Kathy holds an MBA in International Business from the University of Connecticut and a masters in social/cultural anthropology from Duke University.  She is certified in a variety of interpersonal, intercultural, 360° feedback, and organization design tools and programs.

As a strategic HR consultant at Aetna, Kathy held leadership roles in various corporate and business units.  She worked with Aetna’s president and chairman to redesign the enterprise and build global leadership and organizational strength in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Malaysia.  At Aetna Corporate, she led high-performance team- and change-initiatives, and led the redesign and implementation of Aetna’s worldwide performance management system. 

As an anthropologist with extensive business experience, Kathy brings a unique perspective to consulting on the challenges of organization design, change management, culture shifts, executive coaching, global leadership development, and virtual team performance.  She has delivered services to Johnson & Johnson, Heraeus, Bank of Montreal, Barclays Bank, The Stanley Works, Merrill Lynch, M.I.T., Environmental Protection Agency, Withers-Bergman, Towers Perrin, Deloitte & Touche, HSBC Equator, Imerys, Creative BioMolecules, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Catalyst,  Mercury Computer Systems, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, AstraZeneca, Neopost, Northeast Utilities, and Fidelity Investments. 

As president of the Organization Design Forum (2000-2001), Kathy led a successful rebranding for globalization, and she served over a decade as a board officer leading strategic initiatives.  She is co-author of “How the Learning Organization Manages Change,” part of the National Productivity Review’s 1995 publication, Getting Results Through Organization Design [to read, click here].  With GROVEWELL colleagues, she co-authored “Gaining a Critical Edge in Mastering Globalization,” Leadership in Action (Center for Creative Leadership), May/June 2007.  Kathy co-edited the special January 2011 edition of the HRPS journal, People & Strategy, entitled “Leading in a Time of Uncertainty.”  Kathy speaks at national conferences on change management, global teaming, and performance measurement. 

Kathy is the co-developer of Coaching for Global Advantage, GROVEWELL's signature executive coaching approach.  At the renowned Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in 2005, she co-instructed "Executive Coaching in Intercultural Perspective."  She is active as a coach of corporate leaders, particularly at Johnson & Johnson, where she has coached over 25 high-potential and senior leaders. She has worked extensively with leaders in Europe and the U.S. on virtual team performance, career development, and culturally calibrated leadership. 

Kathy lives with her husband, Les Butnick, who is a financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial.  Together they enjoy gardening, biking, and travelling.
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Richard is a graduate of Harvard University with an Ed.D. in human development.  He began his career at Temple University, where he taught human development and statistics, published in the area of scientific creativity, and chaired a department.  His research on creative scientists led him to research and consulting on the competencies needed for outstanding performance more generally in professional and leadership positions. 

Richard worked for eight years at McBer and Company, an international HR management consulting firm, where he ultimately became Director of Research and responsible for the development of state-of-the-art competency modeling technology.  He built competency models for numerous jobs in diverse industries and business functions, including many for leaders in global companies.  He also created a wide range of assessment tools using surveys, focus groups, and interviews.  Richard then spent two years as a vice president of The Altwell Group, where he developed tools and a methodology for comprehensive organizational assessment.

In 1990, Richard became an independent consultant, focusing his work on assessment for leadership and organizational development.  He has helped to design leadership competency models for global organizations such as Fidelity Investments, Accenture, EMC, and Digital Equipment.  He has developed and/or administered 360° feedback programs for these and many other organizations.  Many of his surveys have been administered internationally through the internet.  He has also designed assessments of organizational culture and the climate for diversity.   His international experience includes work for BP, Texaco Ltd., Towers Perrin, ICI, Gemini Consulting, Lucas Industries, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

During his career, Richard has developed and administered competency models for corporate employees in sales, marketing, production, R&D, IT, finance, and general management.  His models have been applied in a wide range of industries including chemicals, computers, conglomerates, consulting, education, energy, financial services, food, government, high-tech, manufacturing, media, military, personal care products, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications.

Richard co-authored The Psychology of Creativity and Discovery (Nelson Hall, 1981) and The Value-Added Employee: 31 Skills to Make Yourself Irresistible to Any Company (Gulf, 1999).  He is the author of “Building Competency Models for HR Professionals,” in Human Resource Management, Vol. 35 (1996).

Richard's wife, Mary, is an educational consultant; they have two daughters and four grandchildren.  He enjoys bicycling, tennis, golf, and cross-country skiing. 

Betsy, a Canadian, has lived in France and Italy for a total of six years.  Her fascination in cross-cultural issues and her personal experiences qualifies her to coach international families arriving to the US, leaving for an overseas assignment, or repatriating back home.  For the past 20 years, Betsy has been developing and conducting corporate trainings, many of them focused on interpersonal and intercultural communication.  Her workshop topics include presentation skills, meeting and team facilitation, management and leadership, group and individual controversy-resolution, business writing, sales, and working with people who have differing personal styles.  She offers a Leadership Skills workshop in which she emphasizes confronting broken agreements, conducting performance reviews, and providing developmental feedback.

Betsy has a bachelors in mathematics and a masters in applied psychology.  She began her professional career as an IBM Systems Engineer responsible for the installation and operation of IBM equipment at over 100 financial institutions.  In this role, she designed and ran many client workshops, which led to the pursuit of her current career.  Betsy has worked in the Americas, Europe and Asia for clients such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Citibank, American Express, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Apple Computer, Morgan Stanley, Time-Warner, G.E. Capital, Lucent Technologies, Sun Life Financial, PepsiCo, Nabisco, International Paper, and Credit Swiss First Boston.

