Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC (Switzerland) - View session
Katrina has a track record coaching global leaders across many diverse sectors. She founded MKB Conseil & Coaching in 1994, providing coaching to global nomadic leaders, abrasive executives and to talents. She founded the Global Nomadic Leadership Development Institute and is facilitating a series of advanced international seminars on "Gaining Crucial Competitive Advantage in Global Business: Understanding Global Nomadic Leaders" in Santa Barbara, California; Geneva, Switzerland; Singapore; and Miami, Florida in 2010. She holds a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from Fielding Graduate University and was a first Master Certified Coach in Switzerland through the International Coach Federation. Founder and past Board Member of ICF Switzerland and on the editorial board of The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations. Katrina draws on experience in over 30 countries in her professional practice in multinationals such as Nestle, Novartis, United Nations and World Trade Organization to name just a few. After numerous published articles and presentations at various international forums, Katrina is continuing her research to write another book on "Global Nomadic Leaders."

Cynthia Loy Darst (USA) - View session
Cynthia Loy Darst is passionate about raising the bar on quality in the profession of coaching. One of the first to gain the designation of MCC from the ICF, Cynthia was a founding member of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association (PPCA) and the ICF. She was one of the first leaders for both Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and the Center for Right Relationship. A favorite in the coaching world, she delivered "Celebration, Metaphor and Magic" to a standing room only crowd at the 2005 San Jose ICF Annual International Conference, and delighted her coaching colleagues in 2006 at the St. Louis ICF conference with her demonstration of MCC level coaching. Join her for a fun time!

Jean M. DiGiovanna, CPCC (USA) - View session
Jean is founder of Workshop University (www.workshopuniversity.com) and a certified coach, speaker and educator with over 20 years of experience in training, consulting and instructional design. She has delivered hundreds of workshops and seminars in business and life strategies to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and academia and has spoken both nationally and internationally helping thousands of individuals find their voice and get their unique message out to the world. Jean is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Coach Federation and has been published in WorldWIT, Boston Magazine, Mass High Tech and the Boston Globe. She was named one of the top 10 Coaches of Boston by Women's Business Boston in 2007 and is a published co-author of Success is a State of Mind alongside Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown and Deepak Chopra.


Sherrie Dutton, ACC (Canada) - View session
Sherrie is an Executive Health Coach, a certified personal trainer and a former television host whose innovative methods have helped hundreds of people around the world lose weight, find energy and reboot their lives. She is the founder of Get a Health Coach Now, Inc. and has been empowering people for more than 20 years to choose health for maximum results. A successful competitive athlete and former corporate executive she is an expert in managing energy for high performance.
Sherrie is a dynamic speaker and facilitator whose groundbreaking workshops challenge people to lose wait and lose weight. She is a director of the ICF Calgary Chapter and an active community leader serving on the boards of charitable organizations and sport associations. She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute, (CPCC), Center for Right Relationship (ORSC), University of Western Ontario Business School, (WEP) and University of Saskatchewan, (BSPE).

Charles Faulkner (USA) - View session
Charles works with executives and leaders from the Silicon Valley to the City of London -modeling the knowledge and performance of exceptional individuals, teams and organizations with applications he has made of research in cognitive neuroscience and linguistics. He is the co-author of the book NLP: The New Technology of Achievement, and the programs Success Mastery, and Creating Irresistible Influence as well as the DVD NLP in Action. He is featured in The New Market Wizards, Trend Following and other publications for his work with traders and other high-stakes decision-makers. A principal in the Chicago firm of Influential Communications, Inc., he has lectured and led courses on four continents including: The Chicago Board of Trade, University of Chicago Graham School, Columbia College, Sorbonne MBA, London School of Economics, and the House of Commons, UK. His passion these days is showing how our everyday language shapes our experience and the decisions we make, and what we can do about it.

Judy Feld, MCC (USA) - View session
Judy Feld, MCC, is an Executive Coach with a highly regarded reputation worldwide. She was the 2003 President of the ICF and is an ICF Master Certified Coach. She has been working in the corporate and non-profit world since 1995 to support clients in creating strategies to achieve their goals and maintain an optimal work/life balance. She coaches executives, entrepreneurs, managers, and business teams in career, change, leadership and communications coaching for professionals at all levels.

Judy co-founded the award-winning Executive and Professional Coaching Program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2005. She serves on the faculty, leads the supervised coaching program, and manages curriculum and credentialing. Judy was also instrumental in the creation of the award-winning coaching initiative in UTD's Executive MBA program (2005 ICF International Prism Award winner), and continues to serve as an Executive Coach in that program.

