The most successful names in the coaching industry will deliver their proven coaching tools and resources. See who's coming to WBECS this year.
Carol is a leadership coach and coach supervisor with over 30 years experience helping leaders in high-stakes situations.. She also designs and delivers coach training programs for leaders.
Dr. Kauffman received a $2,000,000 in order to launch the Institute of Coaching an international educational resource. She has also launched the annual Harvard Coaching Conference, Institute of Coaching Leadership Forum and has presented at and chaired numerous leadership and academic conferences.
Her publications range from Harvard Business Review to numerous leadership and coaching articles in public and academic venues. She founded the first major coaching journal she has been featured regularly in magazines and television.
David Drake, PhD is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching & Design. He serves as a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He has a PhD in Human & Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University in the US.
He has and worked in the coaching space for the past twenty years and developed a very deep knowledge of how to facilitate transformative change using people’s own stories in unique ways.
He has worked with over 70 organizations to design and deliver innovative change projects and development programs. To support these initiatives, he has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers and professionals around the world.
David is the founder of the field of narrative coaching, and he has taught this work over 2,000 practitioners in 15 countries through his experiential programs—live and now inline as well.
He is the author of Narrative Coaching: Bringing Our New Stories to Life (CNC Press, 2015) and over 40 publications. His next books are an introduction to narrative design (think narrative coaching at scale) and as co-editor of a reference-level handbook on coaching.
David lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and has affiliates in a number of countries.
David has been an executive coach and innovative thought leader in leadership development for over 20 years. He has published dozens of articles, co-edited the Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring, and co-authored Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development and Leader as Coach, two of the best-selling books of all time on those topics, with a million copies in print. At Google he coaches senior leaders, manages the global network of external and internal coaches, and supports a variety of leadership, learning and executive development initiatives.
A recent history of the field of coaching listed David as one of the primary influencers, both for his early influence on the emergence of executive coaching in the 1990s, and his current impact as someone “on the cutting edge of the profession, doing and saying surprising and thought-provoking things.” A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Consulting Psychology, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the Harvard Institute of Coaching, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota. David lives in San Francisco, with wife Alexis Shoemate and two adorable Tibetan Terriers named Pinot and Cab.
Judith E. Glaser is founder and CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc. and Chairman of The Creating WE Institute with over twenty-five years of business experience working with CEOs and their teams in a ‘world of moving targets.’ She is an Organizational Anthropologist, and consults to Fortune 500 Companies. Her transformational approaches using neuroscience and anthropology enable leaders to raise their Conversational Intelligence® and profitability and growth while build healthy thriving organizations. Judith is the author of seven books, and four best sellers.
Karen Kimsey-House is the CEO of The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), a global coaching and leadership development organization offering programs in 20 different countries. Additionally, Karen is the co-author of Co-Active Coaching and Co-Active Leadership and a frequent blogger for The Huffington Post. For more information about Karen’s work go to www.coactive.com.
Lisa Ann Edwards is a leading expert in the field of coaching and a specialist in the measurement of success and ROI of Coaching. Her work at Bloom Coaching Institute, where she is a partner, has earned her an international reputation. Practicing what she preaches, coaching in the USA, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific region, Lisa has generated returns-on-investment as high as 251% for clients and lifted employee engagement by nearly 20%.
As head of Talent Management for Corbis, Bill Gates’ privately owned global media company, Lisa designed and implemented effective talent development solutions, focusing on leadership development, talent engagement, talent retention, and feeding the talent pipeline.
Lisa speaks at more than 20 international conferences a year and is a regular contributing author to leading trade publications. She authored or contributed to the following books: Creating an Internal Coaching Program (2014); Measuring the Success of Coaching: A Step-by-Step guide to Measuring Impact and Calculating ROI (ASTD press, 2012); Integrated Talent Management Scorecards (2013); Retail Coaching La gestione operative della rete endita secondo le logiche dello sport (2011); ASTD Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training (2010); Talent Management Handbook (2010); Creative On-boarding Programs (2010); Keep Looking Up (2010); Managing Talent Retention: An ROI Approach (2009) and ROI in action Casebook (2008).
Founder/CEO, Wellcoaches Corporation; Co-Director, Institute of Coaching; Faculty, Harvard University Extension School.
