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Meet our ICCO Advisory Board

Chair: Lee Salmon

Members of the Advisory Board:

John Bennett

John Bennett, PhD, PCC, CMC, is president of Lawton Associates, and helps individuals and organizations achieve desired results through strategic and tactical approaches to coping with, and improving from change. For more than 25 years, he has been helping individuals and organizations prepare for, excel through, and improve from change.

As a professional speaker, John has educated, while entertaining audiences on topics related to building resilience and leading change. As a consultant, he has worked with leading biomedical, human service, professional associations, and educational enterprises in developing capacities for successful adaptation and transition. As a master trainer, he has helped thousands of people increase their ability and willingness to engage in change. As an author, he has written numerous articles related to leading change, innovative team-based management, building resilience, and communication. He is author of the book, Leading the Edge of Change: Building Individual and Organizational Capacity for the Evolving Nature of Change and The Essential Network: Success Through Personal Connections. Also, as a coach, he has helped individuals define and realize their goals and improve performance while building personal satisfaction.

Prior to forming Lawton Associates, John was CEO of an American Red Cross biomedical services division. He has led pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution operations as well as the development and delivery of essential human services. In addition, John has led mergers and turnarounds as well as new product development/marketing and computer system designs/installations. He was host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show focusing on personal and organizational transformation as well as serving as an adjunct faculty member in the graduate school of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and the University of Phoenix Online. Currently, he is assistant professor and chair of the communication department at Queens University of Charlotte where he teaches organizational communication course including coaching, consulting, organization development, group dynamics, corporate culture, and ethics. Download his Curriculum Vitae (CV) here.

John is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Institute for Management Consultants, the International Coach Federation, and the OD Network. He is a past president of the International Coach Federation–Charlotte Chapter. He is also a certified practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory (HBDI). In addition, he is qualified to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and numerous other instruments including DISC.

John earned a PhD in human and organizational systems from Fielding Graduate University and a masters degree in public administration (MPA) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is also a graduate of the Corporate Coach U (CCU) corporate business coach program. John earned the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation from the Institute of Management Consultants. Less than one percent of all consultants have achieved this level of performance. And, he earned the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation.

He is involved in numerous professional and community service projects. John is a member of the Board of Directors of the Diversity Council of the Carolinas, International Coach Federation’s Research and Education Committee, and Research Advisory Panel for The Foundation of Coaching. He is a founding board member and past-president of the Charlotte Area Chapter of the International Coach Federation and a founder of the ICF’s annual Coaching Research Symposium.

He lives on Lake Norman in North Carolina and travels extensively speaking, training and consulting with domestic and multinational clients.

Lloyd Raines

Lloyd is a seasoned executive coach (Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation), consultant, educator, and Principal of Integral Focus, with over 25 years of professional experience. He applies insights from the behavioral sciences, action learning, moral considerations, and integral development to help clients expand their individual and organizational awareness, capability, and performance within a global context. He supports leadership growth in self-awareness, attentiveness, and impact through dialogue, experiential learning, and collaboratively-designed practices that explore the breadth and depth of stewardship responsibilities.

Lloyd's clients include executives and teams in the private and public sectors.

Kay Cannon

Kay Cannon learned the hard way that leaders have a sacred obligation to look beyond the bottom line. Kay’s wake up call arrived without warning and changed her life forever.

A rising corporate star at the age of 24, Kay Cannon successfully led the financial turnaround of her company’s flagship contract and simultaneously generated record profits. In return for Kay’s leadership, her employees wrote a letter to the company president saying Kay was a cold, heartless b#@$% and demanded she be fired. Shocked and humiliated, Kay began a painful search to discover the secrets of outstanding leadership.

Fast forward fifteen years.

On Kay’s last day as a corporate executive, an employee abruptly stopped her. “I can’t let you leave,” she said. “When you walk out the door the heart and soul of this company walks out the door and it will never be the same.”

