ICCO is a not-for profit association with IRC 501(c)(6) status.
You will be invited to leading-edge learning events where you will be able to build an invaluable network. We envision a “United Nations of Coaching” a body of divergent opinions and perspectives, alert to the ideas of others, collaborative, inclusive, respectful of differences and transparently apolitical.
- Facilitated conversation and dialogue
- Exchange of ideas on new and current topics\
- Innovative concepts
- Sharing of knowledge and expertise
- Multi-stakeholder environment
- Generative dialogue
- Advanced coaching live
We create conversations that don’t happen anywhere else. These events cross the typical silos between users, practitioners and educators. In no other profession do the users and practitioners partner and make decisions about the profession’s future. We serve seasoned, experienced professionals with rich, generative dialogue in a marketing-free zone.
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Current Members of ICCO Board
ICCO Board - July 2007:
Front row, left to right, Vicki Foley, Donna Karlin, Suzi Pomerantz, Agnes Mura, Judy Roseth-Burrell.
Back row, left to right, Lee Salmon, Merry Marcus, Linda Page, Michael Sanson.
Not pictured Brenda Smith and Margaret Turner
Agnes Mura, Executive Coach
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.
Clients
Agnes inspires and develops Fortune 500 global corporate executives from Europe to Latin America. In six languages, Agnes Mura has also mediated among diverse people and cultures. Clients have included: Avon, Banco Santander, The Coca Cola Company, ConAgra, CEMEX, Citigroup, Coors, Deloitte, East West Bank, Habitat for Humanity, KPMG, MGM, Mattel, Medtronic, Novartis, Raytheon, SAFECO, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics, UBS, Warner Bros., and many “fast” small and mid-size firms in the US and abroad.
Education
Agnes Mura’s background was formed on different continents and in different political systems, and her education was forged in high achievement British and German universities. She holds a BA from Edinburgh University, UK, and a Masters Degree in philosophy and applied linguistics from the University of Cologne, Germany, as well as a variety of finance certifications, acquired during her 10 years as a international banking executive and investment advisor at Bankers Trust Corporation.
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Lee Hecht Harrison, Talent Solutions
Represented by Vicki Foley, Regional Talent Solutions Director
Vicki Foley is a Senior Vice President, Regional Talent Solutions Director for Lee Hecht Harrison where she is responsible for business development strategy and delivery of Lee Hecht Harrison’s Talent Solutions services which range from organization alignment, group capability building, and individual leadership development. In addition, Vicki is the Program Manager for Lee Hecht Harrison’s strategic alliance partnerships with The Wharton School, eePulse, Inc and viaPeople, Inc. She is a certified executive coach, with over nine years of coaching experience.
Vicki is also a member of LHH’s Learning Advisory Board. The Board’s mission is to drive internal performance excellence linked to business strategies. Board initiatives include company-wide talent assessment, development, performance planning and succession planning.
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 of Regional Leadership Specialist 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 Master’s 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.
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Michael Sanson DBA, MA
Executive Coach
Michael Sanson is a British Executive Coach based since 1998 in Bern, Switzerland. Building on an outstanding academic and business background Michael is devoted to supporting individuals, groups and their organisations in identifying and achieving what they are committed to - expanding horizons and bringing visions into reality.
Michael has coached corporate and executive clients from around Europe and the US. He has been a visiting coach and consultant at IMD, one of Europe's leading business schools, since 2000 working on more than 20 leadership development programs. He also 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.
Michael's credentials include an MA from Oxford University and professional qualifications in Chartered Accountancy and Corporate Treasury. He recently completed his Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen. His doctoral research focuses on the supply and organization of executive coaching services and will be published in June 2006.
Michael is married to a Latin-American career diplomat and has three young sons. Having been based in Switzerland for 8 years, Michael and his family moved to Mexico in the summer of 2006, where his wife is continuing her diplomatic career.
