Jill Proud
705-444-5647
info@theproudgroup.com
A Regional Vice President in the Banking industry said:
"..Jill has helped our team reach new levels in many ways through goal setting and focusing on the right priorities, challenging assumptions while assisting individuals to open their minds to new possibilities, driving results through performance improvement and dealing with difficult relationships.."
About Us
The Proud Group provides a combination of assessments, workshops, one-on-one and observation coaching, design and consulting services. The majority of organizations focus on numbers, results and spreadsheets as the primary tool for measuring performance. The challenge lies not in keeping score, providing the numbers or in helping your people understand them. That's the easiest part. Much more important to the success of any organization is targeting and measuring the thinking or mindset of the individuals that drive your results. How we think about ourselves, our role, our team and ultimately our organization is the key lever to either drive or undermine personal and therefore organizational performance.
The Proud Group addresses achieving enhanced results and making modifications to more effective behaviours by laying the foundation for development at a deeper level. By embedding the approach to creating any change - increased sales, a more dynamic leadership team, enhanced innovation and even shifting an organizational culture - in the fundamental drivers of mindset management we are able to facilitate higher performance at the individual, team and organizational level.
The Proud Group... it's the right thing to do.
Jill Proud, President
For more than a decade, Jill's focus has been performance improvement at the individual, team and organizational level. Jill is a facilitator, coach, program designer and a strategic business development force. Organizations leverage Jill's entrepreneurial drive and highly adaptable skill set to design, sell and deliver solutions.
Whether selling performance improvement solutions to corporate executives in North America, or directing knowledge-sharing and process improvement with municipal governments in Chile, Jill brings a client-centered focus and passion to all of her work.
Jill has held senior marketing, advertising and sales positions in global performance improvement organizations, managing large corporate accounts and small-medium size business relationships. As well, she grew a licensee network of associates for a training and consulting firm, developing and implementing their marketing strategy, business development and spearheading their U.S. market expansion.
Throughout her career Jill has been recognized for her strong communications and relationship-building abilities. Jill creates and delivers Emotional Intelligence programs for Institute for Health and Human Potential, most recently redesigning their highly acclaimed Emotional Intelligence for Personal Leadership two-day training program, which is offered around the world.
Open, poised and fearless, Jill is a high-energy presenter, thoughtful facilitator and results-oriented coach. Her unwavering belief in the ability of individuals to build more enriching lives for themselves-enabling them to lead their teams, organizations and communities to successful change-is the force behind her engaging approach in all of her endeavors.
Jill lives between the shores of Georgian Bay where she rows in the summer and the Niagara Escarpment where she cross-country skis in the winter. In her many volunteer activities Jill also serves as a Trustee on the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital Board and as a member of the Collingwood Rowing Club Board of Directors.