Manal Khader

Program Administrator, NEH/WE Hub
Ted Rogers School of Management | Diversity Institute

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After meeting with Leyla to discuss the Women’s Entrepreneurship Hub (WE-Hub) program, I was very excited to have her on board to lead a workshop. Upon discussing our needs as well as her skills, she developed a Business Strategy workshop specifically designed to meet the needs of our program participants. The workshop was excellent and the participants appreciated both her knowledge and experience. She is an excellent workshop facilitator and I look forward to inviting her back!

Business Strategy 101 attendees feedback:

“Very helpful + informative. Narrow down clarified goals
Good with time, concise.
Clearly defined the concepts
Loved the info and way it was presented. Loved her energy.
Ms. Razeghi controlled the pace and direction very well while still allowing for discussion & input
Quick, but clear
Great! Very valuable!
Very personable and helpful
Great pacing and made info so accessible”

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Claire Sault – CEO Noozhoo Nokiiyan Limited Partnership

Minisi Convenience & Gift Shop – Mississaugas of Scugog Island

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Minisi Convenience & Gift Shop is located on the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. We service not only the Island but the greater Scugog township area. Our store offers a wide variety of Indigenous Arts and Crafts, grocery items and cater to some degree to the outdoor lifestyle of the area. We recruited Leyla to assist us in the set-up of the logistical infrastructure, merchandising and analytics needed for our long term profitable future. With her help we were able to save money, time and provide clarity to create a profitable path going forward. Leyla was able to assist us from the ground up and I’d recommend her impressive skills to anyone who needs this type of help.

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Mona Afshari – Marketing and Communications Manager

WorkInCulture

 

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Leyla Razeghi developed and delivered three of our WorkInCulture webinars, two on goal setting and one on pricing strategy for artists. Leyla is a knowledgeable presenter. She does an excellent job walking the viewers through each topic on her slides. Her energy and enthusiasm to support those in need of strategic guidance make her a wonderful course facilitator.

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Katherine Harvey

Co-Owner Bare Bones Broth

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My only regret about working with Leyla is that we didn’t do it sooner. She brings to the table a depth and breadth of knowledge about an industry that can otherwise feel overwhelming and impenetrable. I appreciated how much time and care she took to ask us the right questions, understand our products and pricing, our business model and our goals. She was incredibly attentive to our individual circumstances, and the advice and insights she shared were therefore perfectly tailored to us and our needs.

She helped us create a survey of both our customers and potential customers that yielded responses that were earth-shattering – both affirming our existing strategy, and causing us to rethink future packaging and product lines.

My favorite thing about working with Leyla is that she meets you and your business wherever you are. It doesn’t matter how small or how large your company is – Leyla has something of value to add to your pricing, promotional or marketing strategy.

Read more about Bare Bones’ experience working with Leyla in the Client Case Study here.

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Sara Rahimi

Empowerment Coach and Author of “Who’s Going to Stop us Now”

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Ok, you know sometimes you know someone who is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and you just want to have her for yourself and not share with anyone else?!!! ?That’s me now! But I’ll do! Can’t be too selfish. Lol
Leyla Razeghi my business coach consultant R O C K S! I can not thank her enough for their kindness and support. Couldn’t be happier with my investment! Love you!

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Cassandra Ciarallo

Founder at Chic Made Consciously
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Leyla is an incredibly passionate mentor who is authentic and strategic. She gives tactical advice that is real and implementing her advice brings results.
I appreciated her ability to apply her experience and perspective to my business issues and help me progress. I would recommend her services to those looking to feel more grounded in their business operations and foundations. Thank you Leyla for your incredible coaching!
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Dar West

Painter
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I really enjoyed and appreciated the Business Strategy for Artists webinar by Leyla Razeghi presented by Work in Culture.

I also had a consulting call with Leyla. She was very easy to talk to and in just one hour asked great questions that caused me to review some of the things I had been doing and to make some changes. She was focused and helped me to zero in on some very simple but straightforward marketing decisions. I would recommend anyone in business to invest in themselves and take some time with Leyla.

