Speaker Biographies

Gonzalo Azcoitia (Spain) - View Session
Gonzalo Azcoitia is founding partner of 2grow, a firm specialized in executive coaching and other activities related to leadership and talent management which has developed individual and group programs for companies operating in different sectors (banks and financial services, communication, consulting, head hunting, construction, industrial equipment). Azcoitia has had an extensive career in the financial sector: Midland Bank (now HSBC), Chemical Bank (JPM), and Merrill Lynch. In the latter, he was the Managing Director and Country Head of the Iberian Office of the Asset Management arm for 13 years, responsible for selling, marketing and servicing asset management services to Spanish and Portuguese banks, saving banks, insurance companies, mutual and pension funds. He was a member of the Sales & Marketing Committee for EMEA-APR. Those nearly 20 years gave him an opportunity to gain much experience in managing teams, project management and integration of different cultures on the multinational level. He has designed and facilitated leadership seminars and workshops for several organizations.

Richard Barrett (UK) - View Session
Richard Barrett is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre. Fellow of the World Business Academy and former Values Coordinator at the World Bank, he is an internationally recognized author and consultant on values-based leadership. He works with CEOs and senior executives in North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia to develop vision-guided, values-driven organizational cultures that strengthen financial performance, build cultural capital, and support sustainable development. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT), which have been used to support more than 1,000 organizations in 42 countries in their transformational journeys. Among the books he has published: Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation (2006). He is also a contributing author to Psychometrics in Coaching (2008). For more information on The Barrett Values Center visit www.valuescentre.com.

Peter Barr-Thomson, MCC (Australia) - View Session
Peter Barr-Thomson is the founder and visionary for Ingenius Coaching (established March 2001). He is a passionate believer that life is to be lived and experienced completely every day. Barr-Thomson believes that everyone is genius in their own unique way. His mission in life is to: "Live his genius passionately everyday and have the wisdom, experience and skills to help others– individually or corporately–discover and live their own." Barr-Thomson has held the positions of CEO and finance director of the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia as well as many other senior management roles in private and publicly listed entities in Australia and Switzerland.

Rebecca Bradley, MCC (USA) - View Session
Bradley is president of Partnership Coaching, Inc. She began coaching men and women to be successful in business over 20 years ago. As an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), Bradley has been on the leading edge of her profession since day one, and she continues as a thought leader today. She has taught coaching skills to over 8,000 mid- and senior-level managers at The Coca-Cola Company, Kinko’s, Xerox, The Veteran’s Health Administration and the Ministries of Education and Manpower in Singapore. She has created a Coaching and Mentoring Certification Training Program that is being rolled out system-wide throughout the VHA. Bradley is a founding member of the Society of Organizational Learning and a past mentor in the Georgia 100 Mentor Exchange program. She is an assessor for the ICF, evaluating individuals and coach training schools who are seeking certification or accreditation. She is a published co-author and frequent speaker on partnership coaching, growing individual and organizational capacity, and partnering as a developmental discipline for tomorrow’s leaders.

Ken Buback, MA, CPCC (USA) - View Session
Ken Buback is the Chief Administrative Officer for Sutter Connect, an administrative services organization and health care provider in Northern California.  His current responsibilities include oversight of the Disease Management Coaching Program and serving as an internal executive leadership coach. Buback has held several executive human resources leadership roles in prominent health care organizations in the United States. He has an undergraduate degree in social sciences from Eastern Michigan University, and a master's degree in education and management from Wayne State University. Buback is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute and is certified in the coactive coaching model.

Alain Cardon, MCC (France) - View Session
An MCC since 2002, Cardon is mostly recognized for his specific competencies in team and organizational coaching. Cardon is also a coach trainer and coach supervisor with coach students in France, Belgium and Romania where he has recently opened a new coaching school. As far as his style in individual coaching for executives and personal clients with life coaching issues, Cardon has developed a personal, confronting and empowering coaching style which may be defined as a blend of brief, systemic, creative, and breakthrough approaches. Although French national and part-time resident, his international personal life and career also makes it difficult to define Cardon's coaching heritage as originating from one or another school of thought, one or another national frame of reference.

Jacques Chevrier (Canada)  - View Session
Dr. Jacques Chevrier is full professor at the Département des sciences de l'éducation of Université du Québec en Outaouais. His interests lie in learning in educational contexts, specifically in adult’s learning strategies and styles, experiential and transformational learning and constructing teacher's professional identity. He has contributed to these themes through numerous books, articles as well as conferences.

Tor Eneroth (Sweden) - View Session
Tor Eneroth has a long history of practical hands-on experience in managing organizational culture transformation in mainly two major international Swedish organizations (SCA and Volvo). His roles as internal consultant in this transformational work have been as quality performance manager, best partner coordinator (TQM), change management advisor, management and employee development manager (including mentoring and coaching of leaders) and the last 10 years as culture manager. During this period, he has also worked in association with the Swedish Institute for Quality (SIQ) as examinator and examination leader for the Swedish Quality Award. These roles and challenges have given Eneroth unique skills in how to manage and lead practical execution of leader-, team- and organizational transformation.

Jeanne Erikson, ACC, (USA) -
Jeanne Erikson has successfully facilitated more than 3,500 divorce, contract, and employment discrimination mediations and trained more than 500 divorce and community mediators in conflict resolution techniques. She has a master’s degree in human development, and a Ph.D. in social welfare. She serves on the International Coach Federation’s Ethics and Standards Committee.

