Samina Hashmi

I made my way into executive coaching over a decade ago after holding senior leader roles myself and coming from an engineering background. I founded  Drop Ocean Consulting; a boutique consulting practice that specializes in executive coaching, team development and strategy to support leaders and teams to step into their fullest leadership possibility.

My coaching approach is developmental and integrates adult learning, psychology, mindfulness, somatics and interpersonal neurobiology, among others. I am certified by Presence-Based® Coaching and the International Coach Federation. As well, I am certified to administer a number of leadership assessments, including the best-in-class Leadership Circle ProfileTM 360o Assessment and the team-based Collective Leadership AssessmentTM.

Developmental coaching focuses on cultivating inner mastery and new competencies that can serve for a lifetime. Along the way, clients build their leadership presence and resilience. Through coaching outcomes designed jointly with the client, and practices and exercises curated specifically for the client, they become more self-generative; able to choose effective and purposeful responses to whatever life offers.

In addition, I am a member of University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, where I teach a popular leadership course to engineering students, for which  I was awarded the inaugural Teaching Award in 2023 from ISTEP (Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering and Practice).