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- UNITED KINGDOM- [* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Martyn Bastone has a passion for helping people become more effective at helping themselves. With an extensive background in operations management, he is genuinely able to empathize with the challenges that senior executives face. As a young man, Martyn earned diplomas in economics, computer studies, and business studies from Bristol Polytechnic. Much more recently, he acquired a diploma in life coaching from Newcastle College. After his first job as a computer programmer, he joined the Nestle Company in 1972 and held sales positions including area sales manager. In 1979, Martyn moved to Whitbread, rising to sales training manager and then to national accounts director. In 1982, Martyn accepted an invitation from Martini & Rossi, where he became the management training and business development manager with responsibility for developing the core competencies of the sales management group. One of the competencies was teamwork; to address this he partnered with the Coverdale organization to become a franchised coach as well as to develop a team-skills training program for the entire firm. Lured back to Whitbread in 1984, Martyn held divisional and regional sales leadership positions and, as trade sector director, headed a business unit that comprised national account executives as well as marketing managers and accountants. In 1989, Martyn became a full-time management consultant and executive coach. He has found that his extensive experience gives him great credibility with his clients and coachees, who quickly recognize that he can relate in a been-there-done-that way to the business challenges they face. He designs and delivers skill-development programs that support change, specializing in communication, leadership, team development, coaching, and change management. He has consulted, trained, and coached for British and U.S. firms across Europe and in North America. He is licensed to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and he has deep familiarity with concepts and processes related to emotional intelligence. Martyn’s relationships with clients tend to be long term, which gives him the opportunity to absorb their cultures and ‘keep his finger on the pulse’ of changes he is facilitating. Martyn and
his wife, Pauline, live in Surrey and spend many of their holidays traveling
the world. They also enjoy the tranquility of their apartment in
Spain. Other joint pleasures include badminton, squash, golf,
theatre visits, eating out, and spending time with family and friends.
The couple’s two adult daughters share a flat in London.
- *Joy Ferguson is passionate about enabling individuals to make critical breakthroughs by tapping their latent potential, resolving challenging issues, and excelling through adaptive change. One of her coachees recently commented that Joy “has a high level of compassion yet is firm and honest without being brutal.” Joy has a masters degree in counselling from the University of Reading and extensive experience working on a day-to-day basis with senior leaders of global companies throughout Europe. Her corporate career was primarily at British Telecom and Dun & Bradstreet; at both firms she played key roles in change management initiatives and reëngineering projects. During the last five years of her 14-year tenure at British Telecom, Joy worked as an internal consultant, regularly coaching senior executives including regional and managing directors. This gave her a high level of understanding of the business imperatives facing senior leaders as well as the skills to help them rise to the challenges that confront them. Because of her depth of experience, she rapidly establishes credibility with executives. Having set up her own consultancy in the mid-1990s, Joy now pursues engagements that address coachee challenges such as transitioning smoothly to a more senior role, personal style-building for enhanced leverage and influence, surviving and growing through crisis or stress, and managing effectively in a rapidly changing environment. For Johnson & Johnson, Joy has enabled managers to cope successfully with increased demands, and has coached a senior leader through a major career transition. An example of Joy’s intercultural work is when she engaged each member of a fragmented senior leadership group, who hailed from seven nationalities, to explore his or her ability to relate to differing cultural perspectives, then learn how to capitalize on that diversity to enhance the performance of the group. She also enjoyed outstanding results recently when she facilitated a virtual team of ten nationalities. Continually enhancing her skills through self-development, Joy is a master NLP practitioner and has earned certificates in “Leadership for the Future” and “Business Excellence.” She is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Coaching Development Forum. Joy recently conducted research into successful handling of conflict in the workplace. Joy, her husband,
and their three children live in England. They have a busy family
and social life and close community ties, and enjoy frequent ski trips
as well as holidays in their second home in France.
- *Brian J Guest gained extensive international experience with Fortune Global 500 insurance firms during a career spanning 23 years, 16 of which found him living and working outside of his native U.K. in 25 nations of Latin America and Asia (most recently in Brazil). He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. A former CEO, he is particularly experienced in the special challenges of developing markets. After graduating from Cambridge University in natural sciences, Brian began his career with KPMG (then PMM) and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981. His urge to travel led him to join AIG as an international auditor, and he soon was promoted to regional audit manager. Next, he worked in international finance at RSA and gained valuable management experience in dealing with businesses all around the world. Joining Commercial Union (now Aviva) in 1990, he gained general management experience as the regional manager for Latin America and, later, as general manager for Hong Kong with responsibility for Taiwan and Macau. In 1997, Brian joined HSBC in Brazil following its acquisition of a major financial services group there; he was named CEO of the insurance business, comprising 1,500 employees and premiums in excess of 400 million dollars. He is proud that his company won market prizes over two years for best overall performance. The outcome
of these diverse business experiences is that Brian possesses finely-tuned
expertise in leading / coordinating strategic and operational planning
and management, M&A negotiation and post-acquisition management, multi-channel
distribution, extensive restructuring, quality management, managing for
shareholder value, risk management, cost control, and corporate culture
change. Also a skilled chairman and team-builder, Brian has received
positive feedback from many colleagues on his natural leadership qualities
and his ability to get the best out of individuals and the overall executive
team.
- *Sandra Henson has a passion for enabling one individual at a time to discover his or her authentic self and attain professional and personal transformation. She works with senior corporate executives, helping them lead with greater impact and attain improvements for their teams and organizations. Sandra earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in chemistry from Bath University in 1980 and was awarded the Robert Bollam Prize for best in year. In 1993, she gained a diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the U.K. Sandra's corporate career spans 17 years. After several years with ICI Public Health (where she was regional manager for the Far East) and Zeneca, she moved to Hydron Ltd. There she became head of sales and marketing, belonged to a core team developing and driving a new business strategy, and held P&L responsibility for the worldwide contact lens business. Following Hydron’s acquisition, Sandra became director of strategic marketing for Biocompatibles Hydron, developing both the core strategy for the combined product range and the future business direction to achieve sales targets. Her central roles in the acquisition process required her to support global teams and to deal extensively with integration challenges and “people factors.” Sandra founded her own coaching business in 2000. With a nationwide group of coach associates, she coaches senior executives for higher performance, both individually and as members of teams. Much of her work involves helping executives to focus on their most critical leadership challenges, and to articulate and demonstrate a shared vision. Her coaching also includes supporting coachees through professional transitions such as excelling in a new or rapidly changing organization, and working in an unfamiliar national culture. Her clients include Barclays Bank, Dell, Wrigley’s, Coca Cola, Dun & Bradstreet, Centrica, The AA, and Marriott Hotels. Some of her coaching projects have involved as many as 60 directors. Sandra is a founding member of the U.K. College of Coaching, a graduate of the Coaching Academy, and a master NLP practitioner “breakthrough coach.” She is qualified to administer Myers Briggs and Hogan psychometric profiling, and has advanced to Level B with the British Psychological Society. A contributor of articles on coaching to the Sunday Times, she has also appeared on national radio. Sandra lives
in Warwickshire with her partner, daughter, and pets. She enjoys interior
design and art, and has trekked extensively, climbing some of the highest
active volcanoes in the world.