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Anna C – Webinar attendee

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“Thank you so much for the webinar.
I am starting my business and I am going very slowly as I am also looking for a job.
Your webinar gave me direction and peace of mind.
If you will have more webinars I would be very interested to hear about them.
I am from Ecuador, so it is very nice to hear a latin woman giving the seminar. Gives me hope :)”

 

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Tracy Baume-Finkel
Owner, Remindful Living
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I make simple reminders to help calm the stress in this crazy world. Leyla is great at seeing the big picture while keeping you focused on the immediate tasks. She has a way of explaining everything so that even this not tech savvy girl gets it!
My clarity around not only what I need to do, but how I need to do it has increased exponentially. And, all the while…she’s your biggest cheerleader.
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Bill Hutchison

Owner at The Painted Wardrobe

 

painted wardrobeThe Painted Wardrobe has been in business for 16 years in Downtown Owen Sound. It is a ladies retail store offering moderate priced fashions and accessories generally for women over 30. It had been voted “favourite ladies wear store” in the area 9 out of the last 10 years in the Reader’s Choice contest offered by the Owen Sound Sun Times.
“We love her support in the areas of target market, assortment, social media, and in-store promotions. With her help, we have been able to target our ideal clients better with products that they need and want.
The engaging promotions in-store and on Facebook have grown our customer following and boosted our sales.Leyla’s support has been invaluable when it comes to creating interest in the store and our products during slower winter season. She is very knowledgeable of our product lines and creative in using those lines in promotions.
She is a personally a pleasure to work with.
Leyla is our marketing rock on which we are building our success.”

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Natalia Juarez

Lovistics

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Your signature program is offering me great clarity regarding my business foundations (why, mission, vision and dream client).
I’m feeling so much more ENERGIZED now that this program is helping me to create structure for my business. I know I am great at what I do, but the lack of structure/clarity of my plan was taking away from my confidence.
I found 3 new clients in the last week. It may be a coincidence, but I doubt it 😉
Your program rocks Leyla!

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Athena Pallis

CEO and Founder “The Peace Pillow Project”
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Working with Leyla is hands down the best business decision I have ever made.
I knew I had an amazing business idea, but I was stuck. Working with Leyla helped me figure out all the elements that I needed to launch my business and getting clarity on my competitive advantages helped my confidence and motivation.
With her help, I know now what are the next steps that I need to take to make my business a reality.
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Nikki Self

Co-Owner at Saponetti Inc.

saponettiFor me, the best thing about working with Leyla has been the customized strategy sessions that have really helped to zero in on key areas where I have been feeling stuck and uncertain about how to proceed. In our sessions, Leyla helped me to develop strategies for pricing and costs, website and social media, as well as a marketing plan to reach households and businesses that are interested in sustainability. Now that I have a real, workable plan in place I feel confident about the next steps I need to take to grow my business.

Working with Leyla has been a great experience. She’s a super positive person and is genuinely interested in helping people, which is reflected in the level of care and attention she gives in our sessions. Leyla brings a lot of practical experience and knowledge about selling products and understands how to apply that information to create business strategies that work for online business platforms. Because she understands human behaviour she is able to filter through a lot of the issues to get to the essentials saving a lot of time and effort.

 

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Linda Cooper-Taylor

Intuition Coach
www.lindacoopertaylor.com

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Leyla is amazing at pinpointing next steps and goal orientation unique to each business, just awesome!
Her mindset work is incredible, she plants the seeds for growing one’s confidence no matter what age experience, etc.
She finds a plan that is unique to the path of each individual with heart-felt honesty.
I left every session with Leyla motivated and with a lot of clarity gained, I knew exactly what to work on in order to grow my business.
Leyla, I’m so glad you quit your corporate job because entrepreneurs really need the systems that you teach! I totally love your spirit drive and enthusiasm it’s contagious and practical

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Hayley Mullins

SleepBelt CEO

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Working with Leyla helped me develop a clear retail strategy. With a strong healthcare presence, we’ve let our B2C (business to consumer) business lapse; Leyla helped me re-energize & refocus so I can build my secondary revenue stream into something solid.
Leyla truly commits with your success and purpose and helps you create an executable plan for your business. Her knowledge of retail is amazing!

