Hello, and THANK YOU for visiting our Academy Group website!

If you're a new client or partner with us, please accept our warmest WELCOME to the group!

If you are looking us over, we will do our best to earn your trust and confidence.

WHO WE ARE - We are a group of like-minded individuals from different careers, businesses and professions. Our mission is to embrace the Whole Person Concept and our goal is to create a Work-Life Balance to develop our full potential and to enhance our health and prosperity. As we integrate our personal, business and professional lives, we all realize greater purpose, peace, meaning and happiness.

AcademyGroupOnline.com - The Academy Group - located in Canada - is composed of two primary divisions (each of these divisions provide resources we believe "fit" nicely with our goals). These are Business Achievers Academy and Wellness Achievers Academy. 

For many years we, the Academy Group founders, searched for a safer and more fertile environment for those seeking to reclaim their destiny and direct their own futures. With a global economy in worsening financial shape and an increasingly unhealthy population, we believed there had to be a better way to integrate and balance our personal, business and professional lives for greater well being. We were no longer willing to make compromises that would diminish the quality of our lives. Working together, we are achieving our goals and now able to provide a proven pathway for others to follow.

Together we work in cooperative entrepreneurial teams to combine our experience, education and skills and become more successful leaders, coaches and mentors. We believe that our Academy Model provides a unique perspective and a welcoming environment in which to achieve YOUR goals and dreams.

                                                                Health Care Professionals

Because of our affiliations - and because of our passion for health & wellness through prevention and integrated medicine - we work with and/or are associated with hundreds of wonderful health care providers in Canada and the United States (physicians, acupuncturists, surgeons, chiropractors, nurse practitioners, dentists, cardiologists, naturopaths, osteopaths, etc). We greatly value our relationships with these dedicated healers.

Health Care Practices - For those health care providers who are in private practice, we help them look at effective ways to: increase practice growth and/or revitalize their existing practice - diversify their income - employ personal finance strategies ... such that they will greatly improve their economic futures.

Holistic Info Site - One of our sites is devoted strictly to HOLISTIC health care providers => Click Here   

Academy Group Founders - Please meet us and learn a little about our own backgrounds => Click Here


                                                       



OUR CORE VALUES - By partnering with or being connected to us you will work with a group that sincerely values the following:

- Integrity - The absolute most important characteristic of leadership is integrity. Integrity is more important than intellect, intensity or insight. Integrity and honesty guarantee our future and YOUR future. Confidence is generated by doing the right thing. Integrity must be the very "foundation" of leadership. It is moral soundness - it is honor - truth - character - freedom from corrupting influence or motive. It is about practicing the Golden Rule. It is about treating people with respect - without judgement. It is the most fundamental source of one's personal worth. Integrity should cause us to provide the highest level of care and accountability to those we partner with and lead. The Academy Group's goal is long term stability and prosperity, not short term gains.

- Excellence - Nowadays, "quality" is frequently sacrificed for the sake of "time or money". Excellence is about stepping outside of our comfort zone, training with a spirit of endeavour and accepting the inevitability of trials and tribulations. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. This is the essential paradox of expert performance. When these conditions are in place, learning takes off, knowledge escalates and performance soars. You are on the path to excellence. Our Academy Group goal is to exceed your expectations.

- Simplicity - We live in a world of high stress, constant learning curves and "information overload". The simplest answer is almost always the best! :>) “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  -- Leonardo da Vinci

- Commitment - Maximum leverage requires alignment with your goals and dreams. Until you get fully committed to something, you will never come close to achieving your maximum potential. Effective leaders hold dearly to a half dozen commitments. The first, and most basic of these is a commitment to a set of values, principles or beliefs. These underlying principles define both the group's uniqueness and the fundamental direction in which it wants to head. It leads to a common vision and purpose within that group.
 