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Merry Marcus, President of Break Through Consulting
Merry Marcus is a certified Masterful Coach, entrepreneur and former Fortune 100 VP of Sales. Ms. Marcus leads a team of expert coaches, highly experienced as business leaders and skilled in the Break Through Consulting model that she developed. Ms. Marcus has coached market leaders from Accenture, Berlex, Barclays Capital, ExxonMobil, DuPont, Flint Ink, Halmark Entertainment, L'Oreal, McKinsey & Company, Thomson Corporation, Verizon and mid-sized, high growth companies.
Her coaching practice focuses on assignments that demand huge paradigm shifts, requiring major breakthroughs in leadership behaviors and thinking where critical goals are at risk. Ms. Marcus is committed to improving business results, increasing professional satisfaction, and facilitating personal transformation through executive coaching.
Merry's coaching is greatly informed by her experience as a Fortune 100 Senior Executive and business owner. Previously, Ms. Marcus was VP of the Professional Services Division at Chubb and General Manager for the Central Region of Verizon (in a deregulated $400 million unit). She also served as VP of Sales and General Manager for AlphaNet Solutions - a technology outsourcing company - where she took her team from start-up to profitability in year two.
Her entrepreneurial experience includes owning three professional services companies and leading an IPO. As President of Break Through Consulting and as consultant to three global coaching companies, Ms. Marcus is instrumental in establishing coaching as a leading professional service.
Ms Marcus is HR.com's guest analyst and Community Leader for Executive Coaching. As such she hosts their online executive coaching page and contributes content to their site through her twice-monthly Q&A column "Ask the Coach" and through an ongoing blog.
Merry sits on the Executive Committee of Junior Achievement, and is a member of the International Coaches Federation and Women's Investment Network.
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Judy Roseth-Burrell (The Roseth Group)
As a trusted advisor, coach and consultant to CEO's and senior executives since 1991, Judy Roseth-Burrell gives her clients the edge they need to take their companies and professional lives to the next level. She specializes in designing "Blueprints for Success", a proven methodology that puts companies and executives on the fast track to organizational change and effectiveness. Her unique approach to organizational design and executive success is the result of over 23 years of senior-level computer industry experience and an extensive background in sales management, M&A integration and international operations. Judy's perspective and hard work helps her clients create and promote a dynamic company vision while achieving outstanding results in their professional and personal lives.
Beginning in 1981 with Apple Computer, Judy's experience spans from leading computer manufacturers and technology distributors to international direct marketers. As a senior executive with top firms like Ingram Micro, Merisel and Multiple Zones International, Judy has successfully built dynamic sales and support organizations, led teams through complex mergers and acquisitions, consistently increased revenues and played a pivotal role in the success of major high tech corporations.
Judy is an executive coach, with an extended certification in career management coaching from Chapman University. She is a certified mediator serving to resolve conflict in the workplace and has her certification in Meyers Briggs assessment interpretation. Judy is an active member of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA), a member of the Board for the Association of Professional Consultants, and a member of CompTIA, The Computer Technology Industry Association. Judy serves as an Advisory Board member for High IQ Homes, My Work Tools and Excel At Sports. Her current and past clients include Habitat for Humanity, New Horizons Learning Centers, Dyntek, Boeing, and the Computing Technology Industry Association among others. Additionally, she has trained and advised at the University of Zimbabwe and the International School of Training in Zimbabwe, Africa.
Judy has been an advisor for the Women's Extension Program for the University of California, Irvine. She regularly delivers keynote speeches at universities and industry associations and also speaks on behalf of the American Cancer Society. The Roseth Group is headquartered in Laguna Niguel on the beautiful Southern California coast and has clients throughout North America, Europe and South Africa.
Why I wish to serve ICCO:
From the time that I began my career as a manger, director and senior vice-president I have lead and supported my teams from a "coaching style" prospective. I discovered coaching as a profession a few years ago. I began my certification courses the next month and re-invented my consulting business of twenty-three years around executive coaching within the high tech and non-profit community. I have an enthusiasm for coaching as a professional, and even more importantly, I am committed to forwarding our profession because of the extraordinary results our clients experience as they reach more and more of their potential and fulfillment in life.