Judy served as Director of Distance Learning for the Authentic Happiness Coaching Program and has written and co-written several articles and presentations including SmartMatch Alliances with Ernest Oriente. In her more than 20 years of business experience prior to her coaching career, she held corporate management positions in marketing, consulting, business development, research and software design.

Rona is the President of Kinetic Coaching and has 15 years of coaching experience with executives, leaders, and professionals from diverse cultures and levels of seniority throughout North America. As an ICF Chapter member, Rona believes in contributing to her professional community. She has served as a director and volunteer for the Calgary Association of Professional Coaches, and as president of the Career Development Association of Alberta. For further information visit www.kineticcoaching.ca.

Ashok Gangadean (USA) - View session
Ashok is a professor of philosophy at Haverford College (Pennsylvania, USA) where for the past four decades he has focused on tapping into and clarifying the common ground between cultural, religious and ideological worlds. Author of Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar and Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason, Ashok demonstrates that there is a fundamental Logos, or Universal Grammar, underlying all cultures, religions, philosophies and ideologies. He helped convene and inaugurate the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, is co-chair of the World Wisdom Council, founder-director of the Global Dialogue Institute and host of the Emmy Nominated "Philly Live: Your International Connection" on WYBE TV Public Television, which recently evolved into the prize-winning "Global Lens." Ashok is also author of Awakening the Global Mind: A New Philosophy for Healing Ourselves and our World and Meditations of Global First Philosophy: Quest for the Missing Grammer of Logos.

I. Barry Goldberg, PCC (USA) - View session
Barry is an Executive Coach and team catalyst with a global practice and a graduate of the Georgetown University Coaching program. Prior to coaching, Barry had senior leadership positions in organizations ranging from The Naisbitt Group (chaired by the author of Megatrends and Re-Inventing the Corporation) to P/L accountability for a global unit of a U.S.-based Fortune 400. He also founded a boutique strategy consultancy assisting leaders of major change initiatives with coaching and methodology. Barry lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he serves on the board of the Arkansas Symphony. He is adjunct faculty for the University of Arkansas, Little Rock EMBA program and the William J. Clinton School of Public Service. Barry serves as Vice Chair of the ICF Ethics and Standards Committee.

Helen Harkness, Ph.D. (USA)-

She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, National Speakers Association, International Association of Career Professionals, The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas and International Positive Psychology Association. As a long-term member of the World Future Society, she coordinated the career counseling at the annual conferences. The Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter Association of Career Professionals (ACP) International created an annual award " Helen Harkness Professional of the Year Award" permanently named for her. 

Jeff Hayzlett (USA) - View session
Bio coming soon!

Nora Herting (USA) - Graphic recording artist for Global Conversations
Nora draws on her background as a fine artist and art educator to enable her to visualize ideas as a graphic recorder. She has been helping make complex ideas visible for over five years. She is co-founder of ImageThink, a graphic recording firm. Nora holds a Masters in Fine Arts at the Ohio State University and taught photography and new media arts at The Ohio State University and Denison University. When not graphic recording, Nora can be found making fine art photography at her home in New York. She has exhibited her photographs across the United States and abroad.

Robert Kegan (USA) - View session
Robert is the Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, his 30 years of research and writing on adult development have influenced the practice of coaching, psychotherapy, management, and leadership; and impacted the disciplines of psychology, education, theology, literary criticism, medicine, and political science.

His seminal books, The Evolving Self and In Over Our Heads, have been published in several languages throughout the world. He and long-time colleague, Lisa Lahey, are credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Their book, Immunity to Change, has found its way onto many "must read" lists, including one from the ICF. The Shanghai Daily News named it the No. 1 Business Book of 2009. He can be reached at www.mindsatwork.com.


Susan Kelly (USA) - Graphic recording artist for Global Conversations
Susan works with groups of people and individuals to bring their ideas to life. For 25 years she has specialized in visual thinking and interactive group process. She makes the invisible visible, so people can, for example: organize complexity, visualize, analyze, make meaning, plan strategically, think systematically, learn, remember, collaborate, negotiate or mediate...and do it in ways that are productive, efficient and satisfying (susankellylistens@earthlink.net).

Peter A. Kerr (USA) - View session
Peter is the program director and assistant professor of communications at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky USA. He is also a small business owner and president of KerrCommunications, providing worldclass training for media engagement, public relations, crisis planning, public speaking, international communications, and leadership improvement. He holds a Bachelor of Science in human factors engineering and in human behavior/leadership from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Arts in communications from the University of Washington, and a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary.

Roger Lewin, Ph.D. (USA) - View session
Roger is an award-winning science writer, and author of more than 20 trade books, including the first popular treatment of Complexity science, Complexity: life at the edge of chaos. Roger is a member of the Complexity Research group at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence. He is founder and partner of Harvest Associates, a consulting company that uses principles of complexity science to help organizations navigate change. With Birute Regine, he is co-author of the acclaimed Weaving Complexity and Business: engaging the soul at work.

