The most effective leaders are often the ones running closest to empty.

When leaders are supported to pause, reflect, and reconnect, they create cultures of trust, resilience, and clarity. Open Spaces Learning offers experiential coaching and facilitation that restores what’s been lost.

Leadership rooted in place, people, and possibility.

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Offerings

At Open Spaces Learning, we believe leadership development begins with presence. Whether through guided time in nature, nervous system support, or reflective dialogue, each offering creates space for insight, clarity, and meaningful change to take root. Grounded in trauma-informed principles and systems thinking, our offerings help individuals and teams reconnect with what matters most.

Each offering is designed to support meaningful growth, rooted in trauma-informed insight, relational depth, and strategic thinking that honours the complexity of today’s leadership landscape.

This is leadership that’s regenerative. It doesn’t just extract effort or demand performance.

It restores clarity.

It rebuilds trust.

It reconnects people to their values, their purpose, and to one another in meaningful ways.

Leslie Bennett, Nature-Based Leadership Coach and Organizational Consultant

Nature-Based Integration & Insight Sessions

Helping leaders slow down, breathe, and listen.

Leadership & Mental Health Coaching

Where leadership and mental well-being meet. 

Inclusive Leadership Development

Leadership that reflects your values. 

Organizational Culture & Systems Coaching

For leadership teams seeking profound change. 

Equity-Informed Mental Health Strategy Consulting

Help your workplace thrive, for everyone. 

Mental Health Leadership Training 

For teams seeking high-impact, practical training in leadership essentials.

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Leslie Bennett

Specializing in Leadership Development and Psychological Safety

At the heart of Leslie’s work lies a simple truth: leadership begins with listening. For over two decades, she has helped leaders and organizations navigate complexity with presence, clarity, and care. Drawing from lived experience, trauma-informed training, and a deep respect for the natural rhythms of change, Leslie creates space for honest reflection and sustainable growth.

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Feature Workshop

The Clarity & Resilience Project

An experience for professionals who value growth, community, and practical tools to navigate life's challenges confidently.

The Clarity & Resilience Project offers a spacious, supportive container for leaders who are navigating complexity and change. Together, we’ll slow the pace, clear the noise, and reconnect with what matters most, so you can move forward with steadiness, presence, and purpose.

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Testimonials

Leslie is a wonderful coach.

Very committed to helping me get the most out of our sessions together and attain my goals. She is a genuine, open and honest person and I feel that I can tell her anything which makes for a great working relationship! Thank you Leslie for being a positive part of my life.

Natasha Heeroo, Global and National Change Consultant

Leslie is patient, professional and extremely knowledgable.

From our first meeting it was clear how passionate Leslie is about her work. She is patient, professional and extremely knowledgeable. The Great Gift program was revealing and insightful. It gives tools that you will continue to practise and use in all aspects of life. Brilliant, well worth it!

Michelle Daley Peters, Esq., LL.M,  Chief Legal Officer

Working with Leslie will challenge you, expand your strengths, and energize everything you do.

Leslie Bennett designs and delivers powerful programs for corporate clients that shift cultures, improve results, and change the future. She specializes in creating and customizing programs that meet the needs of each client. Leslie develops powerful partnerships and collaborates on projects that support Corporate Social Responsibility goals in Canada and the United States. Her executive coaching expands her clients’ collaborative relationships with colleagues and their strategic success.

Deidre Gruendler, CFRE, Interim Executive & Culture Strategist

Leslie is dedicated to her craft of coaching individuals and leaders.

Her coaching has been a valued resource to me over the past year. She is able to help me find the source of an issue, allows me space to find my role and then create a more powerful place to stand, by taking ownership and creating a plan to more forward… all the while being on my side, knowing I have the talents and resources already. She allows me to see a new perspective where I can be the leader I know myself to be. Thanks Leslie! 

Ralph Cochrane, CEC, CPCC, PCC, Founder of Nexus Coaching

Leslie’s guidance changed the tone of our team dialogue.

The conversation I was prepared to have with my teammates was different when Leslie invited us to be together outside. Her beautifully clean and no-nonsense process invited us to watch out for each other and to take care of each other. It also allowed us some time apart to reflect, so that when we came back together there were deeper conversations available to us. It was the perfect balance of structure and space – all wrapped in a beautiful place that we have anchored our memories of the day to.

Ian Chisholm, Co-Founder of The Roy Group

Resources

Curious about eco-coaching?
Curious about eco-coaching?

“I didn’t know I needed that.” That’s what I often hear when someone pauses long enough to feel the wind, notice the trees, or simply breathe. Eco-coaching isn’t therapy in the forest.
It’s a gentle, guided space to reconnect—with yourself, with nature, and with what truly matters.

Holding the tension. Letting the waves speak.
Holding the tension. Letting the waves speak.

Recently, I was invited into a new coaching opportunity supporting a leadership cohort focused on brave, values-based work. The initial briefing call left me energized. The kind of alignment that lights you up from the inside out.

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