I have seen and experienced visible results after providing coaching services to an organization's CEO's/ED's and their executive teams. All this to say, I believe the continued health and vitality of Corporate American and the Non-Profit Community will be greatly enhanced by integrating coaching with the other service providers and communities that will support it. It is for this reason that I am eager to participate as a member of the Board of Directors for ICCO. I believe in your mission and applaud your controlled growth.
I have participated on boards throughout my career and I believe that it is important to apply to an organization where there is alignment of mission and values; therefore, I have been selective about the time I have allocated to boards. The following outlines my recent board activity:
--PCMA of Orange County
--Association or Professional Consultants
--The Star Workshop in Seattle (similar to "Make a Wish")
I have facilitated Board Development and Strategic Planning for:
*Habitat for Humanity International
*Habitat for Humanity - Greater Los Angeles
*Habitat for Humanity - East Bay
*Long Beach Not For Profit
*SRS Labs, Inc.
*Children Today - Long Beach
*Sister Cities - Los Angeles
*Chase Bobco - Seattle
I would like to participate in particular in supporting ICCO in:
--The design and execution of the consortium's vision, mission and objectives.
--The definition of the member audience and the services rendered.
--The symposium venture.
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Linda J. Page (Adler School of Professional Coaching)
Adler School of Professional Coaching was founded in 1998 and in 2003 became the first Canadian coach training organization to be accredited by the International Coach Federation. The curriculum focuses on the workplace and the place of work in people's lives. Adler Coaching has graduated nearly 100 Adler Certified Professional Coaches at its locations in Toronto and Phoenix, Arizona, and has provided coaching skills training to some 600 managers and other organizational leaders in North America and Scandinavia. It has strategic partnerships with individuals, coaching organizations, and coaching clients in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, and Puerto Rico.
Adler's sister institution, Adler Professional Schools, has been part of a graduate school network that has offered Master of Arts degrees in Counseling Psychology in Toronto, Canada, since 1978. Its successor, Adler School of Graduate Studies, is in the process of applying for regional accreditation to offer degrees in psychology, counseling, and coaching studies. Through this effort, and through its support of coaching research and theory development, Adler Coaching can contribute greatly to the development of a viable and enduring coaching profession.
Adler has taken a lead in supporting coaching research, having been a sponsor of the ICF Coaching Research Symposium for the past two years. The institution has committed resources to bring together organizational coaches, researchers, educators, and clients to examine the future and potential of organizational coaching. Adler is also collaborating with other educational institutions to design a curriculum for degrees in order to contribute to the profession in this way.
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Brenda Smith (Peoplesmith Global)
Brenda Smith, MBA, CPEC, has coined the term, “emotional economics,” reflective of how human we all are in the face of growth, challenge and transition. Leaving a successful Wall Street Career, she mastered her own personal and professional transitions using strategic business principles and founded Peoplesmith Global in 1998. Coaching from experience and continuous learning, she works with people who "have skin in the game" and need to "stop doing what they've always done to get different results." Brenda uses a very practical application of emotional intelligence in real time to help client move through desired changes and master the ambiguity of relationships, change and transition. Her work and that of her Experience Team at Peoplesmith Global is to align actions that are purposeful while gaining clarity in a desired future. In this way, her team creates Engaged Leaders ™ in life and at work. Peoplesmith uses proprietary client-centered coaching for individuals and groups that affirms individual strengths and reveals new possibilities for action.
Drawing on more than seventeen years of line experience on Wall Street, Brenda's resultsorientation has benefited leaders and managers on more than 5 continents to achieve fundamental business metrics by working with and through people. Just what kind of results has coaching human engagement achieved for individuals and organizations? Aside from more vitality and resiliency under stress, she has helped her clients: Develop perspective and skill in succession for the next level of leadership; Increase revenues by 45% in one year; Reduce hiring costs by 17% by building to team strengths; Raise $5 million of seed capital for a bio-tech start up
by building trust to back up the business plan; Improve management effectiveness to reduce turnover by 5% with a $1.5 million annual cost savings. “It’s more than the numbers; relationships often influence the rules in business,” she is quoted.
