Testimonials

Real clients saying real things. I’m grateful for their thoughts.

James is an absolute pleasure to work with. I started with just a topic title for a professional development session for graduate students, and James turned it into an interactive, 2-hour workshop. He understood the profile of his audience and developed materials and activities to best achieve the outcomes I had set.

The students loved him, his energy and enthusiasm, and his ability to interact and encourage. James’s facilitation style is clear, engaging and collaborative. He is able to create an interesting, open discussion that makes the participants think about their own behaviours — and how they can bring about positive change.

James ticks all the boxes, from his professionalism throughout the workshop development, the quality of his material and presentations, and the overwhelming engagement and praise from the audience. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with him again. In fact, we already are.

— Helen May, Associate Director, Professional Leadership Master Degrees, University of British Columbia

We recently hired James Curtis to deliver an intensive five-day course on Managing People, to a group of 12 new and aspiring managers in the water management and treatment industry.

Student feedback has been excellent, and shows that James was able to connect with the participants and have them absorb even the more dry topics (legislation, union requirements)…

I’ve been impressed with James’s reliability and his proactive attention to important details: about the venue and preparation, about our internal processes, and about feedback and ideas for improvement.

I look forward to working with James in future. He’s a creative and positive addition to our team of instructors.

— Jelena Ninkovic, Education Coordinator, BC Water & Waste Association

What a treat it was to work with James Curtis. I hired James to create curriculum for a client, and boy did he deliver.

The brief was to develop course material that our client’s external trainers could share with their students, in a way that would be clear and encourage best practices in classrooms around the globe. There were many complexities — simple is hard! — and an added challenge in that James had to adapt our existing material for diverse markets.

He killed it. He researched well beyond what I’d expected, wrote wonderful material with little direct involvement from me, and delighted both us and our client with his work. We’re now in talks with that client about building out a greater educational program — thanks in large part to James’s hard work and talent. If you have the chance to hire him, you should. I know I will again.

— John Burns, Story Director, ECHO Storytelling Agency

James is a very approachable and engaging instructor, and came very prepared for our half-day workshop at HIM regarding facilitation and conflict management best practices.

He was well versed in the bones and basis of conflict management, and the workshop structure that he presented to us was very strong. He was accommodating and flexible to our needs and tailored the session based on our suggestions of potential arising conflicts.

James is knowledgeable and passionate, and I’d recommend his work to anyone who’s looking for a strong basis in group facilitation and conflict management.

— Kiarmin Lari, Program Coordinator, Health Promotion, Health Initiative for Men (HIM)

James Curtis recently designed and delivered a workshop to a dozen senior managers at the offices of our most important client. We were delighted to work with him, not only because of the creative learning materials he developed and the fun delivery of the session, but because the whole process was so smooth for me and my team.

James is an honest and conscientious person who delivers on promises and has high expectations of his own work. He became a trusted and valuable partner throughout this project.

In the end, the feedback from workshop participants was excellent, and James has set a new standard for quality learning sessions at our company.

— Ana Escobedo-Boulard, Director, Les Langues du Monde

James is a consummate professional and always pushes himself to excel. Throughout his instructional programs, he  has demonstrated excellent planning skills and assimilates feedback and suggestions into his teaching repertoire with gusto.

James is an early adopter, researching and getting out of the box to try new things, to integrate innovative technology as well as new instructional strategies into his teaching.

He is focused on the needs of the student and his dynamic and innovative approaches help to foster student engagement and learning in the classroom.

I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending James as an instructor or facilitator.

— Glenn Galy Ph.D, School of Instructor Education, Vancouver Community College