About
Catherine Morisset
Founder and Lead Coach, Imagine Plus Solutions
​I am an executive coach, speaker, teacher, author, and bring over 35 years of professional experience guiding leaders and organizations toward sustainable growth, resilience, and peak performance.
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My work focuses on building strong leadership from the inside out: integrating mindset, skillset, and physical-psychological capacity to drive real, lasting change.​
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I am known for simplifying complexity, helping clients uncover what’s holding them back, and creating clear pathways forward through practical, progressive steps.
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I strive to bring insight, strategy, and humanity to every conversation, empowering clients to lead with clarity, courage, and purpose.
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My clients often describe their experience as a transformative shift from a place of just coping to confidently thriving.
Professional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF)
Board Certified Coach (BCC-CCE, USA)
Certified Resilience Coach (CRC-ILCT)​
BA Psychology (University of Ottawa)
Core Philosophies
Building Your Life is a Craft
We can easily fall into the pattern of life happening to us. I am a firm believer that living a rich life requires our fullest attention. It takes honesty, intention, and effort to craft the life we want.
It's Never Too Late
Most of the time, our choices are not final. There is always potential to make meaningful change, whether that's a career redirection, a transition in your personal life, or trying that one thing you've been putting off.
Embrace All Stages of Life
Whether you're a new parent, nearing retirement, are battling an illness, or considering a career change, you can focus on what's in your control and make the best of your circumstances—at any stage.​​​
My Story
If we mostly learn from the challenges we encounter, I’ve certainly had many opportunities to learn. It took me a lot of exploration to get to where I am now. Resilience and reinvention are two themes woven throughout my own story—and my coaching work.
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Like all of us, who I am today and how I show up in my work have been shaped by life's many ups, downs, and twists, including...
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My coaching career:
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Providing training and coaching to executives enrolled in senior leadership programs, as faculty at the Canada School of Public Service.
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Coaching and training thousands of clients to a successful life and career, according to their own terms.
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Creating and delivering one of the first resilience coaching certifications internationally, with the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT).
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Providing stress reduction and mental health training to support government executives and employees through DRAP, restructuring, the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid workplaces, and most recently WFA.
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Obtaining a degree in psychology, which became the inspiration to my career as a coach.
My previous work:
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Working for the Canadian government in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Founding the first Mexican food distribution company in Ontario and Quebec.
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Working for international NGOs Oxfam and Cuso on community projects.
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Building and managing a community college department in Barrie, Ontario.
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Volunteering as Director of an orphanage near Tijuana, Mexico.
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Co-founding and managing a successful construction company in Ottawa.
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Providing certifications and training in fitness, water therapy and yoga to instructors for municipalities and national professional associations, such as Canfitpro, Canadian Aquafitness Leaders Alliance, and the YMCA-YWCA.
Ongoing experiences:
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Living the privilege of raising three wonderful kids to adulthood.
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Enjoying Canada's wilderness on land and water.
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My journey has not been a straight line; it changed me as it expanded my horizons. It taught me that our experiences shape us, but that our mindset and the choices we make hold the power to define our path.
These personal and professional experiences have helped me connect with a wide variety of personal circumstances and challenges—we are all different, and we all go through a lot of learning, continuous change, and growth.
While we can’t read the future, we can certainly align what we do now, every day, with what the kind of life we want—the only one we ever get. This is what my work is about. Let’s talk about building the kind of life you want, and how to get there.
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It would be a pleasure and honour to accompany you along your own journey.
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- Catherine