Welcome to the 10th Annual
WBECS Pre-Summit
Welcome to the 10th Annual
WBECS Pre-Summit
Your world as a coach is facing unprecedented challenges. Your usual coaching methods have been interrupted.
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You can discover new ideas, tactics and perspectives on coaching that will spark innovation for you and your clients - and you can do all of this remotely and LIVE.
In 2017, Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. In previous years, he was ranked 3rd, 6th and 7th.
Roger Martin is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019 and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
Prior to his time at Rotman, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.
His research work is in Integrative Thinking, Design of Business, Strategy, Incentives & Governance, Democratic Capitalism, and Social Innovation. He has written 28 Harvard Business Review articles and published 11 books including: Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press (HBRP), 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013); Fixing the Game (HBRP, 2011); The Design of Business (HBRP, 2009); The Opposable Mind (HBRP, 2007); The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, 2002); Canada: What It Is, What It Can Be (with Jim Milway, Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2012). In addition, he co-edited Rotman on Design (with Karen Christensen, Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2013). In 2010, he was named one of the 27 most influential designers in the world by Business Week.
In 2007 he was named a Business Week 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. Business Week also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford.
He serves as Chair of The Good Jobs Institute and the I-Think Initiative, and on the Board of The Nine Dots Prize. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his BA from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. In 2018, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the Royal Military College of Canada.
Dr. Marcia Reynolds, president of Covisioning LLC, is fascinated by the brain, especially what triggers feelings of connection, commitment, and possibility.
She has trained and coached leaders in 41 countries, and has presented at the Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell University, as well as universities in Europe and Asia.
Dr. Reynolds is a pioneer in the coaching profession. She was the 5th global president of the International Coach Federation. Currently, she is the training director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute in North Carolina. She is also on faculty coaching schools in Russia, The Philippines, and China. Outside of the schools, she teaches Leader as Coach classes to organizations around the world and consults with them to build coaching cultures.
She is recognized by Global Gurus as the #5 coach in the world. In addition to teaching and consulting, Marcia coaches executives globally. Many of her clients are leaders in healthcare and technical companies. She has coached executives and high potentials in energy, computer software and hardware, banking, pharmaceuticals, retail, construction, water (city and state agencies), real estate, federal agencies, and equipment manufacturers.
Marcia has been a student and researcher of how humans learn since earning her second master’s degree in adult education. She became fascinated with emotional intelligence and designed a training program that integrates emotional choice with leadership presence, communications effectiveness, and resiliency. She has taught her programs for agencies of the National Institutes of Health and multinational corporations around the world. Marcia earned her doctoral degree in organizational psychology in 2008.
Before launching her own business, her greatest success came from designing the employee development program for a global semiconductor company facing bankruptcy. Within three years, the company turned around and became the #1 stock market success in 1993.
Interviews and excerpts from her books Outsmart Your Brain, How to Manage Your Mind When Emotions Take the Wheel; Wander Woman: How High Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction and The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs have appeared in many places including Harvard Communications Newsletter, Leadership Excellence Essential - HR.com, Fast Company, Forbes.com, CNN.com, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has appeared in business magazines in Europe, Asia and on ABC World News. Her latest book Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry, will be released in June, 2020.
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership. Hill has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program, and Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation.
She was course-head during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course.
Hill has been at the forefront of developing various innovative learning programs for managers, including Breakthrough Leadership, the winner of the 2013 Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology, and the award-winning multimedia management development programs such as High Performance Management.
Hill’s consulting and executive education activities have been in the areas of leadership development, talent management, leading change and innovation, implementing global strategies, and managing cross-organizational relationships.
Organizations with which Professor Hill has worked include the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, NASA, General Electric, RELX, Accenture, UnitedHealth Group, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, National Bank of Kuwait, The Federal Reserve Bank, AREVA, The Economist, Salesforce.com, and The World Economic Forum.
In 2014, Hill co-founded Paradox Strategies, an advisory and research firm that assesses and advises organizations and boards on leadership and innovation. Hill is a member of the Board of Directors of Relay Therapeutics and the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
Hill serves on the Board of Trustees of the ArtCenter College of Design and is a Special Representative to the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College.
She is also on the Advisory Board of Eight Inc., the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the American Repertory Theater, and the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing. She is a member of the HR People + Strategy Advisory Council.
Hill is a former member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Business Publishing, State Street Corporation, The Bridgespan Group, and the Eaton Corporation. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation and a former member of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund USA board. Hill completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago. She has a B.A., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.
Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world’s most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started.
Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models. Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map – practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners from leading global companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, MasterCard, Sony, Fujitsu, 3M, Intel, Roche, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.
Strategyzer, the company Osterwalder co-founded in 2010, is an innovation powerhouse, providing online courses, applications, and technology-enabled services to help organizations effectively and systematically manage strategy, growth, and transformation. Osterwalder’s books include the international bestseller Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want and Testing Business Ideas, and his forthcoming book for senior leaders, The Invincible Company, to be published in spring 2020.
He holds the Strategy Award from Thinkers50 and the European Union’s inaugural Innovation Luminary Award. In 2019, Osterwalder chaired the prestigious Drucker Forum, the premier annual business management conference.
A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Osterwalder travels the world discussing his ideas and strategies at Fortune 500 companies, premiere innovation conferences, and leading universities. He holds a doctorate from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and is a founding member of The Constellation, a global not-for-profit organization connecting local responses to global issues around the world.
Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he helps large organizations innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has given keynotes, run workshops, and worked as a consultant for several large organizations, including Rabobank, American Express, Standard Bank, Unilever, Airbus, Pearson, Lufthansa-Airplus, The British Museum, Copenhagen Fintech and The Royal Academy of Engineers.
Tendayi co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle, which is an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. He has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch.
Tendayi has written three books based on his research and consulting experience, Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup, and The Lean Product Lifecycle. The Corporate Startup was awarded the 2018 CMI Management Book Of The Year In Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
He is currently working on another book, Right Question, Right Time. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes. Tendayi spent over 12 years in academia, during which time he taught at the University of Kent, where he is now an Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has also been a Research Fellow at Stanford University and Research Assistant at Harvard University
One of the "50 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World", Thinkers50. Former award-winning Wall Street equity analyst. Linkedin Top Voice in 2018 with 1.7 million followers. Helps high growth organizations build high growth individuals. World authority on personal disruption.
Whitney Johnson, one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50), is an expert on helping high growth organizations develop high growth individuals. She is an award-winning author, word class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning, and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. Whitney is a popular contributor for the Harvard Business Review. She has 1.7 million followers on Linkedin where she was selected as a Top Voice in 2018, and her course on the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times. In 2019, she was ranked #3 on the Global Gurus' Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals. In 2017, she was selected from more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 15 Coach” by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith.
An innovation and disruption theorist, she is the author of the bestselling Build an A Team (Harvard Business Press, 2018), a Financial Times and CEO Read, Book of the Month, and the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself (2015). Publisher's Weekly described it as ""savvy...often counter- intuitive...superb"" while the Boston Globe called it the ""'What Color is Your Parachute?' career guide for the entrepreneurial age."" In these books, she codifies her frameworks for developing high growth individuals and organizations––the Personal Disruption and the S Curve of Learning frameworks.
Whitney was the co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea's Coupang, currently valued at $ 9+ billion. She was involved in fund formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund's strategy. As a former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst, she understands momentum and growth. She was an Institutional Investor-ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years and was rated by Starmine as a superior stock-picker.
Whitney hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself Podcast, is married and has two children.
Professor David Clutterbuck is one of Europe's most prolific and well-known management writers and thinkers. He has written some 70 books and hundreds of articles on cutting edge management themes. Co-founder of The European Mentoring and Coaching Council, for which he is now lifetime Special Ambassador, David leads a global network of trainer-consultant-researchers, Coaching and Mentoring International.
David is perhaps best-known in recent years for his work on mentoring, on which he consults around the world. His many books on mentoring and coaching include the classic Everyone needs a mentor, as well as Learning Alliances, Mentoring in Action, Mentoring executives and directors, Techniques in Coaching and Mentoring, and Making Coaching Work, Coaching Teams at Work and Beyond Goals.
David has been responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of highly successful mentoring and coaching programmes in numerous organisations around the world. His clients include many of the world’s multinational companies, non-governmental agencies and large public-sector organisations.
David is active in the UK research committee of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and maintains an extensive and continuous programme of research in his own right. He is also active in a charity he co-founded to develop new ways of using mentoring-style approaches to support young people with learning or social disabilities.
David holds a PhD from King’s College, London, and a post-graduate diploma in coach supervision from Oxford Brookes. He is visiting professor in the faculties of coaching and mentoring at Henley Business School, (Reading University), Sheffield Hallam University, Oxford Brookes and York St John Universities.
Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Chairman of Renewal Associates, and founder and emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, Chairman of Metaco South Africa and Honorary President of the Academy of Executive Coaching and APECS. He is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in leadership and leadership development and an international thought leader in executive teams, systemic team coaching and coaching supervision. He has just led a major global research project on Tomorrow’s Leadership and the Necessary Revolution in Today’s Leadership Development for Henley Business School and finished writing the second edition of Leadership Team Coaching in Practice to be published in July 2018 by Kogan Page.
Over the last 35 years he has worked with many leading companies all over the world, co-designing and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects and coaching company boards and leadership teams. He has helped several senior executive teams develop their vision, values and strategy for the future, both in commercial companies, public sector, higher education and large professional service organisations.
He is the author of several best-selling and internationally translated books including Leadership Team Coaching in Practice (Kogan Page, 2014; 2nd edition 2018); Leadership Team Coaching (Kogan Page, 2011; 2nd ed, 2014; 3rd ed 2017); Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development (with Nick Smith, McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2nd ed, 2013); Creating a Coaching Culture, (McGraw Hill, 2012); and The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership (O Books, 2005) and Supervision in the Helping Professions (McGraw Hill 1989,2000,2006,2012 with Robin Shohet);
He is visiting professor in Leadership and Change at the University of Bath, School of Management and in Executive Coaching at Oxford Brookes University School of Management. He is on the board of a number of small companies and charitable trusts.
He is married with three grown up children and five grandchildren, as well as having a range of animals and gardens to look after on his 37 acres on the edge of Bath.
“My name is Michael. I can hop. Do you want to see me hop?” That’s how I introduced myself to bemused strangers at the supermarket when I was three. Not much has changed, although my mum is (maybe) a little less embarrassed.
Here’s the formal bio—you can tell, because it’s written in the 3rd person. Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership behavior and competency.
His book, The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with over 750,000 copies sold and 1,000+ five-star reviews on Amazon.
In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching, and was shortlisted for the coaching prize by Thinkers50, the “Oscars of management”. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year and has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014. He was a Rhodes Scholar.
As Director of Google’s Center of Expertise, David is responsible for innovative, high-impact approaches to develop Google leaders to meet current, emergent, and disruptive challenges. In addition, he coaches senior leaders, leads strategy for Google’s executive coaching programs, and supports other leadership and organization development initiatives, including leading a team on agile organization design for Google’s future needs.
David is honored to be one of the MG100 coaches and the Inaugural EthicalCoaches. He serves on the Advisory Boards of CoachLogix and Executive Development Associates, and as senior advisor on two other ventures:
David has published dozens of articles and chapters on coaching, is co-author of Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development and Leader as Coach, with over a million copies in print, and co-editor of the Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring.
David is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Consulting Psychology, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the Harvard Institute of Coaching.
Jeremy Hunter, PhD is the great-grandson of a sumo wrestler. He serves as the Founding Director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute as well as Associate Professor of Practice at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management.
Since 2003, he has helped leaders develop themselves while retaining their humanity in the face of monumental change and challenge.
He created and teaches The Executive Mind, a series of demanding and transformative executive education programs. They are dedicated to Drucker’s assertion that “You cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first.” He co-leads the Leading Mindfully Executive Education program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
He has designed and led leadership development programs for a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 200 aerospace, Fortune 50 banking and finance, accounting, the arts and civic non-profits. Program impacts have led to both positive professional, personal and financial outcomes for participants.
Past participants have worked to create a “culture of calm” resulting in more effective team performance as well as creating better firm-wide solutions. They were better able to focus on their priorities, connect with team members, and focus on larger strategic priorities. They learned to control emotions they previously thought not possible to do. For example, better-managed reactions with a volatile client saved an aerospace executive an estimated $700,000 in unexercised contract clauses. Participants also reported a higher quality of sleep as well as greater peace of mind and enhanced ability to enjoy their lives.
Hunter has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. He has been voted Professor of the Year eight times.
His work is informed by the experience of living day-to-day for 17 years with a potentially terminal illness. When faced with the need for life-saving surgery more than a dozen former students came forward as organ donors.
Dr. Hunter received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, under the direction of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. He also holds a degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and in East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University.
He relishes Chinese dumplings and obsesses about modern architecture. He and his wife and son dutifully serve two house cats who live in Los Angeles.
Kristen Nolan is the Director of Business Development and Partnerships for WBECS. With over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the personal development space, she helps coaches design ongoing development plans that increase their skills and the value they bring to the clients they support.
Kristen Nolan is the Director of Business Development and Partnerships for WBECS. With over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the personal development space, she helps coaches design ongoing development plans that increase their skills and the value they bring to the clients they support.
Kristen Nolan is the Director of Business Development and Partnerships for WBECS. With over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the personal development space, she helps coaches design ongoing development plans that increase their skills and the value they bring to the clients they support.
Lori Shook is a pioneer in the coaching world: she jumped into the budding field of coaching in the mid-1990s, earned the designation of Master Certified Coach by 2001 and has been coaching leaders and training coaches for over 20 years.
Lori was a driving force for the expansion of coaching around the world as she helped spread coaching across North America then into EMEA and also into corporations. She significantly contributed to the creation of quality scalable programs and training excellence for three different coach training schools: The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), Performance Consultants International (PCI) and CRR Global - the provider of ORSC™ systems coaching.
She has also served as the Director of Training at CoachWise in Poland. She has worked closely with pioneers in the coaching world: Laura Withworth, Tim Gallwey and Sir John Whitmore. Design and delivery master.
While her design abilities are highly appreciated, Lori’s talent for training coaches is even more highly prized: she combines a pragmatic approach to personal development with deep knowledge of coaching skills and neuroscience.This depth of understanding, along with her sense of lightness and ease, enables her to provide coaches uplifting, fun and transformative experiences.
Lori helps coaches understand the connections between the brain, human behaviour and coaching tools. This equips them to provide transformational coaching experiences with more confidence and authority, particularly with more analytical clients. Lori is also passionate about developing other coaches, new and experienced, supporting them to do their own work and stay committed to the transformative aspect of coaching.
She’s a strong believer that as coaches, we need to keep ourselves fresh and awake so that we can serve our clients well. She has been an important participant in several coaching communities; her London based Topups (personal development for experienced coaches) are generally sold out. Scientific approach Lori is a pioneer in integrating neuroscience into coach training. Consistent with her applied science degrees and experiences, Lori found it natural to apply neuroscience to the world of coaching and personal development.
As research was released, Lori immediately started using neuroscience to explain how and why coaching tools work. She has since become a leading figure teaching coaches globally to include neuroscience in their coaching and has equipped them with the skills and tools that they need to take their clients - especially those more analytical clients - on transformational journeys.
Nihar Chhaya is a Wharton and Columbia-trained corporate executive coach and keynote speaker with over 20 years of business experience and leadership development expertise. He has been a trusted coach to the C-suite and leaders at global companies including: American Airlines, 3M, Baker Hughes, Bridgestone, Cigna, Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprises, Dell, Eli Lilly, GameStop, GE, FedEx, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Pioneer Natural Resources, Raytheon, Royal Caribbean, Royal Dutch Shell, Target, and many others.
Nihar brings a high level of business credibility to his coaching, having personally held leadership roles in finance, sales and marketing at several global corporations. During his career, he co-founded the internal strategic planning group of Limited Brands (NYSE: LB) in the office of the CFO.
He also coached the CEO of several startups in South America on behalf of the Endeavor organization. Prior to starting his own practice, Nihar was the head of talent and executive development at Texas Instruments, a Fortune 200 company and spent many years as a senior advisor to boards and CEOs on executive assessment and development with Korn Ferry Hay Group and CEB Gartner.
What sets his coaching apart is Nihar’s ability to combine business acumen with curiosity and nonjudgmental observation to help his clients thrive.
The CIO of American Airlines said about his coaching: "Nihar has this uncanny ability to know what I want to say before I say it - and he articulates my own thoughts and feelings better than I can myself...I value him enormously and highly recommend him." He is most requested to advise highly successful leaders in achieving next level executive impact on business results, team engagement and strategic visioning, particularly during times of complex change.
In addition to coaching and speaking to global audiences, Nihar is a contributing writer on leadership to Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and has been featured in Fast Company, Deloitte University Press, Ladders and The Huffington Post.
He was selected to be part of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches (MG100) community of the world’s top coaches and holds the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credential from the International Coach Federation. Nihar also teaches a highly rated seminar on leadership to Executive MBA students at the Cox Business School at Southern Methodist University and lectures to the Georgetown University alumni community.