From cold, heartless b#@$% to the heart and soul of the company. What was different? Just one thing – who Kay Cannon had learned to be as a leader.

As the Leadership Whisperer, Kay Cannon helps other leaders find wisdom, strength and tools to unleash the human spirit and create a better world. Now, more than ever before in the history of humanity, the world needs wise leaders. Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the world is only as strong as its weakest leaders.

Kay’s clients include leaders from Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, governmental agencies and non-profit international associations. Her work includes leadership coaching and team development for NASA. She also serves as a leadership expert for the International Spa Association and its worldwide membership. Kay frequently speaks and writes on the transformative power of inspirational leadership.

Kay Cannon’s personal dedication to advancing world leadership is reflected in her role as the 2007 President of the International Coach Federation, an organization of 11,000 members from 80 countries. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential, and has a B.S. from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky.

 

Bill Lindberg

William H. (Bill) Lindberg currently serves as President of the Ash Grove Group, based in Santa Barbara, California.  The Ash Grove Group offers services in the areas of personal, professional, and organizational consulting and coaching, serving clients throughout North America. His primary emphasis is working with lawyers, executives, and other professionals in career development and exploring transitions. Much of his current work is in the area of sustaining renewal and resilience for individuals, small groups, and larger organizations.

Previously, Mr. Lindberg had served in many capacities for over twenty years with West Publishing Company and West Group.  At West, Lindberg’s responsibilities included relations with national markets, managing educational services for the WESTLAW program, and developing West’s Academic program. He has written and spoken extensively in various professional settings, such as the National Association for Law Placement, the American Society for Information Science, the American Association of Law Libraries and the Special Libraries Association. He is also a co-founder of the Information Innovator’s Institute.

He received his B.A from St. Olaf College (magna cum laude) and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota.  He received his certification as a professional coach from the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently on the faculty.  He is also an adjunct faculty member at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, where he has taught Executive Coaching and The Fielding Graduate University. He has served as the Executive Director of ACTO (The Association of Coach Training Organizations) and the Board of the Deer Lake Association and currently serves on the Board of the Rotary Club of Montecito.

Agnes Mura

Agnes MuraAgnes Mura, M.A., is an international Master Certified Coach to executives, business owners and service professionals. She is a founding director of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association [www.pcmaonline.com] and prominent in the coaching community as an expert practitioner and advocate of the profession.

Agnes is first an experienced globally minded leadership coach – a partner to leaders who deal with the complexities, uncertainties and turbulences of today’s business world, while having to deliver ever-more demanding results. She understands organizational (and national) cultures and how high achievers navigate them. Her profound humanity is coupled with a keen strategic eye for what’s really going on, and a business sense she brings from her own years as banking executive. Her capacity to elicit authenticity in her clients helps leaders and key contributors to accomplish the personal and professional shifts that are required to win... and to bring their teams along for the victory lap.

Her masterful team facilitation skills allow her to develop trustful teams who engage in productive, creative debates and committed execution. She also leads and facilitates efficient and creative strategic planning retreats (including scenario planning) for her client companies.

Agnes Mura is certified in a number of assessment and training tools. She is a Certified Professional Behavioral and Values Analyst. She has taught Coaching and Assessments to global executives in the Advanced Executive Program at the Anderson School of Business (UCLA) and to new coaches in the Cal State University Long Beach professional coach training program. She served for seven years on the faculty of Corporate Coach University; and is a regular and frequent guest lecturer in Pepperdine University’s doctoral program in Organizational Leadership.

In 2000, her accomplishments were honored with the Woman of Achievement Award by Century City-Los Angeles. In 2002, she earned the Builders’ Award of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. In 2003 she became a founding member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations [www.IJCO.info]. She is a long-time Assessor of coach training programs for the global Accreditations Committee of the International Coach Federation. In 2004 she became the first President of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations [www.CoachingConsortium.org] a worldwide organization of companies, academics, practitioners and associations dedicated to the success of executive coaching interventions in organizations. Her book, co-authored with William Bergquist, “Ten Themes and Variations for Postmodern Leaders and Their Coaches,” was published by Pacific Soundings Press in 2005. She was a contributing author in the 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Leadership Development.

