What we do makes a difference because we approach values differently.
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How are we different?
We work with values non-judgmentally.
Why? Because no single value or values perspective on the world is “higher,” more moral, or “better” than any other. What matters about our values is how we define them, and how we live them.
How? We create safe spaces for reflection, discovery and clarity through dialogue. That dialogue starts with a simple question: “What’s most important to YOU?”
Our Working Values
Safety
We create a confidential, non-judgmental place for values insight, whether in an online survey, personal discussion, classroom, or meeting room.
Respect
Everyone is worthy of being respected for the values they hold. We ensure that our work is conducted in a spirit of mutual respect.
Diversity
The diversity of values is what gives us access to the widest reach across worldviews, for a complete perception of the people around us.
Dialogue
Our work drives fundamentally toward dialgoue about values. Dialogue is is the only way to truly understand one's own and others' values.
Meet the Founders
Cheryl and Kenton have worked in human values development for more than two decades. Their work is built on long-established models for human growth and development. They co-founded Kairios in 2001 because they understood their work was needed to help people get past the mindset that some values are morally superior to others. The model and practices they have developed view values as choices that operate in dynamic interconnections with each other as well as with our innate gifts, our life purpose, and life’s demands. People who are successful in life may hold any set of values; what matters is how they live them.
Cheryl and Kenton’s work is informed by decades of experience in leadership development program design, facilitation, executive and life coaching, and trainer-training; and by the more than 25 psychometric and feedback instruments in which they hold certification. Their tenure as Senior Faculty members of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) together with extensive consulting experience has given them access to clients in serving at all organizational levels, from C-suite to shop floor; to organizations ranging in scale from community-based to globally dispersed, in digital tech, pharma, law, manufacturing, communications, logistics, civil engineering, business consulting, health and higher education. They have the good fortune to be both collaborators and life partners.
Cheryl De Ciantis PhD
Kairios Co-Founder
Tucson, Arizona USA
Cheryl is a seasoned coach, leadership and team development facilitator, organizational consultant and author. While serving as Senior Faculty at CCL she co-designed the Leading Creatively program and LeaderLabTM, winner of a Daniel Goleman Award for Emotional Intelligence training; and she was as Director of CCL’s European campus, based in Brussels, Belgium. Cheryl is a specialist in integrating creative, non-traditional methods that expand learners' reach. She is also an artist and mythologist. All of these facets go into her values-based approach to helping designers, facilitators and coaches to confidently and effectively incorporate the widest range of learning modalities.
Kenton Hyatt PhD
Kairios Co-Founder
Tucson, Arizona, USA
With a deep background in the academic field of Communication, Kenton specializes in values assessment and development for individuals, groups, teams, and organizations and the development of supporting ethical behaviors. He has both internal and external experience, consulting, facilitating and coaching at all organizational levels. He served as Senior Faculty at CCL and European Director of the flagship Leadership Development Program, which at the time was ranked no. 1 by Newsweek in the US, and no. 4 globally by Financial Times. His academic training is in human communication. Kenton is a painter and photographer and author.
What People Are Saying
“Cheryl and Kenton have presented us with a valuable gift by clarifying the process of identifying those values that influence our decisions and behavior….They have developed a model that brings safety to the reflection process and invites engagement by those who may feel excluded from this vital conversation.”
Robert Thomas PhD
Professor of the Practice
Institute for Leadership and Social Impact
Scheller College of Business Georgia Institute of Technology
Meet our Development Partners
Carine and Ginger are researchers, educators and authors with great depth of experience in values models and methodologies. For decades, they have each been actively instrumental in the continuing development of the Kairios Values Perspectives model, training and practice, as consultants and advisors, as well as cherished friends to the founders.
Carine Dartiguepeyrou PhD
Paris, FRANCE
President, Observatoire des Valeurs
Kairios Senior Associate
A certified coach, political scientist, strategic and futures analyst. Her fields of interest: futures of societies, value-based issues such as ecology, digital technologies, humanities and transformative leadership. Carine has been working to promote values literacy for more than two decades. She is a key contributor to the development of Values Perspectives coaching, training and consulting practices, and spearheaded its translation into French. She is co-founder and president of the Observatoire des valeurs. Learn more about Carine’s activities and publications here.
Ginger Grant PhD
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Dean of Research and Innovation at Humber College
Kairios Senior Associate
Ginger's passion is innovation management - the design, development and implementation of innovation strategies that transform corporate culture, and drive engagement and high performance teams for competitive advantage. She has held senior leadership positions and consulted in a variety of fields including engineering, telecommunications, education, transportation, government, law, software development, gaming and the creative industries. Ginger is Dean of Research and Innovation at Humber College. She is a member of the Innovation Council for the Conference Board of Canada.
