Equity offers unique career transition services to individuals looking for direction with their careers. Members of our highly qualified team come perfectly poised to help you as your personal career coach.
Your Equity Career Coach: Our Team
Susan Heim, President
Susan has lived organizational restructuring and downsizing, allowing her to relate to and share her insights with clients. As an accomplished professional in operational effectiveness, values-based leadership and people management, Susan leads her staff, clients and mentees by example. She will challenge your thinking to maximize your potential and focuses on results-oriented coaching.
An avid sports fan, Susan has the distinction of being the first woman in Canada to appear on a (previously) all-male sports quiz show – and yes, she won! 
Bob Kuchinsky, Career Coach
Bob comes armed with decades of experience as an accomplished Organizational Strategist and Career Coach. He thoroughly understands the rhythm of the career management and recruitment industry. Having served numerous outplacement firms as the “Associate of Choice” for delivering service on their behalf, Bob has coached individuals at every level, in virtually every industry segment. He is well known for his collaborative coaching style as well as a tireless dedication to quality.
Bob holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York and a BA from McGill. He has taught at Ryerson University and serves on the accreditation committee of the HRPA.
Susan Harris, Personal Career Coach
Susan’s experiences include coaching in non-profit and for-profit career management organizations. She has operated her own business offering one-on-one career consulting. She has also freelanced offering services that include spousal relocation career/acclimation coaching. Susan designs and facilitates job search workshops. She has worked with diverse clients, from new graduates to professionals, at every level of seniority, including internationally educated professionals.
Susan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, completed Career Management, Graduate Education Specialist courses, a Career Management Certification with the Institute of Career Certification International (ICCI) and Membership with the Ontario Association of Career Management (OACM).
Brian Epstein, Career CoachBrian Epstein is a Career Management and Leadership Coach who offers coaching services to entrepreneurs, executives, senior leaders and managers as well as business and health professionals, post-secondary, graduates and internationally educated professionals. In addition to coaching, he has taught business and career preparation courses to students and graduates of local community colleges, including George Brown and Seneca Colleges. Brian holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Education degree from York University; he completed Coach Training at Coaches Training Institute and he is now working on his accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Brian provides coaching services to Entrepreneurs and Business professionals who want to grow their businesses and be successful in leading their teams. Brian was interviewed for a Dragon’s Den publication about Entrepreneurship. Brian’s professionalism, dedication, commitment and personal warmth enable him to develop trusting coaching relationships with all of his clients.
David Cohen, Business Consultant, Coach
David is an author, business coach, and facilitator and the former host/producer and creator of the Small Business Big Ideas Show heard weekly for over 9 years.
He has taught thousands over the years in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors and has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to make those important first steps with their start-ups. He specializes in helping small business owners mine their strengths, get clear on their value, their markets and then begin to develop a sales and marketing game plan that gets results.
David has just launched his new book on Amazon, called “The Weekly 3-how to Turbo Charge your life and business. He is passionate about helping others live with joy and passion and to lead successful, heart-centred businesses.
Independent Consultants
In addition to our stellar in-house team, Equity works with qualified independent consultants with solid track records in the career management and recruitment industry. Our personal career coaches are accessible to anyone across the country either in person or via phone and video calls.
What Makes Your Equity Career Coach Different?
Experience:
Prior to joining Equity, our team members held successful private and public sector careers. We worked in HR, organizational development, change leadership, business planning, project management and community service. We regularly sub-contracted our services to some of the largest outplacement providers across Canada. Therefore, we stand perfectly poised to offer you solid advice about the job market and your career options.
Our coaches have counselled individuals from virtually every industry and position. Consequently, we have acquired perspective through this work. Your personal career coach will keep you on a steady path in a journey that may be difficult to navigate on your own.
A Desire to Help You:
Our coaches come with varied educational backgrounds and post-graduate degrees in business and marketing, psychology, adult education training and social work. Regardless, the one element we share in common is a genuine desire to help you.
Every coaching client presents with their own strengths and weaknesses. Your personal career coach will be there, most of all to listen to you, and then to advise. We help you put your best foot forward through your career transition, assisting you exactly where you need it the most.
Our career transition services revolve completely around your needs, and not the other way around. As a result, we will not put you through cookie-cutter group training sessions or on-line programs. Your personal career coach will remain completely invested in your unique journey. We love what we do and fuel our passion by seeing you succeed.
Proprietary Coaching:
Equity coaches have taught at Canadian universities and are featured in presentations on effective coaching methods. We have also researched state-of-the-art strategies and developed our own formula to help you with your job search or entrepreneurial pursuits.
Our client testimonials speak for themselves; our methods work impeccably.
Your personal career coach can advise you about the marketplace, stakeholders and key factors that can impact your choices and decisions. In addition, we set milestones that are reasonable for your journey to help monitor your progress. As needed, your coach will provide feedback and modify your approach. Through a process that can often be discouraging, we motivate. And most of all, we allow you to do all of this at a pace and style that feels comfortable and right to you.
Cost Effective Engagement Terms:
Hiring an Equity Career Coach comes with the additional benefit of cost effectiveness. Not only are our services custom tailored to meet your needs, they are modular. You simply pay for what you need. We will not subject you to high pressure sales or force you to purchase costly all-inclusive packages. We work efficiently with your requirements and set clear outcomes and goals. You will understand exactly what you are paying for.
Helping you start your career or navigate through the challenges of a career change is what we are completely committed to.