Testimonials
What others have to say about us
Over the past six months, Tosca/Five Oaks Consulting has helped our leadership team elevate how we work together, think strategically, and leverage each other’s strengths. Her authentic, insightful coaching created meaningful and lasting change that has strengthened both our relationships and our effectiveness as leaders.
John Wilson
Tosca created an environment where every voice was heard while keeping us focused on the decisions that matter most. Her thoughtful facilitation and deep understanding of organizational change helped us move beyond discussion toward real alignment and momentum.
Amy Coughenour Betancourt
Tosca brought outstanding strategic depth, clarity, and intellectual rigor to our Horizon Mapping session on the future of Global North-founded INGOs. Her facilitation was both thought-provoking and highly grounded, helping us engage honestly with critical questions of legitimacy, relevance, adaptation, and organisational transformation.
Lama Hattab
Tosca is well organized and clearly an expert in the field, making the planning and execution process smooth and easy, a welcome change from working with other consultants. Her ability to see organizational development from a higher level is particularly appreciated for small- to mid-sized organizations like ours, which can often get bogged down in day-to-day firefighting.
Maria Ta
Working with Tosca gave me the vocabulary and frameworks I needed to see myself, and to let others see me, as a strategic and visionary leader. It has allowed me to focus my thinking and develop new routines that have given me new confidence in my role.
Megan haddock
Tosca is polished; inquisitive; intuitive and passionate about the work she does. She’s invested in her clients success.
Tracy Leonard
Tosca is a professional of deep integrity who consistently brings her breadth and depth of experience, thoughtfulness and excellent listening skills to her interactions, clients and projects.
Abby Maxman
Tosca’s meticulous preparation as well as ability to design training that is rooted in academic literature while balanced with the pragmatism of a practitioner resulted in a unique and enriching learning experience.
Tirana Hassan
Tosca is an excellent coach – she’s insightful, knowledgeable and has been great at helping us look objectively and critically at the key issues we needed to.
Having someone ‘tell us how it is’ in a crystal clear but non-judgemental way, has been game changing and something I’ve really valued in our coaching sessions.
Louise Russell-Prywata
Her international interaction has given her a macro-perspective, and her managerial experience has given her a micro-view of the internal nature of organizations.
Ahmed Adel Nour
While at the ProLiteracy board, I was in awe of Tosca’s many abilities in both strategic and operational spheres, and of her ability to speak directly about strengths and weaknesses of the organization.
Seetha Srinivasan
During the period I worked with Tosca as a coach, she used a unique coaching style of asking big questions which prompted me to think beyond what I had ever thought about in terms of my own communication and leadership style. She also has a ‘bank’ of resources that helped me throughout the coaching period.
Bahati Kanyamaza
Tosca was an absolute delight to work with. From the first briefing phone call, through her meticulous preparation, right up to the engaging and slick delivery on the day – we really couldn’t have asked for more. As an event organizer that has worked with 1000s of speakers over the years, Tosca is one of the best!