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Cindy Persaud

Owner, Omtoria

 

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I make natural and organic handcrafted personal care products for the women and men in the world that desire something real that actually works.
Leyla has helped clarify my pricing strategies as well as my one on one strategies when working with the public at trade shows and fairs. Learning to draw clients to my booth and keep them engaged with tidbits of product information has been very helpful.
For example, I thought that my products were priced correctly…. but after diligently filling in the pricing and pricing per channel spreadsheet it showed me that I would not make any money on this product if I sold it to stores and had to accept a wholesale price. Thank you, Leyla, that would have been disastrous!
Leyla is incredibly easy to work with and provides constant feedback to my ideas and questions.
Leyla provides you support to create data-driven strategies and truly understand your numbers in a way that is easy and efficient.

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Timothy Sotoadeh

Owner and Operator
Broya Living

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I own and operate Broya. We produce organic chicken and grass fed beef bone broth and sell it to the health food retail market as well as direct to consumer.

I’m in the process of moving into the next phase of growth in my business, which means updating packaging so that it’s ready to ship across the country, moving kitchens, and working with a distribution partner to scale production and distribution simultaneously. Leyla helped me with negotiations and pricing with the distributor, ensuring I maintain my margins for healthy sustainable growth. She also helped me update my branding, helping me personalize my story to the brand. She also helped me nail down what the mission of Broya is and where I want to be taking it in the next 5 years.

Leyla is has a ton of knowledge about retail and can pinpoint large gaps you may not have thought of to get your product to be in the best possible position for success in the retail market. This was extremely helpful for me since I started this business with no background or foundational knowledge of the retail market. Now that I’ve switched kitchens and signed a deal with a distributor, I know I’m in a much better position for my product to do well as I look to expand across Ontario, and eventually Canada.

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Kate England

Founder at Wildlife Returns
https://www.f6s.com/wildlifereturns

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Leyla entered my life at the perfect time – I was in the early phase of building a strategy to launch my business and in mere minutes, Leyla quickly put her finger on the pulse of my business and provided laser-sharp relevant advice. With her her bright personality, intelligence, warm manner, and years of experience, there’s no question in my mind who I turn to for strategic business advice that saves me money and hardship – Leyla also makes great videos and social media that are inspiring and fun to follow as well! I hope to work with her a lot more in future as my business strategy comes together. Thanks Leyla!

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Christen N. James

Certified Life Skills and Transition Coach

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I provide support for women going through a professional (career) transition to work through any closure and overcome obstacles so that they can take that “leap of faith and design a customized plan to achieve their life goals.I needed to find the best strategies to attract my ideal client, and Leyla provided valuable insight, suggestions, and feedback that I was able to incorporate into my business to see results that I desired. I really appreciated Leyla’s direct approach to providing feedback as well as all the resources and information that were included in her services. I came away from my time with her with so much clarity and even breakthroughs on where I needed to be more specific with my target client-base and how to build my network by maximizing on my skills in a niche market!

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Amit Mistry

Aspiring entrepreneur

I attended a session with Leyla where she talked about focusing on your customer and learned a lot from her in just one hour.

The things she talked about yesterday opened my eyes about how to look at products and services differently.

Thank you Leyla, when I start my own business I will certainly be in touch.

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Lucy Cullen

Consultant and Co-founder of Terus
www.terus.ca

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We started as a service based company, but later decided to develop products, and this was a whole other ball game for us.

Leyla’s in-depth knowledge of working with product based companies helped us understand the basics regarding developing our own products, and gave us a great foundation for moving forward and selling them!

Leyla gave us great advice and tips to grow our business. When she isn’t helping us during a meeting, her webinars and posts on social media always provide value and support to the entrepreneur community as a whole.