MARGARET MOORE, MBA, (aka Coach Meg), is the founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a School of Coaching for health professionals, following 17 years in the biotechnology industry in four countries. A strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine, Wellcoaches is a standard-bearer for science-based coaching and professional coaches in healthcare and wellness. Wellcoaches has trained more than 10,000 health professionals as health and wellness coaches in 45 countries. Margaret is faculty at Harvard University Extension School, teaching coaching psychology, and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate.
She is a course director of the annual Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare Conference offered by Harvard Medical School. Margaret’s collaboration with Edward Phillips, MD, to create a Harvard Medical School CME program to teach physicians basic coaching skills, led to the launch of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, of which she is an advisor. Margaret co-leads the National Consortium for Credentialing Health & Wellness Coaches, which is launching national standards and certification for health and wellness coaches in 2016. She is co-author of the first coaching textbook in healthcare, now in its second edition, the Coaching Psychology Manual, published by Wolters Kluwer. She co-authored the Harvard Health book, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, a neuroscience-based model to help people rise above distraction to create an organized, creative, and productive mind.
Bonita Thompson is a NYTimes bestselling leadership author with 30 years in corporate human resources, including Bank of America, Genentech, Levi Strauss, and Pacific Telesis. Her undergraduate degree is in Industrial Psychology and she completed her MBA at U.C. Berkeley.
Mark is a highly sought after executive coach, VC and New York Times bestselling author. Forbes called Mark one of America’s Top Venture Investors with the ‘Midas Touch’, and the American Management Association ranked him one of the “World’s Top Executive Coaches”. Mark advises top leaders in Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 1000 companies as well as the executive teams who are leading high growth startup companies, from Apple, American Express and The World Bank to Pinterest.com and Smule.com. He was founder Charles ‘Chuck’ Schwab’s former Chief of Staff and Chief Customer Experience Officer, and the Executive Producer of Schwab.com.
He is a founding patron of Sir Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Centres, and founding advisor of the Stanford University Realtime Venture Design Lab, his alma mater. He was a founding board member of Esurance, now an Allstate company, and Interwoven, now an HP company, and the Frances Hesselbein Institute. He is a founding member of the World Bank President’s Leadership Advisory Council and bestselling author of Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters; Now Build a Great Business; and Admired, 21 Ways to Double Your Value.
Michael Bungay Stanier is the Founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Box of Crayons gives busy managers the tools so they can coach in 10 minutes or less. Michael is the author of a number of books, the best known of which are The Coaching Habit and Do More Great Work.
Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as sometimes provocative, but unfailingly stimulating.
he fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst those with whom she works.
in 2015 and 2013. Thinkers50 presented Rita with the the Distinguished Achievement Award for Strategy in 2013. She has also been inducted into the Strategic Management Society “Fellows” in recognition of her impact on the field.
Rita maintains an active social media presence, and has been rated one of the 25 smartest women to follow on Twitter by Fast Company Magazine. She consistently appears in rankings of the top business school professors to follow on Twitter. Rita was voted HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinker, writes regularly for Fortune magazine’s online edition, authors a regular column, “The Entrepreneurial Strategist” for Inc magazine and blogs regularly at HBR.org. Rita is also one of the Wall Street Journal’s Experts.
Amanda Blake is author of the forthcoming book Your Body Is Your Brain, and creator of the Body = Brain course on the neuroscience of experiential learning. In addition to teaching about the art and science of embodiment, she works with progressive leaders worldwide to help them become their best self, enjoy life more, and make a bigger contribution.
Once an internationally competitive athlete, Mandy is skilled at cultivating high performance in herself and others. She is a Master Somatic Leadership Coach and holds a degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. She’s also a longtime yoga enthusiast, mountaineer, musician, and celebrator of life. Learn more at embright.org.
Ann Betz, CPCC, PCC, CNTC, is the co-founder of BEabove Leadership and an international speaker and trainer on the intersection of neuroscience, coaching and human transformation. She is the co-developer of BEabove Leadership’s popular training program for advanced coaches: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching, currently available in the U.S, Canada, Europe and China. Considered a true thought leader in the field of neuroscience and coaching Ann recently completed a white paper on the neuroscience of the ICF competencies and also served as the neuroscience consultant to The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) for many years.
A certified professional coach for 15 years, Ann is the author of a groundbreaking white paper on brain research and coaching. She contributes to Choice Magazine, ICF Coaching World, Coaching at Work, the International Coach Federation’s and CTI’s blogs. She is also the lead author of Integration, the Power of Being Co-Active in Work and Life (John Hunt Publishing, 2015), an exploration of how neuroscience supports the use of coaching skills in day-to-day life and leadership for greater effectiveness.
