ICCO Leadership
A Message from the ICCO President
Donna Karlin
Dear ICCO Members,
I have been thinking long
and hard about what I could bring to this organization that I’ve always
thought of as ‘home’ in so many ways.
The moment I walked into my first symposium and felt the energy and
camaraderie of the people in the room I knew I had arrived ‘home’, to a
place I had searched for in my career for a long, long time.
As a Board member for the
last 3 years, ICCO has become nearer and dearer to me…my chosen community
where incredible conversations happen, but even more than that, a place
where people connect at a fundamental level, creating collaborative
relationships that go well beyond their involvement in ICCO.
I am honoured and feel very
privileged to be leading this year.
I follow in the footsteps of two incredible women, Agnes Mura and
Vicki Foley who have paved a very strong way for us all to continue the
journey of growth and organizational evolution, not to mention positively
impacting the coaching profession worldwide. I know we will continue to
evolve into what we all know we can be...nothing short of amazing.
Our Board members are
highly engaged and bring an energy and uniqueness to the table that is
beyond measure. I can’t wait to
see what unfolds, although as always, when it comes to ICCO, I know it will
be magical.
In terms of our priorities as an organization, we continue to work on
refining our decision making processes, setting goals for 2009/10, and with
Michael Samson at the helm as Treasurer, focus on our finances.
With John Lazar, ICCO Vice President,
we will create a more definitive Board reporting structure with specific
functional roles. Kevin Cuthbert, our new Secretary will tie all the
ends together and keep us on track as a leadership team.
The Board has a lot of work to do and
cannot do it alone. The International Consortium for Coaching in
Organizations is a community that spans many parts of the globe.
This community needs you and asks for your engagement and
contribution to an organization that truly can impact the world!
We hope to see you dive into communities of interest which will help you
evolve your areas of practice, your organizations and ultimately those you
impact, worldwide.
With deepest respect and
appreciation,
Executive Committee
Donna Karlin, President
Donna
Karlin CEC, founder of A Better
Perspective™ & The
School of Shadow Coaching has pioneered the specialized practice of
Shadow Coaching™ with global political, business and senior organizational
leaders in the public and private sectors.
By entering the client’s environment, she works with them in translating awareness into practice, essentially fostering the emergence of the Shadow Coach™ in the clients themselves. Donna uses an adaptable and comprehensive approach in working with her clients, a unique structure that enables her to understand individuals and their worlds sufficiently to design coaching that shifts their developmental level. Her coaching attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of her client's ‘world’. It is an integral approach that results in the client developing a deeper, more comprehensive sense of themselves and their place in their organization and the world as a whole. Through her unique approach, Donna works with clients to achieve individual and organizational excellence.
Principal of A Better Perspective™, Ms. Karlin has worked for over 26 years as a coach and trainer with clients in Canada, the US and abroad in the business/corporate sector, political Federal Ministries, government departments and agencies, creative designers and the medical community. She is an author and lectures internationally. In response to widely expressed interest to her highly successful and innovative approach to coaching, she established the School of Shadow Coaching™ to enable others to learn the practice.
She is involved in numerous professional organizations including President and member of the Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO), member of the Board of Advisors of The Foundation for International Leadership Coaching, a member of the Board of The Coach Initiative, member of the Conversation Among Masters team, a member in good standing of the International Coach Federation, is a founding member of CoachVille, and is a founding member and past member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC).
In addition to being principal of A Better Perspective and The School of Shadow Coaching, Donna is an executive coach with Karlin Sloan & Company, Chicago, a communications and team dynamics advisor for INSPIRIT Sustainable Design and Promotion Group serving United Nations World Health initiatives, and is a member of The GAVI Alliance group.
Donna’s work has been written up in Fast Company Magazine, The National Post (Financial Post), The Globe and Mail, The New York Times Business Section, The Boston Globe, Personal Success Magazine, as well as in numerous online articles including BusinessListening.com, The Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com. She has written two eBooks, co-authored the bestselling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’, and is currently working on a book on Human Based Leadership.
Her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 139 countries and territories. Donna writes a leadership column for Fast Company called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership”, is a contributing author for The Coaching Commons, a frequent contributor to Canadian Government Executive Magazine and Vanguard, Canadian Premier Defence and Security Magazine, and is an expert author for Evan Carmichael: Motivation and Strategies for Entrepreneurs.
She has a proven track record in developing sustainable leadership.
John Lazar, Vice President
John
Lazar, MA, MCC has been a performance consultant and coach for over 25
years, including more than a decade as an executive coach. He has a Master’s
degree in clinical psychology and has been certified as a Master Coach by
the International Coach Federation since 1999. His company,
John B. Lazar & Associates,
Inc. is celebrating its fourteenth year of operation.
