We help leaders see around the bend.
Building a great company is an adventure. The Canoe Project brings deep experience with the highs and lows and twists and turns of this journey. We can help you read your environment, improve your technique, and cut a smooth path through turbulent waters.
Start Your journey now“Do you want to enjoy owning your business again?
Hire Heather.”
Ben Wood, CEO, Hint.io
“ Heather has been the catalyst for meaningful change at Hint. I knew we needed help, but I have to admit I had no idea how much better things could be.”
Ben Wood, CEO, Hint.io
“Our business is nearly 10 years old, but we've never had such a clear purpose and vision for the future as we do now. Heather's thoughtful questions & guidance have unlocked huge potential!”
Ben Wood, CEO, Hint.io
“The course exceeded my expectations in every conceivable way. A fantastic learning and growing experience with a great cohort of people. I only wish I could have attended every session live.”
Engineering Manager, TXI Digital
“I recently worked with Heather at a point where our company was coming off a major transition. Her insights and guidance not only helped me recalibrate my own role and begin crafting a long term path for the rest of the organization, but my team and I were able to immediately start using her tactical guidance to work through some of our most immediate challenges.”
Mike Ebert, VP of Engineering, Edovo
“Heather provided deep insights into engineering culture, employee engagement and accelerated our company development during a rapid growth stage at Digital Ocean.”
Ben Uretsky, Co-Founder at Welcome Homes and Co-founder and former CEO at Digital Ocean
Leadership Coaching
Develop your inner compass, then help your team find their path.
Yumin Wong
Senior Software Engineer, Github
Mindful Managers Program
Set your new managers up today to be your organizational leaders of tomorrow.
Program Graduate
Manager, TableXI
Growth Strategy
Root your growth strategy in empathy and experience to build a dynamic organization where people want to work.
Trey Springer
VP of Product Brillant
Inclusive Culture
Replace transactional trainings with transformational culture that empowers every employee to thrive.
Claudia Richman
CEO, WeGrowForward
At The Canoe Project...
We believe that the human experience is the most critical element in building a successful business. Strong and empathetic leaders, inspired and encouraged employees, and respected and understood customers must be the foundation from which we grow.
Strive for connection.
Cultivate belonging and build a better business.
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More from the blogHeather Corallo
Founder & CEO
Our founder and CEO Heather Corallo is an organizational polyglot, a jill-of-all trades when it comes to leadership and strategy, and an avid canoeist who grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
She has held roles at every level from administrative assistant back in her early days to Engineering Manager to Vice President to Founder and CEO and helped build companies from Chicago to Singapore.
Her multi-layered experience enables her to see problems, and solutions, from new vantage points, and she offers her insights with candor, humor, and a refreshing honesty.
For the past 15 years, she has provided personalized coaching, mentoring, and leadership training to businesses and leaders around the globe.
During that time, Heather has raised the performance level of creative entrepreneurs, senior executives, and the teams and managers on which they rely.
Throughout her career, she has carefully curated programs for leading companies in the finance, hospitality and technology sectors, offering one-on-one coaching, team-building strategies, communication workshops, culture creation, management training, and more.
In these ongoing engagements, she often works directly with a company’s executive team.
Prior to starting her own consulting business, Heather was the Vice President of Strategy and Global Director of Engineering Culture at such bellwether firms as Groupon and 8th Light.
She began working independently in order to be a resource to the heads of ambitious, innovative companies seeking to address the promise of effective management in the area of people and culture.
Whether in the role of a business development strategist, a human behavior specialist, or a general motivator, Heather believes everyone needs a supportive challenge to unleash their potential.
