"It’s not what you know…it is what you’re doing with what you know."

Diana Kawarsky
 
Diana Kawarsky is President and Founder of Soft-Skills.ca, a Canadian company offering Training Solutions and Life Skills Coaching Services. Her work has enhanced the work lives of professionals in a wide variety of fields in Canada and the U.S.A.

Diana is a dynamic training professional who has over 15 years of experience working with a diversity of clients. She is a people-developer, motivating her clients to exercise their personal learning styles to grasp and retain new information quickly.

An energetic, results-oriented consultant, Diana takes great pride in influencing the human side of business. Her experience has breadth from working with a variety of professionals from new hires to seasoned executives.


Group facilitation and public speaking; including conference Key Notes and presentations are skills that she has honed through her work with over 12,000 group participants. Diana develops instructional curriculum, training materials and resources that exhaust the clients’ needs and are well received by her groups.

Throughout her career she has demonstrated the skills of a masterful facilitator and coach. She is intuitive with a passion for helping people and organizations perform. Diana completed studies at the University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University, specializing in adult learning, human systems, organizational development and business management.

Prior to forming Soft-Skills.ca Diana worked at a managerial level in corporate people management including training and development responsibilities. She also worked for several provincial governments and not-for-profit agencies.

Soft-Skills.ca has a network of skilled and talented training associates who we work with as our clients needs dictate. A strategic business alliance is with www.mtraining.com.

Diana has written numerous articles on adult training, career issues and soft skills and is currently working on her first full-length book entitled, Soft Skills for Hard Results.

Professional Certifications & Associations:

Certified Predictive Index Administrator (PI)
Certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator? Administrator (MBTI)
Certified Emotional Intelligence Quotient Test Administrator (EQ-i)
Certified True Colors Level 1 Trainer
Certified Life Skills Level 1 Trainer
Certified Level 1 Constructivist Career Counselor
CSTD - Canadian Society for Training & Development
IAF - International Association of Facilitators
Wow!Speakers - Women’s Speaker’s Bureau
CALSCA - Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Association


Who and what we recommend


Recommended Associations:

www.iaf-world.org
International Association of Facilitators

www.cstd.ca
Canadian Society for Training and Development

www.calsca.com
Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Associations

www.wordsonwork.ca
Women’s Speakers Bureau – Words on Work

Recommended Readings - Leadership and Management:


• Bender, Peter Urs Leadership from within, Toronto, Canada:
Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 1997

• Carlson, Richard Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's all small stuff,
New York, NY: Hyperion, 1997



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