Dr. Brian Underhill is the co-author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett Koehler: 2007). He is the Founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world’s largest executive coaching firm, with over 1,000 coaches in 50 countries. Brian previously spent 10 years managing executive coaching operations for Marshall Goldsmith. Some of his clients include Dell, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and the State of California. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and is an internationally sought-after speaker. Brian lives in Silicon Valley where he is an avid soccer and racquetball player, worship leader, as well as dad to active 12 and 15 year olds.
One of the first to gain the designation of MCC from the ICF in 1998, Darst was a founding member of the ICF. She was one of the first Front-of-Room Leaders for both CTI and CRR Global. With over 20 years as a professional coach, she is considered a pioneer in the coaching profession.
A favorite in the coaching world, Darst was the Provocateur (Opening Keynote and Emcee) for the ICF Advance in London in 2015 and delivered the opening Keynote for the 2012 Midwest Regional ICF Conference. She served President of ACTO (Assoc. of Coach Training Organizations) in 2012-13.
Dave Buck is a Master Certified Coach and the CEO of CoachVille, the largest social network for business and life coaches in the world – with the purpose to create a win-win world through coaching by guiding individuals and teams to win the games of their lives on their own terms.
David Clutterbuck is a pioneer of coaching and mentoring, having introduced supported developemental mentoring (one of the disciplines from which modern coaching derives) to Europe in the late 1970s. One of the two original founders of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (along with c-author David Megginson), he is now the EMCC’s special ambassador, tasked with spreading good practice in coaching and mentoring throughout the world.
David i visiting professor at three UK universities — Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam and York St John — and part-time faculty at Ashridge. He is author, co-author or editor of 65 books, including the first English language books on developmental mentoring, team coaching, and coaching culture. He leads an international network of specialist trainer-consultants, Coaching and Mentoring International, which has representation in more than 40 countries. He continues to research good practice in coaching, challenging much accepted wisdom by comparing it with the evidence base.
DeAnne is a Director at PwC with over 21 years of professional services experience in the U.S. and globally. She has a breadth of domestic and international client service experience across Assurance and Advisory services plus deep expertise in Human Capital, Global Development and Diversity & Inclusion.
DeAnne has deep, practical experience in leadership development, coaching, consulting, team dynamics, public speaking and facilitation. She has led the creation and execution of unique people experiences delivered to thousands of leaders in the U.S. and globally. DeAnne continuously hones her cultural dexterity and cultivates her passion for building leaders at all levels by engaging as a coach and emcee/orchestrator for PwC’s premier, and most innovative, global and domestic programs. DeAnne obtained her Certified Executive Coaching credential from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara and is recognized as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Psychologist, Entrepreneur, Business Executive, Educator, and Author.
Dr. Deborah Rozman is a behavioral psychologist with 40 years experience in coaching wellness, performance and behavioral change. For nearly two decades, she has helped to develop and oversee HeartMath coaching and training certification programs. These programs are designed to facilitate clients creating a deeper heart connection in ways that can empower them to reduce stress, build their resilience, and create a more heart-connected world at home, work or with clients and patients.
Deborah is the President and CEO of HeartMath (www.heartmath.com) and the co-author along with HeartMath founder, Doc Childre, for Transforming book series, published by New Harbinger. The five-title series includes, Transforming Stress: Transforming Anger, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She is also co-author of the newly released Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart. Passionate about exploring the heart’s intelligence, Deborah is committed to helping educate more people about the role that the heart plays in wellness, increasing performance and in our personal fulfillment.
Donald Altman, M.A., LPC is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness teacher, former Buddhist monk, and award-winning author. He is an adjunct professor at Portland State University, where he teaches in the Interpersonal Neurobiology program. Known as “America’s Mindfulness Coach,” Donald travels around the country teaching mindfulness workshops for balance and wellness to counselors, coaches, psychologists, and business professionals. His keynotes and workshops are known for being highly engaging, experiential, and entertaining.
Donald’s newest books include 101 Mindful Ways to Build Resilience: Cultivate Calm, Clarity, Optimism and Happiness Each Day and Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Transformation and Fulfillment.
Visit www.MindfulPractices.com to sign up for the Mindful Living Newsletter and to learn more about Donald Altman’s speaking, consulting, workshops, books, and other services.
