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"Be the Change you want to See in the World."
Mahatma Gandhi

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Excellence

Excellence

I have come to believe truthful Excellence starts with the relationship you have with your innermost core, your heart or the heart of an organization. Excellence can be achieved by leading authentically from the inside and connecting Mind, Body and Soul to a focused and inspired vision. Excellence is being mindful and deeply honest, respectful and being your best in relationships to yourself and others.

 

Why Kevin?

Why Kevin Cottam?

What I am told by many of my clients is what I bring to the table in part is my successful 30-year history and in-depth experience in working as a creative director and choreographer with elite athletes, artists of all genre and in world-class multi-disciplinary and multi-media events and projects.

As well, uniquely integrated and interwoven with this, I bring my inspirational and executive coaching tools and relationship and leadership skills to coaching and facilitating individuals, executives, teams, elite athletes and artists who are looking to excel in their performance in life and within organizations.

So whether I am directing a large creative project or coaching an executive on challenging subject or choice or speaking at an event on the mind body soul connection, my worlds are seamlessly woven together.

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What do you want?

Connect. Listen. Inspire. Create.

Kevin offers insightful relationship tools and creative skills, knowledge and the power of deep listening to achieve organizational and personal excellence. His starting point is, what are you or your organization in relationship with?

One of my answers to achieve Excellence is CLIC = Connect. Listen. Inspire. Create. CLIC starts with a story or situation, reduces the learning to a single powerful word, then you use that pearl or power word as a catalyst for your solutions.

CLIC is a process of energy, mindfulness and well-being. It is a unique ‘process to result’ tool for reaching purposeful organizational and personal excellence. This is created through believing in the massive renewable energy of powerful relationships. Aha!

 

What Kevin Offers

What Kevin Offers

Organizational Excellence
A series of ongoing coaching and facilitated workshops utilizing CLIC as its basic process to achieve relationship Excellence in leadership on all levels of small to medium sized organizations.
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Personal Excellence
A series of coaching sessions and workshops that uses CLIC and a variety of other tools as the way forward to achieving mindful values-based Excellence that is in relationship with your desired life.
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Quote of the Week

The Mind

'One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes - That is the eternal mystery.'  Maitri Upanishad

Aha Reflection

'Look within yourself, for all the answers lie within you'

I do not know the sayer of this quote even though I sense I have seen this in many places. It is also sitting as a plaque on a park bench on the English Bay Seawall facing the lovely ocean. Go find it and sit their and contemplate as you look out in the Bay.  HMMM.

The Prophet

'Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,'  Albert Einstein
Do you do this?  Just think about it.  I can own up to the fact that I have come to realize I do sometimes.  Not to stop it and look for new opportunities out of the same old. :)))

'Work is Love made Visible', Kahil Gibran, The Prophet

I am just rereading this classic, The Prophet, how beautiful it is. A delightful look at the true essence of life.  


Announcements

New Blog Launch

www.ahamoments.us Blog Launch
I am excited to invite you all to engage and share at my NEW BLOG site - www.ahamoments.us. This is a space to share your Aha Moments in life and the great wisdom you have gained from them. Let's start an Aha Revolution.

www.ahamoments.us Blog Launch

I am excited to invite you all to engage and share at my NEW BLOG site - www.ahamoments.us. This is a space to share your Aha Moments in life and the great wisdom you have gained from them. ...

New Article

Lois Elfman of New York City has written an article about me for Ice Network. Here is the link:
Kevin Cottam featured in Ice News

Olympic Inspiration

Olympic Inspiration - click in the link below and you will be able to read one of the chapters of my book called, Legacy. It is one of the Pearls that I learned from my position as Director and Choreographer of the Closing Ceremonies of the 1988 Calgary Olympics. What a thrill - and this thrill is coming to Vancouver - watch out world!!!

