We Take Successful People
Further
Radically change the habits that run your career, your business, and your life. Our coaching is provocative, personal, and built for people who are serious about change. We work with a small number of clients at a time, and we choose them as carefully as they choose us. Six months in, you won't recognize the person who started.
$120M IN BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENTS | BASED IN CALGARY | SERVING CLIENTS GLOBALLY
Meet the Rodina Ventures team
When you work with Rodina Ventures, you work directly with us. No associates, no handoffs, and nobody learning on your dime.
Dawn Sweany, MBA, Certified Executive Coach
President
Dawn spent twenty-five years inside companies at the senior and executive level, in the rooms where careers get decided, making those calls herself. She knows who gets promoted and why, what gets someone removed, and how fast a people problem turns into a business problem. She coaches with humour, hard questions, and a refusal to let a goal disappear.
- 25 years in senior and executive HR
- 6,800 employees worldwide
- Oil and gas, construction, engineering
- DiSC | The Five Behaviors | Situational Leadership | Hofstede
Read more about Dawn
What stops people is rarely what they think it is. Dawn learned that from inside companies. Coaching is what she does about it. She has restructured teams, built the systems that hold a growing business together, delivered news nobody wants, and coached the people who stayed. It all comes down to changing a habit that used to work.
Working with her is warm but it is not comfortable. She asks the question everyone else has been stepping around and she will keep focused on the goals you're setting out to achieve. The change is yours to make. She will walk with you as you go through it.
She holds an MBA from Queen's University and is a certified executive coach trained to the ICF standards. She still runs a fractional HR practice for companies, so the examples she uses happened last month, not last decade.
Outside the practice she coaches an intermediate athletics group for Special Olympics, which is where she is reminded every week that progress belongs to the person doing the work.
Andrew Buzinsky, MBA, CPA, CMA, P.Eng, Certified Executive Coach
Founder
Andrew built a company from zero to $120 million and expanded from Canada into ten countries, carrying the decisions nobody else could make and the pressure of being the one everyone relies on. He works the business side of the practice, from strategy and structure through to the numbers that tell you whether any of it is working. He coaches with straight answers, hard numbers, and a long memory for what you said you'd do.
- Built a company from zero to $120 million
- 10 countries, 500 employees
- Oil and gas, engineering, aerospace, trades
- Creator of the Vision to Victory playbook
Read more about Andrew
Andrew built the thing he now helps other people build. Zero to $120 million, 500 employees, ten countries. He works the strategy with you and stays with it until it's running.
He is calm where things are loud. He asks about the numbers early, he won't let a vague answer stand, and he is comfortable saying the thing the rest of the room has been avoiding.
He created the Vision to Victory playbook and the ASCEND intensive, now adopted by CPA Canada, and is a certified executive and business performance coach trained to the ICF standards.
Outside the practice he sits on the board of Opimian, Canada's member-owned wine society, and has yet to meet a business problem he can't pair with a decent syrah.
What sets us apart
We don’t work with everyone.
We screen before we take you on. If we don't think we can get you where you want to go, we say so before you spend a dollar. Once we start, we ask the questions other people are stepping around and we keep asking until the answer is straight. You'll leave each session with something to do rather than something to think about.
Not just coaching. Complete Support.
We go beyond traditional coaching by offering strategic consulting, HR consulting and targeted training alongside it. Whether you need to sort out your own next move, alignment within your team, or help solving a business challenge, we adapt to meet your needs. It is a full-spectrum approach designed to support both your leadership and the business behind it.
Direct, strategic, no-fluff conversations.
We ask smart questions, challenge assumptions, and get to the heart of what is holding you back. Our style is clear, practical, and focused on outcomes. You'll get honest conversation, straight answers, and progress you can point to.
When you work with Rodina Ventures, you're not working with a textbook. You're working with people who have learned the lessons, hit the ceilings and made the mistakes, and then changed the habits that caused them.
What We Stand For
These values shape how we show up, how we coach, and how we help you grow.
Integrity
We coach with honesty, transparency, and respect. No ego, no hidden agendas.
Connection
We build relationships rooted in trust, empathy, and shared commitment to meaningful work.
Growth
We value consistent evolution. For you, your business, and ourselves.
Courage
We ask the hard questions and challenge what needs to shift, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Rodina Ventures
406 34 Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2K 0B8, Canada
Hours
Monday–Friday
8am–5pm
Phone
+1 (587) 892-5775