Sonja Lyubomirsky (USA) - View session
Sonja Lyubomirsky (A.B., Harvard, summa cum laude; Ph.D., Stanford) is professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside ( www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja). Her research-on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness - has been honored with a Science of Generosity grant, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Sonja's 2008 book, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Penguin Press, www.thehowofhappiness.com) has been translated into 18 languages .  Her work has been written up in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and she has appeared in multiple TV shows, and feature documentaries in North America, South America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Omar Ossés (Argentina) - View session
Omar is partner and director of Taishi Consulting and president and founding member of the Argentina Chapter of the ICF. He is a Certified Professional Coach with over 5,000 hours of Executive and Team Coaching in different projects for multinational organizations in Argentina, Uruguay, Perú, Chile, Brazil, México and EEUU. He is a member of Society for Organizational Learning, an international learning community funded and chaired by Peter Senge. Omar works with the Matríztica School of Santiago as partner and facilitator. He participates in the Project Ethical Matrix for Human Habitat, with the Matríztica and Peter Senge teams.

At the invitation of Julio Olalla, he took part in the 2006 and 2007 Annual World Conventions of The Newfield Network and conducted workshops utilizing Aiki training dynamics. In 2007 and 2008, he delivered Business Coaching and Coaching for Coaches programs at the Tecnológico of Monterrey, Querétaro Campus. He developed the Aiki Training project. This program, which articulates Aikido philosophy- the organization as a linguistic phenomenon and coaching as a managing style-was given at the Entrepreneurs Club, with Dr. Fernando Flores, in Chile in 1999 and 2000. Omar graduated as sensei third dan in Aikido with Sensei Masafumi Sakanashi, sixth dan, and Sensei Yosimitsu Yamanda, eighth dan, with the international certification of Hombu Dojo Japan. He was a speaker at the ICF's 14th Annual International Conference in Orlando, Florida, in 2009.

Linda Page, ACC (Canada) - View session
Linda J. Page, Ph.D., brings scientific understanding to generating coaching capacity. With a background in sociology and anthropology, psychotherapy practice, psychology professorship, business entrepreneurship, and coach training and practice, she teaches principles and practices that yield optimum functioning. With David Rock, she co-authored Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations for Practice (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), which establishes coaching as a discipline and draws on modern neuroscience for practical tools to help coaches and their clients. Linda founded Adler International Learning, the first professional coaching program in Canada to be accredited by the International Coach Federation, and is co-director of Adler-OISE University of Toronto Certificates in Leadership Coaching. She also founded Adler Graduate Professional School with the intent of awarding degrees in psychology, coaching, and psychotherapy. As a founding member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching, Adler supports the development of a theoretical foundation for coaching.

Kathryn Pope (UK) - View session
Kathryn is an Executive and Leadership Coach working at the highest corporate levels. She works with boards, senior teams and leaders to improve their performance. An ex-marketing director, she has excellent communication and influencing skills, and having spent 12 years client side in global organizations, a deep understanding of commercial and leadership challenges. Industry sectors that she works across include: retail, finance, energy, engineering, hotel; plus in the public sector a primary care trust.

Highly active for the ICF in the UK and Europe, she is passionate about professional development, enhancing coaching skills and ensuring that we manage ourselves as effectively as possible to create an outstanding experience for our clients. Trained in the use of a range of psychometric tools, she is fascinated by the exploration of who we are and how we "turn up'" in the coaching context.

David Matthew Prior, MCC (USA) - View session
David Matthew Prior, MCC, is principal of Getacoach.com, based in the New York City metropolitan area. He works internationally as a coach and corporate trainer in the field of executive leadership and team development. David serves on the core coaching faculty for the Columbia University Coach Certification Program (CCCP) and in the Executive and Professional Coaching Program at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. He has contributed to the coaching profession in his previous roles as an Executive Committee member and Vice President of the ICF, in addition to having been co-chair of the ICF Ethics and Standards Committee (2003-2006). David's MBA is in international business from Thunderbird, and he is trilingual (Spanish, French, English). His website is: www.getacoach.com. 

Birute Regine, Ed.D. (USA) - View session
Birute is a Harvard educated, award-winning author, developmental psychologist, speaker, and life/executive coach. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and a member of the Complexity Research group in London School of Economics. Regine is a member of Plexus Institute and Madrona Institute, which apply complexity science to healthcare issues and peace and policy making, respectively. With Roger Lewin, she co-authored the critically acclaimed Weaving Complexity and Business: engaging the soul at work. In her new book, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and The World (Prometheus Books, April 2010), Regine puts femininity and masculinity in context and explores what it truly means to be a successful woman today, and how women together can help each other become "Iron Butterflies" and bring greater balance and well-being to a world out of balance.

