Candidates Announced for Global 2010 Board of Directors

Candidates Announced for Global 2010 Board of Directors
Talented group of individuals on track for ICF leadership

Six candidates from four countries have been selected by the ICF Nominating Committee to fill the open president-elect and directors positions on the global ICF Board of Directors. They include:

• President-Elect: Ed Modell, PCC (USA)
• Directors At Large (Terms Expiring 2012): John Annesley, PCC (Australia); Philip Brew, MCC (UK); Damian Goldvarg, PCC (Argentina/USA); Neil Scotton, ACC (UK); and Cheryl Vermey, ACC (USA).

John Annesley, PCC (Australia)
John Annesley, PCC, is a Leadership Development and Performance Management Coach. He specialises in providing coaching services to private and public sector executives, leaders and their teams in areas such as building and enhancing leadership capability/performance, team development and performance management, managing organisational change/transition and strategic thinking and influencing. In addition, Annesley also provides Personal Coaching to individuals on issues such as work/life balance, relationship building and retirement lifestyle planning.

Currently as the Principal Manager (Coaching) for Queensland's Department of Transport & Main Roads, he leads the development and implementation of an internal coaching strategy across the Department workforce of 10,000 plus personnel. Prior to joining the Department, he was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inspyr Pty Ltd, a successful Leadership/Performance Management Coaching company and the founder/CEO of Australian Training Development Services Pty Ltd. Previously he has held senior management positions across Commonwealth (Policing) and State (Education and Agriculture) government agencies where his functional roles were focused on driving leadership development and organisational change management projects.

Annesley holds a B.Ed, Dip.Ag.Sci and Dip.Tech.Teaching and has completed numerous vocational certificate programs covering coaching, quality management and assurance, workplace training/assessment. Currently he is completing a Master of Business Coaching.

Annesley is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a member of their global Board of Directors and Finance Committee and currently Chairs the ICF's Internal Coaching Task Force.  He is also a certified NLP Practitioner, Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Certified Professional with the Australian Human Resource Institute and a specialist corporate negotiation and influencing strategist and coach with ENS International.

Philip Brew, MCC (UK)
Philip Brew, MCC, has more than 25 years experience in professional and personal development and over 3,000 client hours as a professional coach.

With a background in personal change and person-centred psychotherapy, since 1997, he has worked solely as an Executive and Personal Coach, working with individuals and teams to help liberate their full potential. Based in London (though originally from New Zealand), his clients include CEOs, directors and senior management teams in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America.

Brew's particular gift lies in his ability to co-create coaching partnerships in which transformational change becomes both simple and natural. Authentic, perceptive and insightful, he generates strong mutual trust and openness with his clients. He is comfortable and effective in working at depth, promoting clarity and alignment and resolving conflict, stress and limiting beliefs so that desired change becomes inevitable. Warm, clear and honest, he has a talent for clarifying complexity, and for pinpointing the core of an issue, which accelerates insight and movement towards goals.

Brew is passionate about contributing to excellence and professionalism in coaching. He trains exceptional coaches through a comprehensive, in-depth, internationally accredited Coach Training Programme (see www.coachingdevelopment.com) and is a qualified and experienced supervisor and mentor of professional coaches. A past Co-President of the UK ICF, he currently serves on the global Board of the International Coach Federation.

Damian Goldvarg, PCC (Argentina/USA)
Damian Goldvarg, PCC, has more than fifteen years of experience as an Executive Coach working with individuals and organizations in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has expertise on issues of cultural competence and in the development of minority executives in the US. His focus is on leadership development including: executive assessment and coaching, talent management, performance feedback and leadership training.

Currently, Goldvarg is a member of the global ICF Conference Education Steering Committee for the 2009 ICF Conference in Orlando, a volunteer assessor for the ICF, and the Director for Programs for the ICF Los Angeles Chapter. He collaborates for the ICF SIG for Spanish speaking coachers and works as a Mentor Coach for OlaCoach, a coaching school in Spain.

Goldvarg has a business and mental health background and other areas of his expertise are: Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Behavioral Interviewing, Team Building, and Time Management. He participates actively in different community boards and in 1997 he was recognized with the Daniel Lara award for Community Involvement. He has presented lectures and posters at National and International Conferences.

Originally from Argentina, Goldvarg has extensive experience working with people from different cultures and social backgrounds. He offers services in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has worked for multinational companies as well as for community grass roots organizations. He is committed to enhance the quality of people's lives and the organizations where they spend their lives, through coaching, education, and empowerment.

