Ian Chisholm
Ian Chisholm serves as the Practice Leader, People at Berlin, Eaton & Associates Ltd.

Originally hailing from Saskatchewan, Ian is a renowned executive coach, social entrepreneur, and CEO in Europe where he guided the challenging operational start-up of the award-winning Columba 1400 Community and International Leadership Centre on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. With leadership development as a central strategy, it was Ian and his team's assignment to unfold a successful operational start-up for this pioneering educational movement. Their approach very effectively transformed the organization's culture, products, employees and brand into ones that practiced the shared leadership the Centre sought to explore. Since 2002, the organization has been patroned by HRH the Princess Royal.

In 2003, Ian was asked to lead a groundbreaking task force for The Hunter Foundation and the Scottish Executive, implementing the creation of a more entrepreneurial and leadership focused culture in Scottish education. The work of this task force in developing the leadership of Head Teachers (and creating a coaching system in which they coached each other) was researched to make a remarkably positive impact on the lives of the participating Head and Deputy Head Teachers and indirectly touch the lives of over 50,000 young people in Scotland in its pilot year. The program continues to this day. In 2004 he was named the first Fellow of Columba 1400.

Prior to his time in Europe, Ian served as the Director of Programs for Operation Enterprise - a division of American Management Association International headquartered in New York City, USA. There he played an integral role in pioneering an initiative to bring young talent from the inner city USA to experience a regime of formal leadership development. Aligned with this background, Ian is the co-creator of The Gemini Project - an intensive leadership and coaching development program. The thinking behind The Gemini Project brings together senior executives with young adults from "tough" socio-economic realities.

As a Pearson Scholar, Ian represented Canada at United World College USA and is now an active Trustee of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. He is a Senior Partner of The Roy Group Consultants and Learning Leader, Character and Story with The NeXt Institute. Ian is a founding member of re-find the future® - a coaching and leadership development practice group with partners, Robert Henderson (former Motorola Senior Vice President of Leadership and Organizational Development) and Mark Bell (former Human Resources Director for Boots, UK.) He lives with his family near Victoria, British Columbia.