Betsy lives in the Northeast U.S. and is the mother of two grown married children.  When not working or traveling, she can be found either writing a book, painting, or learning photography.  She is an avid reader and loves films.

Born and raised in New York, Karen holds a bachelors from American University and certifications in intercultural management, conflict resolution, and training design for intercultural learning.  She is also certified in the Intercultural Development Inventory and Cultural Orientations Indicator, and is a master practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index.  Her coaching certifications are from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and the International Coaching Federation.  Karen has traveled extensively and lived in China and Germany; she is conversant in German, has good comprehension of Cantonese, and has studied Mandarin.

As a full-time employee, Karen has served in a variety of managerial roles that were focused on leadership development, intercultural communication, diversity & inclusion, training and workshop development and delivery, and the oversight of large-scale initiatives that bridged corporations, organizations, and government.  Her employers have included the Academy for Educational Development, where she contributed to a USAID project building an environmental partnership with Asia; the Leader-to-Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation), where she collaborated with thought-leaders and facilitators on enhancements to the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool; and most recently Training Management Corporation, where she implemented a comprehensive diversity & inclusiveness strategy for Ernst & Young.

Intertwined with those full-time roles have been long-term consulting and contractor relationships with the University of Applied Sciences in Germany, Prudential Relocation, and Oliver Wyman’s Executive Learning Center in Germany and the U.S.  Today, Karen devotes herself exclusively to independent consulting, with a focus on leadership coaching.  Over the years, her direct and indirect consulting clients have included the Australian Institute of Management,  the Asian Institute of Management (Philippines), the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, the World Wildlife Fund, MetLife, Pfizer, American Express, Air Products, Banco Popular, Fundación Compromiso (Argentina), Campbell, and Deutsche Bank.

Karen lives in New York City with her husband.  She enjoys traveling, especially visiting her family in Germany.  Her passions and hobbies include tennis, card designing, tennis, cycling, qi-gong, yoga, and hiking.  She is a member of the United Global Shift Movement and serves on the board of a New York chapter of the Toastmasters.

Bidhan holds an engineering degree from an Indian university.  From the State University of New York at Buffalo, he holds an MBA in finance and international management, an M.A. in international trade, and a Ph.D. in international business.  Currently, he is associated with Empire State College, where he is a mentor/coordinator in the Center for Distance Learning.  He is also a visiting professor at the School of Management of the University of Buffalo, where he has taught international business to Chinese executives in the Motorola and Renmin University EMBA programs; he also teaches EMBA students at the Singapore Institute of Management. 

A wide range of projects and programs have been developed by Bidhan.  These have addressed global business development, multicultural virtual teams, cultural diversity in global business, doing business in India, and I.T. solutions.  He focuses on business knowledge process outsourcing, the cultural and behavioral aspects of offshore I.T. development, and the adaptation of professionals from different cultures working together in real or virtual teams.  Clients for whom Bidhan has consulted or trained include Fortune 500 financial services, I.T., and manufacturing companies. 

Bidhan often conducts research in India and delivers consultation and training in India, China, Singapore, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, South Africa, the U.K., and the U.S.  One example of his work is that he designed and taught in a 7-day long India Global Immersion Program learning experience in India for 22 senior-level executives of a U.S. Fortune 500 company.  He has also evaluated and consulted with respect to the cross-cultural training program of a large Indian I.T. vendor that provides services to U.S. clients.  His regular clients include American Express, General Mills, Standard & Poor’s, UBS, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard, First Data, and Adobe among many others.

An e-learning authority, Bidhan has created several asynchronous global classrooms bringing together business students and corporate managers from several countries to form cross-cultural learning teams.

The Wall Street Journal ran a story in the “Marketplace section” on May 25, 2004, about Bidhan’s India-related consulting and training work.  His book chapter titled “Diversity in India” was published in 2007 in Global Diversity: Winning Customers and Engaging Employees within World Markets.

Bidhan's hobbies include traveling, observing people's behaviors in new cultures, photography, and listening to Indian classical music. He also learns to greet people in several foreign languages; his current list of languages for this purpose is 25.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, John was raised in Japan and attended high school at the Canadian Academy in Kobe.  After undergraduate work at Houston Baptist University, he did graduate work during one year each at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Paris, and Kyoto University.  His Ph.D. in comparative literature and culture was awarded by Indiana University in 1979.  He has taught at the University of the Pacific, Ohio State, Southern Illinois, and St. John's.

From 1986 to 1989, John directed the Japan Film Center and Performing Arts Program at the Japan Society in New York.  He then joined the Asia-focused intercultural consultancy Clarke Consulting Group, where he began coaching executives under the tutelage of company founder Cliff Clarke and served as executive vice president from 1996 to 1999.

As an independent consultant and executive coach, John's services comprise matters such as headquarters-subsidiary alignment, teambuilding across cultures, cross-cultural performance management and leadership, and a variety of services focused on more productive working relationships between Japanese and Americans.  A short-list of his clients includes Boeing, Canon, Coach, Lilly, Ford, Honda, Itochu, Mazda, Mitsui, Motorola, and Texas Instruments.  With some of these, John consults and coaches on an ongoing basis to promote effectiveness at the intersection of Japanese and American business cultures.  His coaching clients include Canon, Coach, and Itochu, with coachees from general manager to president.

John has made presentations on trans-Pacific business issues to groups such as the Asian Business League, the Japan-America Institute of Management Science, the American Management Association, Keidanren (Federation of Economic Organizations), and the Japan External Trade Organization.   He has supplied commentary for "Marketplace" on National Public Radio, and for similar programs in Japan.  His written pieces have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The International Economy, and Human Management Review, and he has been cited as an expert in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Japan Business News, and others.  He is co-author, with Yoichi Sugiura, of Traditional Japanese Culture and Modern Japan (1993) and A Bilingual Handbook on Japanese Culture (1999, 2004), which he reports with amazement to have sold 70,000 copies. 