Cheryl Esposito (USA) - View Session
Cheryl Esposito, founder of Alexsa Consulting, is internationally recognized for coaching CEOs, helping them learn to lead themselves in order to lead others. Her 20-plus years of coaching led her to the critical success factor: the consciousness of leaders – how they show up, and are perceived by others. With Esposito’s coaching, clients carry their integrated self into the worlds of healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, hi-tech, and transportation, from Fortune 500 to start-ups, and to their families and communities. On her radio show, “Leading Conversations,” Esposito’s artful questions and listening produce moving conversations on topics including business and leadership, government and social change. Her new book, In the Spirit of Leadership, takes readers on a leadership journey through poems, questions, and stories of insight and vulnerability.

Judy Feld, MCC (USA) - View Session 
Judy Feld is an executive coach with a highly regarded reputation worldwide. Feld was the 2003 President of the ICF and served on the Board of Directors from 1997 through 2004. She was one of the first 20 coaches to receive the MCC designation­ and renewed three times. She has been coaching since 1995, working with executives, entrepreneurs, managers, and business teams all over the world, with extensive experience in career, change, leadership and communications coaching for professionals at all levels. She is also a skilled and generous mentor to other coaches, and an educator as well. Feld is co-founder of the Executive and Professional Coaching Program at the University of Texas at Dallas, which began in September, 2005 and received ACTP status in 2006. She serves on the faculty, leads the supervised coaching program, and manages faculty training and credentialing. Feld served as Director of Distance Learning for the Authentic Happiness Coaching Program from 2003 to 2005, with master classes by  Dr. Martin Seligman, a founder of the Positive Psychology movement. Feld is the co-author of the book SmartMatch Alliances (2002).

Phyliss Francis, MA, CLC, PCC (USA) - View Session
Phyliss Francis is an inspiring and empowering ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), mentor coach, retreat facilitator, speaker and consultant. Francis is a faculty member and graduate of Coach For Life, a spiritually-based coaching school. For the past 16 years, Francis has been leading and facilitating insightful seminars, workshops and motivational programs for corporate executives, entrepreneurs, mental health professionals, and community leaders. She has extensive experience and training in the areas of coaching, counseling, personal growth and development, and spirituality. Francis believes that through personal or professional coaching and training, people can learn strategies to master the space between their goal and the manifestation through alignment with their daily actions and consciousness. Her mission through Stop Talk Coaching is to coach people to Stop Talking about the life they have always wanted, and Live Life Out Loud! She holds a MA in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica and a BA in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 
 
Candice Frankovelgia (USA) - View Session
With a background in both business and behavioral science, Dr. Candice Frankovelgia integrates these disciplines to design and deliver a broad range of global coaching solutions for the Center for Creative Leadership. She directs a cadre of top-level executive coaches and has expertise in linking individual leadership development and team development to organizational impact.  Candice also delivers Awareness Programs for Executive Excellence (APEX)® - an intensive assessment, feedback, and coaching program for senior level executives. This individual focus often leads to a broader focus on the executive’s team. Frankovelgia co-authored a chapter on Team Coaching in the Center’s Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach (Jossey-Bass, 2006). Prior to joining the Center in 1998, she served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany developing programs and services for family members of American military personnel experiencing extreme change resulting from the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this time Frankovelgia also established a private, international consulting agency whose mission was to facilitate family services across U.S. and European cultural boundaries. 

Marita Fridjhon, MSW, CPCC, PCC  (USA) -View Session 
Marita Fridjhon is co-owner and president of The Center for Right Relationship. She maintains an international mentor coaching practice for practitioners in the Relationship Systems field, is a consultant to several large organizations, and is a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute. She designs and leads Relationship Systems training programs for coaches, executives, and teams. This work comes from an extensive background of Clinical Social Work, Community Development, Process Work, Family Systems therapy, consulting, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her primary focus in coaching is on systemic change, leveraging diversity, creative communication, deep democracy, and the development of Learning Organizations.

Faith Fuller PhD, CPCC (USA) - View Sesion
Dr. Faith Fuller is co-owner and President of The Center for Right Relationship. She is a psychologist and experienced trainer and coach, with more than 15 years of experience in working with organizations, couples and communities. Fuller takes a systems approach to coaching, namely that all aspects of the system need to be addressed in order for effective change to occur. Her particular skill is empowering powerful, productive and joyous relationships in couples, partnerships and teams. She also has a background in consultation, team building, conflict resolution and community crisis intervention.

Dee Gaeddert (USA) - View Session
Dr. Dee Gaeddert is president of Lominger International, a Korn/Ferry Company, based in the firm’s Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA location. Gaeddert is an accomplished business leader, consultant, and psychologist focused on building talent management solutions for executives and organizations. Prior to becoming president of Lominger International, Gaeddert served as COO of LeaderSource, also a Korn/Ferry Company, in Minneapolis. As COO,she led the business development and consulting operations functions of LeaderSource, in addition to her role as an executive coach. Prior to joining Korn/Ferry, she was president and co-founder of QI International, a consulting firm dedicated to improving the way organizations manage business relationships with customers, employees, and other stakeholders. She was also a recent practice leader with Personnel Decisions International. Gaeddert holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bethel College, Kansas.

