IMLeadership Division
Where lived experience backs up professional coaching,
mentoring, consulting, teaching, and facilitation.

At Intrigue it is all about Leadership.
We’ve believed that since the beginning.
When we started the marketing side of our business,
clients started asking us to help them with other aspects of their business.
In 2016, we quietly started IMLeadership.
We are ready to be less quiet and invite you to meet our team.
Leadership Training That Improves Your Bottom Line
Are you experiencing any of these challenges?
- You are a new leader and would like to get better at it faster and feel less alone.
- Your key staff is moving on to other opportunities.
- You’re working overtime because you’re fighting fires during the day.
- You’re not seeing the accountability, productivity, and quality results that you’d like from your team.
- You’re ready to begin the process of exiting your business, but don’t see how that would be possible.
It is estimated that losing an employee costs 2.5 times their salary when hiring a replacement. This doesn’t include the less tangible costs associated with dropped projects, decreased productivity, morale dips, and erosion of culture. Investing in your leaders improves the quality of work, productivity, and job satisfaction, all while saving you the serious costs and burden of employee attrition.
Don’t leave your leadership training to chance.
Grow your leaders on purpose.

The Intrigue team can help with your team’s leadership training & coaching needs!
Fill out the form below to start talking.
You will learn from:

Carly O’Brien
Since 1996, Carly has been working with groups and individuals to advance thinking and excellence in performance. Clients include post-secondary institutions, private business owners, professional services firms, not-for-profit leaders and business partnership teams. Clients seek Carly out for her practical way of articulating situations, offering practical suggestions and for meeting them where they are to help them achieve their own goals.
Her own mission is “Dining rooms through Boardrooms” and as a member of the team at Intrigue, she helps empower leaders to strengthen communities. Carly has herself opened a successful professional services business that operated successfully for several years before she chose to join a larger team and scale for greater impact.
Primary services offered:
- Management Systems – EOS Self Implementor
- Strategic Planning & Meeting Facilitation
- Sales Training & Coaching
- Executive Coaching
- Hiring & Recruitment Systems
- Leadership Development – Group or one-one courses

Rob Murray
Rob is the co-founder and CEO of Intrigue Media, a digital marketing company that has been empowering and growing businesses in the home improvement space for the last 14 years. Intrigue has been on Canada’s Growth 500 list for four years, is a Google Premier Partner and is Facebook Certified. Rob directs the organizational vision, works with clients to grow their businesses, and ensures that Intrigue has the right people and the right tools to get results.
Primary services offered:
- Sales Training & Coaching
- Strategy Sessions
- Speaking
- Scaling up

Ben Pickard
Benjamin Pickard, B.Sc. Kin, CSCS, started Lean Strong Fitness in 2014 to use his passion, education and experience in helping everyday people integrate fitness with their lives to get exceptional results. Known for his flexible approach to exercise and nutrition, Benjamin’s clients develop and confidently maintain a stronger, happier and healthier lifestyle through fat loss, strength training and nutrition coaching.
Running personal training, small group and online programs, he has a unique approach to motivation and accountability that helps his clients thrive, and by staying at the forefront of all the latest health and training news they are getting the most relevant information (and best possible results) for their fitness journey.
Outside of the gym, Benjamin loves back country camping, a hot coffee on a cool spring morning and creating the perfect hamburger. He lives in Guelph, ON with his family.
Primary services offered:
- Employee Health & Wellness
- Corporate Wellness

Crista Renner She/Her
For nearly 20 years, Crista Renner has worked with organizations to build stronger and more resilient teams, helping them to develop conflict-competent workforces that improve collaboration, increase trust and transparency, reduce unhealthy tension, and enhance employee well-being.
In addition to holding a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies, a BA in Justice Studies, and a Diploma in Corporate Communications, her expertise extends from her experience in the C-suite as a co-founder of Juice Inc. to work with start-ups at Velocity and The Problem Lab at the University of Waterloo and with leaders at Ivey Business School’s Innovation North. Her in-depth knowledge of emerging trends and best practices allows her to design and implement innovative solutions that position organizations for long-term success.
Primary services offered:
- Conflict Training & Mediation
- Restorative services following an investigation
- CDP – Conflict Dynamics Profile – Individual, Team, 360
- EMP – Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile – Individual, Team
- Workplace Culture Analysis

