Leadership, Management &
Professional Development
PROGRAMS with Dave Jones
Transforming People, Transforming Organizations in Ottawa, Eastern Ontario and across Canada!
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Unlock Your Potential with
Dave Jones Consultants
Renowned leadership management and professional development expert Dave Jones offers transformative training programs and workshops designed to elevate professionals at every stage of their careers. Whether you’re stepping into a new role or seeking to grow as a leader, Dave’s courses deliver practical, lasting results.
Why dave jones consultants
- Advance your career
- Become a more effective leader
- Build stronger relationships
- Negotiate successful outcomes
- Gain more influence and control
- Reduce workplace stress and frustration
- Lead better-performing teams
- Experience training that produces real-world results
- Dave Jones ‘ programs allow you to overcome workplace obstacles that prevent you from achieving greater success, confidence, influence, and satisfaction in your professional lives
- Based out of Ottawa, with flexible in-person and virtual customized training options.
- Exclusive to Dave Jones Consultants, Dave Jones will be your trainer and facilitator for all our programs.
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about Dave
About Dave Jones, M.Ed., — Founder of Dave Jones Consultants, 25+ years executive leadership experience, published author of PassionWorks! Your Guide to Passion in the Modern Workplace (2020), and certified DiSC facilitator. See full profile.
Dave Jones has helped hundreds of organizations:
- Develop leaders and managers
- Create high performing teams
- Negotiate successsful outcomes
- Build strong partnersnips
- Navigate workforce disruption, and
- Unlock capacity
Dave thrives in both real and virtual spaces, guiding people as they navigate challenges and uncover insights. He shares his knowledge, experience, and practical tools in a way that’s easily applicable to everyday situations. By facilitating connections and encouraging others to share their wisdom, he fosters a collaborative learning environment. His clients appreciate his enthusiasm, compassion, directness, and grounded approach, which reflect his authenticity.
With extensive experience across all sectors in Canada, the USA, and Europe, Dave has had the privilege of offering programs in diverse cultural contexts, including First Nations communities in Canada. He is continually humbled by the lessons we can learn from one another and the shared experiences that unite us.
As an intellectual property creator, Dave has developed numerous practical tools used by thousands daily. He is the author of PassionWorks! Your Guide to Passion in the Modern Workplace and the creator of the PassionWorks! Diagnostic Tool.
In his personal life, Dave enjoys spending time in nature with family, friends, and his dog. Having experienced burnout himself, he prioritizes boundaries, self-care, and a positive mindset to maintain balance and well-being.
Dave Jones Consultants FAQ
What Dave Jones Consultants Help With:
1. Career Stagnation and Missed Opportunities
People feel they are being overlooked for opportunities, promotions, or advancement despite being qualified.
- Opportunities seem to go to less qualified people.
- Individuals struggle to stand out or position themselves effectively.
- Imposter syndrome undermines confidence.
- People want greater control over their careers and futures.
2. Difficulties in Management and Leadership
Many people become managers without adequate training and find leadership more difficult than expected.
- Managing feels overwhelming.
- New managers struggle with former peers.
- Leaders must manage people who are older, more experienced, or more senior.
- Managers inherit struggling or low-performing teams.
- Leaders need to improve follow-through and accountability.
3. Negotiation and Self-Advocacy Challenges
People feel powerless in workplace interactions and wish they had handled situations differently.
- Feeling taken advantage of.
- Difficulty standing up for themselves.
- Lack of confidence during negotiations.
- Feeling unable to influence outcomes.
4. Relationship and Team Conflicts
People struggle to understand and work effectively with others.
- Confusion about other people’s behaviour.
- Difficulty getting people to work together.
- Tension within teams.
- Challenges building healthy working relationships.
5. Feeling Powerless, Unseen, or Disrespected
Dave Jones programs help leaders, managers and individual contributors at work who are:
- Feeling misunderstood.
- Feeling lonely or isolated.
- Feeling disrespected.
- Feeling unseen or undervalued.
- Feeling treated unfairly.
- Wondering, “Why me?”
6. Workplace Pressure and Overload
Employees and managers are under increasing pressure to achieve more with fewer resources.
- Having to do more with less.
- Feeling spread too thin.
- Struggling with competing demands.
- Difficulty maintaining balance and effectiveness.
7. Performance Management Problems
Managers often struggle with evaluating and developing employees effectively.
- Performance appraisals that backfire.
- Uncertainty about how to conduct evaluations.
- Difficulty improving team performance.
8. Poor Quality Corporate Training
People are often:
- Dreading training courses.
- Feeling training wastes time.
- Regretting attending training programs.
- Courses that are boring, disengaging, or irrelevant.
- A desire for training that is practical, engaging, and worthwhile.
Overall Dave Jones Consultants programs help leaders, managers and individuals:
- Advance their careers
- Become more effective leaders
- Build stronger relationships
- Negotiate confidently
- Gain more influence and control
- Reduce workplace stress and frustration
- Lead better-performing teams
- Experience training that produces real-world results
CONFERENCES AND RETREATS FAQ
Why Hire Dave Jones Consultants For Your Conferences And Retreats?
Dave Jones from Ottawa helps clients to create high impact conferences & retreats that stimulate conversation, intellectual curiosity and emotional connection.
What Experience Does Dave Jones Have Running Conferences And Retreats:
Dave has designed and run hundreds of conferences and retreats around the world for groups as small as six and as large as six hundred. He loves it because it combines his skills in program design, facilitation, training, key note speaking, coaching and consulting. He gets to bring all of these related competencies to bare to help his clients make the most of these important events. He is always thinking about the people who attend these events, so that their voice is heard before, during and after the event. He challenges his clients to create themes, content and pacing that grabs attendee’s attention and stimulates short and long term growth.
What Aspect of Your Conference And Retreat Should You Hire Dave Jones Consultants For?
- Design your conference or retreat – agendas, themes, flow
- Facilitate planning sessions with stakeholders
- MC your conference or retreat
- Facilitate activities
- Deliver key note speech
- Coach presenters in design and delivery of their sessions
- Run team building activities
- Measure impact
Last Updated: Aug 24, 2026 — Leadership | Management | Professional Development Training Delivered by Dave Jones Based Out Of Ottawa..
