The through-line
was always
growth.
I've coached athletes and executives. Written books for boardrooms and youth sport sidelines. Built apps live in market. The work looks different every time. The through-line never changes.
The journey
Started on a
basketball court.
Not in a boardroom. Not with a business plan. On a court, coaching athletes, slowly realizing that the wins mattered less — and what athletes walked away with mattered more.
That realization changed everything. I stopped chasing credentials and started chasing conditions — the conditions under which people actually grow. It turns out that's a much harder problem, and a much more interesting one.
In 2016 I founded Boost Innovation from a simple belief: behaviour data could do for organizations what film sessions do for sports teams. I completed the altMBA. I built with people first. I learned that most technology fails not from bad engineering, but from bad business thinking.
The degrees, the titles, the records — they opened doors and introduced me to extraordinary people. The common thread in everything that ever felt meaningful was growth. Once that became the north star, everything organized around it.
"Ken is one of those unique individuals who truly sees people — with an uncanny ability to read a company's culture and provide the missing links to launch a company to the next level."
— Client testimonial, Boost InnovationHead coach, women's basketball at Durham College. Assistant roles at UBCO, Ambrose, Concordia Edmonton. Cared about winning — then cared about what athletes were taking with them.
Applied culture analytics to measure behaviour in organizations — sport, hospitality, education, and more. Built with a team. Completed the altMBA. Led with people first.
Delivered Basketball Alberta a way to measure athlete performance nobody else offered. Proved the concept with teams at UBCO, Ambrose, and Concordia Edmonton.
Leading on the Edge for leaders and coaches. Sportasaurus Survival Guide and Elbows Up for families who want sport to stay joyful. All on Amazon.
Coach Mindset, Homesteady, and Frictio live in market. Boost Intelligence in development. Consulting, coaching, writing — all in service of the same idea.
How I work
Four beliefs I've never
been willing to compromise.
Nothing is more disrespectful than telling someone what they want to hear. This isn't a cult, I'm not a guru, and I've made a ton of mistakes. I'm here to identify and support you through yours.
Whether it's a person or an organization, I seek out where you're selling yourself short and pull that thread. The gap between current performance and actual potential is almost always larger than anyone believes.
How we think and speak to ourselves shapes everything. Recognising how internal dialogue affects performance — as individuals and teams — is the fundamental step most people skip entirely.
Patience and process matter. I bring both to create lasting change — not band-aid solutions that look good on a report and disappear in three months. Real development is not fast. That's not a problem. That's the work.
Applications
When the tool doesn't exist,
build it.
Three products in market. Each one started with a gap I couldn't stop thinking about.
Multi-sport development platform for coaches who care about development, not just drills.
AI-assisted practice planning grounded in long-term athlete development. Stop guessing whether what you're running actually fits your athletes. Build professional sessions in minutes — tailored to age, skill level, and season stage, with mental performance threaded throughout.
Explore coachmindset.app →Practice Plan · U16 Basketball
50 min total · LTAD: Learn to Train
SteadyScore™
Every week without maintenance costs Canadian homeowners money. Homesteady stops that.
93% of emergency home repairs are preventable. Homesteady gives your home a health score — the SteadyScore™ — and tells you exactly what to do, when, and how. Weather-aware scheduling built for Canadian climates. The ones who track maintenance keep the $5,200 a year everyone else loses.
Explore livehomesteady.app →From the Latin frictio — caring for the body through action.
Home care your massage therapy clients will actually do. In under 60 seconds.
Generate a personalised home care plan with linked video guides in four taps. Zero typing. Share it before clients leave the table. Compliance tracking, AI plan progression, pain journals. $4.99/mo vs $35–$54 for less everywhere else.
Explore frictio.app →✦ New Home Care Plan
Published Author
Three books.
One through-line.
Growth looks different depending on who's in the room. So does the writing.
Leadership · Performance Science
Leading on the Edge
Not a collection of quotes from executives who inherited success. Not recycled frameworks from a world that no longer exists.
A high-impact playbook for thriving in today's unpredictable world — built on behavioural psychology, performance science, and real stories from real situations. It challenges the myths that still dominate boardrooms and locker rooms, and replaces them with frameworks that work when the pressure is actually on.
Why people behave the way they do under pressure — and how to lead with that understanding.
Research-backed approaches to sustaining high output without burning people out.
Tools you can apply this week. Not theory dumps designed to fill pages.
For Families & Coaches
Because the sport sideline needed
someone to say something.
Children's · Youth Sport
Sportasaurus Survival Guide
For families and coaches who want to remember what sports are really about — joy, growth, and learning together. Tackles sideline pressure without being preachy. Powerful without being heavy.
Get the Book →
Children's · Canadian Values
Elbows Up
Sportsmanship, kindness, and the true joy of the game — wrapped in a Canada-proud story that reminds kids to be themselves and keep fun in the foreground.
Get the Book →Writing & Projects
What I make time for
because it matters.
Three things outside the consulting work that tell you more about who I am than my resumé does.
My thoughts on work, sport, and business — the lessons that don't fit in a coaching session or a consulting deck. Honest reflections on performance, leadership, and what I'm learning while I do all of it. The thinking before it becomes a book.
Read on Substack →One team, one country, one way. Honest, analytical Blue Jays coverage with a Transaction Tracker and Decision Engine that uses actual data — not hot takes. Baseball writing from someone who thinks about teams and organizations for a living.
Read Blue Jays Way →Curriculum development grounded in ADDIE, adult learning theory, Bloom's taxonomy, and Gagné's nine events — built for how people actually change, not just how they remember content. Post-secondary, oil & gas, sport, healthcare.
modernlearning.ca →Looking ahead
Not done
building.
The apps are live. The books are written. The consulting continues. But the work is getting more interesting, not less.
Boost Intelligence is in development — an AI platform that analyses video footage to generate behavioural performance intelligence reports. Grounded in Birdwhistell kinesics, Hofstede cultural psychology, and Sweller cognitive load theory. The insight most consultants couldn't produce manually in a week, generated in minutes.
The goal has always been to create the conditions for real learning. The tools have gotten better. The belief hasn't changed.
Work With Me →AI-powered behavioural performance analysis platform — in development. Video analysis, kinesics, cognitive load, cultural dimensions. Built on Anthropic's Claude API.
The ideas keep arriving faster than I can write them. The next book is already forming — and it's going to be different from anything I've done before.
I dance for charity. I MC for causes I believe in. I speak on performance, leadership, culture, and what growth actually looks like in practice. Available for events.
Sport, education, hospitality, energy — anywhere organizations want to close the gap between where they are and where they could be.
Ready to stop optimizing
the wrong thing?
The best conversation starts with honesty about what's actually getting in the way — not a brief, not a scope of work.