John has long-standing interests in the cultural history of baseball in both Japan and the United States, and in the world of Japanese theatre.

Born and raised in The Philippines, Margaret is conversant in Spanish and Cebuano.  She received her A.B. degree from St. Theresa’s College, then attended the University of the Philippines for graduate studies in organizational psychology.  Her coach training was at the Hudson Institute, and she’s qualified to lead Hudson’s “Planning for Change” and “Renewing Teams” programs.  She is certified as a Master Certified Coach and Senior Professional in Human Resources; she’s also qualified to administer the MBTI and other assessments and 360° instruments.  Margaret is an adjunct faculty member of New York University’s Department of Leadership and Human Capital Management, and an instructor in Columbia University’s Coaching Certification Program.

Margaret has deep experience in human capital management and talent development.  She led human resources for over 12 years at Scali, McCabe, Sloves, a unit of Ogilvy and Mather, during its period of unprecedented growth.  Parlaying her success there in talent development, she opened her own business during the 1980’s.  Returning to corporate leadership in the early ‘90s as director of human resources for the Olsten Corporation, she developed and implemented a system-wide succession planning program.  Later, as chief talent officer for the Arnell Group, then as senior vice president for talent at Draft Worldwide, she served as a change-agent pioneer in system-wide restructuring and cultural evolution. 

Now an independent consultant specializing in organization development and talent management, Margaret’s work focuses on leadership effectiveness coaching, leadership capacity building, transition coaching, and purpose coaching.  Business sectors to which she has consulted include financial services, advertising, media and entertainment, retail, sales and marketing, and healthcare.  Among her clients are Citi (formerly Citigroup), Banco de Santander, Barclays Bank, BNP Paribas, Limited Brands, Nissan, Time Inc., ‘O’, Omnicom, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Beanstalk Group as well as not-for-profits.

Margaret met her husband in the Philippines.  They enjoy their down time with friends and family on Long Island’s North Fork and on overseas travel adventures.  She is an avid photographer and watercolorist, ever seeking out new vantage points.  On travels, she carries a tiny watercolor paintbox to capture on-the-go memories and as a reminder of her promise to find more time to paint.

Born in Denver, Steven holds a degree in social psychology, business, and literature from Charter Oak State College in Connecticut.  He also attended Alberta College in Edmonton and San Francisco State College, and spent two years studying in Germany and Saudi Arabia.  He recently completed the year-long DIA-logos "Leadership for Collective Intelligence" program.

Steven's business experience began with 10 years of commercial broadcasting management for three top New York agencies.  He was also director of business affairs for The Great Amwell, an award-winning film and television production company.  In 1975, Steven began offering corporate and public programs in leadership, communication, sales & service, and personal development for groups of up to 350.  Since then he has held national and international faculty positions for Deloitte & Touche, United Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, NCR, IBM, Coca-Cola, AT&T, American Express, GTE, and both DuPont and DuPont Brazil.

From 1995 to 2001, Steven lived and worked part-time in São Paulo, where he served as consultant for executive learning for the relocation firm Living in Brazil, and consulted at the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.  For many years, Steven has actively trained for the Forum Corporation, instructed for Cornell University, and maintained his own executive coaching practice.  Recently he co-developed GROVEWELL's innovative, two-day Managing Organizational Culture training program.

A resident of upstate New York, Steven completed a masters degree in Jungian psychotherapy in 2004.  He loves to camp in his native Colorado.

Born in Hungary, Anton grew up in Germany, was educated in Switzerland, Germany, and the U.S., and worked in Europe and in North America.  His career initially followed an engineering path through various assignments in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, and Canada.  At age 30 he shifted course and went into marketing and sales.  He served as product manager, marketing manager, and global marketing & sales manager for a German-based division of a large U.S. machinery concern.

In 1982, Anton was given responsibility for the division’s North American operations; then in 1987 he was appointed President and CEO of the division.  In this role he had full P&L responsibility for $500 million in sales revenue and 2,100 employees worldwide, and gained extensive experience with local and global relationship and operating issues.  During his extensive travels he worked with employees, distributors, clients, and government organizations in more than 60 countries.

During his years as a C-level executive, Anton turned around and reorganized three companies.  The pain he witnessed, and felt, while reassigning and laying-off large numbers of people caused him to take a deep look at his own values and beliefs.  In order to do this well, he decided to study contemplative psychotherapy at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, from which he received a master’s degree in 1996.

Anton began his full-time executive coaching and strategy-consulting practice that same year.  His procedure in most cases is to coach a company’s top team as a group, i.e., the CEO with his or her direct reports (COO, CFO, etc.); he also accepts a few top executives as individual coachees.  In these ways, Anton has coached at SUN Microsystems, SAP America, McKinsey & Company, AT&T, Citibank, HSBC Bank, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Level3 Communications, and many others.

Anton believes each executive needs to first recognize his or her intrinsic strengths and passions, then gain awareness of detrimental beliefs and behaviors, and finally envision a broader range of possibilities and options.  He supports his coachees in strategically using all of their talents, passions, and professional skills to consciously select the best path forward.

A resident of Long Island, not far from New York City, Anton has 12-year-old twins who keep him young and mobile. 

David was raised in New York State and received a B.A.  Degree in East Asian Studies from Colby College in Maine.  As part of his studies, he spent time at Kansai Foreign Language University in Osaka, Japan, becoming an accomplished potter while learning the language and culture.  After returning to the U.S. he served as the president of the East Asian Cultural Society, bringing a variety of Asian cultural experiences to the public. 