Doug Silsbee is a thought leader in the fields of Presence-Based Coaching, leadership development and resilience. He is a leadership coach, trainer of coaches, speaker, and author in Asheville, NC.
Doug is certified as a Master Somatic Coach with the prestigious Strozzi Institute. He is a sought-after presenter for ICF and other international conferences, and has taught at the Brookings Institution, UCLA Executive Education, Georgetown and George Mason Universities, and the Federal Executive Institute.
With his wife Walker, Doug created a carbon neutral mountain retreat center north of Asheville, North Carolina. They have three grown children and two very loved grandsons.
Transition Specialist. Executive Navigator. Speaker.
Hendre Coetzee helps individuals, teams and organizations navigate through crucial times of transition to find direction and courage to make the necessary commitment to be transformed and to gain traction towards an unprecedented future. Whether as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator or working one-on-one as an executive coach with a C-Suite leader, Hendre’s commitment is to help people unlock their potential, design a clear path forward, and to gain traction towards a desired future.
Janet Sernack is the Founder, CEO & Chief Katalyst of ImagineNation™ a generative and provocative innovation training company using the latest technology and thought leadership to enable people and organizations to develop innovation agility by cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit and innovation mindset.
Janet has 28 years of experience consulting and leading culture development, change management, leadership and innovation education interventions to some of Australasia’s and Israel’s top 100 companies. Prior to launching her consulting, training and coaching career she was Marketing Development Manager for Grace Bros’ department stores, now part of the Myer Group. She then launched Australia’s first design management consultancy and worked with some of the world’s leading fashion and lifestyle brands. Realizing that some of the best business plans often end up in the “bottom drawer” she became an implementation specialist focusing on the “how-to’s” of change.
She developed her training, facilitation and coaching skill set, specializing in experiential and adult learning processes and in effecting mindset and behavior change. She is an ICF ACC certified executive coach, a NLP certified presenter, trainer, facilitator and executive coach and has tertiary qualifications in Marketing, Adult Learning and Workplace Assessment and Training.
In 2010 she moved to the Middle East and joined the Start-Up Revolution and founded ImagineNation ™ and now lives with her very patient husband and furry family in lovely Bayside Melbourne, Australia.
Jeffrey Hull, PhD, BCC is CEO of Leadershift, Inc. a leadership development consultancy based in New York City. Dr. Hull is a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Education and Business Development at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Leadership at New York University.
An accomplished writer/researcher, executive coach and LD professional since 1995, Dr. Hull has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Coaching World and other leading business publications. He has worked with a globally diverse portfolio of organizations in the US, Asia, and Europe as a senior leader, coach and consultant.
Krishna Kumar is the President of the International Association of Coaching (IAC) and the Founder-Director of the Intrad School of Executive Coaching (ISEC). He is a pioneer in the sphere of Leadership and Executive Coaching in India. His commitment to the firm belief that coaching is the best way to learn has carried him through a diverse and continuing learning journey, over three decades where he has donned the hats of a senior corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a master tennis coaching professional, a B-school professor in organizational change, independent Board member and as a leadership and Executive Coach. Krishna is also the founder of Success Compass, a social initiative that has helped hundreds of o help young people discover the careers of their choice.
John is President and founder in 2000 of the Academy of Executive Coaching, a global coach training organisation accredited by ICF, EMCC, AC and Middlesex University.
Initial eighteen-year career in psychology and group facilitation with a clinical practice and training Masters level psychotherapists. For 12 years he led the Gestalt Centre London as Managing Director also delivering team development and consultation before becoming an executive coach.
With this experience John has developed a specialty in Systemic Team Coaching. He works with Senior Leadership Teams on their interpersonal dynamics, stakeholder relationships and team strategy/objectives to become more effective in leading their organisation. John designed and facilitates the Systemic Team Coach training programme – the first worldwide and the Team Connect 360 instrument for team evaluation.
Past President of EMCC UK, an accredited coach with APECS and author of ‘Fertile Void, Gestalt Coaching at Work’ a practical and effective methodology for individual and team coaching.
John is one of a small number who have presented at all the Summits since the beginning.
Joseph O’Connor is an internationally recognised author, trainer, executive coach and consultant. He is the author of eighteen books on Coaching, NLP, training, sales, communication skills, management, and systemic thinking.
His books have been translated into twenty nine languages and have sold over half a million copies worldwide. He has trained coaching in all five continents, and his corporate clients include Citibank, UNIDO, British Airways and the Panama Canal Authority.