- Tom Hoogewerf is a U.K.-based international management consultant with experience working in more than thirty countries and doing business with clients from at least sixty countries. He is fluent in French and speaks some German. Tom’s bachelors degree in English and American literature is from the University of Sussex. In 1997, he graduated from the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD), the U.K. lead body in human resources management. He is also internationally accredited as a change consultant and management development adviser. Starting his career as a teacher and educational journalist in the U.K., Tom moved to the United States in 1980 and devoted two years to lecturing in the American Culture and Language Program at California State University in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he was employed for five years by two international telecom organisations, Inmarsat (London) and Eutelsat (Paris). As internal communications manager for these firms, Tom supervised the transnational teams that provided conference and documentation services to over sixty member states. He also managed intergovernmental meetings for up to thirty representatives from North America, Europe and Asia, and served as secretary to the main board as well as to various committees. In 1993 Tom left Eutelsat and moved into management consultancy, working on change and people development projects for U.K. clients such as London Transport, Europcar, and Lombard NatWest Financial Services. In 1994, he provided training and consultancy to the National Bank of Slovakia as part of the U.K. government’s “Know-How Fund” development program. Beginning in 1995, Tom worked closely with government-sponsored Training & Enterprise Councils, helping them implement the national “Investors in People” quality standard. Since 1996, Tom professional focus has been as an organizational development and cross-cultural consultant for global 1000 companies operating in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Recently he has been directing cross-cultural programs for companies in the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Among his recent clients are GE Capital, Motorola, Conoco, Ericsson, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Kelloggs, and Cemex. In April 2000, Tom founded his own consultancy, which specializes in cross-cultural consultancy and cross-border management solutions, including for mergers & acquisitions. Tom lives in London, where he enjoys
theatre and night life. He likes running and swimming, and plays
five-a-side football weekly. Passionate about writing, he’s just
finished his first novel. He’s also interested in travel, film, and
history.
- Ginger Irvine grew up in Boston and has a bachelors degree in history from Wheaton College. She became a globe-trotter thereafter, living in Korea and Belgium before finally settling in the United Kingdom some 25 years ago. Since moving to the U.K., Ginger has been involved in both the non-profit and profit sectors. On the non-profit side, she has planned and managed volunteer work programs for AFS exchange students. She was a founder and first president of FOCUS Information Services, a non-profit resource organization created to enable expatriates to settle in the U.K. more efficiently. Through her FOCUS connection, Ginger became a founding member of the steering committee of the Women on the Move Conference, served as program chair for the London conference, and has attended all five conferences. And Ginger was a founding member and is now General Manager of TRIPITAKA, an international touring theatre company. As an intercultural consultant working with companies such as National Power, Gillette, and Goldman Sachs to help smooth the transition of international assignees and their families, Ginger has gained broad experience with people of various nationalities relocating to and from many parts of the world. She also has worked for twelve years for a British seminar and conference company, setting its marketing strategies for management training courses. Ginger and her husband Glenn count
gardening and sailing as two of their passions. They enjoy visiting
with first grandson Kobi, daughter Jen, and son-in-law Dietrich, who live
in South London. Their younger daughter, Alex, a student at Tufts
University, lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
- *John R Price has a keen interest in addressing the relationship between individuals and organizations in order to improve personal and group effectiveness. His decades of corporate leadership convinced him that the foundation of organizational success is individual development, and that the creation of a culture that supports this requires knowledgeable, committed leadership. John attained a B.A. (Hons) in engineering science from Oxford University in 1971. After retiring from corporate leadership roles a few years ago, he gained an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from The Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. He is now completing a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring Practice at Oxford Brookes University. John’s 25-year business career was virtually all with Mars Incorporated, where he began in 1974 as a production shift manager. His subsequent titles have included media buyer, commodities manager, general manager, managing director, and (from 1993 to 1999) vice president. His first senior post was as general manager in Sweden, where he was responsible for all marketing and sales. He then returned to the U.K. to become managing director of the petfoods division. John’s vice presidential role put him in charge of Mars’s operations throughout Europe, first for the Masterfoods division and then for the Petcare and Main Meal Food division. In this final role, he was responsible for purchasing and manufacturing involving 17 factories in nine countries, and for European logistics, supply-side systems development, and foreign exchange management. John habitually carried out his corporate responsibilities as a member of transnational leadership teams, and he coached individuals and teams across a wide range of European countries. These experiences led him to recognize that a coaching relationship is valuable because it obliges the coachee to “make space” for identifying the key differentiators that drive both personal and organizational change. John became a believer in the power of leveraging one’s strengths. He also gave much thought to ways in which executives can communicate effectively with their stakeholders. John is Chairman
of Mars Pension Trustees Limited, and the owner and director of a company
that buys land and converts it to residential status. He and his
wife, Grace, live in a quiet village on a spur of land in the middle of
Rutland Water. They enjoy jogging around the water, having their
families visit, and spending time in their London flat catching up with
life there and with their adult sons.
- *Victoria A L Rogers, a native of the U.S., has lived and worked in Western and Central Europe for over a decade. Since 1971 she has fulfilled corporate roles involving hiring, training, organizational development, project management, and new business launches. She specializes in coaching business leaders to attain goals within new environments. Victoria began her career as a flight attendant for American Airlines, and from there she held a progression of staff, line, and management positions. For example, she created competitive pricing schemes in the wake of airline deregulation, served as project manager to launch business class, and coached managers in the field. Subsequently, she worked for a subsidiary of American Broadcasting Companies as HR director, and became involved helping employees to effectively blend new entrepreneurial approaches with conservative “old school” management behaviors. In 1980, Victoria began working as a management consultant helping ailing airlines make turnarounds and healthy airlines develop management development programs. Her consulting branched into the telecommunications field, where she became involved in the launches of new television stations, negotiations, and the merging of corporate cultures following mergers. Finding that organizational development work played to her strengths, she completed a masters degree in O.D. at Columbia University in 1993. That same year, Victoria moved to Prague in order to work for Central European Media Enterprises (CME) as the project launch manager for TV Nova, the first independent station in the former Soviet bloc. For CME, she eventually lived in Prague, Amsterdam, Bratislava, Warsaw, Ljubljana, and Budapest, and also carried out assignments in Romania, Germany, and the U.K. She undertook a wide variety of responsibilities for CME, including serving as managing director of a Dutch holding company, directing human resources and communications functions, coaching executives, and overseeing work to transform a centuries-old building into a state-of-the-art TV studio. Victoria’s other corporate experiences during the 1980s and 90s were primarily in the U.S., where among other things she became involved in an intervention for two divisions of a Time Warner company to aid them in blending quite distinctive corporate cultures. She also worked for a year for the Governor of Maryland. Victoria’s personal activities include
bicycling, reading, caring for her Brittany and English Springer spaniels,
and writing books to help people live and work harmoniously in a variety
of European environments. She has made a point of fulfilling specific
dreams, which have notably included parachute jumping and flying with a
stunt pilot.
