Listen to Noomii's interview with Rheanna Swift-Hill RN MA Leadership

About Me

My professional background is in health care as a registered nurse with a health promotion and illness prevention focus. The provision of front-line health services motivated me to pursue graduate studies to better understand organizational context and effect constructive change. I hold a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph. This program provided exposure to the theories and evidence underlying many aspects of organizational life such as change management, organizational politics, decision-making and employee engagement. This business knowledge, along with the underlying intrapersonal and interpersonal soft skills, are highly valuable in the context of a coaching partnership.

I had the unusual opportunity to engage with the academic side of coaching during the MA Leadership program, through a course entitled Coaching & Developing Others. This course, instructed by an MCC level coach, inspired me to enroll in Erickson International's Art & Science of Coaching program. I am currently accruing hours for my ICF credential. I am a coach with the Women for Change Coaching Community, a program which facilitates access to coaching for women with financial barriers. 

I partner with individuals in a process of understanding who they are and constructively ensuring that their values direct and support their goals and actions - showing up authentically in their life. Surfacing the values that comprise true authenticity is an important precursor to being fully engaged with life, in either the personal or business context. Using the external accountability of the coach as scaffolding, my clients learn skills that promote internal accountability by accessing and leveraging their own inner resources. Combined with a drive for optimization and an ongoing willinginess to evaluate the status quo, this process creates meaningful and sustainable change for individuals.