David’s career began with responsibilities as an English teacher in Fukuoka, Japan, teaching students as young as six and as old as 75.  Returning to New York, he joined All Nippon Airways (ANA), the world’s seventh-largest airline; he served in the Tour Department, which welcomed and cared for as many as 20,000 Japanese visitors annually.  Within three years David was in charge of that department, and eventually he became accountable for all sales and marketing activities in the Northeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada.

In 2001 David left ANA to embark on a consulting career focusing on training and development. His corporate trainings cover topics such as “How to Negotiate Effectively With Asians,” “Strategies for Influencing and Gaining Cross-cultural Buy-in,” “The Implications of Japanese Decision-making Styles,” “Leveraging Diversity in Multinational Teams,” “Managing International Joint-ventures,” and “Mastering Global Leadership Skills: Style Switching.” Clients have included Pfizer, MetLife, Pratt &Whitney, Toyota, Chevron, and Japan Tobacco. 

With the growth of interest in the executive coaching process, David saw an opportunity to serve his clients in a valuable new way.  He enrolled in a coach training program accredited by the International Coach Federation and received his certificate in 2005.  As well, he became certified in emotional intelligence assessments and related coaching.  David now coaches executives and leadership teams at highly-respected multinationals such as IBM, GE, Honda, Pricewaterhouse, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, HSBC Bank, Wells Fargo and Lockheed Martin, among others.  In addition to his corporate assignments, he facilitates a 10-month leadership development program sponsored by United Way and coaches the executive directors of prominent not-for-profits such as NYMAC (a consortium of 50 arts institutions). 

David lives near New York City with his Japanese wife, Tomie, daughter Emily, and son Dan.  He enjoys waterskiing, and hiking, and collects fossils in upstate New York.

Barry received a bachelors in Asian studies and political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his program included a year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He holds a masters in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. He is a fluent speaker of Mandarin and knows basic Cantonese. 

In addition to wide experience throughout Asia, Barry has 25 years of China-specific experience including manager within the Beijing representative office of the First National Bank of Chicago; head of Chase Manhattan’s New York China Group; senior advisor to a provincial Chinese government; and manager within Chase China Trade Advisors (a consultancy that addressed U.S. joint venture negotiations).  Barry also served for over a decade as head of New York State’s International Division, in which capacity he was responsible for concluding and implementing New York’s “sister state” relationship in China.  With over three decades of business experience at the intersection of Asia and the West, Barry brings a richly textured perspective to his coachees and clients.

Independent since 1995, Barry has completed, among others, a management project for the New York office of an Asian government; a team integration project involving the U.S. and Shanghai offices of a consumer electronics company; and a multitier training program for a U.S. automotive company.  These assignments and others addressed a wide range of cross-cultural issues such as effective communication, leadership development, and virtual team facilitation.  Barry’s clients have included Chinese government entities in Jiangsu, Suzhou, and Hong Kong as well as global corporations such as American Express, Merrill Lynch, Citicorp, Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Estee Lauder, Columbus Circle Investments/PIMCO, Hess Petroleum, Anadarko Petroleum, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Schering, Merck, Bombardier, and Parker.

During 2006, Barry received coach certification from the Global Coaching Network's EAGLE program (Executive Assessment and Global Leadership Excellence).  He is also certified to use DISC and the Cultural Orientations Indicator.  He has provided executive coaching for senior Asian and Western leaders from a wide range of global industries including oil, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products.  He routinely coaches U.S. managers relocating to China and Chinese managers relocating to the U.S.

An avid traveler, Barry lives in Manhattan.  His pastimes include running, yoga, qigong, and the collecting of Asian painting, calligraphy, and Chinese porcelain.

While in high school in her native New Jersey, Mary Anne was selected from over 500 candidates to participate in "Operation Free Enterprise," a Junior Achievement program; she and 24 other students (including her future husband) visited what was then East and West Berlin.  She went on to receive her bachelors from Caldwell College, her masters in counseling from Seton Hall University, and her doctorate in adult education from Columbia University.  Her early professional work included directing a college career planning office, teaching counseling psychology at the graduate level, and maintaining a private practice in career counseling. 

During the early 1980s, Mary Anne and her husband, Jim, accepted an international assignment, which became a 14-year experience in London and Tokyo.  During this time Mary Anne developed and conducted workshops for groups of arriving and departing expatriates.  Since then, she consulted with global corporations on the challenges of globally mobile dual-career couples, and on the operational impact of cross-cultural differences.  She has consulted extensively with organizations in the financial services, pharmaceutical, and consumer goods industries.  An example of her organizational consulting is a recent engagement on a management assessment project for a German manufacturing company.

Mary Anne takes a psychological orientation while working with individuals, adding as needed her years of first-hand experience in distant nations and cultures.  Executives and mangers partner with her to accelerate their growth as strong and focused leaders.  Mary Anne is certified in coaching from Career Masters Institute, and is qualified to administer the MBTI.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association, SIETAR, and the Association of Career Professionals. 

Mary Anne often speaks at international conferences and seminars; her dynamic, humorous presentations make her a sought after presenter on career management topics.  Recently, she joined a small delegation of career management leaders that visited China to meet with government officials, college administrators, and industry leaders. 

Mary Anne is an active member of Nadeshiko-kai, the College Women’s Association of Japan, and she was recently named a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association in New York.  She resides in New York City with Jim and their four dogs, all of whom lived with them overseas.  The couple have four grown children.

Dan holds a masters in organizational psychology from Columbia University and a post-graduate certificate in adult career development from the City University of New York.  He now teaches executive coaching at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Prior to his consulting career, Dan was director of executive and organization development at Citibank, where he designed and led two major change initiatives resulting in increased market share and improved service delivery.  He designed and facilitated learning programs in leadership development, performance management, difficult conversations, and career management. 

