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Career Coaching

Get your dream job, or next promotion, or figure out your career options;

Get past workplace barriers such as underemployment or a toxic workplace;

Craft attention-getting resumes and cover letters and learn how to ace an interview;

Leverage your strengths through a psychometric assessment.

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Executive Coaching

Are you in a leadership role or, do you aspire to get a leadership position? Leadership development and executive coaching is a powerful way to improve your effectiveness, and your team’s performance. Leadership is challenging in the modern workplace due to complications associated with evolving technology, diversity and inclusion, and other issues. Learn to navigate many potential pitfalls with executive coaching.

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HR Services

Soft skills contribute to work performance but they can be hard to evaluate. Get help with assessing soft skills accurately, inclusively, and objectively as part of the hiring and promotion process. Other HR Services include outplacement, and support for resolving conflicts, issues with harassment, bullying, systemic discrimination, and more.

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Speaking & Training

Dr. Ofosu is available as a speaker for town halls, workshops, conferences, Lunch & Learn sessions, or custom training.

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How I/O Advisory Services Can Help You

Career Coaching

Get your dream job, or next promotion, or figure out your career options;

Get past workplace barriers such as underemployment or a toxic workplace;

Craft attention-getting resumes and cover letters and learn how to ace an interview;

Leverage your strengths through a psychometric assessment.

Learn More

Executive Coaching

Are you in a leadership role or, do you aspire to get a leadership position? Leadership development and executive coaching is a powerful way to improve your effectiveness, and your team’s performance. Leadership is challenging in the modern workplace due to complications associated with evolving technology, diversity and inclusion, and other issues. Learn to navigate many potential pitfalls with executive coaching.

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Group Coaching

Live, interactive, and hosted by Dr. Helen herself. Online career coaching is an excellent way to get valuable and timely information from someone you can trust. Count on receiving practical and tactical information that’s hard to find elsewhere.
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HR Consulting

Get help with hiring or developing staff, and learn how HR and Psychology can help you protect your data and intellectual property from cyber threats/insider threats

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Outplacement Services

Get customized 1:1 help to land your next job; ongoing access to a real-live advisor to help with outreach, resumes, cover letters, interview prep, etc.
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Speaking & Training

Dr. Ofosu is available as a speaker for conferences, Lunch & Learn sessions, or workshops, and training

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Read Some Reviews

I would recommend Helen in a heartbeat. Not only did she get to know me thoroughly so as to be able to develop career suggestions personally, she was creative, and thought outside the box! She was quick to respond and also helped me regain my self confidence and help me address my terror of writing…

Dava Mckay

I got in touch with Helen almost 3 months ago, while I was at a real impasse in my working life & felt I needed a fresh set of eyes to take stock of my situation. As a relative newcomer to Canada, I was fairly unfamiliar with the job market in Ottawa & had been…

Chris P.

Helen is incredibly knowledgeable, resourceful and helpful when it comes to career and workplace issues. She is compassionate, encouraging and dependable. I highly recommend Helen to anyone looking for support with how to navigate a difficult workplace situation & to navigate a career change. She will help you see possibilities that you cannot!

Julia

Really good service ! I found the mock interviews the best of all. And she is good in setting up a personalised plan based on one’s requirements 🙂

Abhishek U.
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I/O Advisory Services uses Work or Business Psychology (officially known as Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology) as the foundation for Career Coaching, Executive Coaching, and HR-related services. For example:

When you’re feeling uncertain, you’ll have the chance to use a psychometric assessment to help you figure out your next career step(s)

Strategic and nuanced help for early career professionals, aspiring professionals, and leaders/executives

Reliable and concrete help for more experienced clients who need to change jobs or career direction

Returning to work following time away from employment to raise children or recover from injury, illness, or burnout

Pre-retirement or second career exploration and planning

Figuring out whether self-employment or entrepreneurship is right for you

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Resources

Are you trying to find diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism resources? If so, this list is for you.

  • Carefully curated by Dr. Helen herself
  • A range of resources for people at different stages of discovery
  • Articles, videos, film/TV, podcast episodes, and books
  • Check back often, these resources are updated regularly
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HR Services

I/O Psychology is also the basis for the inclusive HR Services including

Guidance and support to help you hire or promote staff using an inclusive and anti-racist approach

A Franchisee Assessment to make sure the sale of your franchise(s) goes well; leadership/executive assessments and coaching

Outplacement services and “RightPlacement” services

Using Psychology and HR as part of your risk management process, to protect your intellectual property and other data from cyber threats/insider threats

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Dr. Helen's Blog/"AudioBlog"

Improve your career prospects by learning about career development, leadership, and the best practices in HR. Read or listen to AudioBlog posts and playlists here.

Changing Jobs? Avoid These Interview Red Flags

With the Turnover Tsunami or the Great Resignation creating an employee-driven job market, employers in all sectors are facing a challenge in identifying and attracting qualified new candidates. Despite the challenge, it doesn’t mean employers want to lower their standards. Just because candidates may be harder to find, it doesn’t mean you’re the only viable candidate. In this blog, Dr. Helen identifies some red flags that job candidates should avoid displaying – even in a tight labour market.

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Is Work-Life Balance Really a Thing?

Work-life balance: is it REALLY a thing? I think most of us want to think so, but is it really achievable? Or is it just a catchy buzzword, and something we tell ourselves we need in order to be happy? As we continue to reflect on recent changes, this is a topic that many of us are revisiting.

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When Values Collide at Work

I’m sure you’ve noticed there is no shortage of social media conflict; heated exchanges between strangers, friends, and yes even family have surged when it comes to the “right” way of handling the ongoing public health crisis. As more people return to in-person and/or hybrid work, will some of these incompatible values make it harder to co-exist at work?

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Look Before You Leap – Considerations Before Quitting

If the events of the past couple of years have inspired you to reevaluate your priorities and what you want out of life, you’re not alone! The pandemic has caused many people to think more deeply than ever before about work, values, purpose, and a deeper search for meaning outside one’s 9 to 5 existence. I believe this is part of what’s making more people consider quitting their jobs.

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Download your free e-book today.

The 'Ready for the Big Leagues? How to Reach the Next Level in Your Career' is a comprehensive guide geared toward people who have already been working for a while and are determined to make every year count - regardless of any setbacks they may have experienced.

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Why Choose I/O Advisory Services?

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The confidence of knowing you’re getting advice and career coaching from someone with rock solid training and education
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Award winning experience providing HR advice
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a track record as a published leader (and blogger) in relevant fields

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We’ve repeatedly broken new ground by conducting research and development work. This means we know how to “figure things out” when there’s no obvious answer and no existing playbook