About

Hello! I’m Vivian, your mentor.

I use an inspired system — Vision and Journey® — to mentor you in how to achieve your dreams. It is especially powerful for transformative goals because it guides you to envision and pursue what is beyond your experience.

Hello! I’m Vivian, your mentor.

I use an inspired system — Vision and Journey® — to mentor you in how to achieve your dreams. It is especially powerful for transformative goals because it guides you to envision and pursue what is beyond your experience.

Hello! I’m Vivian, your mentor.

I use an inspired system — Vision and Journey® — to mentor you in how to achieve your dreams. It is especially powerful for transformative goals because it guides you to envision and pursue what is beyond your experience.

My Story of Life Transformation

My story of personal transformation spans decades. It begins in childhood and reaches fulfillment decades later. It shows how you can make the Journey to a dream that is daunting by achieving small, easier goals along the way. This makes the Journey purposeful and rewarding, and keeps you moving forward because you know you can carry out each small step.

My personal dream was to travel to ancient sites and hike about the ruins. But I had a physical disability that made walking difficult, painful and risky. So I set a Big Vision to cure the disability and get to my dream. Then I just kept aiming for the next step on the path. The path kept changing, so I kept creating new ways to adapt. I became a master at adapting and achieving life-altering changes one step at a time.

On the path to my Big Vision and the Inca Bridge in Machu Picchu, Peru.
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The result was that I travelled to 60 plus destinations in over 20 countries and hiked about many ancient ruins. 

The Journey was full of set-backs, but I used creativity to turn them into gains. And that made achieving the Big Vision so much more satisfying.

Here I am in Machu Picchu, Peru on the path to the Inca Bridge.

My Story of Business Transformation

Sometimes, you stumble upon your path. I was a consummate creator from early on. Then, I stepped into an administrative role that let me apply my creative skills to a business venture, and I increased its performance by multiples. As a result, I received many requests for similar work and found myself with a consulting practice. Most important, I found a field of work that enabled me to use and grow my creativity.

Over time, I added many experiences — transforming businesses, government services, and communities. I collaborated to build a new economic sector in science and technology, and guided award-winning innovation in education. Many of these initiatives had not been attempted before, and they required substantial inspiration and creativity to bring about success.

So I found myself still doing creative work, but applying the methods I had honed in art to a business canvas. 

I would use each experience to test and refine Vision and Journey® and apply creativity to the transformation. Eventually, there was nothing more to refine. Then I began to build the Vision and Journey® Library.

In my mentoring videos, I use the apps, examples from the story, illustrations and other resources from the Vision and Journey® Library to help you understand and absorb the lesson. The apps do not just record your notes — they train your creative skills every time you use them, and the fiction story helps you gain insights into the emotions and personal growth that always go with a transformation.

You can read quotes from my reference letters farther down on this page.

My Story of World Transformation

Sometimes, the path is laid out for you, and you must decide if it leads where you want to go. In my case, the path was a series of rare transformation initiatives over a twenty year span, all of which were a microcosm of world transformation.

As I finished one, the next would arise. With each, I would learn more about what it takes to transform into a better world. Over time, my knowledge and insight evolved, until one day the path needed to create a better world became clear.

Creating a better world does not happen in a big bang. It happens in layers, with time between each layer to let the changes settle into place. While they settle, you learn from it, review the goals, perspective and so on, and then reset your Compass.

So transformation is simply your managed evolution from layer to layer of your better world.

You can only see so far ahead, so you cannot see each layer until it is close. Then you must apply your creativity to make sure the layers work as one.

This continues, until you have the better world you want.

Sometimes, the path goes beyond your initial goal, and you must decide if you will stay on the path or finish the Journey. In my case, I had a huge inspiration that showed me what a better world should look like for humanity. I stayed on the path.

I describe this world towards the end of video #4: Decide What Matters on the Demo page. I call it The Creator’s world, because its purpose is to develop and use the creative genius that all humanity is born with. 

If the opportunity arises, I will do what I can to help bring about the Creator’s world. Should that happen, I hope you will join the movement.

 

What People Say About

my mentoring, workshops and consulting

Below are excerpts from client references over the years. I guided them to transform their lives, small to global businesses, government services, and industries.

Create a Better Life

To create a “Better Life” you must be able to achieve personal growth, acquire new skills, develop your work and career, and attain self-sufficiency and work-life balance. “Life” level sessions mentor people in the insights and skills to achieve these ideals. Following are participant comments:

Life Success

This Workshop participant gained critical skills for life and success.

 

“Before your course, nobody taught me to think so clearly. This is saying a lot, because my MBA is business management. I now have the ability to make decisions quickly, and know what to do to get to my goal. Now, without trying, I can create success. You have made it simple.”

Life Changes

This participant found that skills learned in the workshop were lasting.

 

“It has been a year, and I am still using what you taught me. There is no effort in doing things the right way. What you showed me triggered a natural, effortless change for me. I don’t have to work at trying to change. It just happens easily. I think everyone should take this course.”

Life Goals

This participant applied his new skills to his golf game, and won a golf trophy.

