Mission Statement
To assist, develop and define individuals in their personal and professional lives.

Vision Statement
To be recognized internationally as leading development coaches who care about the needs and concerns of our clients by activating motion to obtain positive results.

About Us

M&L Ideas & Co is an organization whose mission is to assist clients in achieving greatness. Through coaching and guidance, we work with our clients on self actualization in relation to goals in their lives.

Lynn Stevenson and Melissa Macfarlane are a mother-daughter team who paired together in 2007. They combined their unique backgrounds to produce a creative, proactive business to help people move forward in their personal and professional lives.

Clients and colleagues note that both Lynn and Melissa create encouraging and comfortable environments, in which they feel at ease. Both women trust their instincts, and promote acts of integrity. They work to balance each other's strengths and weaknesses in order to provide services to their clients that are well researched and developed.

~ Lynn Stevenson~

Lynn, a Certified Power Coach, has spent the past 20 years working with clients as a personal consultant. She has guided her clients down their individual paths, providing insight and comfort. As the CEO of M&L Ideas & Co, and President of Fastrac Coaching & Leadership, she guides the direction of the business progressively.

Lynn received her training as a Certified Power Coach from CLI (Coaching & Leadership International). Prior to Coaching, Lynn guided her clients as a professional intuitive. Combining her skills as a Coach and intuitive, she fosters a welcoming, positive environment for her clients. Her clientele base is broad and wide spread, ranging from executives in urban settings, to plantation owners overseas, to homemakers in small communities.

Lynn has been involved in a multitude of media outlets, as a columnist, radio and tv show host, and a recurring guest on several radio stations reflecting on the many areas of life.

~Melissa Macfarlane~

Melissa is a Development Coach who likes to keep her hands busy. Working with clients mainly in the Project Progress programs, she is continually working to improve the programs to benefit her clients best. Her role with M&L Ideas & Co is the CEE. Business partner Lynn is the CEO, which meant Melissa took on the Chief of Everything Else position. She takes her role with both humour and sincerity.

Melissa graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a BA in Communication Studies. She is a trained facilitator of the DiSC profiling tool, and a Power Coach with CLI (Coaching and Leadership International). As a Development Coach, she draws from her training, education and own life experiences.

Melissa is also a freelance writer; she writes for various publications on a variety of topics. She is a feature writer for The Kincardine News, a Sun Media publication, where she focuses on people and organizations in her community. Melissa's works can also be found on www.contactpoint.ca, a career development resource website. She is a blogger for them, writing about topics relevant to career practitioners and hunters.

~Testimonials~

"I have been a part of Melissa & Lynn's Project Progress for the past 6 months. The program has gone above and beyond my expectations in many ways. It has helped me to set specific, well thought-out goals and then work towards achieving them by maintaining my day-to-day focus on those goals. The skills I have acquired and the support I have received from my Project Progress group has been invaluable to me in reaching my goals in both my family life and my business life. The exercises within the Project progress plan have helped me to delve deeper into who I am and the ways I may be subconsciously holding myself back from success. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Project Progress Goal Achievement program!"

~Gemma Moore, Graphic Designer, MG Moore Designs

"Project Progress is unique and innovative, in that it combines some existing methodologies in a support group setting. By providing a collabo"ative backdrop, where individuals can discuss openly their dreams and challenges, in a 'safe and supportive setting', we are taken through exercises which assist us in identifying our purpose, values and heart goals. From this stage we progress to analyzing and developing positive thought patterns and how we visualize ourselves as successful.

I would highly recommend the dynamic team of Lynn and Melissa to lead yourself either as an individual or teams through a Project Progress initiative. The learning and increased awareness, personal and professional growth acquired along the way has been invaluable to me during my participation with them for the past year.

Project Progress works and provides immediate and ongoing results that are quantifiable in terms of time, productivity and bottom line. I highly endorse Lynn and Melissa as caring professionals who are constantly exploring new ways to make their programs more effective and informative. It has been an absolute pleasure to meet them and work with them."

~Charlene Randle Clayton, Real Estate Agent, Coldwell Banker

"The Project Progress Goal Discovery course exceeded my expectations by far! It was very practical but also addressed many of my emotional and spiritual needs as well. I now have ideas for my future I never would have dreamed of in the past. A very touching and appreciated course. Thank you Lynn and Melissa!"

~Tara Byle

"I entered the Project Progress program with Melissa while it was in its infancy. While we have been working together privately for the past year, I have been able to continually update my weekly goals and reflect upon my long term goals. This program has remarkably been able to keep me focused on the tasks at hand in my life, help me plot the setps I need to take, and make the changes I need in order to get from where I was to where I want to go."

~ Julia Shaw, student, Academy of Design