Melanie Lang
Melanie Lang is Principal at Melanie Lang Consulting and was the Founding Executive Director of The John F. Wood Centre for Business and Student Enterprise at the University of Guelph. She has nearly 18 years’ experience as a strategic and collaborative academic and business leader, while serving her community and creating economic development initiatives through diverse forms of scholarship, collaborative industry projects and community-engaged programs. She has developed customized programs, secured innovative sources of funding, and demonstrated business and community leadership.
Her innovative and entrepreneurial approach to program and economic development, along with her ability to seek outside the box solutions, has paved the road for creating a strong and active presence in both business and community. Throughout her years of service, Melanie’s vision, passion and initiative have helped enhance experiential learning programs, while contributing to the healthy growth and development of businesses and organizations in the surrounding community.
Primary services offered:
- Business Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Operational leadership
“My relationship with my team, the other leaders in my organization and with myself have all changed for the better.”
I started my journey with Carly 2 years ago after attending a leadership seminar she was speaking at. I had started my own leadership role just before then and quickly realized throughout that seminar that I could learn a lot from her mentorship and coaching. Boy was I right! In the 2 years we’ve been working together not only has my leadership style changed, but my self-confidence in my ability to do this role without prior experience or knowledge, has changed as well. Throughout our sessions we would discuss my own goals as well as my goals for my team and all the victories and challenges that came along with achieving them. My relationship with my team, the other leaders in my organization and with myself have all changed for the better from implementing ideas and processes learned through my sessions with Carly. I can never thank her enough for her mentorship, expertise and friendship throughout this process.
Thanks!
Jessica Flanjak BA, CAIB, CIP
Personal Lines Manager, The Ostic Group
Leadership Consulting, Training & Coaching Services
At Intrigue, we look at your business holistically. We provide the marketing services — SEO, email marketing, website design and development, and much more — to take your business to the next level. Once you reach that next level, we won’t leave you hanging. We have the knowledge, expertise, and experience to help your team deliver on your promises by offering exceptional leadership training opportunities.

Executive Coaching
- Confidential
- Career focused
- Ongoing

Custom Leadership Series
- Includes topics such as Focus Management, Coaching, Executive Presence, Sales & Marketing, and Hiring

Management Systems Implementation
- Such as EOS or Scaling Up

Communications
- Presentation Preparation
- Speaking
- Executive Presence

Strengths Assessments
- Prevue
- Emergenetics

Meeting Facilitation
- Event planning, set up and communications
- Hosting, leading the day
- Internal report generation

Strategic Retreat Facilitation
- Event planning, set up and communications
- Hosting, leading the day(s)
- Mission, Vision, Values and Purpose
- Operational Planning
- Communications Planning
- Internal report generation

Business Development
- Sales System audits
- Sales Training & Coaching
- Digital Marketing
- Customer service as sales

Team Dynamics
- Self awareness
- Group assessments
- Conflict responses

Recruiting & Hiring
- Applicant Processing Systems
- Recruitment and Selection Training, Consulting
- Assessments for fit, learning and approaches to work

And more
By investing in yourself and your team, you are investing in your company’s long-term success. Empower your team to reach their fullest potential and drive business results with Intrigue’s leadership training and coaching services.
Join other companies in empowering your leaders and growing your business with Intrigue’s leadership training and coaching.

















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“Carly assisted me in developing a winning strategy, goals and objectives for the organization.”
I moved into a V.P. role with Glenbriar Technologies, and again contracted Carly’s services to act as a business coach. As I transitioned into this new and challenging role, Carly assisted me in developing a winning strategy, goals and objectives for the organization, and KPIs for employees to ensure focused direction and profitability.
Carly is a dynamic speaker and a detail-oriented coach who knows the tough questions to ask. Always prompt, thorough in her follow-up, and knowledgeable in corporate alignment, she has been instrumental in assisting me transform Glenbriar Technologies into a profitable, sales-oriented organization.
Thanks!
Christine Padaric
HR Tech Leader and Entrepreneur, Glenbriar Technologies
How Leadership Training & Coaching Will Help Grow Your Business
You’ve hired the right people for your business and assigned them to the right roles based on their interests and skill sets, but you still feel that something is missing. The business books say this should be working, but it’s not. Perhaps you’ve noticed a lack of accountability or integrity amongst your team. Maybe you’ve noticed that deadlines are being missed or the buck is being passed. This is where highly practical leadership training will help.
Intrigue’s leadership training and coaching programs will result in measurable and sustainable results for your bottom line.
Our programs will enable your employees to build their awareness, expand their thinking, and improve their communication skills. They will leave training and coaching meetings with a fresh perspective and ready to apply new skills. This training and coaching, combined with Intrigue’s ongoing support, has helped numerous entrepreneurs grow their business.
We’ll begin our partnership by working with you and your team to establish the return on investment you are looking for. Our process will define your goals, restraints, and assets. Then we will draft the framework of a customized leadership program built on research, industry trends, and fundamental principles. The framework will be customized to fit the needs of your team, your business, and your pace. Its objective will be to achieve your goals. Everyone benefits from effective leadership — junior staff, senior managers, business owners — especially when it addresses the root causes of your operational challenges.
See why leaders like you work with IM Leadership:
Our partners at Intrigue Media help us to look our best, present our best, and be our best. Thank you Carly & team! A+
Heather Vander Schaaf Principal,
IFAB Engineering Partners (was referred by long term clients)
I’ve worked with Carly and Intrigue for 3 years now. My business will grow 100% this year and I’m working 70% less in the day-to-day operations. I also feel no urgencies. I could not be here for a week and it would run smoothly.
Tim Dowling, Owner,
Axcys Finishing
BDO has worked with Intrigue over the past 5 years; what a great experience! They have helped us to better understand our community outreach, and have worked with us to promote better leadership management tools!
Adam Thompson, Partner,
BDO