Moira Halliday is the Director of Programmes with the AoEC (Academy of Executive Coaching) where she is responsible for global programme design, quality assurance, faculty development and supervision.
As a member of faculty herself, she leads the team delivering the Advanced Practitioner Programme. Being a member of the AoEC team provides Moira with a range of opportunities to feed her passion for realising potential in people and organisations.
Moira is also committed to her own theoretical and experiential learning and development. For over 20 years prior to joining the AoEC Moira successfully combined organisational consultancy, executive coaching and psychotherapy in her own business.
Working with CEOs, senior managers, leaders and leadership teams she focused on developing effective leadership skills, organisational learning, managing change and enhancing personal effectiveness.
After graduating with honors in business management economics and psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, Jacob was excited to join the corporate world. At his first job he was told that he’d be traveling the country, meeting with executives and entrepreneurs, and doing all sorts of exciting work.
A few months in, he was stuck doing data entry, cold calling, and PowerPoint presentations. One day the CEO came out of his nice corner office, handed Jacob a $10 bill and said “I’m late for a meeting, go grab me a cup of coffee, and get something for yourself as well.” That was the last corporate job he ever had. Today, Jacob Morgan is a trained futurist and one of the world’s leading authorities on the leadership, employee experience, and the future of work.
He speaks in front of tens of thousands of people each year and his content is seen over a million times a year. Jacob is the best-selling author of four books: The Future Leader (2020), The Employee Experience Advantage (2017), The Future of Work (2014), and The Collaborative Organization (2012).
He speaks at over 50 conferences a year including TED Academy which is one of the largest TED events in the world. In addition Jacob provides advisory and thought leadership services to various organizations around the world.
He is the founder of The Future of Work University at FutureOfWorkUniversity.com, an online education and training platform that helps individuals and organizations thrive in the rapidly changing world of work. Courses explore topics such as employee experience, the future of work, and leadership skills. Jacob also created “The Future If,” a global community of business leaders, authors and futurists who explore what our future can look like IF certain technologies, ideas, approaches and trends actually happen.
The community looks at everything from AI and automation to leadership and management practices to augmented reality and virtual reality, the 4th industrial revolution and everything in between. His work has been endorsed by the CEOs of: Unilever, Cisco, Mastercard, Nestle, Best Buy, SAP, KPMG, T-Mobile, Schneider Electric, and many others. In addition, Jacob hosts The Future of Work Podcast, a weekly show where he speaks with senior executives, authors, and business leaders about how the world of work is changing. His Youtube channel explores the latest concepts and ideas around the future of work.
Madeleine is on the Board of Directors of The Ken Blanchard Companies and is a co-founder of Blanchard Coaching Services. She is a co-creator of the first ever Coaching Management System, Blanchard’s proprietary software designed to help deliver coaching on a large scale in organizations. Madeleine has 30 years of experience in the coaching profession and has a deep understanding of working with organizations to leverage professional coaching, teach coaching skills to leaders and create a coaching culture.
As a coach, her areas of expertise include personal purpose work, leadership presence and effectiveness, self-awareness and impact with others, and strategic focus. Madeleine is a coauthor of Blanchard’s programs Management Essentials and Coaching Essentials and speaks frequently on the topics of coaching and neuroscience.
Her Books: Leverage Your Best: Ditch the Rest; the Coaching Secrets Executives Depend On with co-author Scott Blanchard; William Morrow, 2004. Coaching in Organizations with Linda Miller; Wiley, 2008. Leading at a Higher Level, contributor, FT Press 2009 Coaching for Leadership, 3rd. Edition, contributor, Pfeiffer 2012 A pioneer in the coaching profession, Madeleine was a Senior Trainer and founding advisory board member of Coach University and a founding board member of The International Coach Federation where she served for 6 years.
Prior to joining The Ken Blanchard Companies, she founded a company, Straightline Coaching, which was devoted to the success and satisfaction of creative geniuses. She developed The Manager as Coach for The Ariel Group and spent two years with Bregman Partners as the director for a coaching program that rolled out to 2,100 individuals at Goldman Sachs.
She is a Certified Mentor Coach, a Certified Master coach and a graduate of Coach University. Madeleine received her bachelor’s degree in theater and performance studies from Georgetown University and holds a Master of Science degree in NeuroLeadership from the University of Middlesex.
Madeleine continues to pursue her deep interest in how the latest research in social neuroscience informs organization dynamics and leadership. She has been studying Shamanism for fifteen years and has a small healing practice.
She is a passionate cook and an ardent reader. She has raised four children and lives in Poway with her husband and their three labs. Madeleine’s advice column for well-intended managers; Ask Madeleine posts every Saturday on Blanchard’s Leaderchat.
Sanyin lives out her life’s mission to enable greatness in others as a mom, educator, leadership coach, board director, and author. She is the founding executive director of Duke University’s Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at the Fuqua School of Business and on faculty at its Pratt School of Engineering. The center is a leadership laboratory that develops all Duke’s Daytime MBAs, works across the University, hosts research conferences, and convenes think tanks across sectors and industries to understand the new requirements of leadership.
Sanyin prepares boards, CEOs and their teams for leading in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. In addition to students, she works with generals, Fortune 500 CEOs, and tech startup founders. She draws on deep expertise in leader development and culture building built on patterns of leadership across public, social, private sectors. As a coach and advisor, she works with CEOs and their successors, and conducts in-depth reviews of boards, the board-executive team relationships, and director dynamics to maximize board effectiveness. Sanyin is recognized as the world’s #1 coach by Thinkers50 (the Oscars of Management).
Her thought leadership has been featured in New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. An Influencer with more than 1 million LinkedIn followers, she was recognized on LinkedIn’s Top 20 Global Influencer Voices in 2017 and 2018. She has influenced audiences from The White House to Sports Owners Summits. She authored the award-winning best-seller The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, which inspires readers through stories and an action plan for leveraging change using behavioral science principles.
She currently serves on the boards of the Museum of Life & Science where she chairs its Governance & Nominating Committee and The Emily Krzyzewski Center. She serves as an advisor for GV (formerly Google Ventures). She is an advisory board member for the US Congressional Award (the highest award for youth legislated and presented by the United States Congress), Ripcord (NASA originated robotic digitization company), and Sports Innovation Lab, a sports tech startup co-founded by Olympian Angela Ruggiero.
Sanyin received her MBA and BSE from Duke University.
Carole founded executive coaching and leadership firm, Full Potential Group, over 20 years ago with the mission of transforming individuals, leadership and organisational culture. She believes most people can activate at least 30% more of their potential. She is passionate about well-being and performance, activating new potential in leaders, teams and organisations to make a greater difference in the world.
Carole has appeared on TV and radio and is author of 4 bestselling books: Transform Your Life, Your Pocket Life Coach, Full Potential Leadership and Full Potential Coach – Transforming People’s Potential into Results. She has touched the lives of over 250,000 people and worked with more than 300 organisations in the UK, USA, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. An award-winning speaker, highly-acclaimed coach and facilitator, she specialises in coaching leaders and executive teams, creating agile culture change, transformational leadership and purposeful teams.
Carole is also a Master Certified Practitioner in Neuro-agility and Motivational Maps. Her biggest learning journey was undoubtedly being diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in 2013. In hindsight, this was her greatest gift and a turning point. She thought: “I can’t die yet. I haven’t fulfilled all of my potential. I can’t go, I haven’t finished!” At the time, she was developing the idea of coaching head and heart potential, using neuroscience and motivational intelligence, but her own brain was compromised by chemo.
A key to her recovery was to more fully align her head, heart and gut: becoming more brain fit and neuro-agile, re-orienting her life and work around her motivational drivers, listening to her intuition and speaking her truth - no holds barred! Her message now is "You can’t afford to waste your life, every moment is precious, do the things that will make a real difference.
Stop wasting time dancing around the edges, speak your truth, fully embrace your future by being the very best version of yourself – always!”. "Don’t be fooled by appearances: Carole may look gentle, but she opens her mouth and pins her audience to the wall!" Vistage CEO Network. “ A fantastic hit. Provocative and educational, created a real buzz” Mercer Global Investment.
Described as "a brilliant visionary who is self-effacing and funny," Harvard Business School professor Laura Huang hardly exudes the cutthroat mien you might expect from her impressive credentials, which include degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, a PhD from UC Irvine, and a former faculty position at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
She was also named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants, and she was awarded a prestigious Kauffman Foundation Fellowship. That kind of surprise is one of the key points of her book Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, in which she presents her acclaimed research on interpersonal influence, and shows that all of us can turn hardships into advantages, if we do so with authenticity.
