James Voulakos, B. Com, CPCC

James Voulakos is a Senior Executive and Leadership Coach with a significant record of achievement coaching in the areas of strategic marketing, organizational change, transformational leadership, sales team building, and sales management with leading private sector organizations. Focused on helping individuals and organizations increase their effectiveness and deliver the desired results. 

Whether he’s coaching, training, teaching, or managing people. James finds immense satisfaction in helping people grow and move forward in their businesses, careers, and lives. He is an accomplished communicator who can motivate both individuals and groups to attain higher levels of performance. 

James’s background as a senior manager with more than 21 years of sales and marketing experience enables him to recognize promise in people and businesses. In his role as a leadership and executive coach, James combines his passion for business strategy with his considerable relationship-building skills. He is one of the rare individuals who can rally diverse personalities and groups around a common vision to get tangible results. 

With a demonstrated ability to breathe life into struggling sales teams and divisions, James is a turnaround specialist. He has managed and coached teams of sales professionals during restructuring, introduced entrepreneurial sales philosophies to Fortune 500 companies, and redesigned compensation strategies to reflect changes in the strategic direction of numerous sales organizations—all in the name of setting and meeting win/win goals. 

Through his own wide-ranging business successes, James has witnessed amazing transformations in individuals and groups. Today, these experiences fuel the support he has for the unlimited potential in his coaching clients. 

James is a Professor of Management Studies in the Faculty of Business at George Brown College, and a Certified Professional Executive Coach. A graduate of the Co-Active Coaching Program at the Coaches Training Institute, James also holds a Professional Sales Certificate from Seneca College and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Finance from McMaster University. In addition to actively participating in many business associations, James is also a past Director for the International Coaches Federation Board for the Greater Toronto Area.