 

“By the time I finished the session, I had a better sense of where I was. Many years of thoughts, ideas, emotions, previously scattered, were rearranged in a meaningful way. I deal effectively with problems that in the past might have been mishandled because of an incorrect diagnosis in the first place.”

Life Clarity

This participant gained new skills in clarity, decision-making and execution.

 

“The most noticeable change for me is focus on what I am doing and where I am going. I am able to evaluate situations from a different perspective, make faster decisions, waste less time and stay on target. You have connected the dots in my brain. This course would be beneficial for anyone.”

Life Vision

This participant gained focus, direction, confidence in handling change.

 

“My thinking and capabilities have expanded far beyond anything I expected. I take a broader view and can project myself into the future. I have a clear sense of how to deal with change. I can see what’s coming for the next 10 years and plan for it. I would recommend this program to anyone.”

Life Skills

Student participants gained experience and skills for achieving Life goals.

 

“This committee brought together students with Vivian as chair. Vivian displayed an uncanny ability to ask the right questions and pinpoint the heart of a problem. Some of the questions she asked puzzled me. In retrospect, the answers and their timing were crucial to the successful outcome.”

Life Skills

Students developed ideas and achieved a goal they had not attempted before.

 

“We had no idea what to do. What stood out about Vivian was how easily she focused us and drew from us ideas and great solutions we did not even realize we had. She consistently guided us to peak performance and creativity. Best of all, she made the whole process stress-free, fun and exciting.”

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Create a Better Business

“Business” spans small to global enterprises as well as public service administration. To create a “Better Business” you must be able to describe precisely the problems that your business initiative will solve as well as the key to solving each problem. Following are comments from business clients:

Business Innovation

Guided a law firm to design innovative services for a large partner institution.

 

“Vivian accomplished in days what we could not have accomplished in months. Most outstanding was her capacity to make decisions with speed and accuracy. She demonstrated a remarkable ability to ask questions that created instant clarity. Our endorsement for Vivian could not be stronger.”

Business Innovation

Mentored entrepreneurs to create innovative business models.

 

“Vivian’s advice constantly reveals rare business insights. She has a breakthrough understanding of how to construct businesses for the new economy. She is exceptionally innovative, and very fast at problem solving. I believe Vivian would create value for any business far beyond their expectations.”

Business Design

Guided an investment firm president to restructure a portfolio of companies.

 

“Vivian’s work is outstanding. Most extraordinary is her ability to size up any situation within seconds, pinpoint the core of the problem, invent an effective and ingenious solution on the spot, then direct others to execute it in a simple way. Vivian’s work far surpassed all of the Company’s expectations.”

Business Strategy

Guided an executive to design a strategy for revitalizing the business.

 

“Vivian has an astounding ability to cut through volumes of information to pinpoint the heart of a problem in minutes. Her advice is shrewd, innovative, and easy to implement. Problems that seem insurmountable are solved quickly, simply and effectively. I strongly recommend Vivian without hesitation.”

Business Transformation

Guided a banking client to assess a full operation and system transformation.

 

“Vivian has deep knowledge across all areas [of a transformation] and knows how the pieces of a complex initiative have to come together. Her straight talk was instrumental in helping us solve the issues. Vivian delivered lasting value. I am pleased to refer her with my highest commendation.”

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Create a Better World

“World” refers to initiatives that involve people, businesses, government, the economy and society in a geographical or virtual location. To create a “Better World” one must address the needs of all involved, and not just the needs of some. Following are comments from public sector initiatives:

Public Strategy

Guided an industry regulator to design province-wide service innovation.

 

“Vivian has an exceptional ability to shape ideas into innovative strategies, and create plans that are simple to execute. She has the power to focus strong personalities at the executive level and achieve the goal with no time wasted. I highly recommend Vivian without reservation.”

Economic Cluster

Transformed 20+ labs in 6+ institutions into a world class genomics cluster.

 

“Vivian won the collaboration of project teams, steered us through financial and logistical challenges (including a 50% funding shortfall), and guided projects to achieve world leadership in their fields. Vivian has made a significant contribution that we will build upon for many years.”

Public Change

Guided 5 regions to create a province-wide health system standard.

 

“Achieving consistency was a challenge as the health authorities had unique obstacles to overcome. Vivian framed a guideline that allowed for differences in execution while adhering to a standard. The result was a joint recommendation supported by all Committee members.”

Public Innovation

Guided 11 colleges to co-create an innovative award-winning program.

 

“Vivian exceeded [selection] criteria by impressive margins. Her extensive experience, creativity and flexibility have been evident from the first day. Working closely with Vivian has been an exceptional learning experience. She contributed far beyond what could normally be expected.”

Public Transformation

Guided a Ministry and partner to innovate and transform services.

 

“This challenging business model required the partners to merge significantly different practices, policies, processes and infrastructure. The detail seemed insurmountable. Vivian guided us to address critical details, facilitate solutions, and achieve deliverables on time.”

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“We are going to make it possible for some generation to achieve the better world that humanity dreams about.”

— Angela M. Remedios,  author of  The Vision and the Journey
Afterword:  Our Big Vision     Excerpt