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team / Margo Purcell
For her entire career, Margo Purcell has developed creative
ways to help people share the best of themselves, their
talents and their abilities with others.
During more than 15 years in customer service, Margo has
been involved in a wide range of industries. She began
by tackling the Insurance industry and consistently surpassing
service standards and sales targets while with HB Group
Insurance Management Ltd., in Mississauga, Ontario and
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After only eight months on the
job she became their first Customer Advocate and then trained
other agents to deliver on their promises to customers.
From there, Margo turned to the weight management industry.
Worth billions of dollars, this industry is far more effective
when it nurtures clients on an emotional level while helping
empower them to reach their health and fitness goals. Her
achievements for Weight Watchers in Calgary have proven
successful for her clients and for the company with increased
product sales, high attendance at member meetings and huge
overall group weight loss.
Margo then turned
to working with and coaching individuals. Included in
her list of clients is actor Sandra Oh (Grey’s
Anatomy).
Margo has shared her innovative approach to positive living
and language at a variety of conventions including at the
Asian American Journalists Association annual convention
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There Margo influenced hundreds
of busy journalists by showing them the path to achieving
balance in their lives. Realizing their professions can
place huge demands on journalists, Margo provided concrete
steps that participants could apply to their demanding
work and life commitments.
Her extensive training
in facilitating and active listening has made her open
and receptive to what people say and, more importantly,
what they don’t say. That’s
the gift she brings to her workshops and clients as she
helps people connect with their passion and serve others
through that passion. Margo believes that if the people
within an organization can find their strengths that will
empower them to be effective leaders in their careers and
their lives. Her company, Open to Possibilities, serves
its clients by showing them how to live with passion and
in the moment.
With a Bachelor of Arts, Honours degree, Margo is bilingual
in French and English. She is an Insights Discovery Licensed
Practitioner and a Destination Coach graduate.
Margo and her husband live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
with their children.