Brenda Blackbu

Brenda Blackbu is a highly experienced, professional Facilitator/Trainer. Her qualifications include: Certified Life Skills Coach, Certified Employment Counsellor, Certified Personality DimensionsFacilitator, and Certified CRG (Assessment Systems) Trainer and Associate. Her experience includes federally and provincially funded contracts, post-secondary, non-profit, and corporate.

She holds memberships and affiliations with an array of associations including: BC Career Development Association(BCCDA), Career Professionals of Canada, The Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Associations (CALSCA), The BC Association of Facilitators (BCAF), and The Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development.

Brenda specializes in:

• Workshop facilitation (corporate, government funded programs, post-secondary, and public)
• Short-term, temporary, relief, or on-call contracts
• Project development, consulting, and coordination

Want to book Brenda to facilitate your next group? Check her upcoming schedule for availability.

For a list of workshop topics, please see the Training page.

Brenda started as a Trainer in 1991, (during her office administration career), successfully developing and delivering HR training to both employees and management of a social service organization.

After moving to a global non-profit organization, Brenda shifted to a career as a full-time Facilitator. She attained her Life Skills Coach and Employment Counselor designations through the University of the Fraser Valley in BC, while practicing in both capacities professionally (group facilitation with one-to-one) since 1996. Her program design and development, coordination and management, as well as curriculum writing and delivery have all met with criteria necessary for federally and provincially funded Employment and Life Skill programs.

In addition to her social service industry contracts, her experience has included post-secondary schools, corporations, a national union, one-to-one coaching, and public workshops.

Brenda's workshop participants consistently remark that her speaking style is enthusiastic, engaging, genuine, and inspiring. Her experiential workshops facilitate an empowering process of self-discovery. For testimonials, please see the Training page.

Over the years, Brenda has been a coach, facilitator, trainer, curriculum developer, consultant, and/or speaker for many companies including:

• WindSong Cohousing Community
• S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Youth Employment Program
• Douglas College: Assistance with Personality Dimensions Level 1 (train-the-trainer) certification
• Building Opportunities with Business Inner City Society (BOB): Cycle Back (bicycle repair) Training Program: for those who have experienced, or at risk of homelessness in Vancouver
• UFCW#247, Training and Education Centre Society: Women in Trades Training program.
• MCC COMPASS ~ Setting Career Direction
• Career Communique Radio
• Career Coaching Centre
• Express to Success
• Langley School District: Langley College
• Tradeworks Training Society
• Matcon Excavation and Shoring Ltd.
• Business Circle Network
• Minerva Foundation for BC Women
• CLAC (a national labour union) BC Training Centre of which she has been a trainer for a wide variety of their Lower Mainland companies; trades, customer service, homecare, and security professionals.
• MCC Employment Essentials (Federally funded programs)
• Celebration of Life Centre
• Naramata Spring Festival of Awareness
• CDI College
• Celebrity Cruises
• Princess Cruises
• Mission Community Skills Centre; various cities (Federally funded programs)
• The Learning Curve (Provincially funded program)
• Sprott-Shaw College
• Myert Corps Inc.: Youth Employment Zone program and Job Search Strategies program (Federally funded programs)
• University College of the Fraser Valley: Life Skills Coach program
• Kwantlen College: College Preparation program
• Chilliwack Employment Services: T.E.A.M. Project (Provincially funded program)
• Salvation Army, Langley Community & Youth Resource Centre: Culinary Arts program and P.A.R.C. program (Provincially and Federally funded programs)
• W. J. Stelmaschuk and Associates: HR training