Sandy Gibson (USA) - View Session
As an early adaptor to the online world, Sandy Gibson has worked with a diverse range of businesses at various stages of the business life cycle. She is valued for her ability to cut through the confusion of e-marketing and produce strategies that get results. Since 1998, Gibson has skillfully guided business owners to a better understanding of their offer and has translated that into compelling marketing messages on the Web. Over the years her company, Breezy Hill Designs, has developed Web sites that represent the client's business in authentic and unique ways, generate sales leads, and produce revenue. Gibson's background includes leadership roles in various industries. In the agricultural sector, she managed multi-million dollar inventories and was among the first group of pioneers to integrate electronic data interchange (EDI), a system of management accounting for those inventories. Confident in her ability to navigate multifaceted subjects with ease, grace, and sheer determination, she started Breezy Hill in Presque Isle, Maine and through the magic of the Internet, works with small to medium size business domestically and internationally.

C.J. Hayden, MCC, CPCC (USA) - View Session
C.J. Hayden has been coaching entrepreneurs to succeed since 1992. She is the author of Get Clients Now! and Get Hired Now! Coaching programs based on her books are offered by more than 350 coaches in 11 countries. Hayden specializes in coaching social entrepreneurs, and has advised hundreds of changemakers on how to make a bigger impact with their ideas. Hayden is a founding board member of the Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship, and has developed entrepreneurial training programs for a dozen different NGOs. She is a former faculty member of The Coaches Training Institute.

Sabine Henrichfreise, MCC (Germany/France) - View Session
Sabine Henrichfreise is an inspiring and successful business coach and a recognized expert in collective creative intelligence and transcultural executive coaching. She intervenes in three languages for her client base which extends throughout Europe and includes CAC 40 and Fortune 500 companies. Henrichfreise has Ph.D. in law, is a former practicing attorney and has six years of business experience in a worldwide acting automobile company. She is a featured speaker, dynamic facilitator of large group interventions and appreciated seminar trainer for various European business and coaching schools. She is co-author of the book Coaching des organisation (Paris, 2008) and author of Re-genesis of Collective Intelligence, Our Genuine Capacity to Think, Learn and Create Together (The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching, 2008).

Helen House, MCC, CPCC (USA) - View Session
Helen House made the transition from professional artist to professional coach in 1996. She has been finding creative ways to use coaching to change the world ever since. Passionate about human awareness and responsibility, authenticity and integrity, House longs for human beings to live in ways that value self, other, and our planet more fully. Since 1998, House has been a Leader for The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). In 2001, she joined Laura Whitworth's project bringing coach training into the U.S. prison system as a means of building coaching skills into the inmate's core life skill set. She believes coaching skills increase awareness in a way that invites personal responsibility. She adapted from CTI the first ICF accredited coach certification program to be offered to inmates. House is actively involved in the design and delivery of coaching courses in The Laura Whitworth Prison Project's current work at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility.

Tom Hurley (USA) - View Session
Tom Hurley is currently guiding the global evolution of the World Café and serves as a senior advisor and executive coach for leaders seeking innovative approaches to key strategic issues and large scale systems change. For more than 25 years, he has worked with innovators, thought leaders, and executives in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, helping guide and give form to whole system change initiatives in technology, health care, international development, philanthropy, food safety, ecosystem management, religion, and a wide range of other fields. He was co-founder of the Chaordic Commons, a nonprofit consulting organization in which he partnered with VISA founder Dee Hock, and served for 17 years with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where he was a member of the senior management team that guided the Institute’s growth into a leading global organization on expanded human capacities and positive futures. He serves on the board of directors for both the World Café Community Foundation and the Berkana Institute.

Paul Jeong (Korea) - View Session
Paul Jeong's coaching and executive programs have served 45,000 Asian leaders and executives, including cabinet ministers, presidential candidates and leaders of Korea’s largest companies. He currently serves as a coaching leadership professor at Korea’s Younsei University, nurturing executive leadership and organization for inspirational transformation. He has trained over 2,500 professional coaches in the past eight years. Clarity, calmness and focus on the essence while making stressful or complex moments, are attributes his clients seek and he contributes deep experience of best practices in world-class leadership from the Asian perspective. Clients include Samsung, Hyundai,  LG, IBM, Tesco, Degussa, BOC, Clariant and Linde Group.

Marc Johnstone (USA) - View Session
Marc Johnstone is the Founder of Shirlaws USA and an international business coach with the highly successful Shirlaws International Coaching business. He founded Shirlaws U.S. operation in 2003 and is currently developing the US market.Shirlaws was established in 1999 and it quickly became one of the fastest growing coaching companies in the world. Today, Shirlaws is established in Australia, UK, USA and New Zealand.

Bilal Kaafarani (USA) - View Session
Bilal Kaafarani has more than 26 years of leadership experience, currently serving as senior vice-president of Global Research and Development for The Coca-Cola Company. In this role Kaafarani is responsible for leading the global R&D and Innovation strategy, management of the global Innovation pipeline, and bringing together all R&D centers into an effective global network to increase the pace, efficiency and impact of innovation and growth of the business top-line. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, he served as vice-president of R&D and chief technology officer for UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa for PepsiCo International and as vice-president of technology for Frito-Lay. He has also held successful leadership roles with Tropicana, Procter & Gamble and Kraft. Kaafarani has a demonstrated track record for delivering breakthrough accomplishments and a strong innovation pipeline. He is known for fostering a performance-based culture of courageous leaders and has a personal passion for developing a high performance and engaged team to achieve positive business results. Kaafarani was awarded a BS in chemical engineering from Wayne State University.

Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, PCC (USA) -View Session
Dr. Carol Kauffman has an active U.S. and UK coaching and supervision practice, and is assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School where she is also co-founder and director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative (www.HarvardCPPI.org) She is co-editor in chief of the peer-reviewed journal, COACHING: An International Journal of Theory, Research & Practice. Kauffman is chief supervisor of the Meyler Campbell business coaching program in London, and a facilitator for the Global Convention on Coaching work group on developing a global research agenda. For more information please visit DrCarolKauffman.com.

John King (USA) - View Session
John King is co-founder and senior partner of CultureSync.  King is co-author of two books: The Coaching Revolution and Tribal Leadership. Clients of his coaching practice have been featured on all major television networks and in The Wall Street Journal. CultureSync’s clients include Intel, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Southern California Edison, CB Richard Ellis, Colliers International, OliverMcMillan, The California State Appointed Executives, Amgen, American Express, and The Space Frontier Foundation. King is part of the leadership development team at Sierra Health Foundation and is on faculty at Collier’s University, CB Richard Ellis University, and The California Leadership Institute.  King is also a frequent guest lecturer in the Marshall School of Business and the School of Public Policy, Planning, and Development at USC. 

 Nao Konishi (Japan) - View Session
Nao Konishi is a core member of Nal co.ltd., which has just been established by professional coaches in Japan, aiming at making a society where every person lives with his/her core values. Konishi's background is in working toward human insight understanding in a global company, contributing to regional and global projects in cross cultural organization. She believes in the limitless possibility in every human being and values in diversity of every species and nature, being as it is in the universe.

Margaret Krigbaum, MCC, JD, (USA) - View Session
 Margaret Krigbaum has coached for the last 14 years. She is past chair of the ICF’s Application Review Committee, is a former vice president of the ICF and was education chair for the 2007 ICF International Conference. Krigbaum coaches corporate teams, executives and professionals. Her practice includes individual clients and teams in 13 countries and 16 professions. Krigbaum has appeared as a speaker at the Japan Coaching Association and workshops for ICF chapters in Austria, Colombia, Germany, Italy, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, the UK, and throughout the US. She has taught masters’ classes for Mozaik in France, Coach 21 in Japan, and Top Human in China. Krigbaum has also presented at six ICF international conferences, three European conferences, and at the first Australian conference.

Martha Lasley (USA) - View Session
Martha Lasley is a founding partner of Leadership that Works, a firm that trains and coaches visionaries. She co-founded Facilitating Change, a year-long program that uses nonviolent communication as a primary activist tool for creating social change. Her passion is igniting transformation by integrating nonviolent communication with coaching. As a frequent traveler to Mumbai, Martha facilitates Coaching and Compassion in Action workshops in underserved communities and NGOs. She’s been coaching leaders since 1998 and is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. On the faculty at Coaching that Works and Capella University, she teaches coaching and leadership courses. Lasley wrote the book Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization and is finishing a new book, Transformation Geeks: Facilitating Personal Growth and Social Change.

Janet Laughton Mackay, MBA (Canada) - View Session
Janet Laughton Mackay's executive coaching and leadership consulting practice is anchored in concrete executive experience and 12 years as an independent consultant. The intent of her work is to support high impact, authentic leadership. During her corporate career, she held various sales and marketing roles in the emerging computer industry. At Unisys those roles included Vice-President of Marketing and General Manager of the Federal Region. Laughton Mackay then assumed the CEO role of a privately held marketing company that was facing a serious financial crisis. Developing and using some of the leadership practices that she offers today, she led a turnaround of that organization in 14 months. Her role, today, is that of a volunteer facilitator for The Pachamama Alliance. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Leng Leroy Lim (USA) -  View Session
Leng Leroy Lim is an executive and leadership coach who brings a wide range of expertise, from the fields of management science, developmental psychology, organizational development, system thinking, ethics and the world’s wisdom and philosophical traditions, to further his clients’ achievements and growth. The common theme, from his work on mountain peaks to the corporate boardroom is the development of people’s leadership, legacy and courage.  Lim holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School as well as a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School.

Laurie B. Lippin, Ph.D. (USA) - View Session
Dr. Laurie Lippin teaches at UC Davis and is founder and director of Lippin & Associates, a coaching and consultation firm specializing in team building and diversity issues. She coauthored Understanding Whiteness/Unraveling Racism: Tools for the Journey (with Helfand). She is a frequent conference presenter (Out & Equal, National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, White Privilege Conference, Working Mother Media Multicultural Women in Business, International Leadership Association). She is a graduate of coaching schools the Newfield Network, and Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching. Lippin identifies herself as a Diversity Coach.

Dave Logan, Ph.D. (USA) - View Session
Dave Logan is co-founder and senior partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural change, strategy, and negotiation. Also a professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC, he served as Associate Dean of Executive Education from 2001 to 2004.  During that time, he launched the largest training program in commercial real estate (with CB Richard Ellis), and new programs with dozens of organizations, from Northrop Grumman to numerous small cap financial institutions. Currently, he teaches leadership and negotiation in the USC Executive MBA and is on faculty at the Center for Medical Excellence in Portland and the International Center for Leadership In Finance (ICLIF) in Kuala Lumpur. He has written or co-authored three books, including Tribal Leadership, and is at work on a 2009 release for the “Warren Bennis” line of books at Jossey-Bass. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from USC, and a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown.