Sally Rhys, ACC (USA) - View session
Sally Rhys, ACC, owner of Coaching for Perspective and of Focus on Business Ethics, works one-on-one with managers and executives to confront ethical dilemmas appropriately at the workplace. She believes we could all use an annual tune up on ethical consciousness, no matter what our profession.

Her 25-year career spans utility, banking and public sector work in ethics and compliance, project management and human resources. Sally is a frequent public speaker, with a reputation for being both educational and entertaining.
 
Sally has a Master of Science degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources. She completed Coach U's Corporate Coach program.  In addition to being the chair of the Global Ethics and Standards Committee for the ICF, Sally is an active member of Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Institute for Global Ethics, and the Open Compliance and Ethics Group.

Philippe Rosinski, MCC (Belgium) - View session
Philippe is a world authority in executive coaching, team coaching, and global leadership development. He is one of the first Europeans to have been designated Master Certified Coach by the ICF. The Harvard Business School chose his groundbreaking book Coaching Across Cultures as its featured book recommendation in the category of business leadership. His new book, Global Coaching has been described as "having moved the art and science of coaching to a new level." Philippe is principal of Rosinski & Company, an international network organization that helps leaders, teams and organizations unleash their human potential to achieve sustainable and meaningful success. With a Master of Science from Stanford University, Philippe is a professor in the MBA program for global managers at the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business in Tokyo, Japan.

Altazar Rossiter, Ph.D. (UK) - View session
Altazar has been facilitating the transformation of emotional and psychological issues since 1995. His client base includes professionals from education, finance, media and local government as well as coaches and therapists. He has a background of embracing change in his own professional life. Moving from a career as an electrical engineering consultant in the energy sector, where he was involved in the development of several North Sea oil installations, to transpersonal coaching and training.

He gives transformational workshops internationally and headed a leading-edge facilitator training program in the Netherlands for three years. He has also been a Lead Coach on a program of coaching for year 10 to year 13 students in inner city schools. His training encompasses Buddhist meditation, transpersonal psychology, coaching, bio-energetics and NLP. He has a PhD in Psycholinguistics. Altazar is the author of Developing Spiritual Intelligence - The Power Of You.

William Smith (USA) - View session
Bill is an innovator of both theory and practice in the fields of leadership, organization and social development. He has created and implemented new approaches to organization for multinational corporations, for governments, the World Bank and the United Nations in many parts of the world. Over the last seven years he has been applying the concepts, called AIC (Appreciation, Influence and Control), to the development of leaders in order to help them implement such approaches.

He has created new approaches to teaching  in the Organizational Sciences Program at George Washington University and developed a series of three maps based on AIC that help leaders and coaches address issues of purpose, power and leadership. He has recently published The Creative Power: Transforming Ourselves, Our Organizations and Our World with Routledge.

Bridget Strong (UK) - View session
Bridget has over 20 years experience as a multilingual Executive Coach and facilitator in English, Spanish and German. She works at senior levels in both the private and public sector, with government departments and commissions and a global public organisation. Bridget's background in international organizations in retail sales, tourism and training adds a strong commercial perspective to her work. Helping her clients to communicate authentically, congruently and effectively with a wide range of traditional and innovative strategies and tools is her forte. Bridget has been committed to the development of coaches since 2001. She has organized and participated in coaching practice groups and been actively involved in coaching supervision for many years. Bridget is a founding member of the British Psychological Society's Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is currently completing her coaching supervision certification with Middlesex University.

Julie Stuart (USA) - Graphic recording artist for Global Conversations
Throughout her career, Julie has drawn on both words and images to communicate ideas.  With experience in journalism, public relations, environmental politics, political campaigns, and as a professional artist and teacher, her interest in organizational change, strategy, advocacy and creativity has led her to visual facilitation where she combines her skills as a deep listener and strategist who can easily synthesize, visualize and organize emerging ideas. Julie has a degree in political science from Purdue University and a Masters in Fine Art from Georgia State University.

Janine Underhill (USA) - Graphic recording artist for Global Conversations
For over 12 years Janine has helped make the invisible visible for Fortune 100 clients and nonprofit firms that need a repeatable blueprint to reach important meeting outcomes. She works with groups that need to get diverse minds on board to accomplish complex team efforts, and that need to arrive at solidified leadership decisions based on quality discoveries. Utilizing Graphic Facilitation, Corporate Storytelling and Consulting, Janine helps thought leaders and innovators experience breakthroughs as they turn meetings into winning ideas and profitable outcomes.