Phillip Harrington
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Strategic Technology Director
Kairios Consulting CTO
Meet our Consulting Chief Technology Officer
Phil is the creator of all technical aspects of the Kairios Values Perspectives survey online. For the past 17 years, Phillip has strategized technical development and steadfastly managed all phases from innovative ideas to deployment and everything in between. With 23 years of experience as a Consulting CTO, Technology Director and Senior Developer managing, mentoring, and empowering cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and efficient solutions, Phil’s approach blends strategic vision with comprehensive and hands-on technical proficiency. Phillip is also a songwriter and performing bandleader and drummer. LinkedIn
Anne Andrault
Saint-Amant-Tallende, FRANCE
Vice-president, Observatoire des Valeurs
Kairios Development Associate
Meet our Translator
Anne is a scholastic editor, a "green" blog writer, and an artist. She is co-founder and vice-president of l’Observatoire des Valeurs, and is a Kairios certified coach and trainer. She is the French-language translator for the Values Perspectives. Anne is deeply knowledgeable with regard to the relation of linguistics and culture in meaning-making and holds a License in Linguistique from the Université Sorbonne-Paris. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Club de Budapest France and is one of the English translators of Ervin Laszlo’s work and ideas.
Meet some of our Kairios Values Perspectives Certified Practitioners
Kairios has a great and growing community of practitioners who have been trained and certified in the Kairios Values Perspectives model, theory and practice. All are professionals of extraordinary quality in their own right, who share a conviction that values-based coaching, facilitation and consulting requires a special approach. Confidentiality and psychological safety are paramount. Practitioners also know first and foremost what their own values are and what their unique strengths are as practitioners and professionals.
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Kjersti Johanne Steinskog
Oslo NORWAY
Kjersti is CEO of Business Inspirator AS. She is a specialist in global organizational strategy development and implementation and turnaround, taking a values-based approach to leadership and executive team development.
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Golnaz Golnaraghi DBA
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Golnaz helps purpose-driven leaders, teams and organizations enhance leadership and team competencies needed to unleash their full potential. Golnaz is as researcher, international speaker and author. She is currently an Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University.
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Anne-Liisa Longmore EdD
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Anne-Liisa is Dean of the Sheridan College Pilon School of Business, and is an innovative learning leader dedicated to facilitating workplace innovation and adult learning. Anne-Liisa's combined respect of the whole learner and understanding of, and sensitivity to, the system in which learning takes place enables her to foster transformative organizational and student learning experiences.
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Jeremy Staples M Ed
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
As an entrepreneur and facilitator, Jeremy’s mission is to shift how individuals and organizations think and operate in the face of rapid technological, economic, and cultural change. His passion and curiosity centres around learning, innovation, and creativity. Jeremy is a skilled facilitator and has a gift for motivating and inspiring others to reflect and think differently. Jeremy is CEO of Triple Scoop Consulting.
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Arne Sverre Modahl
Bergen NORWAY
Co-founder of Business Inspirator AS, Arne develops/coaches leaders in teams and individually. His work in organisational development focuses on values based leadership and understanding of roles; and on development processes with the focus on market and customer, values, behavior and culture.
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Donna Montgomery PhD
Greater Sacramento Area, California, USA
Donna is an organizational psychologist who has worked with leaders in start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to achieve personal, team, and corporate culture transformation. She is an expert in the areas of leadership and organization development, developing talent, and communications and change management strategies.
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Rose Hyatt
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Rose has served various vulnerable populations in a range of education and non profit capacities. She believes in connection before expectation. She gets excited to coach mindfulness, values, the combination and application in populations as a way to transpose trauma. She specializes in using values in transitions, strategic planning, working with boards and connecting people and ideas.
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Fehrunnisa Moore
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Based in the Silicon Valley area, Fehrunnisa is an ICF Master Certified Coach, with deep executive coaching experience in the tech and health industries, developing leaders and high-performing teams. Fehrunnisa has a commitment to the expansion of consciousness and is a senior teacher with the Sufi International Order. She leads annual treks in Nepal.
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Patrick Marant
Paris, FRANCE
Patrick, Managing Director of In Principo Collaborative Dynamics, and founder of Nudgee Ecosystème 3.0, is a business consultant and social media entrepreneur who brings together people, creative ideas and the means to execute; and he brings these talents to his coaching and collaborative team development practices. Patrick is General Secretary of the of the Executive Committee of the Club de Budapest France.