Jeff MacInnis (Canada) - View Session
Jeff MacInnis has pushed the limits of human experience. He achieved a 400-year-old impossible challenge when he led the first team to sail the Northwest Passage. The expedition became a National Geographic article, a best-selling book and an international television special. In athletics, MacInnis competed on the Canadian National Ski Team, during the era of the "Crazy Canucks." In business, his company has designed and delivered over 750 projects in 16 countries. His clients include more than half of the Fortune 500. He is the creator of The Business Race Program. Currently, MacInnis and his organization are "revenue racing" their clients to over $32 billion dollars in revenue. Over the last few years, MacInnis has competed internationally in Adventure Racing. Recently, at Eco-Challenge New Zealand, the World Championship of Expedition Racing, MacInnis and his team celebrated a 10th-place finish against the best teams in the world. MacInnis is racing in business, athletics and life.

Carol MacKinnon (Canada) - View Session
Carol MacKinnon is an associate of The Coaching Project, and co-author, with Susan Wright, of Leadership Alchemy: The Magic of the Leader Coach. She has been teaching leadership and coaching in two Canadian MBA programs, as well as at a graduate Business School in Lima, Peru, and for several large organizations including Electronic Arts and The Salvation Army for more than 10 years. She has 30 years of experience as a human resource executive and consultant, and long before she knew what it was, she was coaching her clients and colleagues to reach their goals and achieve their dreams.

Jim Marley (USA) - View Session
Marley is the founder of Marley Leadership Coaching. With a focus on creating environments of trust, courage and resilience, Marley’s individual and group coaching clients accelerate growth in themselves, their businesses and the communities they serve. He brings to coaching a natural curiosity and 30-plus years business experience. He understands the importance of thinking strategically, executing action plans, being accountable and listening to those around him; qualities honed as a U.S. Army officer and executive with Fortune 500 and privately held companies in the U.S. and internationally. Marley joined the professional coaching community in 2004. He has served on the ICF Ethics and Standards Committee since 2005, is a member of the Code of Ethics Review Sub-Committee and Education Sub-Committee Chair. From 2005 to 2007, he served on the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance Board of Directors and as VP of Marketing. Marley received his coach training from Coach U and Corporate Coach U. He is a graduate of Temple University’s MBA Program in finance and international business and holds a BA in economics from LaSalle University.

Brian Marsh, MBA, PCC (USA) -  View Session
Brian Marsh is the program manager for Sutter Connect’s Disease Management Program, an innovative wellness coaching program designed for people living with chronic illness. He leads a group of coaches who help hundreds of patients uncover simple yet effective ways to achieve improved health status and a greater sense of wellness through linking their personal values with internal motivation and intention. In addition to his work in health care, Marsh also finds great fulfillment working as a coach and facilitator within the non-profit sector, supporting individuals with developmental disabilities to create self-determined lives despite their perceived limitations.Marsh has a background in Fortune 500 management and completed coach training (CPCC) with The Coaches Training Institute. 

Christine Martin, MCC, MA, MBA (USA) - View Session
Martin has been a high performance business and executive coach since 1992 and is the founder of Innovation Coaching, LLC. As a member of the 4-D Systems Coaching Team, she coaches leaders at NASA. Her private clients are professional coaches and Fortune 500 executives. Martin chaired the ICF global credentialing initiative in 2005 and 2006 and served as a Vice- President on ICF's Board of Directors in 2004 and 2005. She has represented the ICF credentialing program in Australia, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Quebec (Canada) and throughout the US. Presently she is writing a book, Courageous Conversations, with Sherry Lowry, MCC. Martin graduated from the University of Southern California and Pepperdine University. She was a graduate school professor from 1994 to 2005. She is currently an instructor for the University of Texas at Dallas’ Executive and Professional Coaching Program and is an instructor in group coaching for Mentor Coach.

Sophie Ménard (Canada) - View Session
Sophie Ménard is a Ph.D. candidate at Université du Québec en Outaouais, a coach and adult learning specialist with a total of 17 years of experience in training and human resource development in the private, public, community and academic sectors. As an assistant professor, Ménard has contributed to training facilitators, trainers and various group leaders using a variety of experiential learning approaches. As director of undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint-Paul University, Ménard has been exploring her leadership development and style, and supporting that of colleagues within the academic environment. Her doctoral thesis focuses on executive coaching as an experiential training method and the interventions required by an executive coaching in inducing sustainable change in leaders.

Diane S. Menendez, Ph.D., MCC (USA) - View Session
Dr. Diane Menendez is a 25 year veteran of executive coaching who currently serves as part-time Head Coach, Convergys Corporation. Her coaching and practice with global leaders take her to the UK, Singapore, India and the Philippines, as well as to locations in the United States. She is the co-author of Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training (Norton, 2006)  and is currently researching best practices in corporate cross-cultural coaching.

Renee Moorefield, PhD, MCC (USA) - View Session
Dr. Renee Moorefield is an author, strategic thinker and leader on matters of business and personal transformation. She believes that business holds the key for fostering a global shift in human consciousness and creating immense possibility for the future of people worldwide. She works as leadership and lifestyle strategist to forward-thinking executives and as mentor to professional coaches and consultants dedicated to transformative business leadership. Moorefield is CEO of Wisdom Works, a leadership development firm which provides expertise about the world’s emerging values of health and sustainability and what these values mean for 21st Century living, leading and managing organizations.

