Meet Our Team

A Message from ICC Co-Founder Joanne Hunt

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aura and I founded Integral Coaching Canada in 2003. Here is a photo of us when we were just starting out as well as a photo taken more recently, shortly before Laura died. Our greyer hair, the added wisdom around our eyes and the joy that shines through says much about our shared journey of building Integral Coaching Canada. It has been a labour of love. Every single day. We love our team and our faculty and every coach who finds their way to our Integral Coaching® Certification Program. New coaches. Experienced coaches. 

We are honoured that you are here and thank you for considering Integral Coaching Canada with your coaching development. Over the years, Laura and I have experienced as much joy in supporting, inspiring, contributing to, and learning from this extraordinary community as we did when we first launched our coach training school. May your coaching dreams keep coming true whether you are working in an organization, opening your own coaching business, or adding new coaching skills to the expertise you already offer the world. Enjoy!

Joanne Hunt

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orking for fifteen years in senior leadership positions in three multi-national corporations, it was Joanne’s exceptional ability to get to the ‘heart of the matter’ that enabled her to powerfully influence and lead change initiatives that ranged in scale from small groups to large-scale corporate programs. Coaching skills were always a part of her skill set as a corporate leader and Joanne produced significant results in improving business & individual effectiveness wherever she worked.

Joanne holds a Masters Degree in Management Studies specializing in research and human resource development and was credentialed as a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation in 2002. Over the decades she has studied extensively with a variety of training institutes in fields such as coaching, systemic change, leadership development, and adult human development. She Co-Founded Integral Coaching Canada with Laura in 2003 and continues to actively support the evolution of the company, its employees, faculty, and extended team. Students have described her as a mama lion, a brilliant mind, a playful human being, and a passionate coach. Joanne is known for her clear, direct and skilful attention to what people truly need as they build the competencies necessary to more fully manifest their lives.

As a Co-Founder, Joanne has worked in all capacities in ICC, having co-developed and taught - over the years - every Module offered as a Senior Faculty member and Mastery Workshop developer, as well as guiding ICC’s corporate and strategic directions. Her current role in ICC is focused on corporate initiatives, strategic development, advanced programs, and writing. These domains continue to support Integral Coaching Canada’s new designs and technological advances which bring clarity and ongoing design innovation to the delivery and leading-edge nature of the Integral Coaching® training programs.

Joanne continues to write, both personally and professionally. Her long-term Writing Practice led her to deep study with and work as a writing retreat teaching assistant for the prolific and gifted writer, Natalie Goldberg.

Laura Divine

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aura practiced in the field of coaching for over thirty years. Always seeking ways to enable people to fulfill their potential, she brings extensive leadership, management experience, and skilful means to her application of Integral Coaching® in all settings. While living in her hometown of San Francisco, Laura spent fifteen years in the telecommunications industry accumulating comprehensive executive experience in leadership, business effectiveness, change management, total quality systems, strategic planning, and coaching implementation within large scale systems.

Laura had a Masters Degree specializing in Exercise Physiology, an Executive MBA from Harvard and was credentialed as a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation since 1999. Since building Integral Coaching Canada, her career focused exclusively on the discipline of coaching and advancing the field of human development. As the primary lineage holder of the Integral Coaching® method and training process, Laura held this responsibility with skilful means and wise compassion. Laura worked closely with the faculty team ensuring that the wisdom of this training architecture and approach to human development was richly transmitted to our lineage of teachers who continue to carry out and advance the teaching of the Integral Coaching® Method.

While well known as the co-developer of the trade-marked Integral Coaching® method and process, Laura is also held as a pioneer in the field of coaching in Canada. She developed early standards for the coaching industry that enabled large Canadian organizations to distinguish various coaching approaches at a time when an extensive range of coaching was flooding the marketplace. Her work helped to establish the highest standards for the coach selection process in many organizations. Coaches, clients and organizations continue to benefit from her dedication to excellence in all facets of the field of Integral Coaching®.

Laura was a long-term practitioner of Tai Chi, a student of Lenzie Williams (Berkeley, CA), and was a proud holder of the Yang-family short-form of Tai Chi developed by Professor Cheng Man Ch’ing. Laura died of metastatic breast cancer in August 2022. Creating Integral Coaching Canada was the capstone of her life of contribution – she supported the development of human beings and alleviated suffering in the thousands of people she touched. Laura was also deeply grateful that ICC would live on well beyond her death.

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hese smiling happy people form the core Operations Team that makes the magic at ICC happen! Brilliant beings in their own unique ways, with big hearts, widely varied skillsets, they share a deep commitment to one another, our students, our faculty, our graduate community, to this school, and to having lasting impact. This team laughs out loud every day! Can you see it in their eyes? They challenge and encourage each other to lean into developmental edges, while also being held, loved, and deeply respected. This is what it is like to be a member of this precious team. We look forward to supporting you on every step of your Integral Coaching® developmental journey.

