Background
CGG Chairs and Facilitators
Working Group: Knowledge Base for Coaching – Core and Specialist Areas
Chair: Simone Sietsma
Simone is Senior Consultant and Executive Coach for Right Management Consultants and has been actively involved in the Coaching Profession in Australia for a number of years. Examples of her involvement include the presentation of a paper on the merits of Group Supervision at the University of Sydney International Coaching Conference and previously held the position of Vice President of the University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Association. She has coached numerous Leaders at all levels from Executive and Senior leaders through to top talent teams. Examples of clients include; Bronze Medalist in the 1996 Olympics, VP of a Financial Advice and Investment Bank, VP of an International Film Corporation, VP of FMCG, Executive team members of a global publisher, Senior Executives of the Australian Public Service and the Leadership team of a global IT firm. In addition she has depth of experience in the design and delivery of a number corporate and government leadership and coaching programs, some of which have been extended Globally and more frequently throughout the Asia Pacific region. Simones background stems from 20 years experience in Organisational Development and Human Resources, including 3 years tutoring in Human Resource Management at the University of Sydney. Prior to her current position, she has also held Senior Organisational Development positions that involved large scale projects in complex environments throughout the Asia Pacific region. These projects have use her specific expertise in executive coaching, leadership development, talent and succession management, learning and development and career management and include positions in sectors such as: Publishing, Insurance, Finance and Professional services. Some of her current clients companies include Cisco, Barclays Global Investors, Leighton's Holdings, McDonalds, Disney, CBS Paramount, National Australia Bank. Simone completed her Masters of HRM and Coaching at the University of Sydney and is completing her Graduate Diploma in Organisational Development and Training. Further qualifications include accreditation in a wide range of psychological assessment tools including: Hogan, LSI, HBDI, MBTI, DISC, MRG Suite of tools and SHL Suite of tools.
Email: Simone.Sietsma@right.com
Facilitator: John Groom
John Groom lives and works in New Zealand. He heads the Executive Coaching and Mentoring organization and is a Director of the NZ Mentoring Centre. John comes from both a clinical psychology and business background. Over the past decade he has promoted the professional supervision of coaches and has presented a number of papers on coaching and mentoring. John's affiliations include the NZ Coaching and Mentoring Forum, EMCC, ICF, The Mentoring Group, New Zealand Psychological Society, and the Australian Psychological Society Special Interest Group for Coaching Psychologists.
Email: groom@pl.net
Working Group: Code of Ethics
Working Group: Core Competencies – General and Specialist
Chair: David Peterson
David B Peterson, PhD. Is Senior Vice President and practice leader since 1990 of world-wide coaching services for Personnel Decisions International (PDI). He is author, with Mary Dee Hicks, of two best-selling books on learning and coaching: Leader as Coach and Development FIRST. David is author of various chapters and articles on leadership development and executive coaching, including how organizations can best design and evaluate coaching programs. He is an Adjunct Faculty member and Thought Leader on Coaching and Development at Alliant University (teaching classes on Executive Coaching and Advanced Coaching Techniques).
Faculty in the Advanced Coaching class at the College of Executive Coaching. David is Treasurer and Board Member, Society of Consulting Psychology. He earned a PhD in counseling and industrial/organizational psychology, University of Minnesota. His dissertation focused on measuring outcomes of coaching. David works in San Francisco, California, USA.
Email: David.Peterson@personneldecisions.com
Facilitator: Terry Maltbia
Dr.Terrence E. Maltbia lives in New York (USA) and is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of diverse experience as an external and internal organizational effectiveness consultant, thought leader and educator. Dr. Maltbia came to Teachers College, Columbia University, after two years of running his own consulting practice, Organizational Effectiveness Consulting and Training (Ofx), where he provided research-based solutions to clients in the area of strategy formulation, organization and leadership development and workplace diversity. He currently the Faculty Director for the Columbia Coaching Certification Program and provides coaching and consulting services to both Corporate and University-based Executive Development clients. Terry enjoyed a successful career with Westvaco Corporation (now MeadWestvaco), where he held many posts including Transition Consultant during the merger with Mead Corporation, Vice President Organizational Effectiveness Center of Excellence, Director Corporate Development and Training, Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President, Group Manager Marketing Personnel Development, Sales Training Manager, Manager College Relations and Corporate Employment, Sales Managers, and Sales Representative. He also spent two years as a Senior Consultant for Rath and Strong, a process improvement firm based in Boston.