Michèle Morneau, M.A., MCC (Canada) - View Session
 For the last thirty years, Michèle Morneau has been working as a trainer and consultant in organizational development and human resources. Since 1996, she has intervened as a professional coach for managers and teams in public and parapublic organizations. Very experienced in coaching individuals and teams in periods of change, she is well known for her creative and pedagogical skills and her main strengths reside in the fields of organizational fusion and transformation. Her professional practice is deeply rooted in a solid framework which includes many different approaches like the systemic, the process of change, communication, creativity and constructivism. Morneau teaches guidance approaches at Laval University in Québec and has published at least 20 articles and documents on management, creativity and coaching and throughout Quebec and France on these topics. Morneau holds a master's degree in psychopedagogy and a certification in individual and team coaching with International Mozaïk.

Antonio Moya, ACC (Spain) - View Session
Antonio Moya is a founding partner of 2grow, a firm specialized in executive coaching and other activities related to leadership and talent management which has developed individual and group programs for companies operating in different sectors (banks and financial services, communication, consulting, head hunting, construction, industrial equipment). Previously, he has developed his business background working in the financial industry and the automotive sector. He has held leadership positions in national and multinational companies such as Banco Herrero, Citibank and Volvo. He served for 15 years as CEO of two financial institutions in Spain, that he started -in both cases- from scratch. This frontline executive's responsibilities allow him to know and understand what is required in a managerial role within an organization. Moya brings more than 27 years of real experience in managing business and building teams which has given him the opportunity to participate in and lead multiple projects related with change management and business strategy.


Mary Murphy, M.E.S., CPCC (Canada) - View Session
As president of Global Conversations, Mary J. Murphy works with leaders who want to achieve meaningful and sustainable results in their work, their life and their future. She inspires and motivates clients to expand their perspectives and engage in the conversations that matter. With more than 25 years as a consultant and coach, she integrates her coaching, change management and communications knowledge and experiences to help clients move to a new level of impact and results. Murphy completed a master's degree in environmental studies at York University (1983), where her focus was on organizational and personal change. She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (2001), a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (2003), and has advanced training in Organization Relationship and Systems Coaching (2006). Murphy is now extending her coaching with leaders to connect with emerging leaders and youth on topics of leadership, collaboration, and contribution. She is the founder and champion for Pearls for Girls, a leadership program for youth, with a focus on global citizenship. 
 

Randy Nathan (USA) - View Session
 For more than 20 years, Randy Nathan has impacted thousands of youth and teens in camp, education, youth groups and other non-profit programs. He has worked with individuals as a youth worker, clinician, athletic coach, fundraiser, camp director, and personal life coach. As a life coach, Nathan partners with teens to inspire, motivate and empower them to achieve their personal goals and dreams, while teaching them valuable strategies to overcome the obstacles and challenges they encounter. Nathan is a national keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and column writer. He is founder and creator of the LEAP Program, a six-part empowerment workshop designed to help youth and teens identify their purpose, overcome their limiting beliefs, enhance peer relationships, and develop a plan for reaching their true potential. He is also the founder and president of LEAP into Excellence, Inc., a non-profit organization that offers coaching services and programs to youth and teens in need.

Craig Neal (USA) - View Session
Craig Neal has celebrated life as a passionate publishing executive, business owner, organizational trainer, coach and convener. He has developed, designed and delivered scores of programs inside organizations for 30 years and is skilled at building relationships within and across organizations. Neal is authoring the upcoming book, The Art of Convening (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). He is the originator of the Essential Conversation™ process and the Art of Convening™ trainings, with 275 graduates worldwide. Since 1988, he and his wife, and business partner Patricia, have convened the Thought Leader Gatherings™ series for 1,600 leaders from 800 organizations in Minnesota and the Bay Area of California.  Craig and Patricia live in Minneapolis.

Marina Osnaghi (Italy) - View Session
Marina Osnaghi is the first Italian qualified as an ICF Master Certified Coach. From 2003 to 2005, she served as the President of the ICF Italian Chapter.  She is specialized in the “Future Methode,” a coaching methodology developed in Europe during the last 15 years, and she is the technical director for Italy of the Future school for professional coaches. Osnaghi has a rich professional history, as well as many international qualifications: she worked as a CEO and entrepreneur for 15 years building a solid know-how about organization. As a coach, she had the opportunity to work with companies, partnering with individuals and groups, to accompanying the development of executive and leaders. She is also contributing to the development of the coaching profession in Italy through her mentoring activity for new coaches. Her multicultural background allows her to easily understand different cultures and gives her the opportunity to be effective in different contexts and organizations.

Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. (USA) -  View Session
Dr. Bill Plotkin is the founder and president of Animas Valley Institute, a Colorado non-profit, whose mission, since 1981, has been to reconnect people with nature and soul, and thereby engender visionary leaders—inspired youth, authentic adults, and wise elders—to help carry on the "Great Work" of this century. He is the author of Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (New World Library, 2008) and Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (New World Library, 2003). An ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and vision quest guide, Plotkin has led many thousands of people on experiential, nature-based programs. He has been a popular workshop facilitator and keynote speaker at numerous venues throughout the U.S. and Europe for the past 20 years. His doctorate in psychology is from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Laura Quintarelli, MCC (Italy) - View Session
Laura Quintarelli has been working in training and human resource management for more then 10 years. She is a senior partner and a co-founder of Fedro Training and Coaching, where she is the director of the coach training program for professional coaches. She works with individual clients, such as executives and politicians and also with teams. She has much experience in corporate coaching and she developed strategies and techniques to facilitate the understanding of coaching in organizations.
Her coaching style allows her clients to expand their vision and to become aware of many new opportunities. Quintarelli is the author of numerous books and articles about communication, marketing and coaching. She is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) and, at the moment, she is serving as the president of the Italian ICF chapter.