Recognized in Who's Who for international leadership, Brenda has served as a trainer for The Dale Carnegie Institute for Leadership and Human Development, a vice president for Chemical Bank, PNC Bank and Northeast District Manager for Merrill Lynch where she managed over 200 sales executives in business development, sales, management and team building. She initiated executive coaching at the world renowned, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Business School, Executive Education program where she also serves as a Coach, and teaches graduate students tools for employee engagement and talent management in her "Professional Intelligence for the Enterprise Leader" Course. Formerly a coach facilitator for the Council for Excellence in Government, Brenda is a proponent of coaching in organizations, and is active in the International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations (ICCO), the Chief Learning Organization and is working on her Human Capital Strategist designation from the Human Capital Institute.
Brenda believes in the ethics, guidelines and superior results of the [regulated] coaching industry: in 1999, she launched the Pittsburgh Chapter of the International Coach Federation. She personally champions emotional intelligence for the engagement of human capital in her innovative leadership of Peoplesmith Global as well as actively coaches corporations and individuals to follow her proven steps to success.
Brenda is an eight year veteran coach, certified by New Ventures West. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Boston University, her MBA from New York University, and has earned her certificate in positive psychology from Harvard Medical School.
"No problem was ever solved at the same level of consciousness as that which caused it"
-Albert Einstein
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Donna Karlin (A Better Perspective™)
Donna Karlin Certified Executive Coach, founder of A Better Perspective™ has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with political leaders and senior organizational leaders in the public and private sectors in many parts of the world.
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. She uses 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.
Donna is an author, lectures internationally, is a key player in 6 international think tanks and research and development teams, including the Microsoft™ UCG ‘Vision Team’; a small team of independent visionaries / experts who provide valuable, contextual insight into technology, business and workplace issues and trends. 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 a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Coach Federation, Canadian Society for Training and Development, is a founding member of CoachVille, founding member and member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC), and a Board member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO).
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, IAC Voice and SelfGrowth.com. She has written two eBooks, ‘The Power to Decide: An Executive’s Guide to Conquering a Chaotic Day’ and ‘Climbing Out of the Meeting Pit: Smart Meetings for Smart Leaders’ and has recently co-authored the best selling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’ with Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn. Donna is an Expert for SelfGrowth.com in executive and political leadership coaching. Her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 120 countries and territories.
Donna is a chosen key contributor to the weblog execuBooks Blog which presents “current thinking by the best minds in business” around the world, writes a weekly column for Fast Company Experts called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership”, and is a columnist for Canadian Government Executive Magazine.
She has a proven track record in developing leadership and managing change.
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Suzi Pomerantz (CEO, Innovative Leadership International LLC)
Suzi Pomerantz, MT, MCC is an executive coach, performance consultant, facilitator, corporate trainer and author with over 15 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in over 120 organizations internationally, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list. Suzi's strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos.
Her clients include leaders and teams from Accenture, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Tyco, General Motors, Sears, Welch’s, Pfizer, American Express Financial Advisors, and many others. A coaching veteran in the legal industry, Suzi has coached leaders in six corporate law departments and a dozen law firms. Suzi also has coaching experience in a wide range of industries including: consulting, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, entrepreneurial enterprises, federal and state government, educational institutions, and MBA executive programs.
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 for their organizations, 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 has presented as well as participated for seven years at the International Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation-only annual gathering of senior executive coaching experts, presented a workshop called “Seal the Deal:
Critical Conversations to Demystify Networking, Marketing and Sales” at the 11th annual International Coach Federation Conference (2006), and taught executive coaches at the Executive Coach Academy. She has also delivered guest lectures at George Washington University, Loyola University, and the University of Virginia and has coached executives in the MBA Program at Darden. She served on both the Executive Coaching Committee and the Application Review Committee of the International Coach Federation and served on the International Executive Coaching Summit Planning team for three years.