He works with individual leaders (for example, business owners, partners, CEOs, Presidents, C-level executives, Vice Presidents and Directors) and their work teams, altering their perspective, motivation and performance to produce emotionally intelligent leadership, breakthrough results and business success. Though he works with entrepreneurial ventures and closely held small to mid-sized businesses, he also works with Fortune 1000 companies (including Amdocs, Alcan Packaging, Boeing, Computer Sciences Corporation, Creata, Deloitte, National Starch, Rogers Wireless, Stericycle, Suncor, and Wilson Sporting Goods). In addition to his business coaching, he consults to companies on issues of leadership, management, communications, evaluation, executive team alignment, culture-strategy fit, organizational change, and performance improvement.
John is a founding member and former Acting Executive Director of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. He is co-founder and Co-Executive Editor of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations (IJCO). He has made presentations to local, national and international audiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Belgium, Spain, and Australia on topics including human capital management, leadership and sustainable leadership, management skills, coaching, emotional intelligence, communications, and work-life integration.
Michael Sanson, Treasurer
Michael
has coached corporate and executive clients from around Europe and the US.
He has been a visiting coach and consultant at IMD, the leading business
school in Lausanne, Switzerland, working on more than 20 leadership
development programs since 2000. Michael also works with the
Copenhagen Business School and the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City.
In addition he serves a range of corporate clients on a variety of coaching
and consulting assignments, and maintains a private practice in which he
coaches individuals both in person and by telephone. Prior to becoming
a coach Michael’s own business career included spells with Goldman Sachs,
Arthur Andersen and Motorola.
Michael was the Founding President of the International Coach Federation (ICF) in Switzerland, and has also been a member of the ICF’s European leadership team. He is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations and a board member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations.
Michael’s credentials include a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, an MA from Oxford University and professional qualifications in Chartered Accountancy and Corporate Treasury. His doctoral research focuses on the supply and organization of executive coaching services and was published in June 2006.
Michael is married to a Mexican career diplomat and they have four young sons.
Kevin Cuthbert, Secretary
As
Chief Operating Officer of a Karlin
Sloan & Company, Kevin Cuthbert brings more than two decades of
experience as an executive to our growing consultancy. Kevin has served as
an executive coach and consultant to scores of individuals and
organizations, including many from the Fortune 100, across a variety of
industries, in most major business centers around the globe. Former roles
include VP and Senior Consultant with the Gallup Organization, VP of Global
Human Resources for Swissotel, Director of Research with the Hay Group, and
COO of a local Chicago consulting firm. Kevin has also served as a Board
member for two for-profit corporations in the US and Switzerland.
Kevin takes a practical, strengths-based approach to his executive leadership development practice; practical in that it focuses on the key behaviors required for improved performance, strengths-based in that the focus is on what is currently working in the executives leadership style that can be leveraged for improved performance and satisfaction.
Mr. Cuthbert has extensive experience designing and using multi-rater (360) feedback processes to help his clients gain improved performance and satisfaction from their work and their lives. Kevin is an expert in both executive and organizational assessments.
Kevin’s client list includes Anheuser-Busch, Bally, Citibank, Caterpillar, United Airlines, The Limited Brands, Yahoo!, Leo Burnett, GM Planworks, Macy’s, Hyatt Hotels, Wrigley, Disney, United Stationers, BP-Amoco, Pfizer, Kraft, Merck, Chase, and CapitalSource.
Prior Professional Experience
• Chief Operating Officer, HR Solutions, Inc.
• Vice President and Senior Consultant, The Gallup Organization
• Vice President Global Human Resources, Swissotel Management Corporation
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Director of Research, The Hay Group
Education, Memberships, Publications
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Adjunct Faculty
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, MBA
• University of Illinois, BS Marketing
• Board Member: Seven Generations Ahead
• Contributor to “First Break all the Rules”
Board Members
Vicki Foley - Past President and Member of the Board
Vicki
Foley, as Senior Vice President for Lee Hecht Harrison, is responsible for
leadership consulting and talent solution services in the New Jersey and
Great Delaware Valley region for Lee Hecht Harrison. These services
range from organization alignment, group capability building to individual
leadership development.
Vicki is a certified executive coach with over nine years of coaching experience. She is the Program Manager for Lee Hecht Harrison’s strategic alliance partnership with The Wharton School. Vicki has designed and delivered leadership consulting and human capital solutions programs for global pharmaceutical companies, technology firms, financial services and health care organizations. She has presented on the subjects of leadership theories, trends, engagement metrics and organization change models to senior level audiences at industry conferences, company meetings and universities.
