Movement · Performance · Wellness
I help people build the physical capacity, confidence and resilience to live and perform well—for longer.
Toronto, Canada
The work
Movement is the only universal language.
For more than three decades, I have worked with people at every point on the human-performance spectrum—from world-class athletes to those learning to trust their bodies again.
My work begins with movement, but it has never ended there. I am interested in how we breathe, recover, adapt and build the capacity to participate fully in our own lives.
Read my storyWork with Devon
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One person. One evolving plan.
As a Toronto movement coach, I work privately with people who want to feel better, become more capable or return to the things they thought they had lost.
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Ideas that move people.
Speaking engagements that connect movement, performance, leadership and wellness—and bespoke workshops developed around an organization’s audience and purpose.
The approach
The body needs an intelligent order of operations. Each capacity supports the next; none should be rushed or treated in isolation.
Function follows form.
Order of operations
Capacity is built in sequence. Each step prepares the body for what comes next.
No speed until position, alignment, stability, strength and endurance have earned it.
Ideas & philosophy
Coaching gives these ideas a laboratory. Writing, conversation and enterprise allow them to travel further.
Calibrated challenge can reveal how we breathe, listen and decide—then help us practise a more useful response.
Wellness is not a luxury. The vitality, time, confidence and physical agency it gives us may become our most valuable freedoms.
Before movement becomes exercise, it is how we experience the world and communicate what we trust, protect and believe is possible.
Wellness can learn from hospitality’s attention to people, context, environment and how an experience makes someone feel.
Purposeful movement can help us rebuild trust, prepare for future demands and improve performance—when the method fits the person and the moment.
The philosophy beneath the work
Building Momentum connects these ideas through one question: how do we develop, protect and restore the capacity to participate more fully in our lives?
“Devon’s ability to tailor a program not only for my body type or my sport, but precisely for me personally, is what sets him apart.”
TJ Galiardi10-year professional hockey career
A wider definition of impact
In 2001, I co-founded Balance Personal Training, Fitness & Rehabilitation. In 2010, I established the Jamaican Children’s Fund for Technology with Rogers Communications, IBM Canada and the Sandals Resorts Foundation. In 2014, Wendy Cecil, then Chancellor of Victoria University, established the Devon Colbert McGregor Scholarship in my honour at Victoria College, University of Toronto. The scholarship recognizes students who achieve academic excellence. Its recipients have since pursued work and study across biomedical research, neuroscience, law, actuarial science, mathematics and technology.
These chapters may look different, but they share one purpose: expanding what becomes possible when people receive the right support.
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Whether you are looking for private coaching, considering a speaking engagement or exploring an aligned collaboration, begin with a conversation.
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