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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Photo credit: Dan Abramovici

Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard coauthored
Who Are You Meant to Be?
as a result of their sixteen-year business collaboration. It was also greatly influenced by their personal journey together. Anne gave up Heather at birth for adoption and did not see her again until their reunion when Heather was twenty-seven years old. As they began to forge their relationship, they both recognized how much they had in common despite their separation. They both had a desire to help people achieve their potential and were doing it in different careers. This led to them starting a business together working with their own business model, shortly after their reunion.

Anne Dranitsaris, PhD (Visionary)

Anne Dranitsaris, PhD, brings a lifetime of study, “psychological savvy,” and hands-on clinical experience to helping people become who they are meant to be. Her interest in creating mental health, coupled with her interest in personality systems and the dynamics of human behavior, has influenced the development of the Striving Styles Personality System.

Anne has always followed her intuition about education and didn’t go the traditional path to a PhD. She has attended a wide range of eclectic learning establishments where participation and experience were both part of the curriculum and aligned with her passion. At the same time, she studied at mainstream universities such as Ryerson (business management), University of Toronto (mindfulness-based stress reduction, religious studies), and ADR Institute of Ontario (alternative dispute resolution). Anne looked for training institutes that would help her integrate the cognitive, emotional, and physical approaches to healing the mind and body. This education included receiving her degree as a registered massage therapist; graduating from the International School for Spiritual Sciences (Montreal); earning a psychotherapy certification from the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy (DipCTP); undertaking studies at the Masterson Institute for Disorders of the Self (New York); and earning a PhD in therapeutic counseling from the Open International University for Complementary Medicine (WHO).

Committed to lifelong learning, Anne has completed postgraduate programs in cognitive-behavioral therapy, spiritual self-schema development, and brain and behavior and emotional intelligence (EQ-i), and she has been a longtime follower of the work of Carl Jung. Anne continues to stay educated and informed through her own research about recent advances in neuroplasticity, brain development, mindfulness, and social intelligence.

A serial entrepreneur, Anne has started several businesses of her own, including the Annex Natural Health Clinic, Dranitsaris Consulting Services, Sage Developmental Resources, and the Centre for Mindful Therapies. She was also instrumental in two business start-ups, Figure & Face and Seroyal International. Anne was one of Toronto’s first executive coaches in the late 1980s. She could see the direct application of the therapeutic tools to the corporate world, which drove her to expand her work into that realm. Anne began using the title of corporate therapist to indicate the depth with which she worked with leaders and teams developing emotional intelligence, behavioral competence, and relationship skills in organizations. She has also used her unique approach to work through dysfunctional relationships, partnerships, teams, and boards.

She is a prolific and frequently cited writer on a broad range of topics on organizational dysfunction, behavior, emotional intelligence, and personality styles, and their impact in the workplace. Prior to developing the SSPS, she authored two distinct series of books based on Jung’s theory of psychological type (the Personality Profile Series and the Jung Typology series) to support her work with clients. Anne has been working over the past several years on the development of reports for the SSPS, in the areas of leveraging your squad for relationships; leadership, career, and work style; maximizing employee, team, and leadership potential; children and parenting style; and teaching and learning style. She is currently working on developing the manuscript for a subsequent book on Relationship Styles based on the Striving Styles.

Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard (Performer)

Always curious about what makes people perform and why some people achieve their potential in their lives while others do not, Heather embarked on a journey to understand performance and motivation as well as behavioral change. Her background in organizational and leadership dynamics, coupled with her own experiences as an entrepreneur and parent, has influenced the development of the Striving Styles Personality System.

With a keen interest in business, Heather pursued an education focused on understanding how organizational systems and practices drive performance and the achievement of potential. Attending the Ivey School of Business, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in honors business administration. Upon graduating from the university, she completed postgraduate courses in human resources management (HRPAO), as well as compensation management (Canadian Compensation Association/World at Work), organizational development (Linkages), performance systems (University of British Columbia), and management consulting (CMC). In the past, she held a certified human resources practitioner designation as well as her certified compensation professional designation.

Heather started her career working in human resources for a major publishing company in Toronto and then as a consultant in Vancouver, where she designed performance and rewards systems for organizations seeking to increase employee performance. She was the coauthor of a Canada-wide study conducted in 1997 through Mercer HR Consulting on performance management practices in organizations. This study focused on whether or not organizations were able to foster the performance they desired from their employees. Through this work, Heather began to see that—despite well-designed systems—there clearly was something missing in organizational approaches to employee performance. It was at this time that she began working with Anne to learn about the impact of personality and emotions on behavior and ultimately on performance.

Before devoting herself to the development of the Striving Styles, Heather was the driving force behind Caliber Leadership Systems, Vancouver’s largest independent leadership and human resources consulting firm. The firm was an evolution of the company that Anne and Heather originally started as a way for them to combine their expertise and develop unique models to expedite results for their clients. Caliber was twice recognized as one of Canada’s fastest growing companies (Profit).

Blending systems thinking and behavioral dynamics, Heather has spent the past twenty years guiding clients out of dysfunction, chaos, apathy, and more to achieve higher levels of performance and realize potential at the personal, team, leader, and organizational level. She has worked in the areas of leadership assessment and transformation, organizational effectiveness, strategy, engagement, and culture development for a wide range of local and global firms.

Heather is also a highly recognized and sought-after speaker at professional, business, and entrepreneurial events. Audiences love her unusual, thought-provoking, and often cutting-edge concepts and insights, delivered with both humor and energy. They relate easily to her ideas and feel inspired to take action and improve. She engages audiences with her illustrative and entertaining stories while providing them with the clarity they need to achieve their potential.

Heather has delivered a wide range of courses, workshops, and keynotes to employees, human resource professionals, and leaders. Over the past few years, Heather has begun working with parents and teachers to help them understand and support the emotional needs of children, particularly in situations involving learning or behavioral difficulties.