Vicki’s earlier experience at Lee Hecht Harrison includes the positions as Regional Leadership Specialist for the Leadership Consulting Practice and Director for the Lee Hecht Harrison Princeton, NJ office, where she managed the consulting practice. Vicki joined Lee Hecht Harrison in 1993 as a Senior Consultant. Prior to joining Lee Hecht Harrison, Vicki held executive Human Resource positions at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), a global power and automation technologies firm. There, she managed the HR function for the power simulation and controls group of ABB as well as the expatriate and repatriation programs for the UK, China, Taiwan, and the former Soviet Union.
Vicki holds a B.S in Business Administration and Organization Management
and is currently studying International Management in a Masters Program at
the University of Maryland. In addition, Vicki is a member of the Board of
Directors of The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations
(ICCO) and a member of the Peer Review Committee of the Organizational
Development Institute. Vicki is the recipient of five LHH President's Award,
four for exceptional team performance and one for exceptional individual
contribution to the leadership consulting practice.
Ramiro Ponce
Ramiro
is a fully bilingual, english-spanish Consultant and Executive Coach,
specialized in Trust/Team Building, Leadership Development and Change
Management, passionate about delivering top quality work and great
results. In the last 20 years he has developed regional/global LatAm
leaders for Fortune 500 organizations in the financial services/high
tech/pharmaceutical/consumer products industries.
His consulting strengths lie in the sharp focus skills he uses to identify the issues blocking problem solving or personal/ team/organizational development, linking process-people-culture in defining what the organizational real problem is, and in his coaching/facilitation/empathy skills with clients.
This combination drives leaders and their teams to discover fresh perspectives, enables them to solve key issues and strengthens their leadership effectiveness. He has developed/coached/mobilized top leaders and their teams in Microsoft , Banco Santander, Novartis, Citigroup, Nissan and Bayer and facilitated Change Management in Telefónica, CARE, Exxon Mobil, in Latin America. He has taught at different LatAm Universities, published in specialized coaching and HR magazines, and spoken at International HR/Coaching Conferences.
Since 2001, he's been an Associate/Faculty for Oliver Wyman "Delta and Organization Executive Learning Center LLC", has been trained in state of the art Leadership Frameworks and Energy Patterns in New York City, and coached top Lat-Am regional Executives. He's an elected member of the 2,008-09 I.C.C.O. Board, and represents it in Latin America. (ICCO is "The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations"). He has organized/ lead ICCO's México (2007) and Guatemala (2008) Coaching Symposia and is leading now the Costa Rican one (2,009) where "Coaching for Human Change in Hard Times" will be pivotal theme.
Ramiro is an Electrical Engineer and a Psychologist, with post graduate studies in Applied Mathematics at Stanford University, and Redecision Psychotherapy at the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy. He's C.E.O. of Ponce & Associates.
Specialties:
Developing leaders in the face of cultural resistance, Executive Coaching
requiring whole picture systemic perspective and acute personal insights,
Change/Culture Management Consulting/Workshops and Team Integration in the
face of hidden, postponed or passive-resistance driven group conflict.
Lee Salmon
G.
Lee Salmon, Practice Leader for Executive Coaching, Mentoring, and
Leadership Development, Federal Consulting
Group, National Business Center, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Lee is an executive consultant, certified coach, and has more than 30 years
experience in the public and private sectors.
He is experienced in the design and delivery of workshops, executive retreats and other events leading to the creation of high performing organizations. Lee is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and is on the Board of Directors for the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO).
Prior to joining FCG, Lee led a change management team at the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for helping 350 employees merge into a newly created EPA Office of Environmental Information, and understand and deal with the resistance and stress of organizational change. He, along with others, received EPA's Silver Medal Award for their contribution to the design and implementation of the office's organizational structure.
At EPA, Lee also helped design and co-coordinate the first Senior Executive Service Mentoring Program that included 55 SES mentors and 75 GS-15 managers from across the Agency. He has designed and developed leadership programs for several government agencies.
Lee manages a national network of more than 100 executive coaches. He and his coaching teams have worked with leaders and managers in agencies such as EPA, USDA, HHS- CDC, CMS, FDA, OGC, SBA, ED, OPM, State Department, DoD, NSA, CIA, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. He has published several articles on coaching for emotional intelligence and coaching in the Federal government.
Lee graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and earned an MS in Physics from the California State University, Northridge. He is also a graduate of Johns Hopkins Fellows in the Management of Change Program, numerous coaching programs, and holds a black belt in the martial art of Aikido
Dorothy
E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC, principal of
Gestalt Coaching Works and
AWAREWORKS International, is a Master Certified Coach and consultant to
organizational leaders, executives, and groups worldwide
She is a newly appointed faculty member of The Professional School of Psychology in California, and also teaches in the Eurasian Gestalt Coaching Program (EGCP) in Istanbul. She co-founded the International Gestalt Coaching Program (IGCP), the first Gestalt-based coach training program awarded International Coach Federation (ICF) certification. EGCP in Istanbul is the second Gestalt-based coach training program to gain ICF certification.