Marcia Reynolds, MCC, PsyD (USA) - View Session
Dr. Marcia Reynolds is a past president of the ICF and a recognized expert in emotional intelligence and leadership worldwide. In addition to coaching executives and rising stars, she trains leaders and presents at conferences around the world. Quotes from her book, Outsmart Your Brain, have appeared in Fortune Magazine, Harvard Management Update and The New York Times, and she has appeared on ABC World News and National Public Radio. Reynolds has also spent 16 years working for high tech and healthcare corporations, providing an experiential foundation to her work.

Joel M. Rothaizer, MCC (USA) - View Session
Dr. Joel Rothaizer and his partner, Sandra Hill, integrate powerful models and perspectives into their executive coaching and organizational consulting work—including developmental thinking, systemic awareness and the multidimensional Enneagram—to assist leaders, organizations and teams in quickly rising to higher levels of sustainable functioning. Their passionate study and integration of developmental thinking models has gone beyond individual application to the creation of contexts that help raise the developmental functioning of all members. They facilitate focusing on root causes rather than energy-sapping symptoms, and discovering unique and elegant solutions to seemingly complex problems. Rothaizer's  clients have included IBM, GE, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mellon, ADP, HSBC, SOM, Los Alamos National Labs, DoubleClick and StorageTek.

Kulu Sadira (USA) - View Session
Kulu Sadira's compassionate, “hands-on” facilitation approach combines humor with wisdom and intellect with heart. A life-long learner, and passionate integralist, his eclectic studies have included intensive training with Virginia Satir, John Bradshaw, Robert Bly, Michio Kushi, Colorado ADAD certification program, Naropa’s Shambala Meditation Training, as well as a ten-year immersion in Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory. During his residence in Aspen, Colorado, 1975-1995 Sadira had the privilege to work with world-class entertainers John Denver, Jimmy Buffet, Kenney Loggins, Tanya Tucker, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Glenn Frey, Ringo and Cher. He has studied with indigenous music masters Olitunji, Mamady Keita, Chris Berry, Titos Sompa and others. Based in Durango, Colorado with wife Lori, he is in demand by diverse international organizations including corporations, leadership and team development programs, public and private service providers, personal growth seminars, youth corrections, universities, and a broad variety of conferences and retreats. Sadira's work has received attention in the Denver Post, TIME magazine and a variety of local and regional media outlets. 

Edmée Schalkx, PCC (Netherlands) - View Session
Born in Caracas, Venezuela to Dutch parents, Edmée Schalkx has lived and worked in several countries on more than one continent. She combines special training, coaching and project management skills with cultural awareness and has good command of five languages. Schalkx has a master's degree in anthropology and is a an ICF PCC certified coach. As a coach, trainer, founder and president of the International Coach Federation Chapter in the Netherlands (ICF-NL) and member of the European ICF leaders group, she wants people to share, learn and grow. She uses her network and that of others to find monthly speakers for workshops for the ICF-NL, find projects and support solopreneurs, managers and CEOs in their quest to grow and be the best person and professional they can be. She is also a mentor coach for coaches seeking ICF certification.

Takeshi Shimamura, CPCC (Japan) - View Session
 President of CTI Japan, Takeshi Shimamura believes that people are most creative and productive in feeling fulfillment when they are following their heart. He strongly values 1) Kokorozashi (will or aspiration to make a social contribution that resides at the core of every human being), 2) Kizuna (alliance and trust among people which provides safe environments which creates synergy). By nurturing these values he has been pursuing his mission to develop a structure for people to play active roles in society. With such passion Takeshi took over the position of president of CTI Japan in 2004, where has educated more than 3,500 coaches since it was established in 2000.

Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC (USA) - View Session
Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC, is an individual, team, and leadership development coach. Chair of the International Gestalt Coaching Program (ICF-ACTP) and faculty of the Gestalt OSD Group Intensive Program, she delivers training to coaches, consultants, human service providers, and business executives who wish to learn or improve their coaching skills. Areas of her practice are: how learning and change are influenced by culture, gender, positional and personal power. She integrates holistic theory and practice into her coaching and revolutionary theories of learning and change. Her teaching and practice take her to United States, Canada, Turkey, and Israel.

Sobonfu Somé (Burkina Faso/USA) - View Session
Sobonfu Somé is a respected lecturer, activist and author. She is the founder of Wisdom Spring, Inc. an organization that honors, preserves and shares the wisdom of indigenous cultures and fundraises for wells, schools and health projects in Africa. She is one of the foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West, bringing insights and healing gifts from her West African culture. Sobonfu often tours the United States and Europe teaching workshops. Her books includes: The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient teachings in the ways of relationships; Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient teachings to celebrate children, community; and Falling out of Grace: meditations on loss, healing and wisdom. She is also the author of Women Wisdom From the Heart of Africa, a set of six CDs. For more information, about Sobonfu’s projects and teaching schedule please visit: www.Sobonfu.com or www.wisdomspring.org.

Jon Symes - View Session
Jon Symes is communication lead for The Pachamama Alliance. In an organization committed to “changing the dream of the modern world“ Symes is drawing on all the skills and experience built up over more than 40 years as consultant, coach, author, father, visionary, entrepreneur and steward of Planet Earth. Born in the UK, Symes was invited to join Pachamama in San Francisco on the basis of his book, Your Planet Needs You, and his commitment to the "Great Turning." His current work is an extension of the calling which first found form in Symes' coaching and development work with major organizations in Europe, Marks & Spencer, Nestle and others when he began to question what dream his work was supporting. 