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Irène Papaligouras PhD
Paris, FRANCE
Irène is founder of Leaders Excellence Partners, a strategic human resources consultancy, focused on a predicative and proactive audit of the skills and talents of leaders, managers and entrepreneurs. She is the cofounder and Vice President of the World Human Forum, an NGO which aims to bring together and boost initiatives of citizens worldwide in order to contribute to the construction of a new human narrative.
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Jérôme E. Descours
Paris, FRANCE
Jérôme is founder and CEO of Teamaël, a communication agency. His specialities: Communication strategies consultancy, Strategic coaching, publishing, turnkey communication project management and transitional management. He operates on sustainable development, CSR, employment, environment and culture. Aside from this, Jérôme is General secretary in “L’Observatoire des valeurs” and Senior advisor in the “World Human Forum”.
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Liliane Bassali
Paris, FRANCE
Liliane is a hypnotherapist and a practitioner in brief psychotherapy. She is passionate about the question of meaning and helps people to find their internal compass, in their personal and existential dimension, and also in their professional and relational dimension. Liliane’s education and career background is in literature, which she has used to develop relevant and useful reflection in the context of her therapeutic practice.
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Barath Roy Michel MSW
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Barath is Project Manager of Research and Innovation at Humber College, Canada. After completing his Masters in Social Work (MSW) with specialization in Human Resources, he became HR Business Partner in TVS ASL, leading projects in the Middle East. At startup Proveer Finance & HR Solutions he was able to explore entrepreneurship, human centered design and gain an anthropological understanding of the market as factors in sustainable business models. Barath is a Black Belt Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner (IMYB™).
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Camila Pérez Peña
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Camila is a Strategic Innovation Manager in the Office of Research and Innovation at Humber College. She truly believes that human relations, collaboration, and co-creation can change the world and are the key to successfully lead and mentor teams to achieve long-lasting success. Her work focuses on ethnographic research and Design Thinking to transform ideas into sustainable high-impact opportunities and projects. Camila is a Black Belt Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner (IMYB™).
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Raeshelle Morris-Griffith MA
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Raeshelle is Innovation Program Manager in the Office of Research and Innovation at Humber College, Canada. She holds a BA in Management and Organizational Studies and an MA in Leadership. Her certifications include Project Manager (PMP), Experience Innovation and Experience Change facilitator, and she has earned a Black Belt in Innovation Management from Innovation 360 (IMYB™).
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Jennifer Larson MBA
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Jennifer is an accomplished communications, design thinking, and innovation strategies professional with experience in both the private and public sector. Before her current role as Manager of Public Affairs at Humber College, Canada’s largest college, Jennifer was National Communications Manager at KPMG. Prior to that she developed brand awareness and customer satisfaction initiatives for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
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Dianna Dinevski MBA
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Dianna is a PhD Candidate in Management and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation from Walden University. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration (2005) from the University of London, England, a Master’s of Philosophy in Management (2020) from Walden University, USA. She is also trained in Creative Problem Solving, Values-Based Innovation through Values-Perspectives and has obtained her Black Belt in Innovation Strategy Management through Innovation 360.
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Anju Kakkar
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Anju adopts a human-centred approach to solving problems that lead to sustainable and innovative solutions. She is a Black Belt Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner (IMYB™), and an MBTI licensed practitioner. As Managing Editor of Humber Press at the Office of Research & Innovation at Humber College, Anju is also a poet and storyteller at heart, energized by the values of higher purpose, spirituality, mindfulness, inclusivity and collaboration, and volunteers her time with the Chartered Institute of Marketing Management of Ontario as Advisor to the President and as an Ambassador at Immigrant Networks, Canada.
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Tania Massa PhD
Tania is Associate Dean, Applied Research and Innovation at Humber College, responsible for the development, submission and administration of federal and provincial grants and other applied research initiatives. She has extensive experience in designing, operating and strategically planning many innovation programs in post-secondary/industry collaborative research, youth entrepreneurship, seed funding, early-stage commercialization to innovation adoption in the public and private sectors. Tania holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, both biomedical collaborative options, from the University of Toronto.
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Brendan Wehby-Malicki
Brendan is a Project Analyst who works with faculty and staff to help plan and carry out their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects in the Office of Research & Innovation at Humber College, Canada. He enjoys supporting both new and experienced researchers in their professional development.
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