What Sets Us Apart
Trained professionals with deep passion.
Spear-Rhodes Group has expertise in the following areas:
- Entertainment & Hospitality
- Early Childhood Programs
- Healthcare
- Indigenous Communities
- Social services
We are versatile and committed to working with clients across all industries, ensuring we meet your unique needs and objectives.
True leaders are hard to find fully equipped to manage a team and sometimes even to manage themselves.
We help you bridge this gap by working with individuals and teams to develop individual and team awareness.
The Team
Judith C. Spear MS, CMC, BCC
Founder / Master Consultant
“People come to me in various states of angst. Sometimes they are frustrated by the people around them. Often times they have a hunger inside of them that they just can’t seem to satisfy. I show them how to harness what they need with the strengths, needs, values, priorities of their colleagues.
That’s when the magic happens.”
Judi is the founder and master consultant for both Spear-Rhodes, Ltd, her Canadian based company and RVRhodes, Inc., her US based company. She has spent more than two decades refining and developing her craft as a consultant with companies ranging in size, from small to large, including non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations. Since 1996, Judi has served more than 50,000 leaders.
Judi’s expertise is found in leadership development, organizational development and executive coaching. Her experience and passion have led her to work with leaders at every level of an organization. She guides them to acquire the essential tools and skills necessary to blend understanding people and strategic thinking. These approaches are key to building a strong foundation and a strong business.
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Key insights are discovered through Judi’s coaching process. She uses three coaching approaches: Performance Coaching, High Potential Coaching and Intervention Coaching. Within each of these approaches she guides leaders to have a better understanding of themselves and others to create alignment around goals and effective relationships. When leaders work with Judi, they develop strategies that allow them to use their strengths to off-set their challenges, they acquire what they need to experience lasting change and they feel confident they are in roles that use their gifts. Ultimately people feel inspired and energized to perform.
Judi's clients across North America are in manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, energy, health care, utilities, entertainment, and First Nations government. Universities and colleges also seek her help. She created Developing Your Capacity for Personal Mastery for graduate students in Education and Personal Leadership for MBA students. Her signature leadership development program is Results-based Leadership created for the corporate sector but also used successfully by non-profits. She has traveled for Vistage International (TEC in Canada) as an Emotional Intelligence expert.
Judi loves learning which earned her a bachelor's in Business and a master's in Organizational Leadership and Communication. She's a graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership and Leadership Buffalo. Judi is certified as a Management Consultant (CMC) and designated as a Board Certified Coach (BCC) and executive coach (BCEC) by the Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE). She is certified and/or a master trainer for a range of personality and behavioral tools. Judi is Mohawk and a member of Six Nations, Ohsweken, Ontario. She resides in Southern Ontario.
Diane Roesch
Solutions Consultant
“Each individual and every organization is both complicated and unique. Taking the time to truly understand our clients’ needs, then working collaboratively to create tailored solutions is a privilege. The use of assessments provides valuable data which drives the process, but it’s the human element which makes all the difference.”
Diane joined RV Rhodes, Inc. in 2009. She provides strategic solutions and simple tools to help employers achieve their workforce goals. As speaker and author, Diane translates her strategic thinking and business experience to help companies, government agencies, and nonprofits create stronger teams which result in a happier, more productive workforce.
Diane has co‐facilitated Aspiring Executives, a leadership program which combines classroom training with individual coaching. Aspiring Executives was recognized by HR.com as one of the top ten executive coaching programs in the country (2015). Graduates include individuals from private and nonprofit sectors. She is certified in the use of psychometric assessments including DiSC, WorkPlace Big Five, Emotional Intelligence, and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.
Katrina Bremner BSc, OCT
Solutions Consultant
"I love to work with individuals and groups who are determined to develop self-leadership; people who are willing to dive deep into personal development so that they can identify their authentic talents, refine their natural gifts and step into their full potential."
Katrina started working with Judi Spear in 2002 and has been assisting in the growth and progress of the organization since (she had a period away where she gathered additional tools, education and understanding). Katrina specializes in bringing groups together toward a common purpose, providing win/win solutions and erradicating power struggles within communication. Her focus is on developing individual and group awareness and emotional resiliency.
Katrina is certified in the use of pslychometric assessments including DiSC & WorkPlace Big Five. She often uses CliftonStrengths as part of her work. Katrina is a holistic practitioner with certification in Attachment and Trauma Therapy, Heart Centred Coaching and the Art of Presence. She is a Reiki Master and brings mindfulness and meditation to her work, where appropriate.
Katrina believes that everyone has a path and purpose and she supports people as they tune in to that path and grow to listen to themselves and what they need to live their purpose.
Maggie Sproat
Solutions Assistant
Maggie provides support in maintaining the workflow of assessment and project operations, finding immense fulfillment in contributing to such a purpose-driven organization. She believes that continuous learning and personal growth are key to both professional success and personal fulfillment. Maggie looks forward to continuing her role with the company, driving forward its mission and making a lasting impact on the community and organizations the company collaborates with.
RVRhodes Inc. is a Minority Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE)
Our Strategic Partners
Abrahm DiMarco
“Throughout a 21‐year career as an officer in the US Army, I have led, been led, and have developed leaders in a wide array of places and situations. To be successful, organizations must have leaders at all levels. Great leadership doesn’t just happen, it must be taught, learned, and practiced.”