Potentials Unlimited

clients and projects / projects

Potentials Unlimited has an exceptional track record for delivering successful projects to clients. Our "conditional guarantee" enables our clients to adjust our invoices should they not be happy with our performance.
Since our inception in 1995 we have always delivered on our promises. A sampling of our projects includes;

Talisman Energy
Talisman Energy is Canada’s largest global, independent oil and gas producer. Their ambitious growth plans and international focus has created several opportunities for us to assist them.
Services provided include:
• Consulting assistance to the executive team regarding the creation of corporate values
• Creation and delivery of a global coaching program for all managers and supervisors
• Consulting and facilitation support for a leadership development and business improvement initiative within the
• North American and SE Asia operations areas.
• Consulting support to enhance the performance management and career development processes.
• Facilitation of team development workshops within several departments
• Coaching to organizational leaders
• Facilitation of the Talisman Global Exploration Forum

Nexen Inc
Nexen is a Canadian-based, global energy company operating in some of the world's most exciting regions: the North Sea, deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Middle East, offshore West Africa and the Canadian Athabasca oil sands. Our work with Nexen includes:
• Facilitating large scale team development workshops and offsites within the Canadian Oil and Gas Group
• Designing and Delivering Leadership Development and Coaching Workshops Delivering Career Management
• programs for the general employee population

Devon Canada
Devon Canada Corporation is the Canadian operating subsidiary of Devon Energy Corporation of Oklahoma City. Devon Canada employs approximately 1,500 people in Calgary and in its Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan field operations.
Working with the VP of Operations, designed and delivered a large change initiative in field and production operations. The project included;
• Leadership development
• Team development programs

TransCanada
TCPL is a leading North American energy company with over 3000 employees focused on natural gas transmission and power services. Our services provided to TransCanada include;
• Designing and delivering Leadership Development programs to TransCanada senior leaders
• Providing one-on-one Career Coaching to Executives
• Delivering team development workshops to operational teams
• Delivering career management workshops and seminars to the larger employee population

Deloitte
As Canada's largest audit and professional services firm Deloitte employs over 6600 professionals in 45 locations. The Calgary office was looking to enhance their business planning and plan execution process Our services include;
• Consultation and design of the business planning process
• Design and facilitation of a series of partner/manager planning workshops
• Design and facilitation of a 2 1/2 day partner/manager planning workshop (40 people)
• Design and facilitation of several annual partner/manager planning and development workshops
• Consultation on on-going operational leadership initiatives

TELUS
TELUS Corporation is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in Canada, providing a wide range of wireline and wireless telecommunications products and services.

Phil Mittertreiner was the keynote speaker at the 2009 TELUS “Play to Your Strengths” Conferences for Leaders and Senior Professionals. Extremely high participant ratings and strong feedback from the President led to additional regional conferences within the organization

ARC Energy Trust
ARC Energy Trust has operated as a sound and conservative oil and gas company, structured as a trust, since 1996. An industry leader, a socially responsible operator and a key contributor to the communities in which it works, ARC has a proven track record of performance. Today ARC remains committed to the future growth of its company and creating value for its unitholders. Projects delivered for ARC include:

• Co-designing and co-delivering a leadership development program for front line and mid level leaders
• Designing and delivering a coaching program for field leaders
• Providing consulting, design and delivery support in the creation of a corporate wide mentoring program
• Facilitating team development workshops for head office and field operations teams throughout the
• organization
• Coaching senior leaders and executives within the organization
• Delivering Insights Discovery workshops to all employees within the organization

The Calgary Herald
The Herald is one of Canada’s leading newspapers measured in circulation, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and profitability. Our services provided to the Herald include:
• Facilitating team development workshops for the executive team, management teams and sales teams.
• Consulting to the executive team on the design of an enhanced performance management process.
• Delivering performance management and coaching workshops to all managers and supervisors within the
• organization.

Provident Energy Trust
Provident Energy is a growing Oil and Gas Royalty Trust operation who have undergone a series of successful acquisitions. Our services provided to Provident include;
• Facilitating organizational strategy development and deployment with the Senior Leadership
• Coaching operational teams to enhance their performance
• Designing and delivering organizational experiential learning and fun events
• Designing a performance management and employee development process
• Designing and delivering quarterly leadership development workshops

The United Way of Calgary
The United Way is Calgary’s leading not for profit organization. In 2002 they embarked on a large internal initiative to further enhance both employee satisfaction and organizational performance. Our assistance to them as a pro bono client since 2002 includes:
• Creation of an organizational development strategy
• Facilitation of the development of organizational values
• Creation and delivery of a combined employee development and performance management process
• Creation and delivery of a coaching program for managers and supervisors
• Design and delivery of the annual executive and leadership team offsite
• Delivery of Insights team development workshops for all employees

Superior Propane
Superior Propane Inc. is the largest and the only national retail propane marketer in Canada, with over 2000 employees coast to coast. Our services provided to Superior include;
• Consulting to Superior Propane and ICG on successfully merging the two organizations
• Facilitating ongoing team development investments for the Senior Leadership
• Designing and delivering a leadership development program for Senior Leaders
• Coaching senior leaders

Credit Union Central of Manitoba
CUCM's 200 employees provide support and leadership to over 170 Credit Union Locations and 60 plus Credit Unions in Manitoba. Our services provided to CUCM include;
• Facilitating yearly board/management planning sessions
• Facilitating ongoing team development investments for the Senior Leadership team
• Delivering team development workshops to operational team
• Designing a CEO evaluation and feedback process

City of Airdrie
The City of Airdrie is a small City, population 18,000, located approx. 15 minutes North of Calgary. For over 10 years it has been the fastest growing City in Calgary, and possibly Canada. Our services provided to the City include;
• Collaborating in the design of a Career Management process
• Delivering Career Management workshops to front-line professionals and management
• Delivering team development workshops to front line teams
• Airdrie.pdf

Selkirk Financial Technologies
Selkirk is a software and services company providing Treasury Management Solutions to clients across the globe. They are based in Vancouver and have over 100 employees across major centers in N. America. Our services provided to Selkirk include;
• Coaching Senior Executives and Managers
• Providing consulting advice regarding Human Resource challenges and opportunities
• Designing and delivering management strategy and planning sessions

Numac Energy (acquired by Anderson Exploration in 2001)
Numac was an Oil and Gas exploration and production company, with over 200 employees. Our services provided to Numac included;
• Consulting to the Senior Leadership team in the restructuring
• of the organization to a "high performance, accountable, team
• based" organization
• Designing and delivering team development workshops to all
• teams in the organization
• Designing and delivering career management workshops to
• front-line professionals
• Designing and delivering custom skills development workshops
• to meet performance gaps within individual teams
• Coaching individual performers to enhance their performance

General Dynamics Canada
GDC is leading developer of systems integration solutions to Allied forces around the globe. GDC has over 1000 employees in Canada. Our services to provided to GDC include;
• Collaborating in the design of a Career Management process
• Delivering Career Management workshops to front-line professionals and management
• Designing and delivering a leadership development initiative

Proshot Golf
Proshot is a systems integration company providing GPS systems to the Golf industry. They have 80 employees based in San Diego, California. Our services to ProShot include;
• Designing and delivering a series of Team Performance and communication workshops for the Senior
• Leadership team and selected operational teams.