Jillian McLauglin
TEC Canada Speaker | EQ Leadership Coach – McLaughlin Mentoring | Vistage Speaker
Jillian McLaughlin, TEC Canada’s 2002 Rookie Speaker of the Year, is the founder and CEO of McLaughlin Mentoring Inc., a leadership development company specializing in emotional intelligence (EQ) training and coaching. A certified EQ-based leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, Jillian helps business leaders unlock their potential, build authentic relationships, and drive results. With extensive experience working with TEC and Vistage leaders, she combines her background in management at Unilever and Sun Products/Henkel with her passion for supporting high-performance leaders. Jillian is dedicated to enhancing leadership brands and fostering balance, focus, and well-being for her clients, bringing both expertise and enthusiasm to every coaching session.


Jillian McLaughlin
TEC Canada Speaker | EQ Leadership Coach – McLaughlin Mentoring | Vistage Speaker
Jillian McLaughlin, TEC Canada’s 2002 Rookie Speaker of the Year, is the founder and CEO of McLaughlin Mentoring Inc., a leadership development company specializing in emotional intelligence (EQ) training and coaching. A certified EQ-based leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, Jillian helps business leaders unlock their potential, build authentic relationships, and drive results. With extensive experience working with TEC and Vistage leaders, she combines her background in management at Unilever and Sun Products/Henkel with her passion for supporting high-performance leaders. Jillian is dedicated to enhancing leadership brands and fostering balance, focus, and well-being for her clients, bringing both expertise and enthusiasm to every coaching session.
Jillian’s Topics
In this interactive workshop, Jillian McLaughlin will guide participants through the development of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), highlighting its differences from IQ and its business impact. Key topics include the importance of EQ for leaders, an EQ assessment (measuring 15 competencies), strategies for continual EQ development, and how emotional well-being skills enhance overall happiness. Participants will learn how to build EQ as an organizational capacity, with research showing that higher EQ significantly impacts leadership success—up to 95% of leadership success is linked to EQ, according to Harvard studies.
This interactive workshop focuses on elevating the most crucial skill of emotional intelligence, Empathy.
Empathy involves recognizing, understand and appreciating how others feel. It is a critical skill in developing and maintaining all relationships, in effective communication and in leading teams. Mastering empathy is a 21st century leadership essential.