Dan’s work as a facilitator of organizational change initiatives has extended well beyond his days at Citibank.  Clients have included Lundbeck (2003-09), Reuters (1991-98), J P Morgan Chase (1991-2001), Pfizer (1996-2005), and R R Donnelly (2000).  In addition, he has designed and facilitated targeted leadership development programs.  Today, as a senior facilitator, Dan enables teams to learn new ways of communicating, managing, and developing people.  He creates and delivers learning activities that enable people to develop skills and attitudes critical to the success of their business unit.  The results of this work are enhancements to productivity, service quality, and innovation.

As an executive coach, Dan works with business leaders to develop durable new behaviors and attitudes that align with stakeholders’ needs, business opportunities, and corporate values.  He is adept at using 360º feedback as the basis for the development of leaders, both in teams and as  individuals.  Dan’s clients have included leaders and teams from Pfizer, Schering Plough, Abbott Labs, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Siemens, Lundbeck-Synaptic, Regeneron, JetBlue, R R Donnelley, CitiGroup, Reuters, Prudential, J P Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Prudential, UBS, Standard & Poors, MTV, Time Warner, The New York Times, Grey Advertising, MTV, Parents Magazine, and Columbia University.

Dan’s publications include a full-length book, Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others, published in 2006 by Jossey-Bass [click here for information]; a book chapter entitled “Career Development of Scientists and Technologists,” in Alan Pickman’s Special Challenges in Career Management (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996); and two articles in Research-Technology Management magazine, “Stimulating Innovative Thinking” (1996) and “Repairing Damaged Work Relationships” (2003).

Outside of work, Dan reads, writes, swims, and takes nature photographs.  He is married to Maxine, a magazine art director.  Their son, Ben, recently began graduate school.

Christine emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States during her twenties.  Her bachelors degree from New York University includes eight independent-study credits that she gained as a direct outcome of a year’s travel through Asia and Africa.  Christine also earned an MBA from Columbia University’s Business School.

Christine’s professional life began in the U.K., where she held administrative positions in a printing firm and in educational institutions.  After coming to the U.S. she was first employed by BBD&O, where she worked on the Pacific Gas & Electric account and participated on a small team that established a direct marketing division for Parade Magazine.  At Blythe Eastman Dillon, Christine managed teams that were integrating acquisitions and was responsible for training that prepared women for leadership positions.  Later at Merrill Lynch, she led the initiative to develop and implement comprehensive compensation practices.  She then founded and, over four years, directed her own legal search firm.

Since becoming a full-time professional coach during the mid-1980s, Christine has collaborated with Partners in Human Resources International in the development of its coaching methodology, and has mentored young coaches.  She has served as an executive coach for Morgan Stanley, Schering Plough, Swiss-Re, Factiva, CSFB, Grey Advertising, Discovery, The New York Times, Avon, Burberry, and others.  One of her most memorable coaching engagements was for Readers Digest, where she enabled several managers and executives to successfully navigate through a tumultuous time in the company’s history.

Much of Christine’s coaching has been for law firms and, as private clients, for individual attorneys, in-house counsels, and law firm partners (including many women).  Among the firms that have benefitted from her services are Cadwalader, Christie & Viener, Dechert, Dewey Ballantine, Milbank Tweed, Shearman & Sterling, Willkie Farr, and Winston & Strawn. 

Christine has particular expertise coaching professionals who must transition from a specialist position to one of general management.  She also works with business leaders and teams as they learn and model new behaviors necessary to promote culture change within their organization.  She has often used 360º methodologies.  She is particularly comfortable coaching leaders to develop capability across multiple roles, and to enhance their effectiveness within a corporate culture where they represent a minority position. 

Christine lives in New York City with her husband, Howard, and enjoys theatre, opera, and travel abroad.  Her son, Alexander, is a recent graduate of Columbia Law School.

Andrea’s bachelors degree in marketing is from Ithaca College in New York; her graduate degree in industrial psychology is from Fairleigh Dickenson College in New Jersey.  She has been certified by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching as both a professional coach and a master practitioner of energy leadership.  Her most recent certification is in the Hogan Assessment.

Andrea devoted two early adult years to living and working in France, where she became conversant in the French language.  Later, her professional career took her on work assignments all across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.  Inspired by these multiple exposures to other languages and professional cultures, she decided to refocus her career on talent development with a worldwide scope. 

Andrea’s 18 years with Johnson & Johnson included key leadership positions in global mobility leadership development, most notably as the director of J&J’s International Development Program (known as “IDP”), where she was responsible not only for selection and placement but also for design and facilitation of individualized development programs for high potentials across all of J&J’s major markets worldwide.  She facilitated expatriate policy formulation and service delivery models; designed strategies for talent pipeline growth; coached and supported hundreds of program participants to realize impactful assignments abroad; and consulted to senior leaders of J&J companies to ensure alignment between, on the one hand, their strategic objectives, and on the other hand, the development goals of the IDP participants from abroad who had been assigned to work in that J&J company.

Andrea founded her own consultancy in 2008.  Her independent consulting and coaching clients have included TD Ameritrade, Mitre Corporation, Cegedim Dendrite, Independent Pharmacy Alliance, In Balance Wellness Center, and the YMCA. 

Andrea lives in New Jersey with her husband, Phil, their sons Matthew and Michael, and the family’s dog, Daisy.  When not working, Andrea enjoys travelling with her family, theatre-going in nearby New York City, and listening to all kinds of music
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A native of Colombia who spent her teenage years in the San Francisco area, Liliana's bachelors degree in economics is from Florida International University.  Growing up biculturally, she is fluent in both Spanish and English; she also has working knowledge of French and Portuguese.