- *Timothy H Wight, based in Scotland, is an international sales executive with corporate experience on four continents and fluency in Swedish as well as English. Unlike other GROVEWELL executive coaches, Tim currently serves full-time as a corporate executive; however, he is willing and able to make time occasionally for external consulting and coaching. - Following several years of employment in his native Australia as a sales manager for both Cooper’s Animal Health and Kimberley Clarke, Tim received a bachelors degree from Deakin University. During his studies there, he was an exchange student in Linkoping, Sweden. Then, while working for Monsanto as a sales specialist specializing in chemicals, he earned the equivalent of a masters degree in social anthropology, also from Deakin University. Monsanto assigned Tim to serve as an international sales specialist for phosphate chemicals, responsible for Asia-Pacific as well as Canada. Among other successes in this role, he ensured ISO9002 recognition for Monsanto’s sales and marketing processes. - Tim transferred to Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, at the time Monsanto was creating Solutia, Inc. He established distribution networks for Solutia in both Asia and Europe with great success, which Tim credits in part to his coaching of Asian and European management-level colleagues. Tim was then transferred to Scotland. In 2001, he joined W L Gore and Associates (makers of GORE-TEX® fabrics), for which he currently manages the fire and safety business throughout the British Isles. As part of his role, he has developed an extensive network for the business with both government and quasi-government groups. Tim also is personally committed to expanding his cultural and commercial understanding of other nations, especially China, Japan, and Korea. - Besides being fluent in Swedish and English, Tim has a good working knowledge of German and Mandarin. Not merely a corporate manager on four continents, he also developed active ties with community groups within each one. In Scotland, where he now lives and works, he is involved with historical and cultural interest groups. Tim’s ancestors on his mother’s side are traceable back 600 years to the Isle of Jersey; in fact, his full family name is Wight Le Rossignol. - - FRANCE -[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Nancy Bragard, an American who has made her home in France for over 20 years, coaches and trains the globally mobile workforce and facilitates change in organizations with post-merger & acquisition challenges. - Nancy grew up in Rhode Island in an internationally-minded family that regularly hosted foreign students. She spent a year in Germany at age 14, learning the benefits and tough realities of living abroad. Following her university studies, she taught high school English in Togo for a year. After settling in France, Nancy began her career as resident director of a study-abroad program for American students. Over the years, graduate studies and summer workshops in intercultural communications and the MBTI led her to a freelance career in corporate consulting, coaching and training. - Committed to promoting high performance environment in the multicultural workplace, Nancy provides coaching and leads seminars in a variety of corporate contexts. She prepares French assignees for expatriation assignments and coaches incoming executives to facilitate professional transition and social integration. For example, among her recent assignments, Nancy coached an American executive new to Décathlon (a major French sports retailer and designer); the executive’s mandate was exposure to the French market and assimilation into the home office corporate culture, with the ultimate objective being his leadership of Décathlon USA. Another recent assignment was for Hill Rom (a products and service provider for the healthcare community); following her coaching of an American posted as site manager of the French subsidiary, Nancy was brought back to train senior and middle management in order to enhance local understanding of key drivers within the American corporate context – accountability, ownership, empowerment, risk-taking, and others. - In the context of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, Nancy focuses on building teams, developing strategies to capitalize on cultural diversity, and defining tools to optimize communication and motivation in the workplace. In addition to Décathlon and Hill Rom, her corporate clients have included Aventis Pasteur, General Electic, Glaxo Smith Kline, Crown, Thalès, Thyssen Krupp, and Delphi. - Truly astride two cultures and a flawless speaker of Parisian French, Nancy returns to the U.S. regularly to participate in intercultural workshops. She has three bilingual-bicultural children who loyally spend their summers in Nancy's native New England. The oldest child is now pursuing her bachelors degree at Boston University. - - *Laurent Oddoux has years of experience as a global executive, during which he drove the changes necessary to respond to complex corporate challenges. Today, as an executive coach and change-management consultant, he combines a solid business background with in-depth understanding of human behavior. Laurent has a masters degree in business management from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen, and a second masters degree in change management and the sociology of organizations. He is also a certified gestalt therapist. He is well-known in the European academic world, including CRC/Groupe HEC, for his presentations on human capital management and coaching in crisis situations. From 1993 to 2005, Laurent held a variety of executive positions with IBM, including vice president for Europe business consulting services and human capital management, vice president of the Israel global development initiative, director of worldwide go-to-market strategy, and director of business partner strategy and management. In these roles, Laurent amassed an enviable record of attaining excellent outcomes in his dealings with the CEOs and directors of firms of all sizes, from small private companies to multi-billion dollar publicly traded corporations. He learned to manage, with notable success, the entire sequence from business case development to solution launch, including the re-engineering of businesses at the local and international levels and the aligning of systems to enhance capabilities and sustain results. Laurent is certified as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation. He views his coaching as addressing executives’ motivation and patterns of adaptation in order to maximize the effectiveness and durability of change. Laurent benefited enormously from being in charge of deploying internal coaches for IBM Europe. He not only gained vast experience in multicultural environments, but also came to understand how to support business leaders who are confronted with individual and collective performance challenges. Laurent’s engagements have included leading European firms such as L’Oréal, OTIS, Airbus, Groupe La Poste, Pitney Bowes, Thalès. His work has involved both coaching and consulting to turn around complex situations, to support key managers as they transition to larger responsibilities, and to reinforce the identity and leadership skills of managers and executives. Laurent spent
six years with IBM in New York City, returning to France in 2001. As a
result, he is fluent in English. He is the father of four children,
all of whom love to travel across the world and personally experience new
cultures.
- *Maureen Rabotin brings a deep interest in cultural and emotional intelligence to her practice as an executive coach. Working in both French and English, she enables her coachees to grow their potential through the three imperatives of global leadership: integrity, initiative, and inspiration. During the early 1970s, Maureen was pursuing an associate degree in radiology at Boston’s Northeastern University, which required her to spend time working in a hospital’s radiology department. While still a student, she became one of the first people in the world trained to operate the newly invented CT scanners. She was quickly hired by Elscint, an Israeli-American medical diagnostics firm, to train doctors and technologists. Sent to Paris to deliver three weeks of training, she remained there and became the firm’s European product leader. Subsequently, Maureen joined a French electronics company, RAB Composants, and devoted four years to negotiating and managing supplier contracts in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea. Through both of these positions, she gained experience aligning an EMEA marketing strategy, motivating cross-cultural teams, growing sales in a variety of nations and cultures, and successfully discharging responsibilities at high regional and global levels. In 1996, Maureen left the corporate world to pursue studies in the U.S. and Switzerland organized by the Intercultural Communication Institute. She also completed work in coaching, including cross-cultural coaching, at Mozaik International and at the Advantara global executive coach training program; and she became licensed to use “The International Profiler” and “High Impact Teams.” Since then, Maureen has been coaching and training corporate leaders, accompanying them through phases of M&A integration, change management, and intercultural adaptation while drawing on her own professional experiences and familiarity with cultural frameworks. Her client list includes, among others, LVMH, Chanel, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis, UBS, Axa, Thales, and AREVA. A mentor with the European Professional Women’s Network, Maureen is often invited to be a speaker by the American Chamber of Commerce in France, the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce, and Le Conseil Générale du Val d’Oise. She is active in the International Consortium of Coaching Organizations, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, And Research, and the International Coaching Federation, where she serves on the global marketing committee. Maureen has
travelled and worked extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and
Asia. Currently, she operates out of both France and the U.S.
On a personal note, she is married with two teenagers and is an avid golfer.
