LMI Canada’s Moncton Branch Moves To Larger Downtown Office
MONCTON – LMI Canada Moncton has moved to a 4,200-square-foot office in a 100-year-old building downtown as it grows. It’s hoping the move will make it more visible to the community.
CEO Stephen Daniels said he acquired the building on 78 Botsford street.
“We were in an office building on Norwood Avenue – sort of an upper floor back corner office with no visibility whatsoever and that’s where we started to build our client base,” he said.
“The reason why we moved is we outgrew the size. It was just two small offices, a facilitation room and a reception area. We needed something bigger and we started looking about two years ago. It’s very difficult to find a space that would come with what we require – a boardroom big enough for 12-to-15 people to be comfortable, used on a regular basis.”
The company currently has a team of three full-time staff, including Daniels, and two part-time employees. It provides leadership training to mid- and high-level management professionals to companies like Sobeys, Grant Thornton, Medavie Blue Cross, Assumption Life and others.
LMI is a global firm headquartered in Waco, Texas and is present in 86 countries. Its subsidiary, LMI Canada, has been around for 35 years and is based in Mississauga, Ont. There are 19 offices across the country. Daniels became a licensed LMI coach and opened the Moncton branch around 10 years ago.
“I was in a sales role myself, I’m very passionate about people and wanting to help people. I was in hotel management prior to sales and loved aspects of that, especially the development of the team members that I had,” he said. “I had the opportunity to go through one of the LMI programs and fell in love with it and really decided to myself that I finally found where I’m supposed to be. I took measures immediately, quit my career and started a practice.”
Daniels said his company provides practical training for soft skills like communication, strategy planning and motivation through six-to-24-month programs. The Moncton branch has had around 500 professionals go through its program.
“It’s all about, as you’re learning and going through a process with us, you’re applying everything that you’re learning and you’re being held accountable to achieve the results that you wanted when you started the process in the first place. And if we don’t see the results then we’re not successful,” he said.
LMI Canada Moncton plans to host a grand opening of its new office at the end of May. But Daniels said it won’t just mark a fresh space for the company.
“It’s really going to kick off a sort of reimagined leadership in Atlantic Canada. We’re gonna have a lot of quality guest speakers coming in and just having a different angle on how to reimagine leadership in the Maritimes in an area where most people don’t identify us as leaders,” he said.