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Jennah Lear

Apparel Designer

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Leyla went above and beyond to answer my questions and give me tangible action steps moving forward to prep for pre-launch!
Before chatting with Leyla I was struggling with understanding how all the elements of what I’m building are going to work together, her feedback was very organized and insightful.
I booked a call with Leyla after listening to one of her webinars. She was super informative then, so I knew connecting with her about my new apparel venture would help answer some burning questions.
Leyla was able to listen to all the things I’m working on for my apparel line and really help me understand how to bring it together. It’s easy to think you have everything planned out in your head, but after speaking with her I know I have some homework to do in getting things written down in order to come up with realistic goals. Thank you for the reminder!
She is professional, yet friendly and relatable, which is the perfect combination and so important when helping others out in the beginning of their venture (the point where things don’t always make sense, haha).
I look forward to working with her again in the near future to help with the success of my business.

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Chrissy Hall

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Founder and Owner “Crafts by Chrissy”
www.facebook.com/craftsbychrissy87

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After watching your webinars and your materials on your free group my work is already starting to be noticed more online!!! I got another stranger sale yesterday

I got another stranger sale yesterday. I want to personally thank you! I’ve seen a lot of growth from my craft business

I’ve seen a lot of growth from my craft business already. Keep blessing with world with your awesomeness!!!

I really enjoyed your last webinar on how to use Facebook to sell more product!
Thank you for everything

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Mira Lares

Lares Consulting Group

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I recently worked with Leyla with the goal of increasing efficiencies in my proposal process. Leyla was great to work with and was able to take an objective view as well as her experience to help me create a great new process for dealing with prospective clients that decreased the time it took me to create proposals by almost 50%.
I loved how Leyla was able to bring insights from a wide variety of industries into the conversation to ensure I was making the right choice for my business.
Thanks Leyla!
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Vanessa Simpkins

Cashflow and Confidence Business Coach

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Leyla knows her stuff!
She combines her entrepreneurial experience perfectly with her many years of business formal education. Her 6 months program is like an approachable, affordable and practical business degree. 
As a consultant, she is refreshing and “gets it”, she is approachable and empathetic, but provides tough love when neededI highly recommend working with Leyla she doesn’t disappoint

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Gabriela Lopez and Alejandro Limay

President and Vice-President at MAV Virtual Assistant (Mi Asistente Virtual)

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“Working with Leyla has helped us organize our ideas and plans to achieve business success!. She has thought us the importance of strategic planning from the start in order to prioritize and be more efficient. Without a doubt, we consider her a strategic partner and we recommend her 100%”

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Laura Furtado

Founder and Owner, DivaGirl Inc and Sexy and Wealthy in Heels

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Leyla is a is a fantastic speaker that brings great depth of knowledge and experience in the realms of business.  She is hard working, attentive to detail and process-oriented which makes her a great leader and business partner.  She is positive, sociable, friendly and has a great personal and business demeanour.  She takes great pride with her work and clients.

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Adam Hutchison

President, Signal Films

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Leyla Razeghi has a refreshing take on tried-and-true paradigms. Her brilliant strategies have helped my business become a thriving business. She has a wonderful personality that is easy to work with. Her philosophy, state of the art knowledge and dedication to making the world a better place is a certain asset to any entrepreneurial organization. 

Listening to Leyla, I learned everything from basic prioritizing, to scheduling, to making my venture a profitable one. 

I recommend Leyla to help make your institution as strong as it should be. Leyla can help build your business into a successful one And if your business is already successful, she will make it even more prosperous.

http://www.signalfilms.tv

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Caryn Parchment

Franchisee – DivaGirl Fashion

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Leyla always takes the time to be relevant and focus on specific topics that will help fellow entrepreneurs like myself succeed. She not only provides strategies for changing old habits, but constructively challenges you to stop doing your business as a hobby, so that you will see the value and productiveness of new approaches to practice methods such as management, client relations, and marketing. No matter what stage you are at in your business, Leyla is open to working with you to develop methods and practices that fit your needs. She has been in my corner since day 1!

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Noreen Kassam

Founder at “Beautify My Being”

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“Leyla is full of passion when it comes to business. Her workshops are informative and her desire to help others is strong. Leyla’s approach is appealing to the side of me that wants to have steady growth and structure. She has helped me with my personal website and has offered me critical advice in the development of my healing practice. Her personality is friendly and her desire to ensure you are satisfied is high. I recommend Leyla for the work she does in business consultation and I also recommend taking part in one of her workshops! I’m grateful!”