Joseph specializes in developing authentic leadership, as well as pushing the boundaries of coaching through his work on emotions and mindfulness. He is an approved trainer for Paul Ekman’s work on emotions and deception, licensed through Paul Ekman International. He is the Co-Founder and global director of the International Coaching Community (ICC).
Andrea Lages is an executive coach, author, consultant, and international -founder of the International Coaching Community – (ICC) and CEO of Lambent, an International Training company. She works internationally doing Coaching, management and NLP trainings. She has worked in many countries of Asia, Americas and Europe, including the UK. Andrea has trained over six hundred people, from 35 countries. She trains and coaches in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Andrea is co-author of ‘Coaching with NLP – How to become a Master Coach’ and How Coaching Works with Joseph O’Connor.
Dr. Sharkey is an internationally recognized expert on global leadership development and culture transformation. Her specific area of focus is using science and data to underpin her work and assuring alignment to business results and outcomes. She is a noted international keynote speaker and executive coach. Linda is a recognized author on leadership and talent and most recently co-authored the award winning book “Winning with Transglobal Leadership: How to develop and retain top global talent”. She has contributed to over twenty books. Prior to her current consulting practice she was Chief Talent Officer for Hewlett Packard and held numerous Executive Human Resources positions at GE. Her leadership work at GE was named a “best practice” by former GE CEO Jack Welsh. Currently, Dr. Sharkey is a founding member of the Marshall Goldsmith Group a preeminent executive coaching firm and Radio Show Host on World Talk Radio, Voice America Business Channel. She received her Ph.D. with honors from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.
Dr. Marcia Reynolds is fascinated by the brain, especially what triggers feelings of connection, commitment, and possibility. She is able to draw on her research as she helps leaders and coaches have more effective and meaningful conversations. She has coached and trained leaders in 35 countries and has presented at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cornell University, and Moscow School of Management in Russia.
Marcia is a true pioneer in the coaching profession. She was the 5th global president of the International Coach Federation and is currently the president of the Association for Coach Training Organizations. She is the training director for the Pyramid Coaching Institute and teaches for coaching schools in Russia and China.
Interviews and excerpts from her books Outsmart Your Brain, Wander Woman, and her latest, The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs have appeared in many places including Fast Company, CNN.com, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal and she has appeared in business magazines in Europe, Asia and on ABC World News.
Marcia’s doctoral degree is in organizational psychology with an emphasis on the challenges and needs of high-achievers in today’s corporations. She also holds two master’s degrees in education and communications.
Expert in Body Language and Human Behaviour.
Mark Bowden is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on nonverbal communication. He has been voted the #1 Body Language Professional in the world for the last three years running.
A sought after keynote speaker globally, Mark trains groups and individuals on how to use their body language to stand out, win trust and gain credibility every time they communicate.
As the founder of communication training company TRUTHPLANE® his clients include leading businesspeople, teams, and politicians, presidents and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and current Prime Ministers of G8 powers. He is a bestselling author of 3 books on the subject of body language and human behaviour, with his first book Winning Body Language now translated into five different languages. Presentation trainer for The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA, ranked #1 in the world by The Economist, Mark is also a member of the TED community having spoken at TEDx Toronto. Mark can be seen regularly on Canadian network CTV’s daily talk show The Social as the resident Body Language expert.
Myles Downey is a thought-leader, author and entrepreneur in the world of performance, learning and coaching. Myles is recognised as one of the leading business performance coaches in Europe with extensive experience spanning more than twenty-five years.
He is the author of “Enabling Genius – a mind-set for success in the 21st Century’ in March 2016, ‘Effective Modern Coaching’ published in November 2014 which is considered a seminal text on coaching and also of ‘Effective Coaching’ (in excess of 35,000 copies sold).
He was the Founder of The School of Coaching in the U.K., established in 1996 and the first of it’s kind (he sold the school in 2009), and was also part of the team that established The Alexander Corporation in 1987, which was acknowledged by The Economist Intelligence Unit as “the leading provider of Executive Coaching in Europe” in 1993 and in 1995.
He is the creator of the Enable, the world’s first automated coaching system (there is no coach), which is designed to bring high quality coaching to the many, affordably. The system is currently being piloted in a number of well-known, global organisations.
Myles lives in London He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1959.
Pam McLean, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of The Hudson Institute of Coaching is the author of The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching and LifeForward. She is a master coach, a coaching supervisor and contributor to the field of leadership coaching.
Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Chairman of Renewal Associates (www.renewalassociates.co.uk) is an international thought leader and regular keynote speaker on leadership, systemic team coaching; board development and coaching supervision. He has worked with many leading organisations all over the world coaching Boards and Executive Teams and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects.
He is Honorary President of the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS). He is the author of many best-selling books including Leadership Team Coaching in Practice Kogan Page 2014; Leadership Team Coaching Kogan Page 2011 &2014; Creating a Coaching Culture McGraw Hill 2012; Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy (with Nick Smith) McGraw Hill 2006 & 2013 and The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership O Books 2005.
Prof. Philippe Rosinski, MCC is a world authority in executive coaching, team coaching, and global leadership development. He is the first European to have been designated Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. Philippe is the author of the seminal bestseller Coaching Across Cultures and is widely regarded as the pioneer of intercultural coaching having first systematically integrated the cultural perspective into coaching. He has broken new ground with global coaching and with an integrated coaching supervision approach, which both leverage multiple perspectives for greater creativity, impact and meaning. His latest book Global Coaching has been described as “having moved the art and science of coaching to a new level”. A Master of Science from Stanford University, Philippe is principal of Rosinski & Company and a professor at the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business in Tokyo.
For more information, please visit www.GlobalCoaching.pro and www.philrosinski.com.
Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a company which advises, coaches, and trains leaders at all levels to take powerful and ambitious actions to achieve the things that are most important to them and their organizations. He has been an ICF Master Certified Coach since 1999. His most recent book is Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want, a New York Post top pick for your career in 2015. His previous book was the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, the best business book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top 10 business book. Peter began his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions, then moved into the consulting field with the Hay Group and Accenture, before starting Bregman Partners in 1998. Peter has advised CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Renée Robertson is a two-time winner of the International Coach Federation’s prestigious Prism Award, a recognition bestowed upon her for her innovative coaching programs she developed and implemented at MCI and Verizon.
Most recently, she authored The Coaching Solution: How to Drive Talent Development, Organizational Change and Business Results in which she shares her best practices and lessons learned with the hope to further coaching inside organizations and to guide those interested in building high-performance employees, teams and organizations. Her latest initiative is the launch of the Robertson Coach Institute – where business leaders, Human Resources, Training and Organizational Development professionals and Coaches can become trained on how to coach inside organizations as well as how to design and deliver internal coaching programs.
Renée is the founder and CEO of Trilogy Development – a learning and coaching firm that focuses on designing and implementing internal coaching programs and talent development solutions. As a veteran Fortune 500 talent management executive and internal coach, she has served as a trusted adviser and coach to many top business leaders.
Renée holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, a BA from Drew University and has completed studies at the University of London, United Nations and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is proficient in French and enjoys being active, practicing yoga and spending time with her family.
Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and social commentator on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre and an internationally recognized thought leader on values, culture, leadership and consciousness.
Rich Litvin runs a boutique advisory firm for world leaders and thought leaders, based in Los Angeles and London. The methodology is deep coaching. Bespoke. Not time-based.
He is an expert at taking high-achievers to the greatest levels of success. Ultra-successful people – people you would assume don’t need a coach – are the ones who call Rich. His clients include Olympic athletes, Presidential candidates, Hollywood film directors, Special Forces operatives and serial entrepreneurs.
Rich is the founder of 4PC a community of the top 4% of coaches and entrepreneurs. Members of this extraordinary group include seven-figure business owners, a consultant to The White House, a coach to leaders at The World Bank and the CEO of a wolf sanctuary.
A thought leader in the coaching world, Rich is the author of the highly-acclaimed book, The Prosperous Coach. He is the founder of The Confident Woman’s Salon and The High-Achieving Introvert Project. And he is a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders.
For more about Rich visit www.RichLitvin.com and www.4PC.expert.
Since 1970, through various iterations of Strozzi Institute, Richard has been researching, designing, training others, and consulting in the field of embodied leadership, somatic healing, somatic coaching, and a somatic sensibility. His clients have been Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, NGOs, NATO, the U.S. Military, and countless executives and leaders in a variety of organizations.