With a vision to empower leaders, teams, and organizations with the tools and the belief that they can own their edge despite constraints, obstacles, and barriers, Laura and her team work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and change makers in nearly every industry to help transform the way we make an impact in the world.
Jean-François Cousin became a global executive coach in 2006, in the wake of a career in management around the world with a Fortune-500 company.
By March ’20, he had clocked in 12,000 coaching-hours, served over 1,000 executives and dozens of executive teams, travelling to 35 countries / 5 continents to work with them.
Accredited as a ‘Master Certified Coach’ by the International Coach Federation, the highest distinction in the profession, Jean-François coaches CEOs, Region and Country Presidents and Board Members, most often on executive leadership development, on-boarding and role transition, organizational & cultural change management, strategic planning and cross-cultural leadership.
Jean-François also regularly facilitates or coaches executive teams, notably on trust and productive conflict, effective collaboration, staff engagement, organizational agility, strategy, cultural alignment and change management.
Jean-François works with executives from all types of industries and services.
Jean-François served as the Chairman of the Global Board of the International Coach Federation (‘ICF’) in 2019.
The ICF is the leading global organization dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high standards and providing independent certification. It counts close to 35,000 members and 151 local chapters in over 70 countries.
Jean-François’ first career was in management around the world with a Fortune-500 company, where he served in senior leadership positions in Asia and in Europe. In his final corporate assignment, he was in charge of the strategy for one of the 4 Divisions of Lafarge, where he helped to anchor solid internal and external growth for the €2bn business, and coached Country Presidents in 5 continents.
Jean-François is also a speaker and a published author. Marshall Goldsmith wrote about his latest book ‘Game Changers at the Circus: how leaders can unleash Greatness in organizations’: “[this] book is full of surprises – many counterintuitive ideas that can help leaders change even the most stagnant and inflexible organizations into thriving, dynamic performers.” Jean-François has co-authored several other books, and regularly writes columns for and offers interviews to the media.
Jean-François is recognized for his tenacious focus on securing meaningful shifts and results for his clients, for his ability to understand the environment and challenges of his coachees quickly (leveraging his previous experience in a variety of management roles), identify the ‘must-win battles’ with laser-like accuracy, and relentlessly support his clients to make a positive difference in what matters most. His sensitivity to cultural differences is an asset he developed throughout his international corporate career.
Jean-François leverages both the Western coaching approach and Asian wisdoms as he helps his clients unleash more of their personal greatness and enhance their leadership qualities. Jean-François coaches the whole of the client to sustainable outcomes.
As a result, his clients bring out their best and inspire others to bring out their best as well, both individually and in teams. As leaders work with Jean-François along the coaching process, their influence grows and they see engagement, collaboration and agility soaring within their teams, and beyond -as stakeholders become inspired, too.
As a Korean-American woman executive in Silicon Valley, Beatrice Kim has seen first-hand the power that a diverse and inclusive culture can bring to a company and the devastating consequences for companies without one.
As witness to this power along with her desire to educate, empower, and wake people up to their full potential, Bea co-founded Awaken, a leading provider of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion education programs that go beyond just "checking the box.”
When she isn't advising Awaken, Bea is living her life purpose by inspiring others to live big and unapologetically through her life coaching practice. She primarily serves founders, high potential leaders, and executives, but also helps larger companies like Google and PG&E.
Bea also pursues her passion in helping the next generation of women leaders as a group coach for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, facilitating deep conversation for the Women in Management program.
Bea is an angel investor and her portfolio includes startups in the financial, technology and media space. She has her bachelor's from Stanford University and coaching certification accredited through the International Coaching Federation. In her spare time, Bea loves watching detective TV shows and camping with her husband and two children.
Jonathan Reitz, MCC is Director of Training/CEO at CoachNet Global, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) in Cleveland, Ohio.
He took the shortest route into coaching, starting as a morning radio disc jockey and television news anchor. Jonathan holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential in the International Coaching Federation. "Coaching to develop people/leaders gets me up in the morning. Sometimes it keeps me awake at night," says Jonathan Reitz.
Jonathan Reitz is the author of "Coaching Hacks: Simple Strategies to Make Every Conversation More Effective" and is the primary architect of CoachNet's Integrated Coach Training process. CoachNet has trained coaches all over the world.
Jonathan is also a Managing Partner for the Harrison Assessment. His coaching has been featured on the World Business and Executive Coaches Summit (WBECS) and he teaches in the Weatherhead School of Management Coaching Program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His first career was in morning radio and television, where he interviewed two Presidents, artists such as Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks, plus other newsmakers.
Jonathan has started 7 businesses and not for profit organizations in his career, and leadership and entrepreneurism are foci for his coaching practice. In his spare time, Jonathan is an accomplished bass player and enjoys a semi-competitive round of golf. Because of his morning radio & television career, he spent more than 20 years getting up earlier than anyone you know. Jonathan Reitz lives near Cleveland, Ohio with his wife Joy and daughter Julia. He and Joy are huge Cleveland sports fans and enjoy nothing more than cheering for the beloved Cleveland Indians.
Tiffani Bova is the growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce. She is also the author of the Wall Street Journal and 800-CEO-READ bestselling book, GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business (Portfolio).
Tiffani recently became a member of the Thinkers50’s Radar Class of 2019. She was named ‘Thinker of the Month’ in December 2018. Tiffani has appeared on MSNBC and Yahoo Finance among others, and was featured in the January 2019 issue of Rotman Management Magazine's ‘Disruption’ Issue.
In addition to being a frequent guest on Wharton Business Radio and a variety of industry-leading podcasts, Tiffani has also contributed to publications, including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Huffington Post.
As host of What's Next! with Tiffani Bova (one of the top 100 business and marketing podcasts on iTunes and top sales podcast of 2018 and 2019 according to Top Sales Magazine), she has interviewed a number of high-profile guests, from Arianna Huffington and Tom Peters, to Dan Pink.
Tiffani is a top influencer in Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work, and Sales. She was recently recognized as all of the following:
Tiffani’s book, Growth IQ, was one of 800-CEO-READ's top 5 strategy and leadership books of 2018, and the #1 Salesforce, Dreamforce Bookstore seller in 2018.
Having delivered over 500 keynote presentations on sales transformation and business model innovation to over 400,000 people on six continents, Tiffani is a highly-sought-after keynote speaker.
Prior to working with Salesforce, Tiffani was a distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow at Gartner. She won the Thought Leadership Award, as well as earning accolades from the best leaders in the technology world for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill at inventing bold strategies for growth.
People Engineer and IBM’s Executive Leadership and Coaching Leader for IBM’s Enterprise Operations & Services, Jennifer Paylor is responsible for the coaching strategy, executive leadership development, culture transformation, and mentoring that serves IBM’s senior executives.
Jennifer leads the IBM Coaching Community of Practice, which has more than 5,000 team members worldwide. Jennifer has been invited as the keynote speaker for the annual CEB Executive Coaching & Leadership Conference, CEB Talent Management Conference, the US Navy Coaching Summit, and Jack and Jill of America to name a few.
Jennifer leverages her engineering background and human-centered approach to design science based leadership development solutions that address today’s business challenges. Jennifer is a certified executive business coach who provides executive coaching to internal and external senior executives and she served as an executive coach for the UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA Program.
Jennifer started her career at IBM in 1997 as a video game software developer for the IBM Personal Computing group. She spent ten years in IBM’s Retail Store Solution division as a manufacturing engineer in the IBM Global Supply Chain. Later, Jennifer moved to IBM’s Business Transformation Outsourcing unit as a consultant to support IBM’s external clients.
Jennifer built and led the Global Talent Development team in IBM Global Process Services Delivery before moving to IBM’s Corporate Headquarters to lead the IBM enterprise coaching strategy, executive leadership development programs, and more. Jennifer is the instructor for the NC 3rd COGIC Academy for Christian Leadership and Time Management course reaching 50 churches. Jennifer currently serves as the Vice Chair for the Upper Room COGIC Leadership Department.
She served as the Vice Chair for Recity Network, a nonprofit helping to rewrite the story for the thousands of disadvantaged youth in Durham, N.C., the Secretary/Treasurer for the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Raleigh Area Chapter, and Board President for the Institute of Behavioral Health in Raleigh, NC. Last but not least, Jennifer devotes time singing, writing, recording, and producing gospel music, developing Christian leaders in the local church, and helping widows in the community.
After serving in the US Navy and attending West Chester University, Peter worked for over two decades in various technical, management, and executive leadership roles in the I.T. and I.T. education fields.
During those years, his passion for understanding and unleashing human motivation and potential served him well as both a leader and an innovator. In 2001, his wife’s diagnosis with what would turn out to be terminal breast cancer, became a catalyst for realigning his profession with his passion and becoming a coach.