Peter Szabo, MCC (Switzerland) - View Session
Peter Szabo is founder of SolutionSurfers/ Weiterbildungsforum Basel, the largest coaching school in Switzerland. He teaches post graduate courses in coaching at different universities and gives workshops on solution-focused coaching worldwide. In his private practice, he specializes on short coaching processes with executives. He has been an assessor on the ICF international credentialing team since 2002. Szabo has also published Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions with Insoo Kim Berg (WW.Norton Publishers, 2005).

Josephine Thomson, MCC (Australia) - View Session
Josephine Thompson's extraordinary talent in helping people reach their true innate potential and to find passion and meaning in what they do has seen her phenomenal rise to the top of her field. Her aim is to assist individuals to harness their own unique personal power to create massive positive change in their life. Her commitment is to help all people live inspired lives of health, happiness and success. "I expect nothing less than abundance in my clients' lives: in their spirit, health and happiness," she says. Josephine Thompson truly is a committed, passionate woman who walks her talk and brings great things to her clients.

Chris Venn (Canada) - View Session
Chris Venn is Senior Vice President of the Center for Right Relationship, the thought leaders who inspire and equip people who work with relationship systems. With 15 years of entrepreneurship and working with hundreds of companies in Canada, the US and Australia, people are often not surprised that Chris has a solid understanding of how to support the evolution of a business into the vision leaders hold for it. What they are often surprised by is that he started his career as an Executive Protection Specialist. The result is that Venn carries a very unique approach to creating powerfully safe spaces where sustainable change can emerge. When you combine that with his sense of humor and clear desire to see people perform at their best, you’ll find a speaker that will undoubtedly leave you with something to ponder.

Beth Wallace (USA) - View Session
Beth Wallace helps people who are struggling to get their big ideas into print. She has been a development editor for professional non-fiction, memoir, and children’s fiction for over ten years. She is the community-building lead for A Bigger Voice (www.abiggervoiceblog.com) and the editor-in-chief for Rainbow Rumpus (www.rainbowrumpus.org). Wallace has a B.A. in French and Education from Carleton College, and trained as a coach through the Coaches Training Institute. She has also studied designing environments for children with Anita Olds at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, children’s literature at Pacific Oaks College, and educational leadership at Bank Street College. Originally from Vermont, Wallace now lives in Minneapolis.

Yuki Watanabe (Japan) - View Session
As a co-active coach since 2002, Watanabe has been helping her clients who are individuals and executives in Japan in achieving more fullfillment in both their lives and careers through improving their professional skills, removing fears of handling conflict and stressful situations, increasing confidence levels, and developing relationships. Watanabe received her MBA from Keio University. She has consulted for Fortune 500 companies for new business start-ups and utilized coaching for project leaders as a way to vitalize organizations. Watanabe is currently a trainer for The Coaches Training Institute Japan and teaches Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at Yamanashi Gakuin University. She has cowrote a variety of articles such as “Leadership R&D”, for Diamond Harvard Business Review.

 Hartmut Wiehle (Germany) - View Session 
Hartmut Wiehle is a management consultant with strong focus on the implementation of transformation programs to take place in close collaboration with the responsible managers. He studied computer science and business administration at the technical university of Munich and owns long-standing experience as a project manager at leading enterprises in the IT and consultation branch. He is specified on capturing and illustrating complicated connections in change processes and the application of conceptual models. Wiehle is a partner and manager of the businessforce management consultancy which focuses itself on the preparation and enabling of difficult change processes.

Susan Wright, PCC (Canada) View Session
Dr. Susan Wright is president of The Coaching Project, a Canadian firm specializing in executive coaching, leadership development and Leader Coach© education. She is a faculty member in the MBA program at Athabasca University. Her book, Leadership Alchemy: The Magic of the Leader Coach is a business bestseller. Wright has been a business executive and strategic consultant and is an expert in personal and organizational change. She has a doctorate from the University of Toronto and has done extensive international work in Australia, Malaysia, Africa, Peru and the Caribbean. The hallmarks of Wright’s leadership style are energy, focus and imagination.

Marcia Yudkin (USA) - View Session
From the launch of her writing career in the New York Times in 1981 to today's recognition as one of the world's top creative marketing experts, Marcia Yudkin has excelled at turning words and ideas into money. She is author of 11 books including 6 Steps to Free Publicity and Freelance Writing for Magazines & Newspapers, a Book of the Month Club selection. Her articles have appeared in hundreds of magazines and she has been featured in dozens of newspapers worldwide. Yudkin works with business owners and marketers around the world. She has served as an official site reviewer for the Webby Awards for eight years and has helped judge the Inc. Magazine Small Business Web Awards. She holds three Ivy League degrees, including a Ph.D. in the humanities, and has taught writing at Boston University and the New England School of Law, among other institutions.

Suzanne Zeman, MSC (USA) - View Session
Suzanne Zeman is a published author, designer and leader of university level leadership programs and teleclasses for coaches, managers and entrepreneurs. She brings 30 years of business experience to her work as an executive and business coach. Her expertise includes developing executive presence, clarifying vision, building and sustaining high performing teams, and increasing sales proficiency for non-sales professionals. She provides clients with somatic practices and ways to design life with purpose, grace, strength of character and power. She also teaches coaches how to do somatic work via telephone.