Email: Maltbia@tc.columbia.edu
Working Group: Training Guidelines for Graduate Programmes
Chair: Lew Stern
Lew Stern lives and works from Lexington and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA. He has been serving as an executive coach and organizational consulting psychologist for over thirty years. He has worked with senior executives in for-profit corporations, non-profits, healthcare, and academic institutions throughout the United States and around the world. He is the Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Executive Coaching and a Faculty Member at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He is Co-Chair of the Academic Standards Committee and a Founding Member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching. He is a Founder and Past Chairman of The Executive Coaching Forum and a Founder, Past President, and current member of the New England Society for Applied Psychology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Society of Consulting Psychology. He is the Leader of the Annual Boston Conference on Professional Executive Coaching. Lew spends the majority of his professional time coaching senior leaders, teaching, writing, and working to help build executive coaching as a professional discipline.
Email: executivecoach@comcast.net
Facilitator: Jennifer Garvey Berger
Jennifer Garvey Berger consults and teaches in the areas of adult development, individual differences, and transformational learning. She has developed a coaching process that combines adult development theory with clients’ individual journeys to provide a potential developmental map of clients’ sense-making. She also teaches coaches about complexity of mind and leadership, and how to use advanced listening and questioning techniques to better understand and support their clients. In her writing and her teaching, Jennifer explores the workplace as one of the major centres of learning for adults, and she uses her research and consulting to help adults think about their work and their workplaces in ways that help them make positive changes. An assistant professor at George Mason University, Jennifer has also taught undergraduate, graduate, and professional development courses at Harvard and Georgetown Universities, among others. As a partner with the leadership development consultancy Kenning Associates, Jennifer works with executives in a variety of industries (e.g., BNSF Railroad, Fidelity Investments, McKinsey & Company, SpectraLink) to help people develop the skills and the perspectives that will make their work more effective. She is co-editor of two books, Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research (2000, Harvard Educational Publishing Group) and Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives (2002, Davies-Black), and is currently writing a book called Thriving in a Complex World: Twenty-first Century Professional Development. (Elsevier: Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books, scheduled for publication spring, 2008). Jennifer holds a masters degree in teaching and learning and a doctorate in adult development from Harvard University. Jennifer has moved with her family to New Zealand to live on the beach and write her book, a transformation she highly recommends to others.
Email: jennifer@garveyberger.com
Working Group: Research Agenda for the Development of the Field
Chair: Sunny Stout Rostron
Dr. Sunny Stout Rostron, from South Africa, is an executive coach and international performance consultant with a wide range of experience in strategic business management, leadership and communication. With nearly 15 years experience as an executive coach, Sunny is President of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa) and is on the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) panel of expert business coaches working to identify international coaching competencies. Based in Cape Town, Sunny is an Executive Director with Resolve Encounter Consulting, and Managing Partner with Express Performance Consultants. She is the author of six books including ‘Accelerating Performance, Powerful New Techniques to Develop People’ (Kogan Page 2002) and is a contributing author to the recently published, Sharing the Passion, Conversations with Coaches (AHT, 2006). Sunny has a professional doctorate in executive coaching from Middlesex University London. She speaks frequently at conferences in the USA and South Africa; she spoke on ‘Coaching Models and Frameworks’ in May 2007 at the WABC International Conference in Vancouver. Sunny is in the process of helping to found an Institute of Research into Coaching in South Africa.
Email: express@iafrica.com
Facilitator: Carol Kauffman
Carol Kauffman, PhD PCC is a professor, editor and certified professional coach with an active US and UKpractice.
She is Assistant Clinical Professor at HarvardMedicalSchoolwhere she teaches Positive Psychology and Coaching. Carol is in the process of launching the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute, to be based at McLeanHospital, a HarvardMedicalSchoolteaching hospital where she has worked since her internship in 1978.
Carol is also the Co-Editor in Chief of the academic and professional journal launching in March, 2008. COACHING: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice will be the first coaching journal published by a major academic publishing house (Taylor & Francis; Routledge Press).
Please visit our website, www.informaworld.com/coaching and consider submitting research or practice papers on executive, personal, performance or other forms of coaching.
First and foremost Carol is a coach and coach supervisor with an active US and UKpractice. She is also Chief Supervisor of Meyler Campbell Ltd, a business coaching programme based in Londonand supervises both independent practitioners, external and internal coaches. She specializes in personal peak performance coaching with executives and authors using evidence based methods and positive psychology. Please visit www.CoachingPsych.com.