Today, Peter is one of the world’s leading pioneers in the science of neuro-axiology (brain science + value science), author of the definitive book on the science, "Answering the Central Question'' (2010), and co-founder of Axiogenics, LLC. His passion is the application of neuro-axiology to personal, leadership and organization development.
He and his partners are the developers of the VQ Profile® Assessment system and a pedagogy for transformation called Neuro-axiological Cognitive Remodeling (NCRT). Peter has been a coach and consultant to senior executives and other leaders within global organizations, non-profits, SMBs; and hundreds of entrepreneurs for nearly 20 years. He has trained and mentored coaches and therapists around the world in the science and applications of neuro-axiology, VQ Profiling, and NCRT.
He has been a featured or keynote speaker at international, national, and regional conferences ranging from coaching (ICF), HR, TD, OD, and industry-specific events. Peter lives near Philadelphia, PA, and when he's not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Pam, and their five kids, three grandkids, two dogs, three cats, eleven chickens, and about 100,000 honeybees. He also loves cooking, woodworking, gigging with his band, traveling, sailing, scuba diving, and chillin' out on an island beach.
Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Oleg is on the Thinkers50 Radar, has been recognized as #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360 and is #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50).
His work is characterized by pioneering research on organizations’ typology and has identified relevant properties, effective structures and roles of external organizational relationships, and advanced culture management through the enhancement of such metaphysical resources as trust, professionalism, creativity, accountability, teamwork, and shared vision.
Social forms and informal social relations are also within his area of expertise. He is the author of Corporate Superpower (2018), Organizational Anatomy (2016), Hidden Russia (2014), and Leaderology (2019). His research identifies entrepreneurs’ and managers’ strategic needs in the areas of corporate culture, leadership, and he uses corporate diagnostics, in order to enable them to drive their companies to success.
Oleg received his doctoral degree from the Durham University Business School. He is a visiting lecturer at a number of business schools, a Forbes contributor and high in demand speaker at major conferences around the world.
Betty-Ann Heggie, a widely recognized thought leader in gender dynamics is published in Harvard Business review, Inc. Magazine, Apple News, Huffington Post and The Good Men Project . An award-winning speaker, author and mentor, she is also a corporate director, philanthropist and a former Senior Vice-President with PotashCorp (now Nutrien), the world’s largest fertilizer supplier.
The author of “Gender Physics, Unlock the Energy You Never Knew You Had to Get the Results You Want”, she speaks regularly on how men and women can make progress together in the modern workplace. During her corporate career she was twice named the top investor relations person in Canada, once by her clients and once by her peers and was subsequently inducted into Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame.
An early adopter of sustainability she produced her company’s first report in 2002 and this issue, as well as those that followed, won national reporting awards.
In 2019 Betty-Ann was named a Distinguished Speaker by the Canadian Institute of Mining after being given the Trailblazer Award from Women in Mining Canada and recognized as one of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining. She was also inducted into the Saskatchewan Business Hall of Fame, given the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, the YWCA Lifetime Achievement Award, the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Mentorship Award and the Stevie Award for “Women Helping Women”.
Betty-Ann currently serves as a director for TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival) where she Chairs the Philanthropy Committee and has also been on the boards of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority, the Canadian Wheat Board, Allana Potash and MITACS. She was the founding chair of the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Her ground-breaking Womentorship program at her alma mater, the University of Saskatchewan, has had more than 2500 women participate in the program’s networking events, professional development and its annual women’s film festival. The program also developed and hosted a Canadian mentorship experience for women from Afghanistan. She and her husband Wade are very proud of their two highly spirited and independent adult daughters.
Jonathan Reitz, MCC is Director of Training/CEO at CoachNet Global, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) in Cleveland, Ohio.
He took the shortest route into coaching, starting as a morning radio disc jockey and television news anchor. Jonathan holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential in the International Coaching Federation. "Coaching to develop people/leaders gets me up in the morning. Sometimes it keeps me awake at night," says Jonathan Reitz.
Jonathan Reitz is the author of "Coaching Hacks: Simple Strategies to Make Every Conversation More Effective" and is the primary architect of CoachNet's Integrated Coach Training process. CoachNet has trained coaches all over the world.
Jonathan is also a Managing Partner for the Harrison Assessment. His coaching has been featured on the World Business and Executive Coaches Summit (WBECS) and he teaches in the Weatherhead School of Management Coaching Program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His first career was in morning radio and television, where he interviewed two Presidents, artists such as Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks, plus other newsmakers.
Jonathan has started 7 businesses and not for profit organizations in his career, and leadership and entrepreneurism are foci for his coaching practice. In his spare time, Jonathan is an accomplished bass player and enjoys a semi-competitive round of golf. Because of his morning radio & television career, he spent more than 20 years getting up earlier than anyone you know. Jonathan Reitz lives near Cleveland, Ohio with his wife Joy and daughter Julia. He and Joy are huge Cleveland sports fans and enjoy nothing more than cheering for the beloved Cleveland Indians.
With strong managerial experience as a former senior leader, and a recent academic post-graduate education, I help my clients thrive as successful leaders. I also assist leadership teams in their quest for high-performance. I am an executive coach, speaker and author.
I assist leaders, experts and managers deeply engaged and motivated by their development. They observe significant improvements in areas such as: strategic communications and influence, decision-making, strategic thinking, executive presence, team performance and earning trust. Actuary by trade, I worked as an actuarial consultant for close to ten years, before joining IT organizations, where I held leadership positions, notably as vice-president at CGI, General Manager at Aimia, as well as a member of the Aeroplan executive team.
I am a certified ACC of the International Coach Federation, as well as accredited by Team Coaching International. I hold a Master of Science degree in Management from HEC Montréal (2017) and a Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Mathematics from Concordia University (1990). I recently published a book (in French) on intuition in business and influence, leveraging the Scientific Master’s degree in Management (2017), and more specifically my thesis.
Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership and life that’s helped millions of leaders, employees, and professionals learn to uncover their natural state of resilience and innovation by simply ditching the drama.
Backed by 25 years of unparalleled experience, Wakeman has used her research to identify the key sources of drama or emotional waste that often prevent us from reaching our goals. Her revolutionary philosophy introduces tools, techniques, and good mental processes that can be used to recapture almost two hours per day of our precious time and energy.
Her Reality-Based Leadership philosophy has helped organizations like Google, Facebook, Viacom, Uber, NBC Universal, NASA , Johns Hopkins, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Bank of America, AMC Theatres and countless others learn to sharpen the focus on personal accountability and foster teams that are ready and willing to succeed, even in times of difficult circumstances and rapid change.
As a highly sought-after conference headliner, Cy Wakeman holds a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, placing her within the top 3% of speakers. She’s a regular contributor on Forbes.com, Success.com, The Huffington Post, and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global.
She’s been featured on the TODAY Show, the AskGaryVee Show with Gary Vaynerchuk, Cheddar TV, The New York Times, Business Insider, The Daily Muse, SHRM.com and many more. Voted in the top 100 leadership professionals to follow on twitter for 7 years in a row and named to The 2019 Most Inclusive HR Influencer List, Wakeman also came in at #2 on the Global Gurus 2020 List of top 30 Leadership Professionals around the world. Wakeman has published three books, the latest of which is No Ego: How to Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results (2017). Cy also hosts her own No Ego podcast, a Facebook Watch show, Life’s Messy, Live Happy, and adds weekly video content on YouTube to address leaders’ biggest challenges in the workplace.
As Executive Director for 7 Paths Forward, David is responsible for building an organization that supports the development of great coaches worldwide.This includes workshops, community development and helping organizations source great coaches.
As a pioneer in the coaching industry, he worked closely with Thomas Leonard and served as the first president of Coach U. During that time, he and Thomas founded the International Coach Federation.
He later went on to lead CoachInc.com through its expansion. He and Ruth Ann Harnisch co-founded the Foundation of Coaching which later became the Institute of Coaching at Harvard furthering the profession’s commitment to research. The Foundation provided journalism, community, research and resources to the profession.
As coaching spread around the globe he trained the first Japanese coaches working closely with Coach 21 and Coach A to help establish coaching in Japan. He is one of the first to attain the Master Certified Coach and Board-Certified Coach credentials.
As a coach for over 25 years, he primarily works with executives, professionals and entrepreneurs. Often known as the coaches “coach,” he has worked with many of the leaders in the industry.” Mr. Goldsmith is a graduate of Cornell University and is a member of the International Coach Federation. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Marie Motroni.