- *Bernard H Sarfati has long harboured a passion for personal and professional development that ultimately led him to create a new concept: Architect of Education. An Architect of Education contributes more to an individual’s development than an ordinary coach, trainer, or counselor; he designs and constructs an entire environment of education in order to better enable business leaders to find and follow their unique developmental path. Bernard holds masters degrees in computer science from Paris University of Technology and in IT management from Paris-Dauphine University. He has completed advanced business-related courses at both IMD and INSEAD. His training in human development and coaching occurred at IFOD in Paris. He also holds certifications in Assessment Centre, 360° Feedback, MBTI, and Hogan Profiling. Bernard now teaches advanced students at the University of Rouen, and in Paris at both the Institut Superieur de la Communication and the Institut de Gestion Sociale. He speaks French and English fluently, and Italian conversationally. Prior to becoming a full-time executive coach and Architect of Education, Bernard worked for major global corporations such as Control Data, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, and Hyperion. His early professional contributions occurred as a computer engineer and information technology specialist. Later, he served as a sales manager and finally as director of human resources for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During these two decades, Bernard gained in-depth experience in an intensely multinational and multicultural environment. Bernard founded his own consultancy in 2003. His contributions occur in three directions: As a change manager, he enables senior leaders to understand employees’ resistance to change and to respond in appropriate ways. As a people developer, Bernard applies a variety of approaches to help people grow as individuals, managers, and leaders. And as an executive coach, he works with business leaders to “manage their loneliness,” develop their professional strategies, and upgrade their performance. Among his clients are Thales (Avionics, Airborne Systems, and Military Customer Service units), Total, CheckPoint Software AG, and Juniper Networks. One of his coachees, a CEO, wrote, “Bernard brings the executive from point A to point B, rather than giving vague recommendations on his/her behavior or reactions to the environment. This contributes to see quick improvements….” Bernard is a fan of scuba diving,
which he instructs, and golf. He lives with his wife and three children
in Paris, which they all believe to be one of the most beautiful cities
in the world.
- GERMANY--[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Boris A Carl is a trusted coaching partner for executives in global corporations, working with leaders who are ready to take their performance to the next level. His areas of expertise are global executive & leadership coaching, strategy & business development, cross-cultural coaching, self- & time-management, and life-balance coaching. Boris was educated in Germany and the United States. He holds a bachelor´s degree in business administration with a minor in international studies from Georgia Southern University. As a result of his extensive international living, he is fluent in English, German, and Japanese. During his career in international business, Boris successfully established several firms and appealed to local markets in the United States and Japan. As a business executive, he served as general manager & EVP of Gold Stag Communications, an IT company in the United States; as managing partner of Rainbow Intercultural Services, a Japan-based company specializing in cross-cultural training and expatriate coaching; and as managing director of Takaoka Consulting, a Japan-based international business consulting firm. A pioneer in the coaching field, Boris was one of the first executive coaches active in Asia. In one-to-one and team coaching, he has worked with members of executive management teams of globally active firms. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with clients from more than a dozen different nations, including Germany, the U.K., France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U.S., China, and Brazil. Among his clients are ABN AMRO Bank, Adidas, Bayer, Continental, Deutsche Bank, L'Oréal, Merck, Sasol, and other leading global organizations. Boris has been trained at two leading coaching schools in the U.S. and U.K.: Thomas Leonard School of Coaching and Academia Global Executive Coach Training Institute. He is certified as a NLP practitioner and high performance coach. Boris also has been trained and certified in the use of assessments such as DISC & PIAV, Team Diagnostics, Hogan Personality Assessments, the Cultural Orientation Indicator, and various 360° feedback tools. As a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Asia-Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC), Boris actively promotes the quality and ethical standards of his profession. In his own relationships with coachees, he practices concreteness, empathy, honesty, and mutual respect. Boris is a
passionate practitioner of Jujutsu, a traditional Japanese full-contact
martial art. Together with his Japanese wife, he also very much enjoys
travelling and outdoor sports.
- Daniela Fehring works with global companies in Europe in support of their activities and investments in Asia, especially China. Based in Germany, she is fluent in German, English, and Mandarin. Her passion is to enable Europeans and Asians to realize the advantages of collaboration through building on their differing strengths and perspectives. Daniela, a Swiss national, was born in Rio de Janeiro, then moved to Switzerland as a child. After finishing secondary school, she worked for a year in Lyon, France, as au pair, then obtained her first degree from Zürich University, where she studied sinology. During the early 1990s, she attained a masters degree in sinology and history from the same university; her masters thesis examined the private economy of the PRC and was the outcome of study and research at the University of Wuhan. Daniela was employed by Credit Suisse as an assistant to a branch manager, in which capacity she helped to achieve the bank’s management objectives in Shanghai and other locations in Southeast Asia. She then moved to Germany and founded her own consulting company in 1996. Together with a network of Germany-based Asian colleagues, she prepares European managers cross-culturally before they relocate to Asia, coaches them during their sojourn abroad, and sometimes works as well with their local counterparts in Asia to give them a better understanding of effective strategies for collaborating with Europeans. Her work increasingly involves multinational and virtual teams, which she supports by enabling them to bridge emerging difficulties due to distance and cultural difference. Her principal clients include BASF, Siemens, BMW, Continental Automotives, Roche, Robert Bosch, Heraeus Holdings, and Credit Suisse. Daniela has had university lectureships at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Marburg. She is qualified in systemic consulting by the Institute of Systemic Research and Consulting in Heidelberg, and in administering the Intercultural Development Inventory. Over the years she has been able to live in Japan for three months, and to carry out research on European expatriates living in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. She has contributed several articles on China to German newspapers. Her work takes her to Asia, principally China, several times each year. Daniela, who
is married to a German national, enjoys long walks and jogging in the hilly
landscapes near their home. She loves venturing into remote regions
of distant countries in order to meet local people. She also has
a passion for Latin American dancing.
- Hilly van Swol-Ulbrich is a Dutch national who worked in England and The Netherlands before settling permanently in Germany, where she devotes herself to relocation and cross-cultural work. In 1987, following a successful career working for a French corporate bank, Hilly founded a Netherlands-based relocation company serving Dutch subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies. Working with hundreds of families representing over 30 different nationalities, it soon became apparent to her that "finding someone a house does not replace the home left behind." After moving to Germany, Hilly founded her training and consulting firm, which provides services for the inbound and outbound expat community in Germany. Hilly gained her intercultural knowledge by attending the ITIM Institute, the University of Nijmegen, and the Centre Interregional de Perfectionnement. She developed a deep interest in the challenges facing relocating spouses and children, and she now offers workshops for both. In addition, she is a published author of books for children going on an international assignment and a frequent speaker on the subject of "Third Culture Kids." She also works directly with the children of recently relocated expatriate families. Hilly has developed cultural awareness trainings that have been successfully adopted by German corporations. She consults for major German relocation companies and facilitates a newcomers' program of her own design for the American Consulate in Frankfurt. Hilly is a member of SIETAR Europa, EURA, and the American-German Business Club of Frankfurt. Hilly and her German husband, Frank,
enjoy the splendor of nature in the mountain area just outside their home
city.