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 ten publications about coaching and business development, including Is Your Net Working?, Ethically Speaking: Ethics and the Executive Coach, Coaching Teams, and The Ten Keys to Building Your Coaching Business Beyond the Next Level as well as two books, including Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets For Growing Your Professional Services Business (HRD Press, 2006) and The Business Mom Guide Book.
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G. Lee Salmon (Federal Consulting Group)
Overview: I’m an executive consultant, certified coach, and have more than 35 years experience in the public non-profit, and private sectors. As a former executive, manager, and scientist, I bring a wealth of experience in coaching, change management, leadership development, diversity, and organizational development to my work. I’m a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.
Coaching Philosophy: With my background as a health physicist and change leader, I like to work with leaders and managers in scientific and engineering organizations faced with complex organizational change. My strengths are a keen analytical mind, ability to ask provocative questions, and deep caring for my clients and the challenges they face. I am a person with whom you can trust and feel safe.
Coaching Projects: While at the Environmental Protection Agency, I was responsible for helping 350 employees merge into a newly created Office of Environmental Information, and understand and deal with the resistance and stress of organizational change. I, along with others, received EPA's Silver Medal Award for my contribution to the design of the office's organizational structure. I 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.
I have over 10 years of coaching experience and have coached political appointees, CEOs, Chiefs of Staff, senior executives, and senior managers in EPA, USDA, HHS, OPM, Treasury Department Bureaus; Departments of Interior, State, Education, HHS, and Defense including NSA and CIA; and the Corporation for National and Community Service. I also have a private coaching practice where I work with executives outside of the federal government in organizations such as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Trammel Crow, Fairfax County Government, ORC Macro, and some telecommunications companies. I currently manage a national network of over 100 executive coaches and work with government agencies in developing leadership and their succession and human capital plans.
Education and Certifications: I graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and earned an MS in Physics from the California State University, Northridge. I’m also a graduate of Johns Hopkins Fellows in the Management of Change Program and hold a black belt in the martial art of Aikido. I’m certified in a number of assessment instruments, including the EQ-I 360 and the Leadership Circle Profile. I have a top secret security clearance.
Personal: I am an avid sailor and enjoy being outdoors. With three young granddaughters, I keep learning about new ways of seeing the world and how to be silly. I have a son in the Navy stationed in Japan. I volunteer my time in planning professional symposia for the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. My wife and I are studying the art of mosaics and having a great time.
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Margaret Turner
HR/Organizational Development Professional with 20 years of experience in leadership and development. Margaret started her career in healthcare as an Emergency Medical Technician for American Medical Response. After 17 years with the organization, Margaret started consulting for organizations around open book management. After two years consulting, an opportunity opened up for her at Kaiser Permanente Colorado as an Internal Consultant, where she works with her passion around leadership development. In her current role, Margaret is responsible for setting the leadership strategy and executing against it. Margaret has completed the Coaches Training Institutes core co-active coaching curriculum, is certified in MBT, FiroB, EQI, EQI 360, Career Architect and the Hay 360 assessment tools.
When Margaret is not working she is volunteering her time teaching wilderness courses for the Colorado Mountain Club, and spending as much time in the mountains climbing, hiking, ice climbing, snow camping, and backpacking.
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ICCO 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.
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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.
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Susana Isaacson
Susana Isaacson is a professional coach and leadership development consultant with twenty five years of experience mostly in the government sector. Prior to retirement in 2007 she served as director of leadership development, organizational learning and professional coaching the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ms. Isaacson developed programs for the personal and professional development of managers at the mid an upper levels of responsibility.
- She initiated one of the largest professional coaching programs in the federal sector over ten years ago. The program now provides work for about twenty internal and external coaches and serves a population of hundreds of clients.
- She created a vibrant and self sustaining leadership development program for employees with the unusual feature of using managers and leaders as instructors in courses ranging in length from one week to one year.