Carlo is responsible for the integrity of the business and the leaders who run our workplace and workshops. He has been a member of CTI’s faculty since 2013, leading both public and corporate programs. Carlo has worked as a program designer, coach, and lead faculty member on leadership development initiatives for international audiences, and spent the past 15 years in both line and leadership roles in mid- to large-sized leadership development companies in Canada and the United States. He has led a national practice of associate coaching faculty and has been responsible for faculty development in several organizations.
Sandra coaches individuals, pairs and teams. Her background includes 15 years of experience in large organizations with a variety of leadership and personal development roles. Her stance for this work is that while we are here, we might as well be conscious and intentional about who we are, what we do and how we live. Sandra also has a strong belief that life is meant to be a fun adventure and that just about everything is funny, given enough time. When not coaching or training, she loves rollerblading, hot yoga and cruising in a vintage speedboat with her husband and their beagles
Madeleine is on the Board of Directors of The Ken Blanchard Companies and is a co-founder of Blanchard Coaching Services. She is a co-creator of the first ever Coaching Management System, Blanchard’s proprietary software designed to help deliver coaching on a large scale in organizations. Madeleine has 30 years of experience in the coaching profession and has a deep understanding of working with organizations to leverage professional coaching, teach coaching skills to leaders and create a coaching culture.
As a coach, her areas of expertise include personal purpose work, leadership presence and effectiveness, self-awareness and impact with others, and strategic focus. Madeleine is a coauthor of Blanchard’s programs Management Essentials and Coaching Essentials and speaks frequently on the topics of coaching and neuroscience.
Her Books: Leverage Your Best: Ditch the Rest; the Coaching Secrets Executives Depend On with co-author Scott Blanchard; William Morrow, 2004. Coaching in Organizations with Linda Miller; Wiley, 2008. Leading at a Higher Level, contributor, FT Press 2009 Coaching for Leadership, 3rd. Edition, contributor, Pfeiffer 2012 A pioneer in the coaching profession, Madeleine was a Senior Trainer and founding advisory board member of Coach University and a founding board member of The International Coach Federation where she served for 6 years.
Prior to joining The Ken Blanchard Companies, she founded a company, Straightline Coaching, which was devoted to the success and satisfaction of creative geniuses. She developed The Manager as Coach for The Ariel Group and spent two years with Bregman Partners as the director for a coaching program that rolled out to 2,100 individuals at Goldman Sachs.
She is a Certified Mentor Coach, a Certified Master coach and a graduate of Coach University. Madeleine received her bachelor’s degree in theater and performance studies from Georgetown University and holds a Master of Science degree in NeuroLeadership from the University of Middlesex.
Madeleine continues to pursue her deep interest in how the latest research in social neuroscience informs organization dynamics and leadership. She has been studying Shamanism for fifteen years and has a small healing practice.
She is a passionate cook and an ardent reader. She has raised four children and lives in Poway with her husband and their three labs. Madeleine’s advice column for well-intended managers; Ask Madeleine posts every Saturday on Blanchard’s Leaderchat.
With a passion to turn every leader into a servant leader, Ken Blanchard shares his insightful and powerful message with audiences around the world through speeches, consulting services, and bestselling books. Universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most influential and compassionate leadership experts in the world, Ken is respected for his lifetime of groundbreaking research and thought leadership. In fact, few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard.
When Ken speaks, he speaks from the heart with warmth and humor. No matter how large the audience, he is able to communicate with each person as if the two of them were alone and talking one on one. Ken is a sophisticated storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand.
Ken’s impact as an author is far reaching. His iconic 1982 classic, The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold more than 15 million copies. Updated in 2015 as The New One Minute Manager®, the book remains on bestseller lists today. In all, he has coauthored more than 65 books—including Raving Fans, The Secret, Servant Leadership in Action, and Leading at a Higher Level, to name just a few—whose combined sales total more than 23 million copies in 47 languages. In 2005, Ken was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.
Ken is cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a globally recognized leadership training and consulting firm in San Diego, California. He also cofounded Lead Like Jesus, a worldwide organization committed to helping people become servant leaders.
Ken has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions in the fields of management, leadership, and speaking. The National Speakers Association awarded him its highest honor, the Council of Peers Award of Excellence. He was inducted into the HRD Hall of Fame by Training magazine and he received the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. Ken was also awarded the Thought Leadership Award from ISA–the Association of Learning Providers.
In addition to being a renowned speaker and consultant, Ken is trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Cornell University. He also teaches students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego.
Born in New Jersey and raised in New York, Ken received his master’s degree from Colgate University and his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees from Cornell University.
Dr. Marcia Reynolds, president of Covisioning LLC, is fascinated by the brain, especially what triggers feelings of connection, commitment, and possibility.
She has trained and coached leaders in 41 countries, and has presented at the Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell University, as well as universities in Europe and Asia.
Dr. Reynolds is a pioneer in the coaching profession. She was the 5th global president of the International Coach Federation. Currently, she is the training director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute in North Carolina. She is also on faculty coaching schools in Russia, The Philippines, and China. Outside of the schools, she teaches Leader as Coach classes to organizations around the world and consults with them to build coaching cultures.
She is recognized by Global Gurus as the #5 coach in the world. In addition to teaching and consulting, Marcia coaches executives globally. Many of her clients are leaders in healthcare and technical companies. She has coached executives and high potentials in energy, computer software and hardware, banking, pharmaceuticals, retail, construction, water (city and state agencies), real estate, federal agencies, and equipment manufacturers.
Marcia has been a student and researcher of how humans learn since earning her second master’s degree in adult education. She became fascinated with emotional intelligence and designed a training program that integrates emotional choice with leadership presence, communications effectiveness, and resiliency. She has taught her programs for agencies of the National Institutes of Health and multinational corporations around the world. Marcia earned her doctoral degree in organizational psychology in 2008.
Before launching her own business, her greatest success came from designing the employee development program for a global semiconductor company facing bankruptcy. Within three years, the company turned around and became the #1 stock market success in 1993.
Interviews and excerpts from her books Outsmart Your Brain, How to Manage Your Mind When Emotions Take the Wheel; Wander Woman: How High Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction and The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs have appeared in many places including Harvard Communications Newsletter, Leadership Excellence Essential - HR.com, Fast Company, Forbes.com, CNN.com, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has appeared in business magazines in Europe, Asia and on ABC World News. Her latest book Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry, will be released in June, 2020.
Lori Shook is a pioneer in the coaching world: she jumped into the budding field of coaching in the mid-1990s, earned the designation of Master Certified Coach by 2001 and has been coaching leaders and training coaches for over 20 years.
Lori was a driving force for the expansion of coaching around the world as she helped spread coaching across North America then into EMEA and also into corporations. She significantly contributed to the creation of quality scalable programs and training excellence for three different coach training schools: The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), Performance Consultants International (PCI) and CRR Global - the provider of ORSC™ systems coaching.
She has also served as the Director of Training at CoachWise in Poland. She has worked closely with pioneers in the coaching world: Laura Withworth, Tim Gallwey and Sir John Whitmore. Design and delivery master.
While her design abilities are highly appreciated, Lori’s talent for training coaches is even more highly prized: she combines a pragmatic approach to personal development with deep knowledge of coaching skills and neuroscience.This depth of understanding, along with her sense of lightness and ease, enables her to provide coaches uplifting, fun and transformative experiences.
Lori helps coaches understand the connections between the brain, human behaviour and coaching tools. This equips them to provide transformational coaching experiences with more confidence and authority, particularly with more analytical clients. Lori is also passionate about developing other coaches, new and experienced, supporting them to do their own work and stay committed to the transformative aspect of coaching.
She’s a strong believer that as coaches, we need to keep ourselves fresh and awake so that we can serve our clients well. She has been an important participant in several coaching communities; her London based Topups (personal development for experienced coaches) are generally sold out. Scientific approach Lori is a pioneer in integrating neuroscience into coach training. Consistent with her applied science degrees and experiences, Lori found it natural to apply neuroscience to the world of coaching and personal development.
As research was released, Lori immediately started using neuroscience to explain how and why coaching tools work. She has since become a leading figure teaching coaches globally to include neuroscience in their coaching and has equipped them with the skills and tools that they need to take their clients - especially those more analytical clients - on transformational journeys.
Marilyn Atkinson, founder of Erickson Coaching International and originator of the Solution-Focused and Outcome-Oriented Coaching model, actively contributed to the emergence and expansion of Solution-Focused Psychology, NLP, and the development of Meta Program Analysis for effective hiring and managerial approaches worldwide. As an Industrial Psychologist she honed solution-focused methods for multiple kinds of corporate engagements, making the tools effective and easy for managers to use.
She was a dedicated follower of Milton Erickson for years and gave his name to Erickson Coaching International. She also had the privilege to work directly with Fritz Perls, creator of Gestalt psychology. For the past ten years she has been developing highly effective and specialized programs (ICF ACTP The Art and Science of Coaching) that have been taught in 33 countries.
