Leadership – Learning – Life!
Inspiring personal, professional, and organizational wellbeing….
for leaders at work and in life.
Latest News!!
Navigating Job Insecurity in Times of Uncertainty
Too Quiet in Meetings? Silence is NOT Always Golden
Leadership Woes? Recalibrate for Success and Confidence
Eileen Chadnick Wins ICF Prism Award with Ontario Library Service
Uh Oh! Trouble with a New Boss? Manage Up! (Globe and Mail column).
Meet Eileen
Welcome! I’m Eileen Chadnick, principal of Big Cheese Coaching. I founded Big Cheese Coaching in 2003 to inspire greater personal, professional and organizational wellbeing. What is it to love your work and your life? To excel, flourish and….
What I Do
Career Coaching, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching; Workshops & Webinars; Assessments; Expertise in Emotional Intelligence, Conversational Intelligence, Positivity, Communications, Leadership – and more.
Eileen’s Book
What would it be like to experience more ease in your work and life? Check out Eileen’s book: Ease offering “ease-y” tips and strategies to manage overwhelm in times of “crazy busy”. Easy but backed by neuroscience and more.
Latest Blog Posts
What’s Your Intention (Word or Theme) for 2018? Here’s Mine….
UPDATE (December 10, 2020) -- a brand new set of questions are coming sooooon! Want in? Make sure to check back at my website -- or better yet, sign up for my newsletter and get them delivered right to your inbox. You'll be first in the queue to get them. --- Back...
Ten Common Career Limiting Mistakes
NOTE: a version of this article has also been published at Huffington Post (Canadian and South African versions). Here's the Huff Post SA story and a slightly shorter version at HuffPost Canada. I see a lot of people at various stages in their career: some at...
12 Questions to Complete the Year and Start Anew (2017/2018)
UPDATE (Dec 2020): There’s a brand new set of questions for Dec 2020/Jan 2021! Get them here: Before you kick 2020 to the curb ask these 12 Questions Original Post from Dec 2017) Now also posted on the Globe and Mail Careers site. Now also posted at Huffington Post....
Join Me and Dell SMB Canada: Inspired Leadership in SMB / Twitter Event (Dec 7)
UPDATE: Although this event has passed - you can catch the highlights right here in this summary. --- Are you a small business owner? Heading up a start-up? Leading a team? Or maybe thinking of making the jump to entrepreneurship? If you said yes to any of the...
Lessons Learned (Part I): What I Learned Having My Own Business
The post below was written by me ten years ago (in 2007). Yes you read that right. I had just hit the significant 'decade in biz' milestone in my business and wanted to acknowledge and share some lessons learned. Ten years later, those lessons are still so...
Career Security in the Gig Economy
NOTE: This article was also published at the Globe and Mail Lately I’ve been having a lot of conversations about career stability. Clients – of all ages and experience – are expressing some anxiety around the new way of work which is increasingly contract and...