- She developed a personal development program—aimed at creating better balance between the personal and professional life of organization employees.
Ms. Isaacson is founder and co president of COPIA Coaching and Consulting, an organization with two goals: helping Baby Boomer couples develop lifelong relationships in retirement, and coaching Second World women to reach positions of impact for their organizations and countries.
She is a frequent speaker and active participant at local and national conferences. She serves on the Advisory Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)
In 2007 the National Clandestine Service created an annual award named the “Susana Isaacson Award for Leadership Development” to be given to the leader who is most dedicated to educating and developing future leaders in the organization.
Ms. Isaacson holds a MS in Organization Development from Johns Hopkins University; has worked as a mentor coach with the Newfield Network and is a Master Certified Coach who served on the credentialing committee of the International Coach Federation. She is certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Benchmarks, Bar On EQi Emotional Intelligence, Profilor and other 360 and personal development feedback instruments. Having started her professional life as a linguist, in addition to English she is fluent in Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian and French.
Ms. Isaacson holds a Top Secret clearance.
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Margaret A. Krigbaum
After 11 years in private law practice, Margaret transitioned to coaching in late 1994. Typical coaching assignments are in the areas of increasing leadership skills, change management, strategic planning, business development, organizational and team productivity, and executing breakthrough projects. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, senior executives, and professionals. Her client base extends throughout the United States and to Europe and Asia. She currently coaches individual and team clients in twelve countries and has coached individuals and teams in 26 different countries.
Margaret is also a leader in the coaching industry. She has received the Master Certified Coach designation from the International Coach Federation. She is currently chair of the ICF Research and Education Committee and the Education Steering Committee for the ICF 2007 International Conference which will serve 1800 coaches. In addition, she is former vice president of that organization, past chair of the ICF’s Application Review Committee, past Chair of its Credentialing and Continuing Education Committee, co-chaired the Beyond Mastery track at the 2003 ICF convention, chaired the Coaching Tools program at the 2000 convention, and was a member of the ICF’s Strategic Planning Committee. She is the recipient of the ICF’s Jennifer White Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Coaching Profession.
Margaret has been a featured speaker and seminar leader to groups and businesses such as Lucent Technologies, AT&T, Sun Health Group, the American Business Women’s Association, Toyota, Bank of America, White and Case, and the American Case Workers Association. She has presented multiple times at the International Coach Federation Annual Conference and to International Coach Federation chapters in Europe, Australia, South America, and Asia. She has created and given presentations for the Japan Coaching Association, International Mozaik in France, the UK IC, the Nordic Coach Federation, and for Top Human Technology in China, to name just a few. In addition, Margaret has been a guest on over 50 radio shows. She is a featured author in the books, Working Wisdom, The Ethics of Coaching, and will be a contributing author in a major new book on cross cultural coaching in organizations.
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Sylva (Syl) Leduc, MEd, MPEC.
Leadership/Executive Coach
Founder & former President of Client Compass Software (program for coaches)
Syl Leduc has joined the ICCO Advisory board to provide guidance related to the technologies used in ICCO. Syl will lend her expertise in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies for ICCO.
William H.. Lindberg - The Ash Grove Group
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 & 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. For further information see www.ashgrovegroup.com.
Terrie Lupberger, CEO, MCC, Coach Advocate, Board Member WealthSTRONG Intl.
Terrie Lupberger is CEO of the Newfield Network and currently is acting president of Certified Financial Coach Services. Having run an international coach and transformational change organization of seven years, Terrie's work has provided the impetus for the Certified Financial Coach CFC-CoachPLUSÔ training. Since co-founding Newfield in 2000, Terrie has helped position Newfield as an internationally recognized leader in integral education, coaching and learning methodologies, producing programs in the US and ten other countries. Newfield is one of the founders of Ontological CoachingÔ, a co-generative process between coach and client that aims to shift the way the client sees and takes action in their personal and professional life. Terrie is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and has been coaching senior executives and other individuals since 1994. She was part of the original design committee that developed the International Coach Federation's initial core coaching competencies. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Coach Federation (ICF) for two years and has been a member of the ICF Credentialing Committee since 2002. Terrie's coaching clients have included the World Bank, NASA, Proctor and Gamble and American Express. Terrie Lupberger is CEO of the Newfield Network. During the 7 years of her tenure, Newfield has formed into an internationally recognized leader in integral education, coaching and learning methodologies that produce remarkable results, with programs in the US and ten other countries. Newfield is one of the founders of Ontological CoachingÔ, a co-generative process between coach and client that aims to shift the way the client sees and takes action in their personal and professional life.
