About us

About Impactive Training

Impactive Training is a boutique leadership and team development firm based in New Westminster, British Columbia.

We partner with organizations across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and BC to develop emerging leaders, strengthen management teams and improve how people work together. Every engagement is designed around your people, your culture and the results you need, and delivered at your workplace or virtually.

Our principle

What gets practised gets used.

Leadership capability is built through deliberate practice on real situations, not through slides. Every session we deliver is designed around that principle.

How we work

From first conversation to lasting change

Diagnose first

We start with your objectives and the challenges your leaders face, not a catalogue.

Design for your context

Content, examples and exercises reflect your industry, culture and team.

Practise, don’t lecture

Participants rehearse the conversations and decisions they face every week.

Reinforce afterwards

A structured follow-up helps new behaviours hold.

What we deliver

Programs and workshops

Program

Peer to Leader

For emerging leaders and newly promoted managers. 1 or 2 days.

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Workshops

Team Development

Half-day and full-day sessions for leadership teams and whole departments.

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Short format

Lunch & Learn

90-minute sessions that introduce a topic to a wider group.

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Who we work with

Organizations that grow their people

We work with organizations that want to develop leaders from within and help their teams work better together. Most have between 30 and 500 employees and are growing, changing or promoting people into their first leadership roles.

Programs are delivered in-house for one organization at a time, onsite across the Lower Mainland or online anywhere in Canada.

Who we partner with

Growing small and mid-sized organizations

Professional services firms

Non-profit and community organizations

HR and people leaders building a leadership pipeline

Teams going through growth, restructuring or change

Our team

About Gabriela Medar

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Gabriela Medar

Gabriela Medar is the founder of Impactive Training. She brings more than 12 years of experience designing and delivering leadership and team development workshops for organizations across British Columbia.

Gabriela specializes in the transition into leadership: helping emerging leaders and newly promoted managers build credibility, lead with accountability and hold the conversations that move teams forward. She is the creator of Peer to Leader and a certified Personality Dimensions® facilitator, and her sessions are known for being practical, interactive and immediately applicable.

She is a course instructor at Simon Fraser University and a TEDx speaker.

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