My mission
To help leaders redefine how they lead and succeed—from within—so greater impact does not come at the cost of who they truly are.
Ghinwa Merei is an Executive Coach, speaker, and the founder of EnVisionary Innovative Consulting. She works with senior corporate leaders and growth-stage founders navigating expanded responsibility, complexity, and meaningful transition.
Ghinwa brings more than 25 years of business and leadership experience, including senior roles in Fortune 500 organizations and a decade in financial services. She built and led teams, developed national strategic initiatives, and became known for seeing possibilities, challenging conventional thinking, and developing others.
Today, she integrates business and leadership strategy with psychology, emotional and somatic intelligence, and consciousness. Her inside-out approach helps accomplished leaders evolve their internal way of operating, build inner authority, and create external success with greater clarity, purpose, and sustainability.
Her Credentials Include:
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Executive MBA degrees, Cornell University and Queen’s University
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Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- Certified Mastery Method Coach, Institute for Coaching Mastery
- Certified Integrative Coach, School of Positive Transformation
- Certified Financial Planner (CFP), FP Canada
- FinTech Certificate, The University of Hong Kong
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Positive Psychology Practitioner, School of Positive Transformation — In Progress
My Values
More than 25 Years of Experience
My Story
My name is Ghinwa Merei. I was born and raised in Syria, and for more than two decades, I have called Canada home—building a new life, family, and career here.
I have always been unconventional: asking big questions, challenging the expected path, and looking for a better way forward. For many years, however, I did not fully value those parts of myself. Like many high achievers, I learned to measure my worth through what I accomplished.
As an immigrant, I had to begin again more than once. I worked hard, moved quickly, and built a successful corporate career, financial security, and a life that looked impressive from the outside. Eventually, that way of operating came at a cost. I burned out—and without my title and achievements to hold on to, I had to face a much deeper question: Who am I beneath all of it?
What followed was not simply a career change. It was an inside-out transformation. Through years of coaching, study, and inner work, I began releasing old conditioning, reconnecting with myself, and redefining success around purpose, alignment, wellbeing, joy, and meaningful impact—not only status and external achievement.
That journey shapes how I coach today. I understand the corporate world, the pressure of responsibility, and the drive to achieve. I also know that the strategies that create one level of success may not be able to carry us into the next.
My work is about the person behind the title. I help accomplished leaders build the inner capacity to navigate what is changing, uncover more of who they have always been, and create their next chapter from a clearer, more grounded, and more aligned place.
My Strengths:
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Seeing beneath the presenting challenge to what is really shaping it
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Connecting business strategy with the human side of leadership and change
- Holding a compassionate space while asking honest, courageous questions
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Recognizing people’s strengths and possibility before they can fully see them
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Integrating analytical, emotional, somatic, intuitive, and spiritual intelligence