 

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Amy Rempel

District Manager with Arbonne International

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Leyla is such a personable business coach, I love her style because of that. She really takes the time to listen to you and she actually LISTENS to you! I love how precise she is with her advice and she taught me how building relationships in order to be successful is one of the most important things you can do for your business. Thank you so much Leyla for your advice and continuing support! 

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Crystal-Marie Sealy

President & Founder: Successiory Inc. Social Media

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“I have to say she has a very unique and strong stage presence. As a business professional, Leyla has a clear sense of the different stages of business growth, and understands that the systems and frameworks that work at each stage are unique to the individual. If structure and focus are your goals, Leyla can get you there.”

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Andrina Stan

Lifestrategist. Classy Marketing Hacker

FullSizeRender (1)“Leyla just gets it! She listens to your story and shows you the blind spots within your business and yourself. She empowers you to think differently and create a lasting business you love. And that is a key contributor to the quality of your biz and your life!”

 

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Juliana Arango

Founder and Coach at “Love Your Lifestyle”

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“Leyla shares amazing business tips that I’ve applied on my business and have helped me grow it. After a 1-Hour session I learned sales tips that have been useful in helping me gain confidence and learn how to be better at pitching in order to get more clients!

She is a very interactive presenter and a very assertive coach.

Leyla is a creative and original thinker.  she has native intelligence, great curiosity about people and ideas, and plenty of common sense that he has applied to solving problems. she is highly respected by her clients for her willingness to help anyone anytime she can.  She’s is very well organized, easily reachable, and always on time.”

Loveyourlifestyle.org 

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Deborah Miller

Managing Director at PersonaGrata Consulting

“She has proven to be a knowledgeable and credible resource for information on formulating client, brand and business model strategies.”

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Michelle Senayah.

Principal at Senayah Designs

“Leyla really took the time to understand my business and my goals, as well as my purpose and passion behind my goals. This is critical to really getting your business started on the right path. Leyla helped me to really focus on what was necessary and also to think big about what I wanted to achieve long-term. Leyla is such a pleasure to work with and you really feel that she cares about your success!”

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Shantel Wallace

Travel Expert www.FitFunEscapes.ca

“THANK YOU! Leyla you have been a tremendous help and I will use your suggestions to move forward, I will definitely work with you again to improve the strategies we talked about”.

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Alan Kay

Consultant, Solution Focus expert and author Fry Monkeys: A Solutions Handbook

“I have known Leyla since late 2009. I worked with her during a volunteering position for the American Marketing Association, as well as for projects for my consulting firm that incorporate Solution Focus tools, including Toronto Region Vision 2014 where she acted as a cofacilitator. On those occasions she was great at expressing herself while at the same time listening to other points of view and making an effort to understand others. She incorporates her number-crunching and engineering skills in every task, always looking for continous improvement. And, it’s done with a smile!”

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Wei Ji.

Owner of 7 Tones Studio www.7tones.ca

“Leyla is a great listener, she really puts herself in my position, and trying to understand my business. Leyla has a really sharp mind, she asks me a lot of good questions to clarify her perception of my business, and her questions has inspired me to make changes as well.

She has worked on my business positioning, strategy and pricing, with her help I got so much more clear on my own business structure than I ever did! Her perspective is fresh and practical, and I have benefited so much out of every session. I highly recommend her. :)”

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Devin Chatarpaul & Kaveh Ebadi.

Clean Start Up Founding Partners

“It is difficult to start a business with hardly any experience in the business world, especially when it comes to the complexity of one that will be dealing with technology. At “Better is Bigger” they broke down exactly what out start up should be doing and what the next steps should be. It was a lot better than the general business advice we’ve been getting from books and friends”

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Sonia Molodecky

President at Equilibria Partnerships Inc.

“Leyla really took the time to understand my business and my goals, as well as my purpose and passion behind my goals. This is critical to really getting your business started on the right path. Leyla helped me to really focus on what was necessary and also to think big about what I wanted to achieve long-term. Leyla is such a pleasure to work with and you really feel that she cares about your success!”

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