Ed Modell, PCC (USA)
Ed Modell, PCC, is a certified Executive and Life Coach specializing in working with government, small business and non-profit executives and professional service providers, including attorneys and accountants. He is a Past President of the Metro DC Chapter of ICF and a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute's certification program. Modell was Chair of the global ICF Regulatory Committee for two years and was a co-founder of the Conflict Coaching SIG. 

Modell also serves as the Judiciary Employee Ombuds for Maryland State Court employees in Annapolis, Maryland. In that capacity, he provides confidential and informal Conflict Coaching, mediation and facilitation services for workplace problems and concerns.

Before becoming a coach in 2003, Modell practiced law for over 28 years at several major law firms in Washington, DC. Most recently, Modell was a Partner, then Of Counsel at Dickstein Shapiro LLP, specializing in civil litigation of large, complex cases.

Modell is also a professional mediator and helped to found the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County, Maryland, a private, nonprofit community mediation center that provides mediation and meeting facilitation services to county residents. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. from Yale University, and served as an officer in the United States Air Force.

Neil Scotton, ACC (UK)
Neil Scotton, ACC, has served on the UK ICF Chapter Board for over 4 years and is currently the Immediate Past President of UK ICF, having served as President in 2007 and 2008. Previously he held the posts of Director of Research and Director of Membership.

Scotton also served on the global 2008 ICF International Prism Award Task Force and the ICF Role Delineation Task Force which met in Miami and New Orleans in 2008. Currently, he serves on the global ICF Ethics Committee, and helped create the spam policy as well as contributing to the revised ICF Code of Ethics.

In August 2009, Scotton spoke at the ICF Sweden Conference about ‘Making a Difference', having assisted their Board with a strategic team day the day before.

Scotton co-represents the UK ICF at the UK Coaching Bodies Roundtable. This is a collaborative body bringing together all the main coaching bodies in the UK - the EMCC, The Association for Coaching, the Association for Professional Executive Coaches and Supervisors and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He has served as Chair to that group for the last 3 of the bi-monthly meetings.

Scotton takes the coaching community out into the world by working with partners. For example, he works with Surrey Chambers of Commerce to provide (free) mentor training for their members who are local business leaders going into schools to mentor students in danger of falling out of the system and becoming "Not in employment, education or training". And he works with Sussex Wildlife Trust in creating and facilitating the Sustainable Pioneers initiative, which brings together corporates and small business to share knowledge, experience and vision to help create more sustainable local business.

Cheryl Vermey, ACC (USA)
Dr. Cheryl Moen Vermey, ACC, serves on the global ICF Education and Research Committee (2007-09). She is also active in the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance (PACA), and has served on their Bylaws, Nominating and Program Committees and is currently interim Vice President of Professional Development.

Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, she spent more than twenty-five years as an educator and administrator in both academic and non-profit settings including West Chester University and campuses of Temple University. Dr. Vermey earned a Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) certificate from Harvard University as well as doctoral and master's degrees from Temple University in adult and continuing education with an emphasis on organizational development.

She has an aggregate of more than 45 years Board experience, including numerous terms as chairperson or president of Boards. In both her formal positions and as a consultant to organizations, she focuses on leadership development and acceleration, strategic decision making, navigating change, program development, and team building.

Before orchestrating her own multiple career changes to become a leader in education, Vermey was a practicing nurse and nurse educator for seven years.

The application and review process was quite strenuous; 13 candidates from eight countries submitted applications this year to serve on the global Board beginning in January 2010. Through rigorous discussions and interview schedules, the Nominating Committee, applying the highest ethical standards, held numerous conversations over several weeks. As a result of this hard work, the slate above was created.

ICF Headquarters will keep you informed of this process over the next several weeks.

2009 ICF Nominating Committee Volunteers:
Chair: Diane Brennan, MBA, MCC (USA); and
Members: Diane Bonneau, MCC (Canada); María Cosamalón, ACC (Peru); Paul Jeong, MCC (South Korea); Douglas Lang, ACC (New Zealand); Franz Neumeyer, PCC (Germany); Mallireddy Reddy, ACC (India); Sylvie Schoen-Schlumberger, PCC (Belgium); and Pete Walsh, MCC (USA).

Next Steps:

• August 11-September 11: Call for Petitions (Any qualified credentialed member not on the slate may place his or her name in nomination by going through the petition process. Learn more about the petition process here.).
• September 14: ICF Ballot announced.
• September 14-October 5: Voting (online voting utilizing an independent firm).
• October 5-October 7: Tabulating and reporting of election results to ICF by independent service.
• October 8-12: Notification of candidates as to the status of their results.
• October 12: Public announcement of the new Board members and president-elect
• December 3: Announcement of the new Board members and president-elect at the ICF Annual Business Meeting during the ICF Annual International Conference