Conscious Momentum · Élan Conscient

Executive coaching that sees the whole system — and the people within it

Through the Conscious Momentum™ Methodology, Sophie helps leaders build trust, empower people, make sense of complexity, and turn insight into pragmatic, humane action that endures.

Partnering with leaders in organizations that serve the public good. Trusted by leaders across Canadian universities, the Government of Canada, and other public-serving organizations.

Sophie Ménard

PhD, PCC · Leadership Coach

Still coaching — but never the leader alone. The team, the governance, the mandate and the people are all in the room.

The positioning gap

Leadership development is usually cut off from the system — and from the people who carry the change.

Insight without alignment

Leaders gain clarity, but the system around them stays unchanged.

Fragmented development

Leaders, teams and structures are worked on separately, never as one field.

Change fatigue

Organizations carry transformation without the support to integrate it.

The cost is not only strategic. It is carried by the people asked to deliver change they were never helped to see.

The distinctive edge

What makes the work different is not what Sophie coaches — it is what she sees while coaching.

connect-the-dots

01

Sees the system

A 360° view of the whole ecosystem — leader, team, peers, board, stakeholders, mandate and mission — held at once.

02

Rigour with humanity

Evidence-based and warm. No guru-speak, no cold positivism.

03

Andragogy first

Designed around how adults actually learn and develop, from experience, in context, with reflection.

Rigour with humanity — evidence-based, and never losing the people every change depends on.

People are sacred.

Every mandate is carried by people who deserve to be seen. Team efficiency and commitment depend on whether people feel respected, trusted and understood.

The human dimension is not one value among others. It is the conviction that organises the work.

The distinctive edge

The Conscious
Momentum™ Method

From insight to conscious momentum — clarity that becomes sustained action.

Clarify

Name the real challenge beneath the visible request.

Read 360° · connect the dots

Hold the whole ecosystem in view — leader, team, system, stakeholders. The stage most coaches do not have.

Insight

Generate the developmental moment that changes how the leader sees.

Design

Translate insight into a concrete, humane intervention.

Mobilize

Support action, reflection and integration until the change endures.

Where this work applies

Common situations where coaching and systems reading must happen together.

Executive misalignment

Leadership teams not functioning as a coherent system — across roles, trust, governance and decision flow.

Complex transformation

Reorganizations, mandate shifts and structural ambiguity that must be carried by people in real time.

Strategic uncertainty

When direction exists, but alignment across stakeholders, teams and institutional realities does not.

Who I work with

Built for senior leaders in complex public-mission institutions.

Governance, faculty & mission

Canadian universities

Vice-rectors, deans and AVPs lead governance, faculties, services and mission at once. Sophie coaches the whole academic system — so decisions hold together across it, not only in the office.

Bilingual & mandate-aware

The Government of Canada

Senior public servants — and the HR, OD and learning leaders who source for them — need coaching credible in French and English that reads mandate, accountability and stakeholders together. That is the work Sophie does.

Selective mandates

Public-mission institutions

Health authorities, Crown corporations and mission-driven organizations carry complexity and deep human responsibility together. Sophie takes a small number of these engagements each year.

Credentials

A scholar–practitioner grounded in research and executive practice.

Helping leaders and teams build trust—in themselves, in one another, and in the future.

PhD — leadership and adult learning

ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Organizational-development practitioner

Andragogy-based programme design

More than 20 years experience across public service organizations

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

The Conscious Momentum™ Suite — five ways to grow leaders, teams and organizations.

Individual coaching & mentoring

One-on-one leadership coaching and mentoring — clarity, resilience, and insight turned into action.

Leadership Coaching — 6–10 sessions

Change-Leadership Mentoring — 4–6 sessions

Team coaching

Team coaching that helps leadership teams connect the dots, align, and grow together.

Conscious Momentum Circle™ — 2–6 sessions

Peer Action Learning Groups — 6 sessions

Assessment & insight

Scientifically validated assessments for self-awareness, 360° feedback and interpersonal effectiveness.

iEQ9 — Integrative Enneagram

Leadership Circle Profile® (360°)

TRIMA Social Styles

TRIMA Competencies

Leadership Styles

Change Leadership Program

A structured, experiential change-leadership program — 20 hours over 8 weeks.

5 hours of one-on-one coaching

iEQ9 psychometric assessment

15 hours of content, tools, and practical strategies

5 core change leadership competencies

Organizational Performance

Workplace assessment and team development that make the invisible visible — and turn insight into momentum.

Clarify

Read

Insight

Design

Mobilize

In their words

What leaders take from the work.

Start here

A trusted space for leaders and teams in public-mission institutions to have the conversations that matter most.