"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"  Old Chinese Adage

I currently live in Ontario, Canada and own a coaching, coach training and retreat business - Tina Dias, Leadership Coach.  My blissful purpose is to use my coaching methodologies and retreats to empower next generation leaders and young women to grow and transform their lives to be who they really want to be and achive their highest level of aspiration.

I was born in Sallanches France, a small town in the French Alps, where my parents moved to from a tiny village in Portugal.  I grew up in Montreal where I studied Women's Studies, Math, Psychology and Human Resources Management and am a graduate of McGill University. I have lived in both Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario, Canada.

In 2001 I took a sabbatical and traveled through Portugal and Spain before making my way to England where I settled in Seven Oaks and Seal, Kent for 9 months.  I work hard and play hard. I discovered my love for cycling in 1996 while living in niagara-on-the-Lake and have been cycling ever since. In 2005, I took a challenge to swim across a 3km section of Bark Lake in the Québec Laurentians and discovered my passion for swimming and continue to do laps in the winter to stay fit. I have traveled extensively for work, mostly to the US and Europe and enjoy traveling for pleasure. 

At an early age, I discovered the ability to draw and paint and today I mostly enjoy working with charcoal and pastels. Like most artists, when I am inspired, I create beautiful art pieces that for the most part are offered to silent auctions or friends.  I continued my art studies in college and university and trained under Hudson artist Rita Shellard in 2005 to expand my repertoire and paint scenes from my parent's village in Portugal. 

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Tina's Journey

My life journey has been and is inspirational.  I began my personal and professional growth and development work as a means to better focus on who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do with my life.  I partnered with fabulous women who, at the different stages in my life, supported this development which allowed me to grow into an inspiring individual and successful business woman.    Although I was granted several awards throughout my career, my greatest achievement was when I found my calling and decided my new life's blissful purpose was to support individuals to achieve and attain their highest level of inspiration and aspiration.  It was time to give back and support individuals to become who they wanted to BE and do what they really want to do and so my journey to becoming a Certified Coach and Retreat Leader was born.        

I was born happy and confident; I am a daughter, a sister, and aunt and a loving friend; I have felt pain and have felt the joy of love; I have loved and embrace love; I have tried and failed and tried and succeeded; I have created problems and solved problems; I have followed people and have lead people; I have made mistakes and have found new ways; I have blamed others and blamed myself and no longer have room for blame; I have cried alone and have cried with others; I have felt lonely and alone and have felt incredible support around me; I have wanted to give up and have wanted to embrace my life; I have hurt others and have helped others; I have fallen and have lifted myself up and fallen again and have found resilience; I have thought like a victim and have thought that I am the director of my life; I am reaching out to empower others as I am being empowered myself!