Janice Otremba

Janice Otremba

Janice Otremba Coaching & Consulting Ltd.

Kamloops, BC, Canada

Why You · For Who · With What

Leaders and organizations tend to call me when the strategy is clear, but the people dynamics are getting in the way. For more than 25 years, I have helped leaders, teams, and organizations see the patterns, blind spots, and assumptions shaping their culture, decisions, relationships, and results. I bring a rare blend of executive coaching, leadership strategy, facilitation, relationship intelligence, strategic HR experience, and boots-on-the-ground practicality. My work is not about adding more theory to already overloaded leaders. It is about helping people see what is really happening, name what needs to shift, and move forward with more clarity, courage, and accountability. Known for thoughtful questions, practical insight, and just enough humour to make the hard conversations possible, I help leaders see what they have been too close to see for themselves — and then turn that insight into meaningful action. I am a Professional Certified Coach, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Certified Executive Coach, InPowered® Corporate Coach, and certified facilitator of Crucial Learning/Core Strengths™ SDI 2.0.

About

For more than 25 years, Janice Otremba has helped organizations move forward when the challenge isn’t the strategy—it’s the people. As a Leadership and Culture Strategist, executive coach, facilitator, and strategic HR consultant, she partners with leaders to navigate the messy, human side of work, helping them uncover the patterns, blind spots, and assumptions that shape culture, influence decisions, and impact results. Every engagement begins with curiosity. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach, Janice works in partnership with each client to understand what’s really happening, then draws on proven coaching, leadership, and organizational development frameworks to design practical solutions that fit their people, culture, and goals. Her professional credentials include PCC, CPCC, and CEC, reflecting formal training and recognized standards in coaching practice. Known for asking thoughtful questions, positively hijacking perspectives and assumptions, and bringing just enough humour to spark meaningful insight, Janice helps leaders see what they’ve been too close to see for themselves—creating the clarity, confidence, and commitment needed to move people and organizations forward.

Service Offerings

  1. 1Executive & Leadership Coaching Individual coaching for executives, senior leaders, business owners, and emerging leaders who want to strengthen how they lead, communicate, make decisions, and show up under pressure. Clients receive a confidential coaching space to explore leadership identity, executive presence, values, relationship patterns, communication, conflict, accountability, stress, and the impact they want to create. The work is practical and reflective, helping leaders move from insight to action with greater clarity, confidence, and alignment. This offering is well suited for leaders navigating growth, transition, increased responsibility, complex people dynamics, burnout, difficult decisions, or the need to lead with more courage and influence.
  2. 2Team, Culture & Relationship Intelligence Development Customized team and leadership development designed to strengthen trust, communication, collaboration, accountability, and performance. Using tools such as QE 360 / Quantum Endeavors 360 (interview-based), SDI 2.0, Core Strengths™, facilitated dialogue, team agreements, leadership reflection, and practical working sessions, Janice helps teams understand what drives behaviour when things are going well and what happens when conflict, stress, or competing priorities show up. Clients receive a clear, grounded process that helps teams move beyond surface-level conversation into practical commitments, stronger relationships, clearer expectations, and healthier patterns of working together. This offering is well suited for leadership teams, intact teams, cross-functional groups, municipal and public-sector organizations, Indigenous organizations, corporate teams, and community-based organizations.
  3. 3Speaking, Workshops & Strategic Facilitation Engaging keynotes, workshops, and facilitated sessions that help organizations tackle tough topics with energy, humour, clarity, and practical tools. Janice speaks and facilitates on leadership, workplace culture, relationship intelligence, communication, accountability, stress, trust, inclusion, humanistic leadership, and navigating complexity. Her sessions are customized to the client’s context, industry, culture, and current challenges. Clients receive more than inspiration. They leave with shared language, useful tools, meaningful reflection, and clear next steps they can apply immediately. This offering is well suited for conferences, leadership retreats, staff development days, culture initiatives, strategic planning sessions, team resets, and organizations that need a skilled external facilitator to support important conversations.

Specialties

Executive & Leadership PresenceTrustConflict & Workplace DynamicsRelational Intelligence (RQ)Psychological SafetyAccountability & Culture AlignmentTeam Dynamics & High-Trust TeamsHumanistic LeadershipChange & ResilienceStrategic Clarity & Action PlanningKeynote Speaker: Signature Talks: "It's Your PoolDon't Pee In it""Joyous Resilience""MeMyself & I (The ProblemThe Solutionand Often Both).