Calgary Olympic Closing Ceremony Choreographer Kevin Cottam

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Upcoming Events

Sat Aug 14, 2010 @08:00AM - 05:00PM
Holiday on the Coast of California

Sun Aug 22, 2010 @01:30PM - 02:45PM
ASAE Conference - 'Design a SenSaTional Event'

Mon Aug 23, 2010 @08:00AM - 12:00PM
Seduction To Spirit - Chopra Retreat

Tue Sep 07, 2010 @12:00PM - 01:30PM
Rotary Club of Vancouver Speech

Wed Sep 08, 2010 @07:00PM - 08:30PM
East West Bookstore Seattle, Washington

Thu Sep 30, 2010 @09:00AM - 05:00PM
Aha Yoga Workshop

Mon Oct 04, 2010
Holiday on Ice Rehearsals - Energia

Mon Oct 18, 2010
Energia Opening City

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Testimonials

‘He understood the project from the very beginning and gave me all the solutions the same days. Unique!‘  
Marcelo Molinari, Costa del Sol Convention Bureau, Malaga, Spain

‘As a facilitator you strive to try on different techniques and are more than wiling to learn from others. You see partnership always as an opportunity, never as a competition. You almost never say no but rather remain open minded to techniques and approaches all the while bringing many other creative ideas. You like to start with the big picture in mind and that makes you stronger I think in the end, cause while you go deep, you never seem to lose the bigger picture.‘  
Janet Logan, Facilitator/Coach, Toronto, Canada

‘Kevin gives total dedication to his projects ... he brings creative solutions to the table, sticks to a given timeline, is a perfectionist when it comes to execution and always provides a sense of calm to the team, so that they can achieve their potential.’
Bojan Tercon, Partner, Singapore Sing

‘In the growing curve of a company there is the need to stop, reflect and answer to some basic questions like - what is your business all about, where are you going, what is the vision, how are you achieving your vision. Kevin is a great coach to help you on that process of redefining the basics and reshape the path for a solid growth of an institution.
We have been very successful integrating the team in redefining the essence of the company and Kevin brought that spirit to tlc. Definitely a must do to any organization.’
Diogo Assis, Managing Director, TLC – Events in Portugal

‘It has been my experience that communication within a creative group of individuals can be a stressful, ego centered and emotionally draining event. Kevin has the ability to tame the frustrated ego and make every member of the team feel empowered to rise above personal limitations to a common goal.‘  
Simone Alexander, Choreographer, Denver, Colorado

‘You set a good example through your listening skills and you inspire others with to challenge their creative strengths.  I know these are some of the qualities which I see you bringing out in me.
You have many leadership skills which I'm sure allowed you to create 'Energia'.  Your concern for the 'well-being' of those who you teach and your ability to inspire people around you to be the best they can be are both credits to your "Unique Ability".’
Ian Mellor, CFP Senior Financial Planner, Assante Financial Management, Vancouver, Canada

'Kevin is an original thinker, who engages, involves and inspires his audiences. He uses his unique experience to help his clients find their own new creative solutions.  He is stimulating and sincere in all his actions.'
Robin Lokerman, CEO - Institutional Division, MCI Group Singapore

‘Always pleasant to work with and remains calm when others don’t.
Deals with everyone on a personal level and encourages people to exceed their boundaries. The sky is the limit. Never settles for less, Demanding of himself and others, Sincere, Humane, Always helpful, Compliments hard work, Open to discussion, Gentle.’
Jayne Hamelink, Casting Director, Holiday on Ice, Holland

‘Professionalism. Your presentations combine business imperatives with life balance. Great creativity in the use of adult learning techniques (not a one way communication, interaction is always there).’
Didier Scalliet, MPI Europe, VP of Global Development, Luxembourg

‘It was a great experience working with you. I enjoy the show very much and love what you've done to show us new possibilities. Thank you!’
Hendrik Jan de Mari, CEO, Holiday on Ice

‘I think the biggest thing about you is that you get people to see the opportunities and challenges in front of them in a different way. Your challenge to me to ‘walk through that door and step into that room’, has stuck with me. I visualize that and it has made my thoughts and ideas land much more effectively with me’.
Bill Baker, Chief Strategic Officer, Envisioning + Storytelling, Vancouver, Canada