Bob Dunham is founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership (IGL) and has trained hundreds of graduates in the three-year Coaching Excellence in Organizations (CEO) program. IGL partners with Newfield Network – the leading school of ontological coaching – and also offers the discipline of Generative Leadership and management in the Generative Leadership Program™ (GLP). Bob’s experience as a corporate executive and COO of startups informs over thirty years of coaching, consulting, research and development of action and result-based practices for effective leadership, management, and teamwork. Bob works to establish leadership, management, and coaching in organizations as mature professions. Bob clarifies the human foundations of leadership and coaching in The Path to the Possible framework.
Shirzad is the author of the New York Times bestselling Positive Intelligence: Why only 20% of teams and individuals achieve their true potential, and how you can achieve yours. He is Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of CTI (the Coaches Training Institute. CTI has trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools and managers in close to 100 of Fortune 500 companies.
Shirzad lectures on Positive Intelligence at Stanford University. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. His background includes PhD studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.
The online Saboteur Assessment has been tested and validated with more than 150,000 individuals from 40 different countries. It is widely used by coaches worldwide to deliver immediate and often life changing value to their clients.
The book Positive Intelligence has been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese (standard), Chinese (simplified), Czech, Farsi, French (Canadian), French (France), German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, and Thai.
Srini Pillay, M.D. is CEO of NeuroBusiness Group – one of the top 20 movers and shakers in leadership development in the world (Training Industry, 2013).
As an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-time) at Harvard Medical School, brain-imaging researcher, executive education teacher and certified master coach, Srini helps executives harness the brain’s power to manage stress, anxiety and uncertainty, increase innovation, and enhance corporate agility during volatile times. He also helps leaders achieve synchrony with their teams. He has received global acclaim and is a member of the Consortium for Advancing Adult Learning and Development hosted by McKinsey & Co.
His clients include Novartis, Lockheed Martin, Willis Group, amd Fortune 500 Food/Beverage Companies. He has also trained leaders at The DOD as well as several international multilaterals. He speaks and teaches globally.
Srini teaches in Executive Education at Harvard Business School and Duke Corporate Education.
Srini has been widely featured in the media including: CNN, Business News Network, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Money Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Tim Hawkes is a world leader in the field of developing coaching cultures. He is also Managing Director of turn-key coaching solutions provider Unlimited Potential.
Tim has developed the world’s only tool for creating, assessing and growing a coaching culture within any organisation. The tool, known as Embark, was co-created with Stuart Haden, author of “It’s not about the coach” and divides coaching cultures in 9 manageable dimensions giving both a strategic and operation framework to deliver bespoke coaching culture to solutions to organisations of any size.
Tim is also and international speaker on the subjects of “coaching cultures”, “the future of coaching” and “leadership in socially connected world”. His client centric approach has made him popular with clients such as International Red Cross, General Dynamics, Bacardi and the NBA (National Basketball Association).
Tim is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a past that has lead him to take a very practical results-focussed approach to delivering people development solutions. He worked for 6 years in the international defence industry project managing multi-million dollar programmes before realising people development was more fulfilling.
Warren Berger believes questions are more important than answers. He is the author of the international best-selling book A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (Bloomsbury)—focusing on the power of inquiry to spark breakthrough ideas.
An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, chief executives, and entrepreneurs to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation and can help business executives to become better leaders.
Warren also writes for Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributor at Wired magazine and The New York Times.
He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC World News, CNN, and NPR. As a speaker, Warren has keynoted at the CUSP Conference, the Fuse Conference, and the International Women’s Forum in Rome. He has held questioning-training talks and workshops with leadership groups at Pfizer, MGM Resorts, Boeing, Citibank, MassMutual, and Chanel.
Dubbed The Personal Branding Guru by Entrepreneur Magazine, William Arruda is credited with turning the concept of personal branding into a global industry. Founder of Reach Personal Branding and bestselling author of the definitive books on the topic, Ditch. Dare. Do! and Career Distinction, he has delivered more personal branding keynotes to more people in more countries than anyone on earth. He inspires top talent in Fortune 100 companies and respected global brands with optimism, enthusiasm, creativity and genuine belief in the power of the individual to achieve great things. His certification programs are designed to help executive and career coaches expand their success while enabling their clients to expand theirs. In 2015, he was recognized by the International Coach Federation (ICF) with the Chairman’s Award for his contributions to the field of coaching and he is currently finalizing the manuscript for his new book, Personal Branding for Coaches. As a thought-leader, he has appeared on BBC TV, Discovery, Fox News and NPR and has been featured in countless publications, including Time, Fortune, the Financial Times, Fast Company and the Wall Street Journal. He writes a regular column for Forbes focused on personal branding and social media.