Email: CarolKauffmanPhD@aol.com
Working Group: Professional Status for Coaching
Chair: Reinhard Stelter
Email: rstelter@ifi.ku.dk
Facilitator: Diane Brennan
Diane lives in Tucson, Arizona (USA) and was elected to the International Coach Federation (ICF) Board of Directors in 2004 where she currently serves as President Elect. She begins her term as President January 1, 2008. As a leader in ICF she has had the opportunity to work with coaches around the world, and has had the singular experience to observe coaching at various stages of development and presence. Since the year 2000, Diane Brennan has been engaged as an independent coach and consultant. She interacts with executives, physicians, managers and other professionals as an individual and organizational coach. Her expertise in this capacity has involved her in disciplines as varied as performance management, leadership development, conflict resolution and process improvement. A key strength exhibited throughout her professional career has been her ability to bring people together, to help them gain perspective and work in collaboration. A Master Certified Coach with ICF, Diane received her initial training at Coach University. Her continual pursuit of advanced education opportunities led to a certification in Evidence Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University. She nowserves as Training Coordinator for the year-long Evidence Based Coaching Program at Fielding Graduate University. Diane is a graduate of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania with a Master's in Business Administration and has been honored with the designation of Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Prior to coaching, Diane spent over 20 years in senior management, executive and clinical practice positions within healthcare organizations.
Email: dianebrennan@comcast.net
Working Group: Mapping the Field – What Constitutes the Field and its Related Areas
Chair: Pauline Willis
Pauline is a coaching psychologist and coaching practitioner with Lauriate Ltd www.lauriate.com and has played a number of important roles in the development of the international coaching community. As a co-founder and Director of The Coaching & Mentoring Network www.coachingnetwork.org.uk information and resources portal for the professional community Pauline is committed to open discussion and dialogue about the future of coaching. Pauline’s roles in the community have been substantial. She was the Chair of British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology in 2006 www.sgcp.org.uk and has played an important role historically in the establishment of this group within the BPS. As an Australian psychologist she is also a member of APS Interest Group in Coaching Psychology. As a Founding Executive Board Member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council www.emccouncil.org she was the original Director of the EMCC’s Standards & Competences Project. She has also played a role in the academic community as an external advisor for the MA and Professional Doctorate programme in Coaching & Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University. She was on the advisory panel for the CIPD Buyers guide for Coaching Services and is currently a member of the CIPD’s Coaching at Work Faculty.
Email: pauline.willis@lauriate.com
Facilitator: Travis Kemp
Travis is recognised as being amongst Australia’s leading transformational coaches and is a highly skilled facilitator of leadership, organisational and human development experiences. Travis combines his strong commercial credentials with extensive research experience and professional skills. Previously he has held a range of senior leadership roles including Global Program Manager, Leadership Assessment with Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), Manager, Human Resources (Asia Pacific) with Faulding Pharmaceuticals (now Hospira) and MBA Director and Senior Lecturer in Management with the University of South Australia’s International Graduate School of Management. Travis was recently appointed to the Board of Built Environs Pty. Ltd., an Australian civil engineering and construction company. Travis is a Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society and was a Founding National Committee member of its Interest Group in Coaching Psychology. He is a Full Member of the College of Organisational Psychologists and holds academic appointments as Adjunct Lecturer in the University of Sydney’s Coaching Psychology Unit and Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. He has published widely in the fields of Psychology and Education and is a Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review. Travis is a registeredPsychologist, Psychotherapist and Secondary Teacher. He holds Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Human Resources Institute and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.Travis’ tertiary qualifications include a Bachelor of Education in Physical Education, Graduate Diplomas in both Educational Counselling and Psychological Studies, Masters Degrees Counselling and Educational Psychology (by Research) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Psychology.
Email: Travis@thetelerangroup.com.au
Working Group: Selection of Coaches and Management of the Coaching Engagement
Chair: James Hunt
James M. Hunt is Associate Professor of Management and Chair of the Management Division at Babson College, where he is Faculty Co-Director of the "Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program" and "Coaching Inside the Organization" executive education program. He is the co-author of two books, "The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business," and "The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders" (Sagepubs.com). He has been a member of The Executive Coaching Forum, and was a co-author on the third edition of "The Executive Coaching Handbook." In addition, James has worked with a variety of major organizations from the business and not for profit sectors on building a coaching capability. His work has resulted in numerous practitioner and scholarly publications. He is also an experienced executive coach
E-mail: Huntj@babson.edu
Facilitator: Aletta Odendaal
Aletta lives in Sandton, South Africa and is registered as an Industrial Psychologist in private practice. Expertise includes psychological assessments (for development and selection purposes), executive coaching, stress management, motivation, counter-productive work behaviour and organisational change and development. Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Head of the Leadership Performance and Change programme at the University of Johannesburg. President of Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOPSA) for period 2002 to 2006. Currently serving term of office as Past-President of SIOPSA.