- *Bernhard A Zimmermann supports executives in global corporations, providing leadership development consulting and team coaching. Drawing on his European experiences, he is able to make intercultural principles and synergies a core feature of his coaching assignments. Bernhard works professionally in Dutch, German, and English. A native of Germany, Bernhard is a chemical engineer by training; he holds a master of science degree from Stuttgart University. Beginning at Nordsee, a frozen fish company, he went on to gain more than 15 years of professional management experience in R&D and supply chain assignments with Unilever, including Lever Brothers in the United Kingdom and Lever Europe in The Netherlands. His work gave him the opportunity to manage innovation and research initiatives that spanned several continents. In addition to his executive responsibilities with Unilever, he also served as an internal coach for fellow executives across the corporation’s supply chain, marketing, and R&D functions. Bernhard’s coaching enables executives transitioning to new assignments to become visionary and inspiring leaders; as part of these engagements, he often uses 360° feedback procedures based on emotional intelligence and situational leadership styles. He also supports executives through major strategic changes, better preparing them to redesign their organizational culture, to inspire others throughout the organization, and to implement change. For geographically dispersed, multifunctional, senior leadership teams operating within global corporations, Bernhard’s coaching has pointed the way to effectiveness and high performance. His coaching clients – spread across Germany, Belgium, the U.K., and The Netherlands – include Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Royal Dutch Shell, BASF, Sanofi Aventis, Quest International, and Liebherr Aerospace. After he completed a 12-month coach training program, Bernhard was granted a coach diploma by the Oxford Cambridge Examination Board. He has also been trained in systemic coaching at the German Centre for Systemic Research and Consulting. His mission as a coach is to support his clients in taking a step back to reflect on their situation and circumstances, to develop new insights about themselves, and to access their personal potential to the full. Bernhard is a certified user of MBTI Step 1&2, FIRO-B, the Inventory of Leadership Styles, the Emotional Competency Inventory, and the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis Tool. He is an active member of the International Coach Federation and acts as team coach for the German board of that organization. Bernhard is
a passionate SCUBA diver; he greatly enjoys being in a tranquil three-dimensional
space with breathtaking underwater landscapes.
- SWITZERLAND- [* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach]- - *Andrew Price has a passion for understanding the business implications of human difference across personality, culture, organizations, gender, ethnicity, and age. He believes that the more fully the human condition is comprehended, the more effective business people can be – in other words, that depth of human understanding makes good business sense. Born in Yorkshire, England (thus with a typical English sense of humor), Andrew holds bachelors degrees from Loughborough University, a postgraduate teaching diploma from Trinity College, and is currently completing a masters degree in organizational psychology at Birkbeck College of the University of London. For his masters, he is researching the ability of psychometric testing to accurately predict the behavior of people in corporations. He also has acquired certification in Emotional Intelligence, Firo B, MBTI, and Level AB psychometric testing. In his mid-40s, Andrew has lived and worked in France, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Canada, and the U.S. as well as in his native U.K. Andrew brings sporting and entrepreneurial experience to his clients. A member of both the professional tennis and squash coaches associations of Great Britain, he reached the level of international coach. (He continues to use the “Inner Game” technique of Tim Gallwey to great effect in his global executive coaching.) Andrew founded, and directed for twelve years, business training centers in England and South Africa, providing language and teacher training, cultural consulting and leadership development programs. This experience of running his own businesses enables Andrew to understand the language of start-ups, marketing strategy, sales, customer relations, and management. As Director of the Eaton Consulting Group Switzerland, he worked in cultural integration projects with executives at all levels in companies such as Cisco Systems, Dell, Carlsberg, Michelin, Saint-Gobain, Credit Suisse First Boston, Nestle, and Novartis. Andrew is experienced in addressing issues related to M&As, joint ventures, global leadership, conflict transformation, multinational teambuilding, and organizational change. His experiences over 20 years as a global executive coach, intercultural consultant, and corporate trainer have enabled him to effectively build strategies with his clients that generate practical and timely improvements in bottom-line results and interpersonal communication and that lead to more harmonious working relationships among colleagues and clients. Outside work,
Andrew enjoys sporting challenges. A pilot’s license and an advanced
scuba diving certificate are evidence of his long-term interests.
He lives in Switzerland with his partner Francesca, their West Highland
Terrier, and -- as of February 2008 -- their brand new baby boy!
- *Veronika Staudacher is dedicated to building bridges between individuals and groups from different cultures to insure the success of their collaboration across boundaries. - A native of the German-speaking region of Switzerland, Veronika had an opportunity at an early age to be immersed in Japanese culture and language in a public school in Kyoto. Later, she seized similar opportunities through university studies in French in Lausanne, and in English at the University of California at Berkeley. She is genuinely fluent in three languages and fluent as well across mindsets and cultures. The University of Lausanne was where Veronika received her management degree, and the University of California at Berkeley was the site of her participation over several years in a technical research project. Then, in a corporate environment – Jelmoli, a department store chain – she served both staff and line functions and gained on-the-ground experience in the fields of marketing and market research, finance, administration, and sales. She also completed a series of training programs in personality assessment, team management techniques, and process-oriented psychology. Recently she obtained a diploma as a certified mediator. Veronika is a pioneer in executive coaching in Switzerland. She founded her own coaching firm in 1991 and, during the 1990s, authored several German-language articles in I.O. Management and HandelsZeitung on coaching as a stand-alone management development tool. Through her coaching, she has strengthened businesspeople in several kinds of institutions and at a variety of organizational levels. Most of her work has focused on the coachee’s process of change and growth or on mediation in conflict situations. Among Veronika’s clients are the Swiss Post, the Swiss Television Network, and several international corporations including ABB, EDS, 3M, Roche, Siemens Nixdorf, and Zürich Financial Services. Besides constantly developing her own skills as an executive coach, Veronika has been teaching at colleges such as ZHW Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur. She also engages in experimental projects such as introducing new coaching approaches – leadership circles, peer coaching, etc. – for the Swiss Television Network as well as designing workshops to enhance effectiveness through increased creativity. Veronika’s commitment of over 20
years to non-profit organizations and her experience in politics are expression
of her social involvement. She tries to “walk the talk” in her worklife
balance, discussing with her two grown children topics such as one’s philosophy
of life and the future of mankind.
- ITALY- [* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Paola Caburlotto has devoted most of her professional career to human resource development. Her command of Italian, French, and English, and her natural affinity for work in multicultural environments, change anticipation, and innovation have deeply influenced the course of her professional career. In all her work, including the launching of new businesses in competitive markets, Paola has brought to bear her wisdom with respect to intercultural differences, IT development, and change management. She now is an executive coach focusing on facilitating change in organizations as well as individuals. - Born in Venice and raised in an international family, Paola earned a bachelors degree in foreign languages and linguistics, and a diploma in interpreting and translating. During her student years she lived in England and in the U.S., after which she returned to Italy and completed an MBA. These experiences all developed within her a strong interest in becoming directly involved with global corporations, and she began her professional career in the shipping field, working for the largest shipping brokers in Europe. - Seven years later, Paola founded the Italian branch of Inlingua, one of the leading language training firms. Managing employees from 14 different nations, she gained solid experience in diversity management. She designed for Inlingua its first internal seminar on intercultural awareness; after this was found to improve staff communication, this seminar was put on the market. Subsequently, she also developed a foreign language train-the-trainer program now being used by professional training teams. - In 1999, Paola joined a leading career management consultancy, for which she handled national accounts. Then, in 2002, she founded her own consulting company, which is based in both Milan and Turin. Her firm offers a wide range of executive coaching, management training, organizational consulting services, while Paola herself specializes in career transitions, change management, team building, leadership development, and intercultural performance. - Paola lives with her husband and dogs, devoting most of her free time to her two beloved nephews. She enjoys photography, golf, skiing, and hiking. Every year she takes a month off to go to Spain for the Camino de Santiago. Since Paola cannot have children of her own, she volunteers to support other women in the same situation. - - *Pilar Chaparro is an experienced coach who facilitates executives’ corporate and personal transitions. She views her role as aiding extraordinary individuals to successfully navigate their most challenging life changes, and to begin writing the next chapter of their lives. A native of Colombia, Pilar was raised in California, where she received her B.A. with Summa Cum Laude distinction from Loyola Marymount University. Her corporate experience, gained in the U.S., includes four years with Dimensional Fund Advisors at that firm’s emerging markets trading desk, followed by five years as a senior strategic consultant with Gemini Consulting (now Cap Gemini), where she focused on banking, telecommunications, and media, and accountable for managing resources and budgets for key projects. During the late 1990s she obtained an MBA from SDA Bocconi University in Italy, where she has lived and worked ever since. Pilar has dedicated more than half of her professional life to executive coaching in an international context. She became a Certified Executive Coach when she completed her training, specializing in planning for transitions, at the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, California. Her client list includes, among others, the state-owned Italian broadcaster (RAI), where she coached the key leadership team and middle managers as they created a new business unit; and one of the largest wireless operators in Italy, where she designed and implemented a leadership development and project management model for over 100 employees while also coaching members of the senior executive team. Pilar is currently working with global firms including Nokia and Whirlpool. As an example of Pilar’s work, one of her recent coachees was an executive of a well-known marketing research organization who was facing a major career transition. The outcome of her coaching was that he re-defined the parameters by which he wished to continue as a leader of the organization, and defined and implemented an action plan in order to achieve his objectives. Pilar has been president of her local Professional Women’s Association, and is active in career coaching for the SDA Bocconi International Graduate program. She is a member of both the International Coach Federation and Fedrazione Italiana Coach. Pilar, with
Alessandro, are the parents of two wonderful young children, Sebastian
and Francesca. Together they partner closely to raise these multi-cultural
children within the day-to-day realities of Italy. So far the experiment
seems to be working well....
