Forge ahead through career uncertainty

Mark McCoy (BCom’06) is an unapologetic generalist — entrepreneur, consultant, and coach — who is passionate about understanding and working with complexity for individuals, organizations, and large-scale systems. He has led innovation, strategy and execution, and change transformation initiatives in his work with startups, scale-ups, and Fortune 500s, and on multi-stakeholder systems change initiatives. He is a founding partner at The Adjacent, an organizational design and effectiveness consultancy based in London. The Adjacent focuses on praxis, and draws theory from diverse fields, including complexity, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, physics, and psychology, to support leaders across various industries in the public and private sector.

Cole Nakatani (BCom’11) is a professional development trainer and coach with a passion for empowering people to create meaningful work and meaningful lives. He has spent more than a decade designing and facilitating transformational learning experiences for thousands of university students and professionals from around the world. He is a certified Professional Integral Coach and has worked with leaders in various positions and organizations, from startup founders to senior management. A common thread throughout his work is helping people build new capabilities for resiliency, deliberateness, and fulfilment in work and life.