A former Registered Organizational Psychologist, Marilyn is an NLP Master Trainer and specialist in Ericksonian Communications. She began developing formal coach training programs in the mid 1990s. Since then she has been helping leading global companies and leaders through Solution-Focused and Outcome-Oriented Coaching methodologies.
Marilyn has written and co-authored nine books, including “The Art & Science of Coaching” Trilogy (Inner Dynamics of Coaching, Step-by-Step Coaching & The Flow of Coaching).
Hal Gregersen, PhD, is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, and a renowned expert on leadership, innovation and creative culture — dedicating his career to helping companies stay ahead in an accelerating world by teaching them how to implement a culture of inquiry and transform themselves into innovative powerhouses.
Gregersen created a repeatable three-step methodology, the Question Burst, by which companies can build better problem solvers and enhance creative impact at all levels. The crux of Gregersen’s argument is spelled out in his Nautilus award-winning book (based on 200+ interviews with catalytic questioners like Elon Musk and Orit Gadiesh),“Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life” (Harper Collins, 2018). While people are programmed to look for answers, the real catalyst for disruptive change is questioning. Gregersen argues that leaders can deliberately overhaul and transform cultures to habitually produce pioneering breakthroughs. His Question Burst method, along with other habits of productive inquiry, have helped redesign company cultures at Chanel, Daimler, Danone, Disney·Pixar, Fidelity, Genentech, Patagonia, Salesforce, and the World Economic Forum, among others.
Gregersen also co-authored, with Clay Christensen and Jeff Dyer, “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019), a guide to cultivating the discovery skills that CEOs and entrepreneurs rely on to build the most innovative companies in the world. Having interviewed 100+ ground-breaking leaders at the world’s most innovative companies, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Gregersen draws on rigorous research (based on a database of +15,000 leaders) to successfully advise the world’s largest corporations on transformation challenges.
Ranked as one of the world’s 20 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Gregersen regularly delivers thought-provoking, interactive keynotes and workshops and transformational coaching experiences. Along with ten books, Gregersen is the author of over fifty articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change (with over 10,000 citations by other scholars). His research has been highlighted in media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2020, Gregersen was named a Top 30 Global Guru.
Gregersen’s work at MIT culminates an academic journey that has included teaching at INSEAD, London Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Finland. In addition to his academic career, Gregersen was an advisory board member at Pharmascience, a Montreal-based pharmaceutical company, and remains a senior fellow at Innosight. Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.
Kevin Kruse is founder and CEO of LEADx, with a mission to spark the next 100 million leaders through the use of AI-powered coaching.
Kevin is also a New York Times bestselling author of nine books including Great Leaders Have No Rules, Employee Engagement 2.0, and 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management.
Prior to LEADx, Kevin was an executive coach and speaker for ten years working with CEOs, Marine Corps officers, startup entrepreneurs, and members of Congress.
Dr. André Vermeulen is the founding member and CEO of Neuro-Link, a boutique consultancy specializing in the neuroscience of performance optimization. He is also a part time lecturer and member of the Neuroscience Research Group of the University of Pretoria, where his function is to translate neuroscience into tools that people, coaches and business can use to drive results.
André is a thought leader in the field of neuro-agility - the brain-based elements that impact the ease, speed and flexibility with which people learn, think and process information. As a business innovator, André has developed and patented various Neuro Agility Profile™ assessments and applied neuroscience learning solutions that are used by thousands of people in education, business and sports across the globe.
He has published more than 43 leading articles on the development implications of the brain and mental health. As an internationally recognized thought leader, Dr. André Vermeulen brings more than 27 years of experience helping people and organizations ground their people development practices into neuroscience and develop agile people and organizations. He has frequently contributed on numerous prestigious platforms like TEDx and ATD ICE since 2000. André is a sought-after speaker frequently voted "best of the conference", known to engage, educate and entertain. He is a regular guest on many radio and television talk shows around the globe and hosts his own television program called "Mind Matters"
Born in South Africa, Marita was on the forefront of activism groups protesting apartheid. She received degrees in Social Work and Medical Social Work from the University of Stellenbosch.
She joined the Faculty of the University of Cape Town School of Social Work after completing her training in Psychiatric Social Work at Cape Town University. During this time she became a specialist in Family Systems Therapy and had extensive practice as a Family Systems Therapist in Cape town. After leaving South Africa Marita became a world citizen, lived and consulted in England, the British and American West Indies, and Puerto Rico before finally settling in America.
Marita extended her academic and professional expertise in the United States with qualifications in Process Work, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Coaching and Team Coaching. It was from this rich mix of professional training and expertise that the ICF accredited Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) was evolved.
Currently she is a consultant to several large organizations and mentor to a large number of practitioners in the field of Team Coaching. In addition, she designs curriculum and operates training programs for coaches, executives and teams.
One of the current foci for Marita and the CRR Global team is on how to equip Agilists with the necessary tools and skills using Relationship Systems Work to put people over process in the global field of Agile.
One of the principles of RSI is that 'systems are in a constant state of Emergence'. The current and recent pandemic of the corona virus is a primary example of that constant state of emergence that when the signals were not heeded, turned into an emergency! Within the body of ORSC and Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI) lies the tools and skills with which coaches and change agents can step up to create FROM this emergence rather than react TO it. This is the current charge that she is leading in the world of team and systems coaching.
Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D PCC is an industry-recognized expert in the design and management of worldwide executive coaching implementations, and a prominent author and speaker.
He is the Founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world’s largest executive coaching firm, with over 1,100 coaches in 100+ countries. Brian is the co-author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Barrett Koehler, 2007), and Mastering Executive Coaching (Routledge, 2019). Brian previously spent 10 years managing executive coaching operations for Marshall Goldsmith.
Brian is an internationally sought-after speaker, with past presentations at many conferences around the world, including WBECS, International Coach Federation, European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches, Society for Consulting Psychology, Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, The Conference Board, and more. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from CSPP/Alliant University and an undergraduate psychology degree from USC.
He also has a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. In addition, Brian holds Advanced Certification in the Goldsmith Coaching Process. Brian's executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior. He has also helped pioneer the use of "mini-surveys"—a unique measurement tool to help impact behavioral change over time.
Some of his clients include Dell, Microsoft, Genentech and the State of California. Brian lives in Silicon Valley, California where he is an avid racquetball player, husband, worship leader, and father to two active teenagers.
J'Aimee A. Mission, Ph.D. is a Research, Account Service, and Client Operations Manager for CoachSource, the world’s largest executive coaching firm. In this role, she partners with HR leaders and executives for the day-to-day strategic management of over 50 accounts, comprising start-up to Fortune 500 Companies with global reach.
She also oversees research projects, manages individual coaching engagements, and creates and/or streamlines coaching programs with her clients. J'Aimee has a combination of consulting and client service experience from her prior work at The Spur Group, a business management consulting firm serving the technology industry.
She also gained consulting and reporting experience at Ergometrics & Applied Personnel Research, Inc., an assessment and selection firm specializing in the public safety sector. She also has training and development experience, with an emphasis on addressing the needs of growing small, privately-owned businesses.
Her work is in service to those ultimately impacted by the decisions, products, and services that are influenced by the leaders whose development she has the privilege of supporting. She highly values and stands in her partnership with people to ensure their shared success.
J'Aimee is an experienced Industrial/Organizational Psychology professional, with a research interest in the area of women and leadership. She earned her MA and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Seattle Pacific University, and also holds a BA in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach.
J’Aimee currently resides in Southern California, where she enjoys time with her family and her dogs. She is a strong proponent of living a healthy and active lifestyle so that you are your best self in all important aspects of your life.
Alisa Cohn was named the #1 Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards. She was also named a top 30 Global Guru for startups in February 2020, and Inc Magazine named her one of their top 100 leadership speakers. Cohn was selected as one of the top coaches by Marshall Goldsmith in his 100 Coaches project.
A one time startup CFO as well as a strategy consultant at The Monitor Group and PwC, Cohn has been coaching CEOs, other executives and board directors for almost 20 years at companies including Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Google, Bloomberg LLP, Kaiser Permanente, Sony Music, UBS, Citi, Fidelity, PwC, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, and IBM.
She has also coached founders and C-suite executives at Etsy, Foursquare, Venmo, Tory Burch, Mack Weldon and The Wirecutter (acquired by the New York Times.) Cohn writes for Inc, Forbes, HBR and Worth.
In addition to startups, her areas of specialty include: Executive presence; Power, influence & charisma; Decision-making; Corporate politics; Personal mastery. Cohn is a member of the Cornell Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.
