Executive Panel: Taking It Deeper: The "Art and Science of Credible Executive Coaching"

Friday, November 5, 2004
11:00 am–1:30 pm
Room 301 AB

This group proposes to encourage the ICF executive coaching community to see this dialog as an annual ICF Executive Coaching Track event. Towards this end, the session will aim at recruiting the next panel team, themes and offer everyone a "call to action." This call is aimed at holding further learning, credibility and excellence in the highest regard. Additionally, we expect newer EC coaches to feel mentored and more seasoned EC coaches to step up to a mentoring role.

Bill Bergquist's handout, Bob Johnson's handout, Mary Beth O'Neill's handout, Dr. Jeannine Sandstrom's handout, Val Williams's handout, and Joan Wright's handout (These are PDF files)

BILL BERGQUIST has served as president of The Professional School of Psychology and as a consultant, coach and trainer of consultants and coaches throughout the world for more than 30 years. He is the author of 36 books concerned with personal, organizational and societal transitions.

BOB JOHNSON has been coaching CEOs and senior executives since 1983. Bob is the founder of Leader Search Inc., a Calgary based group of leadership coaches and search professionals. Bob's professional philosophy is that "there is a right person for every corporate culture and a right corporate culture for every person. Sadly, most people go their entire career without ever finding that right place."

MARY BETH O'NEILL is a leadership consultant, executive coach, and author. She has worked with executives and their teams for 19 years. Her specialty is live team coaching, to achieve clearly defined business results. She is the leader of the Executive coaching training Seminars. Her book, Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, is one of Amazon.com's best-selling executive coaching books.

DR. JEANNINE SANDSTROM, MCC. As CEO of CoachWorks® International, Dr. Sandstrom has been a business owner and international leader coach since 1979. She provides strategic, long-term developmental coaching to professionals and management teams experiencing major change opportunities. In addition to individually coaching clients and teams and facilitating seminars and large-scale change efforts, she is co-author of numerous leadership and coaching books, articles and tapes. Her broad industry and cultural diversification allows her to coach effectively in virtually every area of business challenge facing individuals and organizations in our rapidly changing global economy.

VAL WILLIAMS, MCC, has been an Executive Coach for the past 8 years, specializing in coaching senior corporate executives and their teams on leadership skills, strategic planning, and people development. Her experience includes several years as a Managed Health Care Executive at Prudential Insurance, managing staffs as large as 700 people. Val was Executive Director of Prucare, the HMO of Northern New Jersey; Director of Prucare Customer Service Operations for the Northeast Region; and Director of Group Underwriting, Val has also authored several executive coaching books and audiotapes including Get The Best Out Of Your People and Yourself.

KLAUS ZEPUNTKE, an independent executive and corporate coach, project manager and trainer with international experience in a variety of industries including: banking, energy services, manufacturing, communications and health care. Klaus is an ICF-member and MBTI licensed.

JOAN WRIGHT, MCC (Moderator), is President of O'Sullivan Wright Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Talent Management Strategies. Her business helps companies achieve targeted business results by attracting, developing and retaining key leadership talent. Joan has 11 years of executive coaching experience with Fortune 100 companies and city government. Prior to starting her own company, she held Human Resources leadership roles with Philip Morris, Citicorp, GE Capital and most recently at Wachovia where she was head of executive leadership development.