Who We Are

Abbott Strategies is a boutique strategy and coaching consultancy focused on helping people, especially those in leadership positions, express the truest and most authentic version of themselves.

This work is built on the foundation that is Rob Abbott’s 30+ years of experience advising C-suite leaders, being a C-suite leader himself, teaching the next generation of leaders in multiple business schools in Canada and internationally, and coaching individuals and teams to achieve peak performance.

We are living at the edge of an inflection point in human history, a moment that has few, if any, historic parallels, and orders of risk that are entirely unprecedented. We need leaders who recognize patterns and their deeper meaning if we are to mount responses to overlapping complex problems, including climate change and broader ecosystem destruction, the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence, and renascent nationalism/fascism. We need “conscious leaders”, people who have the capacity to undertake an “intense journey into themselves”. This is the work that ABBOTT STRATEGIES thrives at, this is our raison d’etre. Too often, responses to complex problems are external and extrinsic and do not address the idea of true leadership as an inner process that may result in the outward expression of wholly new ideas.

Our work is based on the premise that we need to start thinking about our future in new ways – we need to consciously imagine and design our future. To get there, we coach and mentor individuals who are ready to do their “inner work”; the practice of turning attention inwards and facing and disarming the enemies and threats that we too often carry within us. Those parts of ourselves that we don’t like, parts that have been exiled, forgotten, judged or dismissed and embracing them so that we can begin to heal ourselves. Ultimately, inner work is about three things: (1) acknowledging what you have emerged from, without taking what has happened to you personally; (2) seeing everything that happens to you as the ground from which you are meant to grow; and (3) taking ownership of the unique strengths and capacities that your particular circumstances gifted to you. When these things come together – and everything we do is designed to make that happen – a truer and more authentic expression arises, one that effectively “future proofs” our clients and their organizations.