- *Dario Giarrizzo has a passion for leadership and organizational development that, following a 16-year career as an executive, he now pursues as a provider of executive coaching and organizational and team development in cooperation with global consulting firms. Dario earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1987 from the University of Catania, followed in 1991 by an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan. He began corporate life as a researcher for IBM in Zürich. He then spent two years with McKinsey & Co. in Milan, working on strategic, organizational, and operational issues for large multinationals. In 1994, he joined the staff of a renowned Italian political leader and a member of the European Commission. In this role Dario led projects for the City of Catania that included the design and delivery of an extensive executive development program. In 1997, Dario became the COO of SIFI SpA, a pharmaceutical company with activities throughout Europe and the Americas. His main responsibilities were to coordinate R&D, business development and licensing, manufacturing, new product development, and international marketing and sales. Among his accomplishments were creation and strengthening of strategic international alliances as well as major organizational changes to align strategy and organization. He paid special attention to SIFI’s people strategy, overseeing training and development activities at all levels. In 2004, Dario became an independent consultant. Besides executive coaching for senior managers and top leaders, his engagements have included the development and delivery of programs and workshops focused on strategic leadership development, functional team alignment, personal mastery, change management, and leader-as-coach. His clients have included American Express, Banca Intesa, Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI, Enel, Citibank, Richardson Electronics, Chiesi Farmaceutici, and Finmeccanica. Dario is a licensed user of Strategic Leadership Development™, a 360° assessment tool, and a certified user of the Computerized Assessment of Personal Potential. Dario has attended several leadership development workshops such as the McKinsey Facilitator Development Program (FDP) and, at IMD in Lausanne, Mobilizing People. He has completed the Foundational Coach Training Program and Mentor Coaching Groups at The Institute of Life Coach Training. Dario is an active participant in the European Facilitators’ Network that McKinsey & Company has established as part of its International Mindset & Capabilities Practice, and he is also an executive coach for IMD. Dario loves
nature, animals, classical music, and traveling around the world to get
in touch with new cultures and to discover the beauty in this world.
- *Francesco Pimpinelli is an experienced executive coach who supports business leaders as they more effectively attain their personal and organizational goals. His approach to coaching – both one-to-one and in a team setting – integrates his strong competence in the area of personal development with his 20+ years of international management and corporate consulting experience. He coaches equally fluently in English and Italian. Francesco received a masters degree in computer science from the University of Milan in 1985. His professional preparation for coaching includes a high performance coaching certification from Performance Unlimited and an executive coaching course at the Wharton School; he also holds certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (in which he is both a master and a trainer) and counseling. He is certified to apply the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Cultural Orientation Indicator. Finally, Francesco is an expert in Systemic Coaching, a methodology that applies an ecological approach as leaders improve their management of personal, relational, and organizational issues. Francesco has a broad business background, developed as he worked for major international organizations including Olivetti, where he served as the key expert in educational technology; Gemini Consulting, where he worked as a management consultant; Oracle, where he was a sales director; and at the European Union, which he served as a consultant. He also worked briefly as a manager for a venture capital fund sponsored by Unicredit Group. In 2002, Francesco dedicated himself full-time to executive coaching and leadership development, working all across Europe as well as in his native Italy. Francesco’s areas of strength include leadership, teamwork, relationship management, cross-cultural competencies, emotional intelligence, work-life integration, and career transition. He often incorporates 360º feedback into his coaching as well as personality and cultural assessments for individuals and teams. As one of his coachees remarked, “Francesco has excellent business management know-how and a lot of expertise in personal growth. The combination of these two qualities produces a very balanced and respectful approach that enabled me to make the next step” (to president of a global industrial company). When Francesco
is not busy with work he enjoys cooking for his friends, traveling, reading,
or riding his bicycle. He loves to relax in the countryside of the
pre-Alps close to Lago Maggiore, enjoying quietness and nature. Another
of his interests is learning about human cultures, spirituality, and personal
development. Francesco has created an impressive CD collection with
music gathered from all over the world.
- BELGIUM- [* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Marc De Wilde, a Belgian citizen born in the Congo, provides executive coaching for high-achieving individuals and critical-assignment teams within fast-paced start-ups as well as established global corporations. Marc holds a degree in applied economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He was employed by Exxon Chemicals for four years before launching his first company in the IT sector. A serial entrepreneur, Marc founded and led four companies in 18 years, all delivering IT services or software solutions to major European institutions and global corporations such as Delhaize, Daimler-Chrysler, Exxon-Mobil, Inbev, Legrand, Manpower, and UCB. In 1999, he sold his fourth company and its unique document-sharing platform to an organization listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange. Marc then took advantage of a well-deserved sabbatical to walk overland from Brussels to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. During this 3½ month journey, he engaged in open-hearted discussions with people from all over the world. This transforming experience convinced him that inside every human being lies a treasure of some kind, which in turn led him to found his own executive coaching practice in 2003. Marc’s coaching approach is based on a balance between business goal-setting and personal development. Marc’s specialities are coaching executives during their first 100 days in a new leadership position, and working with newly formed teams of executives who must quickly gain a strong momentum to advance a shared vision. He coaches in French as well as English. Among his clients have been Amadeus, Fortis, Fujisawa, Gartner, GSK, Nexans, and UCB. Marc was trained and supervised by renowned French coaches: Danielle Darmouni, François Delivré, Jacques-Antoine Malarewicz, and Vincent Lehnardt. He relies on coaching approaches such as change management, conflict management, intercultural communication, and metacommunication, and on an array of coaching tools including Kaplan & Norton’s Balanced Scorecard, Berne’s Organizational Theory, Rosenberg’s NonViolent Communication, Kahler’s Process Communication, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and any of the 360º feedback processes. He is literate in Berne’s Transactional Analysis and Mintzberg’s systemic approach on organizations. Finally, Marc also maintains his professional edge by being active in the International Coach Federation. An experienced
hiker and desert fan, Marc is happily married to Annelies, a high school
teacher who in her spare time is fond of Anglo-Saxon culture and folk singing.