Liliana began her business career in 1979 at American Express TRS, where she made sizable contributions in Miami as regional sales manager for the Caribbean, and later at the company’s New York headquarters as director of new business partnerships.  In 1995, Liliana became an associate of the Forum Corporation, applying her business experience to multicultural management consulting and workshop facilitation with an emphasis on leadership, teamwork, and strategic selling.  Her work at this time was with global corporations such as Dupont, Merck, and Shell Oil in Europe and the Americas.  One of her major accomplishments was leading the market development initiative that expanded the largest North American fleet fuel credit card program into Latin America.

As an independent consultant and coach during the past decade, Liliana has facilitated change management training programs in the U.S. and abroad, focusing on leadership, teamwork, and strategic selling.  Her recent engagements have primarily been with mid- to senior-level executives in the financial services, petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries.

Liliana is a graduate of New York University’s program in Organizational and Executive Coaching.  Her recent published article, “Intercultural Coaching for Global Managers: Beyond Cultural Awareness to Integration,” appears in Intercultural Management Quarterly (Winter 2005), a publication of American University’s Intercultural Management Institute.  At the Institute’s annual conference in 2005, she presented on this topic.  As well, Liliana is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR). 

Liliana lives in the New Jersey countryside with her husband.  Her interests include art, antique maps, history, foreign travel, bike riding, continuous learning, and enjoying life with family and friends.

A native of the U.K., Geoff holds an honors degree in applied biology from the University of Hertfordshire and a post-graduate diploma in management studies from Thames Valley University.  He attended the executive program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School and the senior executive program known as AVIRA (Awareness, Vision, Imagination, Responsibility, Action) at INSEAD’s facility in Singapore.  He holds certification as a master coach from the Behavioral Coaching Institute. 

Geoff began his career in the U.K. in marketing roles with Nicholas Laboratories, Bayer, and Smith and Nephew.  In 1984 he joined the ConvaTec division of Bristol Myers Squibb and in 1987 was transferred to the American headquarters of ConvaTec to serve as director of business development.  During a period when the organization was growing rapidly he advanced through a series of regional positions, each with P&L responsibility, including regional director for Latin America; vice president for Latin America, Middle East, and Africa; and vice president for Asia-Pacific.  This last role found him based in Hong Kong with responsibility for Japan and a joint-venture manufacturing operation in China. 

During 1997, Geoff returned to the U.S. to become ConvaTec’s senior vice president for North America.  In this role he managed the integration of two organizations following a significant acquisition.  In 2000 he was promoted into a newly created role as senior vice president for global marketing and research & development.  In this role he led a major restructuring of the global research, marketing, and technology-transfer organizations; the outcome was a significant enhancement of new product flow and global coordination.  In 2003, Geoff transferred to Bristol Myers Squibb’s pharmaceutical division, where he assumed global responsibility for the development and launch of a new breast cancer drug.

Throughout his career Geoff has maintained a strong focus on the development of his staff.   His responsibilities included numerous coaching and mentoring roles with executives from the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. 

Geoff lives in New Jersey with his wife, Carron, three children, and two dogs.  He enjoys skiing, playing golf, and following English football.

A native of Georgia, Renee is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with an English major and a history minor.  She holds a master’s degree in linguistics with a specialty in TESOL – teaching English to speakers of other languages – from Oakland University in Michigan.  Her honors thesis, “Foreign Accents in American English: Attitudes and Analysis,” combined two areas of linguistics: phonology and sociolinguistics.  In addition, she is formally certified to teach English to non-native speakers.

Renee began her consulting career in 1985 in the corporate program at Rutgers University of New Jersey, working at nearby corporations such as Bell Labs, AT&T, Bellcore, Lucent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Union Carbide, the United Parcel Service, and Schindler Elevator.  At each of these corporations, she facilitated speaking and writing courses for non-native speakers from all over the world, coached executives and aspiring executives, and provided cultural orientations for expatriates and their family members.  As the corporate curriculum coordinator at Rutgers, Renee designed training, chose materials, wrote proposals, and organized staff development events.  She has also taught non-native students in the MBA program at Seton Hall University.

After 15 years at Rutgers, Renee co-founded a consulting company whose mission is to facilitate improved communication for non-native speakers of English in the American corporate environment.  In addition to her role as managing partner, she consults to corporations such as AT&T, Novartis, and Organon.  She created a program for the spouses of expatriates from abroad who work for Organon, L’Oréal, and Bank of Japan.  And she organized seminars for non-native speakers that focus on networking and on improving communication with managers. 

From her home in northern New Jersey, Renee has often traveled overseas for business and pleasure with her husband, Dick, an international lawyer and businessman.  Her favorite destination is Italy.  She also enjoys reading fiction, doing Pilates, and attending music and dance performances.  Her grown son and daughter, as well as her daughter-in-law and baby granddaughter, live nearby in the New York City metropolitan area.

Brian earned a bachelor's in foreign languages (Japanese, German, and Spanish) from the University of Redlands, and an M.A. in international education and human resource development from George Washington University.  He also carried out research in Japan as a Rotary Foundation Scholar during 1983-85.  From 1985 through 1993, Brian worked in a variety of capacities for Daido-Hoxan Inc., a Japanese multinational whose core business is medical and industrial gases.  His work for DHI included public relations and the assisting with the formation of joint ventures and intercultural negotiations related to product modification.

