facilitator and can facilitate workshops both in English and French. He has over 20 years of experience with expertise in stress management, one on one corporate coaching, anxiety reduction, crisis intervention, achieving work-life balance, and conflict resolution.
Suzanne Mladenovich
Associate
Suzanne Mladenovich
Suzanne has over 22 years of experience and has delivered training to thousands of people across Canada on sales skills, motivational and other soft skills training. Her passion includes Customer Relationship Management, Communications, and Personal Development.
Nancy Mulroney
Associate
Nancy Mulroney
Nancy has over 30 years of experience working as a facilitator, coach, mentor and educator in the healthcare, not-for-profit, and child and youth mental health sectors. Her core competencies include: process facilitation, strategic planning; change leadership; organizational planning and development; program development, delivery and evaluation; and coaching and mentoring.
Hugh Wilson
Associate
Hugh Wilson
As a facilitator, Hugh brings a unique blend of Broadcast executive training with a 35-year voice-over career, an extensive commercial and movie credit list along a lead role in a Netflix Original series. Hugh’s expertise lies in Communications, Team Building, and Presentations Skills.