Empowering Me - Heartspeak

Empowering Me

The winning skillset to mentor and lead lives forward.

Live leadership course that develops you as a mentor or coach.

Empowering Me provides foundational knowledge and essential skills to become an effective mentor or coach.


Empowering Me is a LIVE experiential group mentoring and coaching program that gives you the essential edge and leadership skillset to step into your personal and professional potential. Navigating life’s challenges, choices, and decisions (whether personal or professional) brings complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty and opportunity. As a course participant you will embark on a transformational journey—set new goals; step into your desired future; practice the mentoring/coaching process, and inspire others.


Empowering Me
uses proven tools to help you build the confidence you need to help you reach your potential. Improve your productivity.  Make better decisions.


  • Earn a leadership certificate in 8 weeks*
  • Build greater self-awareness, personally and professionally
  • Learn how to lead and inspire—anyone, anywhere
  • Plus… Shelley is there to guide you every step of the way! Who is Shelley?


*Earning the
Empowering Me Certificate depends on successful completion of weekly activities, and reflections, and participation in LIVE sessions.


Effective leadership beings with your action. Take this  opportunity to give yourself a boost in your self-discovery journey and becoming the inspiration you have the potential to be. 

Sign up to be notified when Empowering Me is available or preorder the course to secure your spot today.

Purchase Course $275

4 Live Sessions - Course Dates


Next Session begins in November

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Here is what we’re offering:

4 Live Sessions with executive coach, Shelley Steele

  • Re-imagining a Better You: Introduction to the world of mentoring and coaching, overview of course expectations/content, the stages of change, goal setting, and approaches.

  • Emotional Intelligence and You: Social and emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of our own emotions and those of others, be "in the moment", and to use that information to manage ourselves and manage our relationships.

  • Goals, Motivation, and Energy: Energy renewal is essential to move closer to achieving personal goals, make decisions, and overcome self-sabotage—that oftentimes blocks progress. What motivates one person, may not inspire another.


  • Identity and Unconscious Bias: We'll explore how understanding your identity impacts how you support the growth of others. Each person brings a diverse set of strengths, perspectives and lived experiences. Explore unconscious bias. Discover how developing compassion for others starts with self-compassion.

  • Finding Purpose & Meaning: Discovering your hopes and desires is integral to moving your life forward.

Practice Your Skills

Each LIVE class, will provide opportunities to reflect and practice self and social awareness alongside the cohort of course participants. Managing self and others is critical to personal and leadership success.   self and social awareness skills.

Companion Workbook

The Empowering Me companion workbook provides a lasting recap of key concepts, supplementary activities, and opportunities for reflection and planning.   

Leadership Certificate

This Empowering Me Leadership Certificate has been developed and delivered by Shelley Steele, Executive Coach and President of Heartspeak. Learn more about  Shelley Steele  and  Heartspeak.

“Shelley Steele is a highly invitational, engaging, and knowledgeable host and instructor coach. She allowed me to feel very comfortable with the course content and the approach."

 —former Education Officer, Ontario Ministry of Education

What is Heartspeak?

Heartspeak is a registered charity dedicated to helping people achieve their best in personal and professional well-being. Our library of interactive learning tools and resources improve employability skills with a focus on enhancing social emotional skills, supporting mental health, productivity, and compassionate leadership skills

Who is Shelley?

Driven by a passion to honour the human spirit and life journeys, Shelley Steele believes in the transformative power of story and voice to unleash personal potential. An award-winning entrepreneur, she has over 35 years of experience as an educator, producer/director, and personal development coach.


Shelley has instructed at the Faculty of Education (OISE/UT), and lead programs covering inclusive leadership, emotional intelligence, healthy lifestyle management, entrepreneurism, and global issues (Centennial College). 


Her influence is provincial (Ontario Ministries: Education; Children, Community, and Social Services; Attorney General), national (producer at TVO, livestreams for career development of young women with The Learning Partnership), and international (Embrace Your School in Canada and South Africa; Voice of Youth in Reading, England), to name a few highlights. 


Shelley listens and learns alongside you, providing mind-opening insight and encouragement, and providing guidance to learn through your past, move towards healing, and rise to a better future.

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