Testimonials
Over the years, Productive to the Max has received great feedback from clients. We thank them for taking time out of their busy schedules to provide their comments.
As you can appreciate, most of our relationships require a great deal of confidentiality. We are therefore respectful of the fact that some clients prefer their names not be used. Please contact us if you wish to be supplied with a referral to these clients.“The Ottawa Business Journal has used Ann Max on several occasions with great results. Ann is able to combine her experience, knowledge with a fun approach. She gets people engaged and actively participating. And, most of all, she ensures the session accomplishes its intended result. I highly recommend her."
Michael Curran, Publisher
Ottawa Business Journal
“It's going well; very well – great learning at same time, Ann is very intuitive, very personable, very good, impressive caliber of group, great group, great location, great facilitator."

“Ann was an engaging facilitator. She used real and numerous examples to highlight her messages. She incorporated several learning methods (Large group interactive, small group interactive and a learning carousel). Her message was clear and direct. The handout was an excellent adjunct to the presentation.”
Sue Dojeiji MD Med FRPC
Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program
The Ottawa Hospital
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Clinician-Educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
“I wanted to write and thank you for your assistance with some productivity and workload management challenges with which I struggled for quite some time before we met.
Your help over the past several months has made a huge difference in the way I plan and manage my work on a day-to-day basis. I can now deal much more efficiently with the high volume of information I receive and need to process and this, in turn, has had a positive impact on the work of the entire team.
Thanks to your expert advice and guidance, I have also learned how – in my role as manager – being organized is very much about effective leadership. A cohesive, focused and motivated team is indeed an essential ingredient to maximize efficiency and productivity, and to achieve excellence in the workplace.
Once again, my sincere appreciation for your help in getting me ‘Productive to the Max’!”
Rodrigue Hurtubise
Manager, Public Affairs
Canada Foundation for Innovation

“As a senior account manager, my goals are to maximize revenue from existing clients and to develop new customers to grow the business. My work is quite complex and I was spending most of my time on activities that got the job done but left little time to address those primary objectives.
Ann has helped me adjust my thinking to focus on success strategies that achieve my true goals, reduce my stress level and unclutter my very busy days.
I highly recommend Productive to The Max for any professional who needs to deliver measurable results but feels caught in a cycle of unproductive activities.”
Roger Leroux
Account Manager,
Duocom Canada Inc.

“I have been benefiting from the coaching and time management expertise of Ann Max for the past twelve (12) months. During that time period, my professional life has been filled with challenges including a high staff turnover and many stressful projects to manage. I also have been promoted to a director from a manager's position.
After 6 months in my new position, I feel I have a better control over my professional life. I'm surrounded by competent people and a team that supports and helps me achieve my corporate objectives. I also seem to have grown well into my new responsibilities.
There is no doubt in my mind that the professional help and support from Ann Max have been pivotal to my current level of achievement. Ann's services varied from instilling new methods of time, project management and work processes, cleansing and reorganization of filing systems and human resource counsel and support, to name only a few.
I do not think that I would be the director I am without having benefited from the counsel and support of Ann Max. Hiring her has been one, if not the best professional decision I have made during this last challenging year. I would strongly recommend her professional services to whoever wants to become a better leader and a better person as a whole.”
“I like how Ann uses personal anecdotes during the session. It makes the course more interesting.”
Ottawa Hospital

“She is utterly amazing. An amazing course and an even better instructor! Thank you so much Ann!”

“I am writing to express my appreciation for all your efforts in leading a very professional and engaging session at our staff retreat in Kingston. Your preplanning and group assessment were right on! You were able to knit the generational gaps, along with the highly diverse individual skill sets into a tapestry of very relevant principles which provided guidance to us, both individually and collectively, as we design our future work plans. Your style "to entertain heavily, and teach lightly", was perfect for our group in their early stages of normalization.”
Jim O'Brien
Executive Director
The Kidney Foundation of Canada