- Beliefs - These are the foundation upon which we build our expectations. They put energy into your mind and into the universe and you manifest it with your own intentions. Just imagine how your life will change when you set intention 'only' for what you truly believe in and want for your life. The Academy Group is a partnership whose founders believe in the importance of - FAMILY - FRIENDS – FREEDOM – CONTRIBUTION.


We also believe in the power of TEAM WORK!

T-E-A-M - Together Everyone Achieves More!

Everyone who accomplishes great things in this world has a TEAM - a family unit that pulls together - that masterminds and collaberates on important issues.  

But which team is right for you? Which team will come alongside you so you can accomplish BIG things for yourself and your loved ones?

By choosing to partner with the Academy Group you will work with a TEAM OF EAGLES - a group that will be dedicated to excellence, integrity, and impact!

- Eagles make things happen
- Eagles see and seize opportunities
- Eagles influence others
- Eagles add value to others
- Eagles possess an uncommonly great attitude
- Eagles have excellent relationship skills
- Eagles have an eagle track record of success
- Eagles think differently
- Eagles continually grow
- Our team goal is to bless you to SOAR in your leadership!


                                                                             
                                                       

WHEEL OF LIFE - The Academy Group believes in the importance of "balanced lives" (as much as is possible). For our purposes, looking at the Wheel Of Life helps you to find meaning, purpose and balance in your life. It forces you to put your life under a microscope to see if any one part (or more) of the whole pie might be "out of sync" with the others.  The big picture includes - mental - social - spiritual - physical - family - career - financial - community. It refers to not only "balance" in each of these areas but also "wellness".

When life is busy or all your energy is focused on one special project, it's all too easy to find yourself "off balance" - not paying enough attention to important areas of your life. While you do need to have drive and focus if you're going to get things done and/or excel, taking this too far can lead to frustration and intense stress - even unhappiness. That's when it's time to take a "helicopter view" of your life, so that you can bring things back into balance. This is where the Wheel of Life can help. It enables you to consider each area of your life in turn and assess what is off balance. And so it helps you identify areas that need more attention.

A Closer Look - To get a better understanding of the significance of this => Click Here  


                                                     

 
WHOLE PERSON CONCEPT - The Academy Group promotes the "whole person" concept. Complete books are written about this. Basically, too often we forget that people are made up of 'more stuff' that we show gratitude and appreciation for. The fact is, the world's greatest resource is "people" and to view them any less than as "a whole" is truly a disservice to them and you. The "whole person concept" essentially means truly viewing each person to whom you are connected "in completeness".

The more you can see, understand, appreciate and show gratitude for all that a person is, the better the results you will achieve in your personal growth. Furthermore, the more you truly see a person for all that they are, the greater value you are able to add to their lives. Basically, the "whole person concept" is a sure way to build better relationships as well as to fuel motivation, empowerment, hope and ultimately, true success.

But for our purposes, it is made up of 4 primary quadrants - body - mind - heart & soul - spirit, which fits into our Academy Model further below. Truly successful individuals understand the importance of growing positively in all 4 quadrants. None of these are neglected in the equation because the health of each quadrant determines how high you will climb. To the degree that you can nurture and develop the 4 quadrants of you - and also in others - the results you (and they) achieve will mirror alike.

If you were to ask 100 people in a room - "How many believe that the individuals that work for your organization possess more talent, more creativity and more passion than your current job requires or even allows?" - almost all the time more than 90% of the people in that room would raise their hands. To us, that is a crying shame - utterly despicable. Why would any company want to hire "a half a person" or only part of a person? It makes perfect sense why we continue to see declines in productivity and efficiency. No one is truly valued and therefore, they remain unmotivated and unfulfilled. This is a recipe for lackluster results to say the least.

The "whole person" concept requires that you tap into all 4 parts of the human condition - mind, body, heart & soul and spirit - to nurture and develop it in positive ways, but also to help others do the same.