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Email: Aletta@odendaalconsulting.co.za
Working Group: Evaluation of Coaching
Chair: Lloyd Denton
Lloyd Denton is one of the sixty executive coaches who make up the Praesta organization worldwide. For global corporations in a variety of sectors, he has coached senior country and regional executives, executive teams, succession candidates, and high-potential managers. He works with individual coaching clients and leadership teams in Istanbul, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Gulf region. He is a founder and board director of Praesta International Ltd., a U.K. corporation.
Lloyd is actively involved in the development and promotion of professional standards for coaching in Europe. He is a vice president of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and a founding member of EMCC’s Turkey Chapter. Years after completing his original education at Oxford, Princeton, and The George Washington University, Lloyd has recently renewed his academic pursuits—completing the diploma program in organizational and executive coaching at the University of Texas Management School at Dallas. In fall 2007 he begins teaching in the executive coach certification program at Istanbul Biligi University.
Lloyd relishes the musical heritage of his native South—preferring Gillian Welch to Jack Welch, Ornette Coleman to Daniel Goleman. He connects with other souls who share an interest in fine food, interfaith dialogue, and the creative arts.
Email: Lloyd.Denton@Praesta.com
Facilitator: Chris Williams
Chris serves as NASA’s Director of Leadership Development and Executive Coaching. In this role she designs and implements Agency-wide programs focused on enabling NASA executives and managers to create more efficient and effective Government Programs. Chris has designed and led NASA's Agency-wide Coaching Strategy Team in creating a comprehensive and integrated program that is considered the best in the Federal Government. In 2006, she received NASA's prestigious Outstanding Leadership Medal for her work in this area. Chris received her BA in Oceanography from Catholic University and graduated summa cum laude from John’s Hopkins University with a Master of Science degree in Organizational Development and Applied Behavioral Science. Chris also attended the Harvard Business School’s Executive Program in Management Development. She is a member of the Conference Board's Executive Coaching Council, a graduate of the Newfield Coaching Program, and has served as an executive coach for 17 years.
E-mail: cwilliam@hq.nasa.gov
Chair/Facilitator-at-large
Stephen Brock
Dr. Stephen Brock resides in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and is Assistant Professor of Organizational Ethics and Executive Coaching in the Leadership & Professional Development Department at the Cole School of Business, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA. In addition, he is President of Human Capital Development, Inc. He has provided consulting, teaching, coaching and counseling services to organizations for over twenty-five years. Among those corporations for whom he has provided organizational and development services are BMW, General Motors, Michelin, Fluor-Daniel, Colonial Pipeline, McKechnie Plastic Components, EMITEC, L. A. Darling.
Prior to founding Human Capital Development, Inc. he served as the Corporate Director for Training and Organizational Development for Ryobi North America, Inc. While there, he developed a four-year, state of the art leadership development program for middle and senior management that was ultimately sold to other organizations. His background includes experience in both for profit and non-profit organizations at all levels from the front line to serving as CEO of a behavioral healthcare company. An organizational psychologist, he holds his doctorate degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in systems theory applied to organizational behavior. He is an independently licensed counselor who brings a unique sense of understanding, experience, and insight to personal and professional coaching. He has taught on the faculties of Miami University [Ohio], Earlham, and Edison State Community College. Dr. Brockis a nationally recognized speaker who has made presentations at many conferences, including the International Personnel Management Association, the Association of Psychological Type, the Albert Trieschman Center, and the Hermann International Learning Center. He is the author of several articles and is listed in the "Who’s Who of Business Leaders". He is a member of ASTD, CSTD, The Association for Psychological Type, the International Personnel Management Association, and the International Coaching Federation. He is a certified provider for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; Hermann Brain Dominance Indicator; Strengths Deployment Inventory; NEO PI-R; EQ Map; the BarOn EQi indicator, as well as numerous other assessment instruments. He is also a Master Trainer for DDI.
Email: Stephen_Brock@coles2.kennesaw.edu