About WeApply Canada
Career & Executive Coaching
LinkedIn & Personal Branding
Turn your quiet strength into visible success.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Lissa Appiah
Founder & CEO of WeApply Canada, Certified Career & Executive Coach, Personal Branding Consultant
With 14+ years of experience in public policy, program operations, and human resources. She helps quiet leaders, founders, and their teams uncover their unique strengths and win at work while staying true to themselves.
She enhances professionals’ visibility and their company’s reputation through career coaching, corporate workshops, and leadership development training. She has empowered thousands to articulate their skills and take control of their careers, leading to successful placements in Fortune 500 companies and various levels of government in Canada and the U.S.
Recognized as a Canada’s Top 20 Career Coaches of 2025, LinkedIn Top Voice of 2024, one of Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch in 2022 and a Semi-Finalist of Total Mom Pitch 2023, her insights have been featured in the Globe and Mail, LinkedIn News, CTV News, and Rogers TV. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from Carleton University and a Bachelor’s in Public Administration and Sociology from the University of Ottawa.
Lissa helps individuals with personal branding, career coaching and leadership development in both Canada and the US.
Serving Ottawa, Toronto, Boston, and New York.
TV & Media Features
- What is one question you should ask yourself every day?, Fortune , July 2024
- Building a personal brand, even if your employer doesn’t want you to, The Globe and Mail, July 2024
- Kindness isn’t weakness in leadership, The Globe and Mail, March 2024
- Can an introvert stand out in a room full of extroverts?, The Globe and Mail, January 2024
- Taking Vacation to get ahead at work, CTV News Channel, August 2023
- What is Personal Branding? Rogers Daytime Ottawa, June 2023
- The right (and wrong) way to quit your job, The Globe and Mail , October 2022
- Can You Lose a Job Offer By Negotiating Salary?, LinkedIn Get Ahead, August 2022
- Should you go back to school to boost your career prospects?, The Globe and Mail, August 2022
- Ways For Introverts to Excel at Work, Get Ahead by LinkedIn News, May 2022
- Feeling burned out at work? Here’s how to break it to your boss, The Globe and Mail, April 2022
- Four ways to update your LinkedIn profile when wanting to ask for a promotion, change jobs, December 2021
Featured Publications & Podcasts
- Your Career GPS - Quiet Cruising: Introvert Leadership Skills - June 2024
- Make Your Own Job Security - Power of Why, March 2023
- How to Increase your Visibility for Opportunities , Growth is personal Podcast, April 2023
- Let's Elevate Your Career, Move US Forward Podcast, May 2023
- Introvert in a Extrovert World, How to Corporate Podcast, April 2023
- Lissa Appiah: From Noticed to Promoted: How emerging leaders can boost their confidence & visibility to attract opportunities, Growth is Personal, July 2022
- Future Leaders’ Guide to… Preparing for Performance Reviews (S3, Ep5), International Project Finance Association, March 2022
- Invested in Our New Reality, Invest Ottawa, May 2022
- Leveling up your Career for Success, Real Talk Live Podcast, April 2022
- 5 career tips shared by 5 career coaches!, The Side Hustler, April 2022
- Powerful Action Verbs to Use in Your Resume, HRinAsia, March 2022
- Give Introverts the Promotion They Deserve - WeApply Canada, Go Solo Subkit , December 2021
- Job searching during COVID-19 with Lissa Appiah, Words with WMN, Women in Management Network, May 2021
- Four Coaches Who Can Help You Navigate These Challenging Times, Invest Ottawa, March 2021
- How to score a job interview like a pro, VidCruiter, 2021
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