Inspiring Your Leadership Potential
Proven Leadership Strategies and Solutions for Executives from a Former Senior Executive

Welcome to Mike Whalen Executive Coaching, where leaders uncover game—changing performance insights from a former senior executive—now Certified Executive Coach—that’s been there. From clarifying your personal goals and addressing challenging obstacles, to developing a team culture that fosters loyalty and results, count on candid, common sense, leadership expertise based on real life scenarios.
Helping you work smarter so you can focus on what matters.
Feeling driven to increase your executive efficiency and productivity, yet conflicted by wanting more time for yourself and your loved ones? The stress of juggling multiple, competing demands on your time—especially important life priorities—can make it difficult to feel in control.
Learn tried, tested, and true tactics based on proven philosophies through Coaching Programs designed to improve your effectiveness, reduce overwhelm, and provide the peace-of-mind of work/life balance.

Benefits of Executive Coaching:
- Clarify your performance benchmarks, targets, and goals
- Improved leadership responsibility and ownership
- Increased ability to identify and solve work-related issues
- Enhanced clarity in individual and team roles and objectives
- Increased openness to personal development and improvement
- Focused improvement/correction of specific skills or behaviours
- Improved communication with leadership and governing boards
- Improved productivity and overall effectiveness
Latest Leadership Resources

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Book by Jonathan Haidt—After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression,

Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
From award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Jennifer Wallace comes Mattering—a landmark book that introduces a transformative new framework to confront the loneliness, burnout, and lack of purpose so many of us face today.

The Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They Shaped
The Prime Ministers is a lively, accessible chronicle of Canada’s leaders, from Sir John A. Macdonald in 1867 to Mark Carney in 2025.