Dorothy received her doctorate from Case Western Reserve University's prestigious Department of Organizational Behavior. She was a professional faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Gestalt OSD Center, where she held leadership roles while honing the rich teaching, coaching, and consulting skills that she now brings to all her work. Her individual and organizational coaching practices are deeply informed by Gestalt theory and practice, leading to outstanding results for individuals, groups, and organizations. Her Gestalt institutional affiliation is with the Gestalt International Study Center based in Wellfleet, MA. She presents training and development opportunities at the Organization Development Network's annual conference, the International Coach Federation Conference, and by invitation. She is particularly proud to be a Board member of "ICCO", a dialogue , research and visionary service for coaching and leadership around the world.
Susana Isaacson
Susana
Isaacson is an experienced and accomplished organizational executive coach,
leadership development consultant and public speaker. Prior to retirement in
2007, she served as director of leadership development, organizational
learning and professional coaching at the National Clandestine Service of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Since that time, she has built an independent, robust practice in a variety
of organizations from government agencies to nonprofit institutions.
She is an enthusiastic and active member of the Board of Directors of
the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO), and
founding partner of the coaching and consulting firm COPIA.
Professional Philosophy and Practice: Susana is passionate about life in organizations and has built a career that reflects her curiosity, expertise and dedication to transforming organizational systems into places that serve both the people and the business they represent. Her experience and interests extend from the broadest systemic concerns to helping realize a successful functional fit for individuals within their organizations. To this effect, her areas of practice include organization change interventions through organization effectiveness studies, designing and leading organizational retreats, leading programs to clarify work/life integration issues and through executive coaching, facilitating focused conversations that lead to happier people in inclusive work environments.
Education, Skills and Sample Clients: Susana holds a BA in French Literature from Stern College for Women and an MS in Organization Development from Johns Hopkins University. She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) credentialed Master Certified Coach (MCC)., a graduate of the New Ventures West coaching program and the Newfield advanced coaching program, and worked as a mentor coach with Newfield. Upon her retirement form the CIA, the National Clandestine Service, established an award named the “Susana Isaacson Award for Leadership Development” to be given to leaders who practice and teach leadership to future generations.
She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the BarOn EQI Emotional Intelligence Instrument, and many 360 degree feedback instruments including Benchmarks and Profilor.
Having started her professional life as a linguist, Susana is fluent in Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian and French. Her executive coaching and consulting clients include many of the organizations in the US Intelligence Community, such as Director National Intelligence, Fortune 500 Companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Public Institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, and Not for Profit Companies such as the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation among others.
Symposia Dean
Agnes Mura
Agnes
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.
Association Administrator
Alexia Longacre
(coming soon)
Governance & Ethics Committee
Ed Maier, Chair of Governance and Ethics Committee
Ed
believes in the value and potential of people and has a passion for helping
them develop it. His approach is simple and straightforward as he was
taught many years ago to “Think Straight. Talk Straight.”
Ed has provided services to C-level and senior executives for over twenty-five years as a leadership coach, business advisor and partner in a global professional services firm. He has served start-up entrepreneurial businesses, middle market companies and multi-billion dollar global corporations—in both the public and private sectors. He has coached and mentored numerous executives, partners and managers at various levels in the following industries: professional services, health care, retail, manufacturing, food processing, financial services, real estate and technology. He has also facilitated meetings for his clients on a variety of topics.
In addition to his extensive personal and professional development at Arthur Andersen, he has completed programs at The Aspen Institute, The Center for Creative Leadership, The Covey Leadership Center and The Association for Psychological Type. He’s been certified in the coaching processes of two recognized companies that provide such services.
Prior to entering the field of leadership coaching and development, Ed held several leadership roles in a global professional services firm. He led a regional practice that generated annual revenues in excess of $360 million and had over 1,300 professionals and 80 partners. In this role, he implemented and managed strategy, sales, marketing, human resource and process improvement programs.
Ed bundles formal development and business experience into a straightforward package that will help you grow your leadership performance.
Ed has been a speaker at seminars, conferences and training programs for The International Coach Federation, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Financial Executives International and others. He has taught as an adjunct professor in the DePaul University management program and has lectured on ethics at the University of Iowa. His professional affiliations include Menttium, the International Coach Federation and the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. He graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce.
The combination of Ed’s people skills and business background are a great resource to any organization that wants to promote the value and potential of its people.
2008 - 2009 Board, Governance and Ethics Chairs and Association Administrator
Front Row: Sonja Iverson, Alexia Longacre, Ramiro Ponce, Brenda Smith, Dorothy Siminovitch
Back Row: Lee Salmon, Ed Maier, John Lazar, Margaret Turner, Michael Sanson, Vicki Foley, Donna Karlin
Absent: Kevin Cuthbert
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