What is a Company Experience?

• A Company Experience is when you want to sharpen your leadership skills, kick-start your strategic plan or regroup with your executive team to make your business, and ultimately your life, more rewarding. From strategic planning, leadership development, team development, to one-on-one mentoring and coaching.

What is an Exchange?

• An Exchange^TM is a monthly candid and completely confidential idea sharing and skill-building experience led by an experienced Mentor and a highly skilled Conductor (facilitator).

What's the difference between a ViRTUS Mentor and a ViRTUS Coach?

• The ViRTUS Coach works with you one-on-one as an impartial partner in your success who brings expertise and experience in the coaching process. Your ViRTUS Coach^TM encourages you to take stock of your actions to date, examine strengths and weaknesses, explore new ideas and establish priorities that more accurately reflect your current and overall outcomes.
• The ViRTUS Mentors are successful entrepreneurs and business leaders in their own right, who have 25-50+ years of business experience. Your ViRTUS Mentor will transfer their knowledge and skills, Their goal: provide an experience that gives an overwhelming return on the time and money invested. The result: entrepreneurs and business leaders that find their perfect blend of joy and profit.

What does ViRTUS do?

• ViRTUS is a Vancouver-based consulting firm that helps companies build strong and capable leaders, retain and develop top talent, create viable long-term strategies, and build energetic, driven, aligned teams.
• Unlike traditional consulting companies, ViRTUS provides experience-based learning that garners acceptance, buy-in, self-responsibility among team members, and actual long-term changes in behaviour.

How do I become an Exchange Member?

• Contact Brienne Armstrong at ViRTUS at 604.375.2949 (direct line) or email at briennea@virtusinc.com.

When was ViRTUS founded?

• ViRTUS was founded in October 1998 with the debut of Exchange. Driven by overwhelming enthusiasm from their customers, the ViRTUS team soon establishes Company Experiences.

Is my company ready to work with ViRTUS?

• If you want to sharpen your leadership skills, kick-start your strategic plan or regroup with your executive team to make your business, and experience your perfect blend of joy and profit, then you are a perfect candidate for a ViRTUS Experience!

Where did the name of the company come from?

• ViRTUS (Vir'tus): Latin. N. (increasing) personal worth, (developing) character, (experiencing) courage, (celebrating) excellence

Who uses ViRTUS?

• Public and private sector organizations and businesses with revenues between $1M and multi-billion.

What makes ViRTUS different?

• Unlike traditional consulting companies, ViRTUS combines conceptual business models with experienced–based learning, to garner acceptance, buy-in, self-responsibility among team members, and actual long-term changes in behaviour.

What's with the top ten lists on the blackboard in the kitchen?

• Every week someone comes up with a top ten list. The topics are all over the map and everyone contributes something to the list.

What is a WCD?

• A Wildly Courageous Decision! A WCD is similar to Jim Collin’s concept of a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). A courageous decision based on a 10-to-30-year goal that helps guide a company towards an envisioned future.

Who do I call if I want to learn more?

• For inquires and information on please call: Brienne Armstrong at ViRTUS at 604.375.2949 (direct line) or email at briennea@virtusinc.com.

What does FAQ stand for?

• Seriously. You know this one.

Why do we insist on rappelling down the side of a 20 storey building every September?

• In September, ViRTUS is sponsoring "The Drop Zone" fundraiser for Easter Seals Canada for the fourth time. In case you haven't heard of it, the Drop Zone provides the rare opportunity to rappel down a 20-storey office building in Downtown Vancouver. All you have to do to participate is collect donations from friends and colleagues to raise funds in support of Easter Seals for the Kids.
• Confront your comfort zone and take the leap! Easter Seals is a great, longstanding charity whose mandate is to support children with disabilities throughout BC - from summer camps to housing for families who have to travel to get much needed medical attention for their children.

Why is Werther's our candy of choice?

• These little golden treasures make us feel like the opportunity arises to strike gold every time we open one. No, not really. It was just the closest bulk candy to the till at Costco when were shopping for supplies for the new office.

Why do we meet everyday at 12:10pm?

• Our 12:10pm daily huddle is designed to accomplish three things: let everyone know what everyone else's priority is for the day, talk about the key metrics that are driving the business, and understand what stuck points are holding people back from being more successful in their role at ViRTUS.

Why is "I" in ViRTUS in lowercase?

• The short answer: the little "i" in ViRTUS is there to remind us to be self-responsible with our language. Instead of saying, "you know what it's like when you’re under a deadline and you’re frustrated," we say, "I'm under a deadline right now and I’m frustrated." This concept helps us own our own experience.

What do the four circles mean in the ViRTUS logo?

• The four circles in the logo are the Four Arenas: managing self, developing relationships, focusing on career/business, and sharing resources. These four arenas of life are intertwined. When I leave the house in the morning the stress of my renovation comes with me to my meetings. When I leave the office at night the excitement from closing a big deal comes with me to the dinner table. By realizing that all the areas of my life are connected I can choose where I want to spend my time and energy to achieve the balance I'm looking for versus ending up in a place that I didn’t intend to. The circles reach outside of the red box to remind me to think outside the box and explore new ways of being in each of my Four Arenas.