Adamantia Klonaris

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tudent Support & Technology – Being part of the ICC team feels like being at home! I am deeply honoured to belong to an organization that focuses on bringing embodied change and light to our world. Witnessing students and coaches from very diverse backgrounds undergo their personal journey of transformation, while stretching themselves and claiming their own gems is a precious gift. The Integral Coaching® Method has such a unique way of realizing the human potential by touching the body, heart, mind, and spirit of people, in a way that is truly enlivening. 

Our team consists of passionate, dedicated, and warm-hearted humans, and it never feels enough to be around them! Each day I am inspired by the qualities of care and respect within this team. Moreover, co-creation, play, excitement, innovation, and the encouragement to stand in your own essence are key elements you will find at the core of the ICC team. As a member of our committed team, I am here to support and warmly welcome you to the learning container of Integral Coaching Canada! I can't wait to meet you!

Linda Soulière-MacLeod

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anager, Operations & Student Support - I love working at ICC because we are a company that has expertise in enabling Embodied Change. Over my twenty years with ICC, I have been and continue to be immensely grateful to this company and for being part of this amazing growing community of Integral Coaches™ making a difference in the world one person at a time. Each day this work continues to overflow into my own growth and development - behind the scenes - through our graduates as I witness their journeys, changes in their own lives and those they touch.

The people I get to meet and the amazing team I work with are the most beautiful and genuine souls and put all of their time into helping people better themselves and giving back to their community and this world. Supporting prospective students as well as those in progress is extremely rewarding to me. It allows me to witness our coaches’ desires to make a difference in the world, in themselves, and those closest to them.

Michael Lamberti

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anager, Marketing & Technological Innovation - Working at ICC is inspiring! The profound positive impact of Integral Coaching® makes it easy to stay enthusiastic and motivated about sharing ICC’s offerings with the world. I have personally benefitted tremendously from our Integral Coaching® Method, first as client looking to work with a coach, then as a student, as a coach myself, and now as a part of the team. I am also fortunate to work with a team of caring, dedicated, curious, and innovative colleagues. I’m frequently inspired by our capacity to adapt and meet the needs of the moment.

I enjoy the creativity and experimentation that goes into developing new ways to share and present what we offer here at ICC so that those with a call to do this kind of work are able to find us. The global growth of ICC excites me, and I am constantly learning and engaged with new ways to reach out and support our worldwide community.

Susan Loree

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irector, ICCP Faculty Development - I love working at ICC because we are truly a developmental company. Our collegial discussions are stimulating, challenging, respectful and loving, and our team is truly focused on and committed to ensuring that our students are provided with high quality coach training, through both care and rigour. We are superbly guided by Joanne and Laura, who contribute to our collective and individual meaning making of what we do and how we do something. I believe that we are all seeking meaning in our personal and professional lives, so a company that supports and carries this out as a way of operating, is genuinely unique.

What I love about working with our faculty and students is being constantly in interaction with people who want to develop - themselves, their communities, their organizations, their worlds. To support others and play a role in their increasing unfolding and evolution is a very privileged space for me. And to accompany them on their unique path is quite an unparalleled experience. Our students and faculty team are so diverse. They bring such distinct life and work experiences, educational training, cultural and social backgrounds and the many lessons of lives well lived. I find my interactions with them to be really interesting, thought-provoking, heart-felt, and inspiring.

Taylor Filgate

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tudent Support Assistant - It is a privilege to work for Integral Coaching Canada and be a part of this talented, funny and inspirational team. It brings me great joy to be able to assist students learning our Integral Coaching® method who are spreading out around the globe, impacting one human at a time. I get excited to meet, communicate with, and support so many wonderful and dynamic people as they go through one or all of our Coach Training Modules.

Working with this team is an incredible honor; a group of hard-working individuals who are generous and skilful, and work tirelessly to support, build and develop others from all over the world.

I often wondered how such a small team could get so much done and make such a significant impact and now I know why! We are passionate about this company, each other and in helping build others to their highest capacities, pulling out the gold in them even when they might not see it themselves.

Val Rosettani

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anaging Director, ICC - I am incredibly grateful to help lead, grow, and support this amazing organization and incredible growing global company. I am humbled by the power and rigour of the Integral Coaching® method, and by our graduate community, by their courage to so fully show up, step in and develop in significant ways and by how our Integral Coaches™ so skilfully take powerful coaching initiatives out into the world in meaningful and impactful ways. It is an honour to be working for ICC, contributing to our student’s development and enabling this impact.

