Bio

Alanna Fero (MA, LSC) maintains a highly successful practice providing life purpose and business coaching, career management, leadership development, and recruitment services to local and international clients. She is also a popular keynote speaker, television and radio commentator, and author of the well-reviewed book, Love Made Visible: Values-Driven Approaches to Work/Life, its title taken from the Khalil Gibran poem which says that “To labour with love is to know life’s inmost secret / Work is love made visible.”  Love Made Visible offers readers the key to unlocking the secrets of rewarding life path: earning a good living pursuing work you enjoy enough to do for free.

Devoted to the self-actualization principles of Abraham Maslow, Alanna loves leveraging the power of interpersonal relationships, provocative dialogue, metaphysical principles and good strategy to improve people’s experience of their lives. She has become known for integrated approaches which create awareness and abundance in equal measure, demonstrating that there is no conflict between deep spiritual connection and material success. Her next book, Many Hands Make Light Work: Soul-Driven Approaches to Making a Living and a Life, is in writing stages and delves into stories of the “callings” to a higher purpose for their work/lives that so many of her clients have felt and followed. Chapters also explore her own experiences with following intuitive guidance, including walking the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain, a Pilgrim’s journey and literal metaphor for higher consciousness of life path.

Alanna proudly calls many dozens of socially responsible and values-driven (triple and quadruple bottom line) companies among her clients, and takes great joy in supporting their leadership journeys and helping them to create workspaces where people love to come to play.

Chances are you might have seen Alanna doing an interview or taking live audience calls on BTV, CBC, The Knowledge Network or The W Network in recent years, or heard her regular appearances on the Simi Sara Show on CFUN Talk 1410 radio. She has been covered or quoted in one of dozens of print and online outlets, including Maclean’s, The National Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, The Calgary Herald, The Ottawa Citizen, The New Brunswick Business Journal, Shared Vision magazine, FOXBusiness, The Examiner, Yahoo HotJobs, and Monster.com. More and more people can also report having heard one of Alanna’s keynotes for audiences from 10 to 2500 or participated in one of her interactive workshops for corporations and professional associations.

Alanna makes her home in Vancouver, Canada, and spends her personal time engrossed in hiking, travel, meditation and slow food.