She is on the faculty of the “Runway” program at Cornell Tech – an accelerator which focuses on helping post-docs commercialize their research and build companies. She is also an angel investor and serves on the Advisory Board of two startups.
Cohn has taught and developed workshops at the graduate level at Harvard and Cornell Universities and the Naval War College’s accelerated leadership program.
She has also coached public figures and political leaders from around the world, including the first female Parliament Minister in Afghanistan and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
Cohn – a recovering CPA – holds an MBA from Cornell University and earned her BS from Boston University. She has attended Directors’ College at Stanford Law School.
Cohn is also an investor in theatrical productions and is delighted that one of her shows won two Tony Awards.
Magdalena N. Mook is the Executive Director and CEO of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She joined ICF in 2005 and has supported ICF with extensive experience in fundraising, development, consulting and association management.
Previously, Magdalena worked as Assistant Director of National Policy and Director of Development with the Council of State Governments (CSG). Prior to CSG, she served as program manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
Magdalena’s formal education includes an M.S. in Economics and International Trade from the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland and completion of the Copenhagen Business School’s Advanced Program in International Management and Consulting. She is also a trained coach through the College of Executive Coaching, and she holds a certificate in the Fundamentals of Systemic Coaching.
Dr. Riza Kadilar is the president of European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has a PhD in Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris and an executive management course at INSEAD. His professional career includes senior level bank management experience in France, UK, Netherlands and Turkey. During his 25 years of banking career he delivered numerous motivational speeches in more than 30 countries, and was a visiting professor at leading universities. He is also chairman of China Institute Turkey, scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (Paris), and board member at Hisar Education Foundation (Istanbul), and the author of five published books on various topics including China, carbon markets, mentoring, coaching and facilitation.
Margaret Moore, MBA (aka Coach Meg) is a 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France. She served in executive roles at three companies which later joined Sanofi, and served as CEO and COO of two biotech companies. In 2000, Margaret shifted from high tech medicine to coaching in healthcare and wellness, and founded Wellcoaches Corporation - strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine, now a standard-bearer for professional coaches in healthcare and wellness. The Wellcoaches School of Coaching has trained more than 10,000 health professionals as coaches in 45 countries.
Margaret is co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and a course director of the annual Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference organized by the Institute of Coaching and delivered by Harvard Medical School. She is a faculty member of Harvard University Extension School, teaching the Science of Coaching Psychology. She is a co-founder and executive board member of the National Consortium for Credentialing Health & Wellness Coaches and led the formation of a strategic partnership with the National Board of Medical Examiners to deliver national standards and certification of health and wellness coaches.
Andrew Neitlich is the Founder and Director of the Center for Executive Coaching, a leading ICF-accredited global coach training firm and ACTP for professionals wanting the best practices in executive and leadership coaching.
He also leads his own coaching practice, with an emphasis on dynamic leaders in growing companies, especially in technology, healthcare, and professional services. He developed the Coach Master Toolkit, a set of tools, methods, and processes to help leaders and their teams be more effective, and which is used by coaches in 32 countries.
Andrew is also the author of the books Coach!, Guerrilla Marketing for Coaches, and Elegant Leadership. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School, and lives in Sarasota Florida with his family.
As an experienced speaker, Dr. Heidi Hanna has been featured at many national and global conferences, including the Fortune Magazine Most Powerful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Women’s Leadership Summit, and the Million Dollar Round Table.
She is founder and Chief Energy Officer of SYNERGY Brain Fitness, a consulting company providing brain-based health and performance programs for organizations, a Founding Partner of The Academy for Brain Health and Performance, and a Fellow with the American Institute of Stress.
She is also a National Board Member for The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor and a Certified Humor Professional, although she won’t admit she’s funny. Dr. Hanna is currently completing her second PhD at Pepperdine University in Global Leadership and Change, researching integrative neuroscience applications for organizational resilience. She also teaches a course through Harvard on Brain Health and Performance.
Dr. Hanna recently created the Virtual First Responder™ Initiative to provide virtual health and performance solutions for organizations. Dr. Hanna’s publications include the NY Times bestseller The SHARP Solution: A Brain-Based Approach for Optimal Performance (Wiley, Feb 2013), Stressaholic: 5 Steps to Transform Your Relationship With Stress (Wiley, Jan 2014) Recharge: 5 Shifts to Energize Your Life (Synergy, 2015), and What’s So Funny About Stress (Synergy, 2019) Dr. Hanna holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Penn State University, where she competed on the Big 10 softball team and received academic All-American honors.
She holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling and a Ph.D. degree in holistic nutrition. Clients have included Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Boeing, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Principal Insurance, Ameriprise, Invesco, ESPN and Starbucks, the NFL and PGA Tour as well as professional and amateur athletes.
Marialexia Margariti holds a BA degree in Psychology from the American College of Greece (DEREE) and has completed two Master’s degrees in Applied Occupational Psychology (M.Sc., University of Wales, College of Cardiff) and in Integrative Humanistic Counselling & Psychotherapy (M.A., Middlesex University).
She is working as a certified corporate coach (PCC, International Coach Federation) and a supervisor having studied with Coach U Inc., with Solution Surfers (CH) on the Solution Focus’ philosophy and coaching model and with Academy of Executive Coaching on Systemic & Gestalt coaching methodologies.
Marialexia works with corporate organisations on leadership development matters of their senior executives using individual and team coaching interventions. She is also supervising coaching trainees and new to the profession practitioners. In her private therapy and counselling practice, Marialexia provides individual and group psychotherapy to adults on a wide range of life issues.
One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are changing how companies approach innovation, collaboration, and productivity. As a skilled researcher and inspiring communicator, Burkus’ award-winning books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times.
By making cutting-edge organizational research accessible and applicable, Burkus pushes audiences to reconsider how they work both individually and in teams and unlocks the methods top performers use to thrive at work and in life.
A renowned expert, Burkus’ writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, and more. He’s been interviewed by NPR, the BBC, CNN, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50.
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience.
She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. (The Happiness Project spent two years on the bestseller list.)
On her top-ranking, award-winning podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” she discusses happiness and good habits with her sister Elizabeth Craft. She is also a CBS News Contributor. Every Monday on CBS This Morning, the final “Before We Go” segment features her solutions and tips for living a happier, healthier, more productive life.
She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work written up in a medical journal, and been an answer on the game show Jeopardy!
In her work, she draws from cutting-edge science, the wisdom of the ages, lessons from popular culture, and her own experiences to explore how we can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.
Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
Ruth Wageman is one of the foremost scholars studying and working with teams, especially leadership teams. Ruth’s research, teaching, and practice are focused on the conditions that influence superb team performance. Ruth especially focuses on teams whose purpose is to solve complex problems and lead system transformation.
She builds collaborative leadership capacity within and across organizations, especially with multi-sector leadership teams working to transform health and society. Ruth has been a professor at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Harvard, where she has led many original research programs. Ruth wrote “Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great,” (HBS Press) with Deb Nunes, Jim Burruss, and Richard Hackman, as well as many seminal peer-reviewed articles.
Ruth designed the Team Diagnostic Survey with Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman. TDS is a powerful, well-validated assessment that measures how well the six conditions that drive effectiveness are established for a team; she also leads accreditation workshops and teaches team development professionals how to use the instrument in their practice.
Dr. Taryn Marie is uniquely focused on enhancing resilience in leadership and in life, to allow people to bring out the best of themselves each day. She is the author of “Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People”, which is expected to be released as a book in 2020. She is the former Head of Executive Leadership Development at Nike, Global Leadership Development at Cigna, and founded her own company, Resilience Leadership, where she serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), where the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People serves as the foundation for executive coaching, top team effectiveness, high potential leadership program and workshops, and inspirational keynote addresses.
She is also a co-founder of Resilience Element 75 (RE75), focused on making resilience accessible to the world through film and wearable technology as well as a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Elevated Science, a newly founded AI communication platform focused on bringing hope and healing to the planet through sharing information and empirical research on widely-used plant-based and alternative medicines that have been less well known, if not misunderstood.
Her research and thought leadership have been showcased in publications such as Thrive Global, Women’s Daily Magazine, Elucid, Medium, on television broadcasts, such as NBC, as well as platforms inclusive of Happify, eMindful, and Powerful Universe. Dr. Taryn will be featured in the upcoming documentary, Breaking Free, focused on living a resilient life, also scheduled for release in 2020, and is a sought-after agent-represented international inspirational keynote speaker.
Dr. Stejskal received an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan along with a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Virginia Commonwealth Medical University focused on the assessment and treatment of neurological injury, funded by the prestigious grant from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for investigation of the systemic impact of brain and spinal cord injury on both the patient and his or her significant family members and relationships.
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