A Closer Look - For a deeper appreciation of the Whole Person Concept => Click Here  
 
 
                                                          





WORK-LIFE BALANCE - Here is where our Academy Group 'melds together' important parts of the above (the Wheel Of Life and the Whole Person Concept). Work-Life Balance is a state of well-being that a person can reach or set as a goal in order to enable them to manage effectively, multiple responsibilities at work, at home and in their community. Work-Life Balance is different for everyone and it supports physical, emotional, family and community health - and does so without grief, stress or negative impact. 

Model for Work-Life Balance - In order to achieve the balance that we are seeking in our lives, we must evaluate and redesign our current lifestyle Academy focuses on four (4) aspects of our lives in order to realize our full potential - Work - Live - Learn - Give.


A Closer Look - To see a better visual of the above Work-Life Balance chart => Click Here



1) Work - Our model represents a paradigm shift from the traditional workplace. Many of us have compromised our hopes and dreams with a job / career / business / profession that is not truly fulfilling. We have been willing to give the greatest amount of time to the things that matter the least in our lives. Our work days are long and we sacrifice our health and fitness to be good servants / bosses / practitioners / employees. Deadlines and demands prevent us from living the original dream of our careers and the vision that attracted us to them. Our commute to work and the related expenses of our careers diminish our precious personal / family time and net income. We lack control over the choice of co-workers / employees / associates and find ourselves challenged and stressed by these relationships.

The reality of life is that we need to maintain good health and create an adequate income to provide a secure lifestyle for ourselves and our families. Our goal is to create an (entrepreneurial) cooperative work model that embraces this objective and that is both rewarding and fulfilling. Bottom line, we value our career success, but certainly not at the expense of our family, our relationships or our health. With focus, direction and support within our network, we can help you to enjoy a better life.

                                                               
 

2) Live - While striving to achieve balance in our lives, we emphasize wellness education and making healthy choices. Part of our Academy Group's approach to business includes being healthy role models for "total wellness" (see our next page - CHOOSING WELLNESS). 

We believe we can only achieve this when our physical, emotional, spiritual and financial well-being are in 'harmony' - enabling us to achieve our life purposes ... wellness in mind, body, spirit and finances. We believe that vibrant health, financial abundance, time freedom and peace of mind - IN BALANCE - TOGETHER = our total WELL-BEING.   


                                                               



3) Learn - Regardless of your formal education or personal background, we understand that continuing education is integral to any successful business. Leaders are readers. Lasting balance can be achieved through ongoing education including - acquiring leadership skills - striving towards personal growth - participating and cooperating in teams - broadening horizons - considering other perspectives - committing to reading for both business and pleasure.

We need to learn of the greatness of that magnificant space between our ears - the most awesome computer on this planet - the one computer whose input 'we' have total control over - the one computer whose input does not require a physical keyboard to make those entries - our mind. We need to learn of the great power of 'possibility thinking' and 'positive expectancy' as these are forces that have attracted winners like magnets. We need to learn that we all have within us, a vast potential that is completely untapped - like a sleeping giant that desperately needs to be awakened. We need to learn that "serving others" is the ultimate law of life, and that it will be the only path to your success.

- "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." -- (Jim Rohn)

- "All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners, looking for new skills, insights and ideas. If they are not learning, they're not growing - not moving ahead towards excellence." -- (Dr. Denis Waitley)


                                                                             


4) Give - A well-balanced life includes an awareness and concern for the well-being and needs of individuals beyond our own perspective. Our Academy business model became complete when we added this component. We wanted to demonstrate our sincere commitment to the greater good instead of focusing on our own rewards. We give back in the following ways - providing service - offering our time - building and sustaining relationships - living as positive role models - generously rewarding those who excel - contributing to charities and communities. 

- "In everyone's life, at one time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -- Albert Schweitzer

In closing, we hope the above at least gives you a brief profile of who we are and how we think.

                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                ... to CHOOSING WELLNESS