Together they love travelling as well as visiting their son, Bob, a civil
engineer based in Norway.
- *Nancy Glynn coaches executives and teams as they increase their effectiveness in the complex and demanding global business arena. She draws on her experience as a senior executive, on her broad awareness of European cultures, and on her enduring belief in the transformative power of self-knowledge about one’s own strengths and personal values. She coaches in English and French; she also speaks Dutch and German. An Irish national, Nancy holds an MBA degree from United Business Institutes in Brussels. She has completed the Team Coaching Intensive from Team Coaching International, and will imminently become accredited by the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Program. She has lived and worked in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S.; she also has considerable experience working in Finland. Nancy served in global businesses for nearly 20 years, much of that time as a senior executive in marketing and communications, and as a member of executive committees. Her direct responsibilities included global rebranding and repositioning; preparation for public listing of a 150-year old family-owned company; communications supporting mergers, divestitures, and acquisitions; post-merger integration of identities and brands; financial communications; and crisis communications. In addition, Nancy was a key executive involved in the design and implementation of learning and performance development programs, including executive coaching grounded in 360-degree feedback processes. As a characteristic feature of her management experience, Nancy personally experienced multiple variations and degrees of cross-cultural transformation. Among these were the integration of major cross-border acquisitions, the restructuring of corporate portfolios, and the evolution of business models and processes brought about by crises and challenges. She gained her corporate managerial experience with IMS HEALTH, Ahlstrom Fiber Solutions, Agfa HealthCare, Dow Corning, and Burson-Marsteller. As an executive coach, Nancy helps her clients achieve tangible outcomes. She enjoys working with individuals and teams as they navigate their way from a strategy towards optimal implementation by bridging the gap between knowing-what-to-do and getting-it-done. Her experience has shown that a key success factor in business coaching is to link clear objectives with the personal and business contexts. Nancy’s coaching clients have included managers and executives at Akkanto, the MCPS-PRS Alliance, and others; she also coaches private clients in the throes of career transitions. Having navigated two major career changes herself, she’s at ease with the multiple challenges of such life events. Nancy lives
near Brussels and enjoys gardening, hiking, books, and films.
- *Sabine Tobback, a Flemish native of Belgium, has devoted her professional life to the global human resources field, and in particular to executive coaching and career counseling. Sabine holds a degree in economics with a specialization in corporate management; her thesis concerned the impact of shared services within multinational companies. As a young graduate, she supported her father's international entrepreneurial business, which built aluminium factories throughout Africa and the Middle East. This gave her living and working experience in that world region. She works professionally in Dutch and English, and also speaks French. ExxonMobil employed Sabine in its international human resources function for 12½ years. There she gained extensive experience in organizational development, search and selection, and recruitment and assessment for assignments abroad. She was responsible for managing 350 expatriate families (28 nationalities) who were living in Belgium. Sabine also worked internationally for ExxonMobil, focusing on employee development, career planning, internal counseling, job evaluation, job rotation, and upward mobility. Short assignments regularly took her to the United States, France, and The Netherlands. For several years she also managed ExxonMobil’s Early European Graduate Interchange Program, which offered international experiences to young graduates. Early in 2000, Sabine founded her own consultancy devoted to enhancing the effectiveness of middle managers and senior executives. She offers executive coaching and career counseling as well as intercultural management expertise in human resources and leadership development. She personally provides long-term coaching for business leaders with respect to teambuilding, performance enhancement, time- and stress-management, and intercultural communication skills and relationship-building. Her client list includes Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, GSK, Fortis, Tyco, Sofitech, Amylum, Total Fina, Schering-Plough, ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, UCB, Phillips, MasterCard, Holcim, Areva, Electrabel, Cargill, Cummins, Alcatel Scientific Atlanta, Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, JP Morgan, Henkel, Umicore, Heidelberg, ING, and Software AG. Throughout her career, Sabine has gained training and experience with tools such as MBTI, DISC, OPQ, and several others, and she participates regularly in assessment and development centre exercises. She is a Certified Professional Coach. She leads open and in-house seminars on Franklin Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and Edgar Schein’s “Career Anchors” as well as others on topics such as virtual coaching, networking, behavior-based interviewing skills, social styles, core qualities, and emotional intelligence. Sabine lives
near Brussels with her French partner. They enjoy travelling all
over the world. She spends most of her free time with her young nephew,
who is also her godchild.
Bernhard Zimmermann, Germany-based Dutch-speaking coach: click here. - - SPAIN-[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Sally Jackson has devoted her career to the facilitation of sustained personal change, which she achieves through extensive coaching and training of business people in global corporations. She regularly travels throughout Europe, training and coaching in the areas of leadership, coaching, team development, and personal transitions. A native of England, Sally was employed early in her career as a line manager for a large multinational retail corporation, then in senior HR positions for other major multinationals. These included, Brown & Root (diversified business mainly in design engineering) and Reuters. During this time, she worked in the United States and Sweden and travelled extensively in Asia. In 1994, Sally gained an MBA degree from the University of Bath, specializing in change management and completing electives in Japanese and gender management. After 15 years in corporations, Sally devoted ten years to working in consultancy as an international coach and leadership trainer. During this period, she undertook assignments for Mars, Astra Zeneca, T-mobile, Credit Suisse, Shell, HSBC and several other large global banking corporations including J&J subsidiary DePuy. During this period, Sally conducted hundreds of hours of coaching in support of leaders with personal and business goals. Sally is a trainer of both Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and of Time Line Therapyä. She is an accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation. She is also qualified to use several psychometric tools to facilitate self- and team-awareness such as Firo-B (which looks at fundamental drivers behind relationships), and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Sally is a leader of the certified public trainings for attaining the NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner levels. Sally embarked on a new stage in her career in 2003, setting up a business with her Dutch partner, Jan Versteeg. Sally’s aim is to facilitate personal transitions by enabling businesspeople to access their inner resources, and to help individuals develop their leadership and communication skills in order to perform more effectively on the job. Current clients include Panasonic, Vodafone, Draka, and Shell. Sally’s personal
activities include skiing, sailing, walking, and reading. She lives
with her partner, Jan, in a beautiful finca (a type of farm house) in Southern
Spain. This was part of her dream, to live somewhere
that meant she could ski in the morning and sunbathe or sail in the afternoon.
