Jason Potvin
Founder @Zskool Learn Self-Leadership
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WORK HISTORY
Founder @Zskool Learn Self-Leadership
Zskool is a free, practitioner-led learning community for professionals navigating complexity, intensity, and high-responsibility roles. It focuses on practical self-leadership skills that support clarity, resilience, and sound decision-making under pressure.For me, Zskool is also a creative and reflective outlet, allowing me to share insights from years of delivery leadership alongside a long-standing personal interest in mental and emotional health. The community complements my primary consulting work and does not compete with client engagements; it exists to support healthier, more sustainable leadership in complex systems.
EDUCATION
University of Technology Sydney
Executive Certificate, Positive Psychology Coaching
Champlain College Saint-Lambert
Associate's Degree, Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
Masters, Project Management - Research in Positive Psychology
Concordia University
HRM, Human Resources Management
Concordia University
MGMT, Management
University of Wollongong
Business Wellbeing
SKILLS
ABOUT JASON POTVIN
After more than 25 years leading complex IT, infrastructure, and transformation initiatives, one lesson has become unmistakably clear: delivery succeeds or fails less because of technology, and more because of how people think, decide, and feel under pressure.My background is rooted in senior project, program, and portfolio leadership across highly regulated, secure, and risk-sensitive environments, including aviation, banking, insurance, telecom, and large enterprise IT. A Master’s in Project Management from UTS in Australia grounded me in systems thinking, governance, and execution discipline. Years in the field taught me how ambiguity, stress, and misalignment quietly derail even the most well-supported initiatives.Practical experience has led me to expand my work beyond delivery mechanics into self-leadership, resilience, and decision-making strategy. Drawing from workplace wellbeing, positive psychology, Internal Family Systems modelling, professional coaching, and spirituality, I support professionals and leaders who want to operate with greater clarity, calm, creativity and confidence — especially in high-stakes environments.Today, through BrainAdvizor inc, I work in two complementary ways:1- As a senior consultant, supporting organisations with project and program delivery, delivery assurance, and leadership alignment on a contractual basis.2- As a Self-leadership coach and facilitator, helping professionals upgrade the inner skills required to lead themselves and others effectively in complex systemsIn parallel, I’m the founder of Zskool, an online learning community that extends my passion for this work into structured group learning for professionals navigating complexity, intensity, and high stress. There we learn and practice together, as a community, because other people matter and connection is key.My approach is practical, structured, and grounded in real-world delivery. I’m particularly interested in how modern leaders can integrate execution discipline with psychological resilience — so performance improves sustainably and without burnout.In short, I believe strongly systems require strong Self-leadership. My work sits at that intersection, and my clients value the clarity it brings to there inner system.
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