Brian's consulting has involved him with Japanese clients such as Nihon Schering, Mitsui Corporation, and the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development.  His U.S. clients have included Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Lucent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Air Products & Chemicals, Bristol-Myer Squibb, Putnam Investments, Polaroid, Tiffany & Co., and the Thomson Corporation.  In addition, he has served as Deputy Director of the Japan Society, and is a cross-cultural expert for New York City law firms litigating international employment disputes.  Brian is co-author of Business Passport to Japan: Maximizing Your Success in the 21st Century, published during 2002.

Besides Japan, Brian also has lived in Mexico and various parts of the U.S.  He has one daughter, and very recently remarried.  His interests include international travel, collecting gem stones, swimming, hiking, calligraphy, and Japanese tea ceremony.

Lorraine holds a bachelors in chemistry from Michigan State University and a doctorate in pharmaceutics from Rutgers University.  She started her career in the pharmaceutical industry at Searle Laboratories, where she was responsible for transferring technology to laboratories in the Puerto Rico, France, and the U.K.  At Schering Research Institute, she worked closely with team members in Ireland.  Between 1992 and 2004, Lorraine held a series of senior positions within the Johnson & Johnson family of companies including Executive Director of Product Development; Vice President of Regulatory, Analytical, and Women’s Health R&D; and finally Vice President of R&D Operations and member of a management board.  This last position not only put her in charge of culturally diverse local staff members but also entailed worldwide leadership responsibilities, enabling Lorraine to work closely with colleagues throughout Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Europe.

Preparing herself for full-time executive coaching, Lorraine gained certification as a coach from the Hudson Institute (Santa Barbara), to which she added certification in the BarOn EQ-i instrument, Chagnon & Reina’s Building Trust in the Workplace, and the Hudson Institute’s Planning for Change.  Equally important in her development as a coach was her 12 years of experience at J&J, which afforded her ample experience with feedback instruments, performance reviews, and succession planning processes as well as the privilege of working in a multicultural environment.  Lorraine writes that, “As a result of these close working relationships and business trips to many countries, I gained an appreciation for the variety of communication, learning, and leadership styles as well as the importance of taking the time to understand those styles and build a trusting relationship within the context of a coaching engagement.”

Lorraine is actively involved as a volunteer for the National Sleep Foundation, and she also serves on the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board at National Institutes of Health.  She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three cats.  Her two adult children live in the Northeast.

Born and raised both in Colombia and Sweden, Anna Maria has lived and worked in Switzerland, Germany, and now the United States; she speaks Spanish, German, and English fluently as well as Swedish conversationally.   She holds degrees in business administration from universities in Switzerland and Colombia, and has completed business-related courses at Stanford University and the Centre for Creative Leadership in Europe.

Prior to becoming a coach, Anna Maria held leadership roles in general management, finance, and human resources.  Employed throughout Europe by Ascom, Nike, and Sage, she focused on change processes such as the initiation and implementation of strategic repositioning, cultural change, workflow improvement, and the transformation of people-management approaches.  In some of her executive roles Anna Maria had P&L responsibility and brought about significant improvements though innovative solutions.  Three examples include leading an organization through change from an autocratic culture to an empowering, participative one; reducing product-repair time from six months to two days; and redesigning credit-collection procedures to reduce outstanding collections from eight months to three weeks.

In January 2000, Anna Maria founded her own consulting and executive coaching practice, enabling her to combine a personal passion for coaching with her corporate experience.  Since then, she has worked with individuals and teams in more than a dozen well-known corporations worldwide to support each one’s development of leadership skills and cross-cultural effectiveness as well as attainment of personal, team, and organizational transformations.  During the past year, Anna Maria has been designing and implementing a combination of management training, executive coaching, and team-building processes that is yielding a balance between creative solutions and solid management principles.

Anna Maria’s training as a coach has been with The Coaches Training Institute, Corporate Coach U, and NLP.  She also gained certification in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Cultural Orientations Indicator, Hogan Leadership Assessments, and Spiral Dynamics.

During her free time, Anna Maria likes to travel to exotic locations, attend concerts, and ride horseback.  She enjoys sharing a great meal and a glass of wine with good friends.

Virginia’s passion for exploring and interacting with the indigenous populations of other cultures stems from her early exposure to her parents’ occasional Spanish speaking and her experiences living in Italy and England.  She gained a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hunter College and an MBA in international business from the Zicklin School of Business, both in New York; her MBA concentration was U.S.-China relations.  Virginia’s academic studies also included physiological psychology, history, anthropology, and pastoral counseling.  She holds certifications in the use of several cross-cultural instruments, including the Cultural Orientations Indicator.  Virginia’s executive coaching certification was gained via the Coaching Training Alliance, which is accredited by the International Coach Federation.  Virginia has a consuming interest in Mandarin; she’s capable of training and coaching in that language.

Virginia’s career began as an HR assistant at Execution Services International, handling compliance, benefits, and recruiting.  At Scudder, Stevens & Clark, she worked as an account assistant within the Asia-Pacific Portfolio section.  Finally, for several years Virginia served the Bank of China as a marketing officer, responsible for marketing and advertising, project finance, the welcoming of visiting Chinese dignitaries, and the design and delivery of employee education programs, some of which were tailored for the bank’s Chinese employees. 

In 2001, Virginia became an independent consultant.   As an intercultural trainer and executive coach, she has been active in North America, China and Hong Kong, and Jordan.  Clients with which she has worked include Brooks Brothers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Volkswagen, SAP, Proctor and Gamble, Eli Lilly, Bank of America, the University of Maryland, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (in conjunction with China’s food safety agencies).  At Georgetown University, Virginia serves as academic director of the Summer Honors Institute’s China program.  She has also taught international business and culture at Baruch College, American University, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Virginia lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her life-partner, Sherrie Good.  An ordained deacon of the Presbyterian Church, Virginia actively lives her commitment to personal leadership, spiritual development, authenticity, and environment stewardship.  She travels for both business and pleasure, most recently to New Zealand where she took a particular interest in its indigenous Maori culture.