- RUSSIA-[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Alla Kuznetsova is a Russian-born U.S. citizen who brings a well-honed cross-cultural perspective to her work as an executive coach, consultant, and business educator. Based in Moscow, she recently spent 14 years living and working in the U.S. Alla earned two master’s degrees from Columbia University, one in 1994 in public administration from the School of International and Public Affairs, and one in 2004 on organizational psychology and leadership from Teachers College. She also holds a master’s degree in foreign language teaching from the Moscow University of Linguistics. Alla was the administrative director of Columbia University’s Genome Center from 1997 till 2002. In this capacity, she led a professionally and ethnically diverse team that was building a high-performance organization. She also took on the responsibility for coaching the senior faculty on leadership issues and cross-cultural competencies, and for mediating intra-staff conflicts. Alla’s prior work experience in Russia include coordinating numerous projects within the framework of a U.S.-Russian collaboration in cardiology. She was actively involved in the organization of international conferences and symposia, and managed various exchange programs sponsored by the National Institute of Health (U.S.) and the National Cardiology Research Center (Russia). Alla recently co-founded a consultancy based in Moscow. She and her associates consult with global companies on issues of human resource development and training program design. Alla herself is an executive coach for senior leaders and managers of international and Russian companies. Her clients include TNK-BP, Conde Nast, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, GM, Bacardi, and Vimpelkom (Beeline). In 2005, Alla completed professional coach training at Erickson College International (Canada) and a course in global executive coaching at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (Oregon). She is proficient in applying 360° assessments as well as the Survey of Influence Effectiveness (SIE) in her work. She consistently attempts to adapt her coaching style to each client’s cultural profile. Alla is a member of the International Coach Federation and a vice-president of the Russian ICF Chapter. She is known in the global coaching community for her pioneering efforts in making executive coaching a success in Russia. She regularly travels to the U.S. to participate in professional events dedicated to development of human potential in organizations. Alla has a
bilingual-bicultural daughter who is at Reed College in Oregon. When
not involved professionally, Alla reads the history of her native city,
Moscow, and occasionally guides private tours through historic sites there.
- ROMANIA -[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - Carmen-Aida Hutu is a management education and development professional. Born and based in Romania, she works nationally and internationally in both the corporate and academic environments. After graduating with a master's degree in mechanical engineering, Carmen worked as an operations, design, and research engineer with several Romanian companies and research institutes, focusing on new technologies and socio-technical systems. In 1990 she began her academic career in the Department of Management at "Gh. Asachi" Technical University in Iasi, Romania. A Fulbright grant enabled her to obtain a masters degree in organization development from Loyola University in Chicago. She then went on to attain a Ph.D. at “Gh. Asachi” with a dissertation on the relationships between corporate culture and technology transfer. Carmen is now an associate professor at "Gh. Asachi" Technical University, carrying out research on corporate culture, cultural diversity, intercultural communication, and leadership from the personal and organizational performance perspectives. She is also a visiting professor of management and a range of other specialties at the Canadian MBA program in Bucharest as well as four other MBA Programs around Romania. Carmen is extensively published, including Culture, Change, and Competition, winner of the 2003 Best Book Award from the General Association of Romanian Economists. Three of her numerous published articles are listed in the Global Leadership section of GROVEWELL's Professional Knowledge Center. In the course of her work, Carmen has obtained and carried out grants for programs and projects focusing on HR training for technological-innovative business structures, organizational culture and E.U. integration, European dimensions of quality assurance, and several others. Her international project experience also includes, among more than a dozen others, two international joint-venture simulations, one focused on global technology management and the other focused on organizational effectiveness (both of these in conjunction with Cooper Union of New York). Carmen has regularly consulted with a score of Romanian companies (private and undergoing privatization) and also provides her expertise to businesses throughout Europe. Her consulting, training, and institution-building contributions have focused internationally on the development of enterprises, quality and excellence in business and in education, and cross-cultural and minority issues in business. Carmen is vice-president of the Romanian Association for Sustainable Development and Performance. Carmen loves
classical music, opera, and eastern philosophies. Her son, Andrei,
is the logistics director for a construction company and a student of economics.
They both enjoy hiking and touring abroad.
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - Abdulhamied Alromaithy has a passion for training and developing others to enable them to enter the workforce in the Middle East, either as youth taking on entry-level positions or as expatriate business people arriving from distant shores. He has pioneered many programs and initiatives that have gained recognition throughout the Arab Gulf region. Abdulhamied received a bachelors degree in business administration from Kuwait University and an MBA from California Lutheran University. He also holds a doctorate in human resource development from George Washington University. Abdulhamied started his work career as an economic researcher with the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development in 1972; after receiving his MBA, he was appointed as the administration director there. In 1978, he joined U.A.E. University as a faculty member at the School of Business Administration. After attaining his doctorate, he returned to the university and taught a number of business and management courses. In 1983, he left the university to start his own management and training company, the first in the United Arab Emirates. Well known in the Arab Gulf region in the fields of human resources, management consulting, and training, Abdulhamied has designed and implemented many development programs and has been retained as a consultant for leading organizations in the public and private sectors. His work focuses on intercultural training, human resources consulting, career development, individual coaching, and microfinance. His clients include the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, ADCO, ADGAS, GASCO, the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen’s Council, and the Sharjah Government Department of Human Resources. Abdulhamied has delivered lectures and professional services not only throughout the Middle East but also in the United States, Australia, Malaysia, France, India, the United Kingdom, Malta, the Philippines, Thailand, Canada, Brazil, and Ireland. He is a founding member of the Middle East branch of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, And Research (SIETAR). Frequently hosted on national radio and TV programs, he has written articles for Training and the ASTD Journal. He is the co-author of the Cultural Detective: Arab Gulf. He has authored three books on career explorations and is about to finish a fourth, Working and Living in the Arab Gulf Countries. The United
Arab Emirates is home to Abdulhamied. His two adult daughters work
in Dubai and Sharjah. Even though writing is a major component of
his professional work, he also composes poetry.
- SOUTH AFRICA-[* = GROVEWELL-qualified executive coach] - *Gabrielle Pimstone is an executive coach and organization development practitioner with long experience facilitating organizational change and developing individuals and teams. Because her work experience spans Australia, Indonesia, and the U.S. as well as her native South Africa, she possesses a global perspective based on rich experience in multicultural settings. In addition, her South African upbringing gives her particular insights into cultural diversity and value differences. After completing a postgraduate degree in industrial and organizational psychology at the University of Cape Town, Gabrielle worked as an HR consultant in Cape Town for two years before emigrating to Australia. There she held two positions: initially as a change management consultant for Andersen Consulting and, thereafter, as an internal OD consultant for Westpac Bank. In the latter, she helped top executives design and manage the rollout of a group-wide strategic learning program. Gabrielle returned to South Africa in 2001 as an internal OD consultant at Investec, an international investment bank. There she was exposed to a sophisticated model of OD and gained expertise in facilitating individual and group processes that included strategic thinking sessions, team development, and diversity workshops. She was instrumental in the rollout of a leader-development program including individual coaching. In 2003, Gabrielle founded her own consultancy, which focuses on the development of individuals and teams. Her clients have included many South African corporations, government departments, and state-owned enterprises. Gabrielle’s consulting approach is to intimately involve the members of her client’s business unit in the identification and resolution of the issues at hand. She’s learned that promotion of client ownership enhances unit members’ capacity for learning, enabling them to anticipate and resolve future challenges. Gabrielle’s approach to executive coaching draws on her authentic interpersonal style and well-developed intuitive skills. She creates a safe space for dialogue and maintains an open agenda, thus enabling her coachees to freely explore their issues. When necessary, she delivers firm feedback. In her experience, these methods accelerate the problem-solving process and reveal opportunities for the coachee’s personal and professional growth. Gabrielle has conducted coaching at Accenture, Gauteng Provincial Department, Investec Bank, Microsoft North Africa, and Pilot Crushtec. Gabrielle
is actively involved in implementing skills transfer for black clients
who were “previously disadvantaged” in apartheid South Africa. She
also volunteers time to charities benefiting Aids orphans. She enjoys
yoga and cycling, and is currently studying Italian. Finally, Gabrielle
loves animals and dreams of founding an animal sanctuary.
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