And then there is the ICC team – where do I even start?! I am inspired by this team I get to hang out with every day. They are a dedicated, wise, generous, and skilful team, and we have such deep regard and respect for one another. I love working with our ICC students, faculty, our core operations team, and with our dedicated Co-Founders, Joanne and Laura. It is a privilege to lead this core team and support our community!

Chris Alder

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hris is passionately engaged in all forms of human development including the individual and collective, the pragmatic and spiritual, at community and global levels. His coaching work is specialized in the area of leadership development with CEO's and their Executive Teams as well as offering year-long collaborative leadership programs.

Chris has been meditating since his early 20’s and has studied with many great spiritual teachers. His current spiritual practice and Sangha is the Integral Zen community, where he became a Zen Priest in 2017. Chris’s spiritual roots source his deep and playful presence and the embodied rigour that he brings to his clients’ and students’ developmental journeys.

Prior to becoming an Integral Master Coach™, Chris worked as an Executive Private Chef in the luxury hospitality industry, cooking for the rich and famous on super yachts and in private estates. It was here that he refined his creative flair, strong organisational skills and leadership capacities while navigating his client's extremely high expectations. It also helped him realize that people are more challenging and fun to work with than food and that money really doesn’t buy you happiness!

After graduating as an Integral Master Coach™, Chris went on to serve as a mentor for MCM students, was the first European ICC Certification Committee Member, and then started his teacher training. He is an ICC Instructor for the Associate Certification Module and a Phone Coach for the Professional Certification Module.

Chris lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife Helena, who is also an Integral Master Coach™, and their baby daughter, Sienna.

Jill Chitra

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ith an Executive MBA, Engineering degree and a fascination with Integral theory Jill enjoys the complex challenges faced in today’s world. Jill combines a deep love of people in all their unique beauty and the magic that can occur when relationships combine with systems and align to support a common purpose. She has worked in a variety of globally reaching organizations for over 30 years combining her leadership with her experience as a certified Integral Master Coach™ and ICF Professional Certified Coach heading teams in both the private and public sector. Jill works as their executive and as a coach using the ICC method in individual and group settings. Jill is known for her ability to look at issues and projects from a holistic perspective and support teams to meet performance expectations with innovation. She ably keys into the essential elements that foster organizational and individual success.   

Integral Coaching® has been Jill’s passion since she graduated in 2008 finding it the single most effective way to support change in a complex and often chaotic world. And she has engaged in the integral community across Integral Theory Conferences and programs such as the Embodied Integral Practitioner. As a long-term meditator, Jill currently studies with Adyashanti and the International Pathwork community.  

Jill, a devoted mother of two young women, is enjoying watching them grow in their early adulthoods. She is a well-travelled hiker, finding joy in the great landscapes and vistas of nature. Jill is also known for her wicked sense of humor and her attuned somatic antenna. She plays flute which she took up in High School and is an engaged consumer of many genres of music. She is also an avid poetry speaker and enjoys writing her own verse skills honed through her active involvement in Poetry Mystery School. 

Jenni Tipper

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enni is powered in all she does by her passion for enabling human development and connection. She is an Integral Master Coach™ with a successful coaching practice working with individuals and couples to build deeply meaningful, secure, invigorating relationships over time, with greater skill and compassionate intention.

Jenni’s professional experience prior to becoming an Integral Master Coach™ brings a profound grasp of what it truly means to bring about change at individual and collective levels. She brings 20+ years of professional experience to her work as a Relationship Coach. With a Master of Social Work and a deep commitment to justice and equity, Jenni has worked in the national NGO and not-for-profit sectors in various dimensions of Research, Advocacy, Teaching and Community Development. Her work has taken her across the country and around the Globe where she has managed national projects, developed and delivered multi-platform resources and training, and has written and spoken publicly in various mediums about the health and well-being of women, children and families. Included in this depth and breadth of experience is a handful of wonderful years in the unpaid labour market raising three great sons.

The conviction of Jenni’s compassion and the strength of her capacity to facilitate human transformation and connection has found the perfect home in Integral Coaching® and teaching the Associate Certification Module. Jenni lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband and their blended family of young adults and various animals. She is an indomitable optimist and avid ‘outdoorist’ and relishes any opportunity to play in the trees, paddle a canoe, climb mountains and sleep under the stars. She continues her study and practice of Yoga (certified Instructor), Pathwork and, more recently, the emerging field of Eco-psychology where she is finding great depth and meaning exploring the human/spirit/nature (dis)connection.

Micheline Green

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icheline has been pursuing her developmental edges since she was a child. This has given her plenty of experience in the precarious and often messy process of change, uncertainty and disruption.

