Denise Findlay, CPCC, ACC,
is a Professional Coach, Facilitator, Lecturer, Business Consultant, Entrepreneur and Owner of Chameleon: Strategies for Creative Change. 

Throughout her 16-year career Denise has filled various multidisciplinary roles and gained invaluable experience from her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, First Nations individuals and administrations, and small businesses. 

Denise has excelled in the areas of personal and organizational development due to her high level of commitment to her clients and the passion she has for what she does – having once said, “I didn’t choose coaching, it chose me.”  Denise thoroughly enjoys being a catalyst for change and a facilitator of growth and transformation, believing that everyone is naturally creative, resourceful, whole, and holds the ability to move towards positive transformation and flourish under all circumstances.  Whether working with individuals, relationships, teams or communities her goal is to increase the client’s positivity and awareness leading to transcendence of their self-imposed limitations.  Denise uses her gifts of intuition, authenticity, and insight in combination with her unique abilities as a professional coach to elicit the existing creativity, skills, and potential from within the client.  Her approach enhances the process of learning, forwards action, increases effectiveness, and furthers the fulfillment of her client’s organization, team, community, or personal goals.

Denise currently holds a Diploma in Business Management from Capilano College, an Instructors Certificate from the Justice Institute, and a BC Provincial Instructors Diploma from Vancouver Community College.  Denise is one of few First Nations Certified Professional Coaches in Canada and is certified through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and has advanced training in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) from the Center for Right Relationship.

Denise was born and raised in North Vancouver to a mother of European decent, and a father of Coast Salish and Tsimshian heritage.  She currently resides in West Vancouver on the Capilano reserve with her husband Jay, her one-year-old son Jake, and their dog Heidi where they take a holistic approach to life.  Denise feels lucky to have such a beautiful family and grateful that she is able to share her life with them.

dmfindlay@shaw.ca