Susan holds a masters degree in education from Temple University. She is certified as a professional co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute and accredited by the International Coach Federation as an associate certified coach. 

During more than two decades, Susan held line management responsibilities at HealthAmerica, the American Cancer Society, and finally at the Blood Services unit of the American Red Cross, where she directed education and marketing functions.  Her major accomplishment there was to plan a multi-year effort to move the organization from a manufacturing culture to customer service culture.  Susan designed the core content for “Service Excellence” workshops for 700 employees and volunteers.

Susan founded her own consultancy in 2002, specializing in work with scientific teams in the pharmaceutical industry.  She has worked with global, cross-functional, discovery and development teams in the U.K., France, and Germany as well as in the U.S.  These team engagements have included building new teams, assessing the performance of experienced teams, and identifying the challenges of “stuck” teams.  Susan focuses her coaching on strengthening the performance of new team leaders, using videotape as a feedback tool for coaching new team leaders as well as customized 360º assessments. 

Susan also coaches middle managers transitioning into senior roles, and functional managers struggling with line management responsibilities after spending years in their laboratories. A coaching success story involves her improving the relationship skills of an R&D scientist on the brink of termination to the point where he became a sought-after line manager. 

Susan’s consulting and coaching clients include Johnson & Johnson, Merck, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth, Pfizer, Sepracor, Apollon, Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Gencell, Cephalon, Novartis, Enzon, Sanofi-Aventis, and Millennium.  Her healthcare clients include contract research organizations (CRO’s) such as Quintiles, Icon Labs, OmniCare, PharmaNet, PharmaResearch, and Inveresk as well as medical device companies such as Invivodata and Cordis.

Susan divides her time outside of work as a grandmother of two children and living a healthy life style: She loves the outdoors and recently completed a 75-mile charity bike ride.  Susan loves to travel and has visited three continents.

Olga holds a degree in anthropology and economics from the Leningrad State University; her thesis focused on the rise of the economic influence of the Chinese population in Southeast Asia.  She holds an MBA in finance and international management from George Washington University.  Olga has completed a series of courses in intercultural competence for practitioners and trainers at the School of Applied Linguistics and Studies in Switzerland, and she’s also completed the course on global virtual teams at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Oregon.  Currently, she is working towards being certified as a professional coach.

Prior to becoming an intercultural trainer Olga worked at the International Monetary Fund as well as for Creditanstalt, an Austrian investment bank.  She worked in teams of experts visiting a number of developing countries and conducting political and economic analysis of the emerging markets.  Earlier, at Tour Designs, Inc., she created, promoted, and sold specialized group tours to the USSR and Eastern Europe.

In 2002, Olga became an independent consultant focusing on intercultural training and business consulting.  In this capacity she combines her unremitting interests in cross-cultural relations and business experience.  She has conducted group and individual trainings for BBZ Bildungsstätte, LSI Berlin, Deutsche Telekom, John F. Kennedy School, Bankgesellschaft Berlin, Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, and Schering.

Olga is on the Selection Committee of the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund that distributes educational grants to the women from developing countries.  She is actively involved in the IMF Toastmasters, for which she is the current club President. 

Olga enjoys talking with her children, cooking, Chinese paintings, and meditating in a traditional Chinese manner – contemplating an object or a natural scene and then, gradually, experiencing a deepening calmness.  Olga and her very German husband, Klaus, are proud parents of two teenage boys.  Currently they live near Washington, D.C.; but, she adds, moving is almost her family’s hobby.

A native of New York City, Pamela began traveling abroad during her sophomore year in college and over the years has spent summers in France, Spain, and elsewhere.  She completed a masters degree in counseling at New York University as well as post-graduate studies in the Organizational Consulting Program at the William A. White Institute in New York. 

Pamela was president of her own successful motivational events business in New York City for 12 years.  She became a leadership development consultant and coach in 1994.  She assists clients to focus on their goals, develop steps to achieve them, and track their progress.  She often coaches using 360º feedback, helping coachees understand the gaps between intentions and impact.  A recent assignment was coaching an American female senior executive in a French-owned company, helping to increase her awareness of her impact within a multicultural, Europe-based company. 

Pamela also works with leadership teams, assisting them in clarifying their roles and enhancing their skills of strategic planning, critical thinking, flexibility, self- and other-awareness, accountability, and results-orientation.  Recently for Right Management Consultants, Pamela co-authored a research study entitled “Understanding the HR Dimensions of Virtual Team Building.”  She also delivers presentations and workshops on effective virtual/global team leadership.

Pamela’s speaking engagements include keynote speeches on “Adding Value with Diversity: What Business Leaders Need to Know” for the Annual Diversity Summit in Atlanta as well as Pitney Bowes and The Visiting Nurse Service of NY.  She was an advisor for five years at the George Harvey Program on Redefining Diversity at the Wharton School of Business.  Based on this program’s groundbreaking research, Pamela shares recommendations for leaders through presentations and articles.  Two of the latter are “Implementing a Strategic Diversity Initiative,” in the book entitled Value Creation Through Diversity (The Wharton School of Business, 2003); and “Creativity and Diversity,” in the magazine Next Step (Fall 1997).

Pamela has experience in business sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecommunications, and energy as well as for universities and governments.  Her clients include Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Citizens Bank, Hewlett Packard, Sodhexo, and Columbia University. 

Pamela lives in Philadelphia. She is also a nationally exhibited artist who works in mixed media.

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