Suzi Pomerantz

Suzi PomerantzSuzi Pomerantz, MT, MCC is an award-winning master executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and author with over 15 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in over 125 organizations internationally, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list.  A coaching veteran in the legal industry, Suzi has coached leaders in seven corporate law departments and a dozen law firms. Other industry experience includes: consulting, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, entrepreneurial enterprises, federal and state government, educational institutions, membership-based service entities, and executive MBA programs. Suzi's strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos.

Suzi helps executives, teams and high performing, high-potential future leaders to clarify their vision and exceed prior performance. She provides executive coaching, team coaching, and emerging leader coaching in organizations to assist executives and their teams with setting strategic direction, managing talent, and developing leadership bench strength.  She also develops leaders in teambuilding, sales, planning and conducting effective meetings, and facilitating change. She helps organizations develop and retain leadership capacity by coaching leaders in executive presence, presentation skills, personal power, communication, and vision work.

 A recognized leader passionate about excellence, integrity, legacy, impact, and leadership in organizations and stewardship of the profession of coaching, Suzi serves in a number of international Board of Director positions and volunteer leadership roles, donating time and resources to organizations that are leading the future of the coaching profession. Suzi was the Chairman of the first ICCO Symposium in Washington, DC on The Global Implications of Organizational Coaching. Suzi has been guest faculty and a featured speaker to industry leaders in more than a dozen coaching schools and communities worldwide including: Association of Coach Training Organizations, Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development International Gestalt Coaching Program, Adler School of Professional Studies/ Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Leadership Coaching Certificate Program.

Suzi has presented as well as participated for seven years at the International Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation-only annual gathering of worldwide senior executive development experts.  Suzi presented at the 11th Annual International Coach Federation Conference, and taught executive coaches as faculty at the Executive Coach Academy and the College of Executive Coaching and was named Resource Faculty Member at Advantara Global Coach Training Institute. She has also delivered guest lectures at George Washington University, Loyola University, and the University of Virginia and has coached executives in the MBA for Executives Program at Darden.

Suzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master's degree from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. Her honors include Kappa Delta Pi International Education Honor Society, Dean's List, and Lawn Resident (Thomas Jefferson's Academic Village). In addition to her academic achievements, Suzi is credited with 20 publications about coaching, ethics, and business development, including her book Seal the Deal.  Suzi received the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award from the Business and Professional Women (BPW/USA).   

John Thomas

 

Based in McLean, John A. Thomas is a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton who specializes in delivery of large-scale systems engineering and integration services. He assists in growing the firm’s systems portfolio among U.S. Intelligence and Homeland Security clients

Mr. Thomas’ key areas of expertise include:

A combination of government and industry assignments has provided Mr. Thomas with more than three decades of comprehensive systems engineering and integration experience within the DoD, Intelligence, and Homeland Security communities. He is recognized for his domain and systems knowledge within the Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) environments. He has also helped frame new techniques for the integration of systems engineering with business analysis and program support services.

Today, he works with Booz Allen cost estimation and program planning support experts to improve both the quality of planning and implementing large scale systems. He also works with the firm’s organizational development and change management experts to align systems engineering with business process analysis and organization transformation activities to ensure clients’ business objectives are supported—not driven—by system development.

Mr. Thomas joined the firm in 1991, after leaving active duty Air Force in 1985 and retiring as a major from the Air Force Reserves in 1998. During his Air Force career, he led a tour of duty with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). His prior industry experience includes systems engineering and program management roles at E-Systems.

A frequent speaker at conference and symposiums, Mr. Thomas is a member of and has held leadership positions in the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); Program Management Institute (PMI); and Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

He holds an M.S. degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a B.S. from Michigan State University, both in electrical engineering, and graduated cum laude from both institutions.

 

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