Micheline grew up in Montreal, Canada, and as a kinesthetic learner, needed to use her physical body in order to learn best. This ultimately served her well in her athletic pursuits. At 19 years old, Micheline played rugby for the Canadian women’s national team, and at 21, she kicked-off the first Women’s Rugby World Cup in Cardiff, Wales. This experience provided her a deep appreciation for what a group of people can accomplish when they work together, united with care, toward a common goal. 

Micheline felt a similar unity and cohesion when she was first introduced to ICC in 2010. She experienced the seamless support and the heart-centered care of people united by the goal to alleviate suffering in the world, one individual at a time. Micheline graduated as an Integral Master Coach™ in 2014, taught by Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine. She feels blessed to have had the experience of their dynamic dance together and she carries Joanne and Laura’s many teachings forward in her own warmhearted, down-to-earth, sincere approach to teaching.  

Micheline has worked with ICC since 2016, as an MCM Mentor, a Coaching Conversation Observer, a Certification Committee member, and a Phone Coach for both the Associate and Professional level, as well as an instructor for the Associate Certification Module.  

Micheline has a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Social Sciences and a Master’s degree in Educational Counseling, and she continues to stretch her edges. She is a full-time coach, and a passionate course creator for her online business Rising Together Academy. Drawing upon her work with Montessori and Waldorf schools, she created the Conscious and Connected Parenting program to support parents around the world in developing their inner resources to be more able to skillfully harness the transformative power of love while in the tension of their children’s most difficult behaviors.  Most recently, she completed her third course for young adults, a course that supports them to discover their inner compass to navigate their life. 

Micheline lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her two aging, but happy, hiking partners, Summer and Sky.  Her three adult-children are blessed and released, and are following their passions and purpose. Micheline’s “happy place” is creating and facilitating a safe container for individuals and groups to come together in exploration of their complex inner worlds. Micheline supports that explorative practice with compassion, tenderness and deep, heartfelt care.  

Miriam Binder-Lang

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riginally trained as an engineer, Miriam has a deep passion for human development. Throughout her 20-year executive career across several countries in a large international organization, her greatest joy was to support, enable, and witness the unfolding of talent and the harnessing of skills and knowledge within her organization.

What began as a sabbatical year to acquire some coaching skills in 2015 ended up being a profound shift in Miriam’s career and life when she embarked on the Integral Coaching Canada journey. Through Integral Coaching®, she discovered Integral Theory, building her theoretical understanding while engaging in its practical application. Her analytical mind appreciates how Integral Theory provides a structure that helps make sense of complex human behaviors and interactions, while her compassionate heart values the beauty, uniqueness, and inherent perfection of each human being.

Since graduating as an Integral Master Coach in 2016, Miriam has been dedicated to coaching individuals and supporting leadership teams in their development. She has deeply immersed herself in spiritual practice with Integral Zen and various teachers, which enhances her ability to serve clients, students, and every being with intuitive sensitivity.

Miriam has served as a mentor for MCM students and as a member of the ICC Certification Committee. She is an ICC Instructor for the Professional Certification Module, supports students as a Phone Coach and Observer across all ICCP Modules, and mentors faculty members in specific roles.

Miriam divides her time between Germany and France. She has three children, a husband, and a dynamic environment she calls her family. She enjoys that her dinner table serves as an integral development lab where she can observe various stages of development all at once.

Susan Loree

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usan brings skilful compassion and great depth to her coaching work. She has an extensive background in learning design with a healthy appreciation of what it takes for people to learn and develop throughout their lives and currently works with clients who are often in a transition: from one job to another, from an organization to self-employment, or from work to retirement. At every age, the question of, “Who am I now?” appears. Susan is amazed by how this question reoccurs and never ceases to be fascinated by its many iterations and manifestations over our lives.

Susan brings extensive experience in leadership coaching inside organizations, including developing in-house coaching program design and strategy work. Her unique ability to imagine possibilities is tempered by her strong capacity to make things happen, her “can do” attitude, and a healthy dose of perseverance and developmental pragmatism. She is skilful in navigating complex systems and enrolling key supporters and collaborators to actualise a vision of human development in the workplace.

Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Languages and Literature, graduate studies in Change Management, a DESS in Education, and research for her Master’s Degree in Education focused on the learning outcomes of executive coaching.

As ICC’s Director of Faculty Development, Susan brings deep and embodied experience in the continued development of Integral Coaches™. Her roles within the company include Teaching, Phone Coaching and Chairing Final Certification Committees, as well as behind the scenes roles in curriculum design and learning product enhancement and ongoing support to ICC’s gifted faculty members.

Susan is the joyful mother of two daughters, and lives in Québec City with her husband of many years, where she enjoys the outdoors, gourmet food, travel, and a good book!