Terrie is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and has been coaching senior executives and other individuals since 1994. She was part of the original design committee that developed the International Coach Federation's initial core coaching competencies. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Coach Federation (ICF) for two years and has been a member of the ICF Credentialing Committee since 2002. Terrie's coaching clients have included the World Bank, NASA, Proctor and Gamble and American Express.
Terrie's earlier career was spent at the Department of the Treasury, where she was a senior financial systems analyst working with Federal Reserve Banks across the country. She was also a Senior Manager with the U.S. Courts, helping to improve operations of the District and Circuit court system.
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John A. Thomas
Education/Certifications
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
- Post-graduate studies in Mathematics and Electro-Optics, Air Force Institute of Technology
- Practicing Executive & Life Coach
- Professional Mentor
- Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Member and past chapter president of International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
- Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Member of National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
Relevant Experience/Skills
- 30+ years experience in Systems Engineering
- 20+ years experience in Program Management
- Booz Allen’s Senior Systems Engineer
- Focus on large-scale system integration and program delivery
- Experience in managing and leading large development teams
- Thought leader in multiple IT solutions methodologies, including TLC© and Mission Engineering®
- Executive Coach and Mentor
- Multiple top security clearances
Summary of Professional Experience
Mr. Thomas, a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, has more than 30 years of leadership experience dealing with the programmatic and engineering challenges of complex social and technical systems. His leadership assignments include program and engineering management, strategic planning, stakeholder communications, conflict management, business process analysis, activity-based costing, solutions concept development, systems synthesis (systems architecting, design, alternatives evaluation), systems integration, and systems verification/validation testing and operational test and evaluation. Systems integration and engineering efforts under his leadership have ranged from two to twelve contractor teams, are located across multiple geographies, and employ up to 1,000 staff members. John’s coaching and mentoring skills are often sought by senior leaders to facilitate diverse groups of people for problem identification and resolution activities.
As a leader within Booz Allen’s Global Information Technology (IT) Team, John supports both government and commercial clients. The Global IT Team provides the full range of IT system services —from network, storage, and computing platforms to software and hardware development, testing, and integration. His particular focus includes systems engineering and integration of large-scale, COTS-based, IT systems to solve mission and business problems. John also specializes in developing and delivering solutions that incorporate people, process, technology, and infrastructure as critical components in an overall implementation approach for addressing enterprise-wide challenges.
As Booz Allen’s Senior Systems Engineer, Mr. Thomas is currently responsible for the development and delivery of systems engineering and integration services and IT systems across Booz Allen’s Global Security markets. His assignments/clients include the CIA, DHS, DIA, NRO, NGA, and NSA. John works closely with his fellow partners to integrate a range of domain and functional disciplines into the programmatic and engineering management methodologies that Booz Allen offers to its clients. He also oversees proper application of the firms technical training programs within team specific assignments to assure a uniform, relevant, quality of service. John is often sought by Government, the firm’s industry partners, and within Booz Allen itself, for counsel and support in planning and execution of complex IT and custom Hardware/Software mission system.
Mr. Thomas holds multiple Top Secret security clearances with special accesses within the Federal Government Global Security Market place.
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Founding Members of ICCO Board
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| ICCO Board - December, 2005: Front row , left to right: Marilyn Taylor, Christina Marshall, Agnes Mura (Pres.), Suzi Pomerantz; Second row: Bob Johnson, Bill Bergquist, Syd Snyder |
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