About Zoey
Zoey Ryan BSc., PCC – Life, Leadership & Executive Coach for Women
Zoey’s dream at age 5 was to be a switchboard operator and make a lot of connections! With the benefit of years of life experience, personal development & education, fulfilling work, recovery, coach training, a long term relationship and mothering three daughters, she understands that her early dream now translates to supporting and living a life full of rich ‘community’, connections’, curiousity’ and ‘coaching’.
Friends describe Zoey as exhibiting: innovation, inspiration, wisdom.
Zoey is an avid observer of people, socio-cultural activities and our experience. She is passionate about women power and the wise women of the world and delights in working deeply in this global circle as a life , leadership, mentor & executive coach. Zoey loves her family & friends with all her heart; is an avid reader and fledgling yogini and loves sailing and traveling. She and her family live in a small seaside town near Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Zoey says,
Here is what I stand for:
I help others connect with their heart & soul through holistic & powerful wisdom coaching.
My Values: love, integrity, honesty, fun, freedom, collaboration, co-creation, simplicity, community, sustainability.
My Guiding Principles and Words of Wisdom:
I hold this truth as self evident, that all humans are created equal.
I believe that power and synergy occurs when people hold a similar vision.
I believe that each person bears a uniqueness that asks to be lived.
I believe that we have the ability to create the life we desire.
I believe in sharing our time, talents and treasures.
I believe in a power greater than myself and in the harmony of universal laws
I envision: a healthy, peaceful and vibrant world anchored in a “partnership model” (Rianne Eisler).
I believe: as does the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean (Canada’s Governor General) and Kofi Annan (former UN secretary-general), “that the future of the world rests on women’s shoulders.”
I honour and respect: our elders, the children of the planet and Gaia herself.
I believe: that elder women carry the wisdom forward and are a re-emerging “wisdom council” for the world.
I believe: in the goodness of people, in kindness, in joy, in the future.
My education, training & experience:
- BSc. from the University of Alberta (1979, specializing in Nutrition)
- Dietetic Internship from the University of Alberta Hospital (1980)
- worked for over 20 years as a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (BCDNA registrant 1980 – 2003) offering nutrition help
- holds certification as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation
- Certified Graduate of Corporate Coach University
- licensed facilitator & trainer in ‘Excelerator Coaching’ (coach training) & ‘Legacy Leadership’ (for effective leadership skills)
- tons of ‘smooth & rocky’ life experience which has catalyzed amazing spiritual, personal development, growth, learning and wisdom!




