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Angela Spaxman, President
president@certifiedcoach.org
Spaxman.com.hk
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
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Angela Spaxman
is one of the pioneers of the coaching industry in
Asia.
She has
been coaching full time since 2000 and is the Founding
President of the Hong Kong International Coaching
Community. Angela works with managers, professionals
and business people who want to love their jobs and
excel. Her clients are accelerating their learning
about leadership, inspiring, empowering and developing
their team members, or creating careers that suit
them perfectly. Angela also works with organizations
that are implementing leadership development or culture
change programs involving coaching.
With 16
years of experience in the people-development field
as a coach, corporate trainer and consultant in both
Hong Kong and Canada, Angela is also a graduate of
'Coach U', a Certified Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic
Programming, and has Advanced Certification in Harrison
Assessments. Angela's substantial leadership experience
with volunteer groups gives her special insight into
how to motivate people to do their best.
M.Parker Anderson, PCC,
Vice President
vicepresident@certifiedcoach.org
Parker
is a professional life coach who specializes in leadership
coaching and training. Parker is committed to helping
individuals and organizations rediscover the leader
from within. She is the founder and CEO of The Anderson
Advantage Group, an international coaching and executive
management firm based in Washington, D.C. Often considered
an internationalist, Parker has lived and worked throughout
the globe including Africa, the Caribbean, Europe,
and South America. She is multilingual with native-like
proficiency in Spanish and French, and she has lectured
on varied coaching, management, and development topics,
in countries around the world, including Austria,
Jamaica, South Africa, Barbados, and Panama.
A noted
lecturer and author, Parker has authored articles
and/or professional manuals on managing change in
the workplace, issues affecting women in development,
addressing linguistic and cultural diversity, changing
the dialogue of war and conflict to peaceful resolutions,
and living with disappointments and how to choose
powerful outcomes in the face of unmet needs. She
is a graduate of Boston University, University of
Massachusetts, and The Coach for Life, Master Coach
Training Program, and the Coachville Proficiencies
Training Course.
She is
also an active member with The National Association
for theEducation of Young Children, the National Black
Child DevelopmentInstitute, and the African and American
Women's Association. Parker's commitment is to work
with the IAC's international programs and projects
and to increase the active involvement of members
worldwide.
Parker works with people and organizations interested
in being leaders whoinspire.
Bob
Tschannen-Moran, MDiv, IAC-CC, CWC, Secretary
Coach@LifeTrekCoaching.com
www.LifeTrekCoaching.com
Bob
Tschannen-Moran is President of LifeTrek Coaching
International and serves on the faculty of Wellcoaches
Corporation. Since founding LifeTrek in 1998,
Bob has assisted many individuals and organizations
to improve their performance in life and work using
primarily strengths-based approaches. In addition
to one-on-one coaching, the LifeTrek team has worked
within a wide variety of organizational settings,
including schools, churches, and corporations.
As
a prolific writer, Bob has co-authored ACSM’s
Coaching Psychology Manual (2009) and is
a chapter contributor to the Sage Handbook of
Coaching (2009). Together with his wife, Megan,
he is writing a new book on instructional coaching
for educational leaders. His weekly email newsletter,
LifeTrek Provisions, goes out to some 50,000
subscribers in 152 countries.
Bob
received an undergraduate degree from Northwestern
University, a Master of Divinity degree from Yale
University, coach training from Coach
U, CoachVille,
Wellcoaches,
and FastTrack,
appreciative inquiry training from the NTL
Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and
communication training from the Center
for Nonviolent Communication. He is certified
by both the International
Association of Coaching (IAC-CC) and Wellcoaches
Corporation (CWC).
Before
becoming a coach, Bob spent almost 20 years in senior
leadership positions with the United Church of Christ
in Chicago, IL and Columbus, OH. He is a former President
of the Richmond Area Coaches Association, an active
Kiwanian, as well as an avid runner, gardener, and
student of evolutionary wellness. Bob is married to
Megan, his life and business partner, and has two
grown children.
Dr.
Paul Jeong, IAC-CC
asiacoach.co.kr
Paul has
a strong background in developing Asian leaders,
having trained more than 40,000 organizational leaders.
Paul is one of the pioneers of the coaching industry
in Korea, providing executive coaching services
and coach training to LG, Samsung, Hyundai, Tesco,
IBM Korea, GS and SK telecom. Paul also serves
on the International Board of the International
Coach Association (ICA), is an ICF Executive Coach
Summit Member, and is the Korean chairman for NCD
in Korea. Paul has many success stories from his
varied experiences in cross cultural leadership
and organization, stories which serve to enrich
his already unique background. He resided in the
United States for 20 years from a student to
university professor and a successful business
CEO, specializing in Asian American relations and
the Asian market system overall. Paul now lives
in Korea, providing a number of services to Korea
and Asia that include leadership coaching,
organizational change, emotional intelligence, executive
coaching, and ILCT ICF ACTP coach training.
Bonnie Chan, IAC-CC
Coachlite.com
Bonnie
is a business and life coach from Hong Kong specialized
in cross-cultural coaching, personal and organization
effectiveness. Bonnie’s rich business acumen
and international trade experiences in multi-countries
articulates her coaching sense in different industries.
One of the first-batch coaches in Asia, Bonnie is
the founding member of the Hong Kong International
Coaching Community and was elected as President
in 2005/6 and is actively involved as the Honorary
Advisor to the community. She brings coaching to
China by training new coaches in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
respectively. She is the co-author of “ParentCoach”
published in 2005 , the first Chinese coaching book
of its kind in Hong Kong and China.
She completed her coaching program in The Graduate
School of Coaching, Coachville and is a certified
coach with IAC. She is an Eco-psychologist and actively
pursues her PhD research in Eco-coaching. She believes
Well Mind, Well Business and Well Earth.
Bonnie speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Cantonese
and Japanese. She dreams to see international recognized
coaching certification could be granted in multi-languages
in the future.
Bonnie
plays Tai Jei, loves international gourmet and fond
of Japanese cooking and Chinese Suxiu Embroidery
appreciation.
Des Walsh
Businessandblogging.com
Thinkinghomebusiness.com
Des
Walsh is a business coach based on Australia’s
Gold Coast. In an earlier career as a senior public
sector executive, he was responsible for developing
and managing a range of national and state-level
programs in the fields of education, cultural development
and major events. In the late 1980s he established
his own communications and training consultancy
and in 2002 he moved into coaching, enrolling in
the Coachville Schools of Coaching.
His primary focus in coaching is on helping business
owners and entrepreneurs take their business to
the next level. He has also developed a specialization
in coaching companies and solo professionals in
the use of blogging and other social media in business
and is the author of several blogs, including Business
and Blogging and Thinking Home Business.
Mike Goonan, CFLC
MikeGoonan@FearlessLiving.org
www.freewebs.com/jumpingintofreedom
At
the age of 23, Mike Goonan is leading the way for
the next generation of professional coaches.
Mike
Goonan is a Certified Fearless Living Coach of the
Fearless Living Institute (FLI). Mike has personally
received training from Rhonda Britten, the founder
of FLI and the Life Coach seen on NBC’s Emmy
Award Winning Daytime Reality Drama Starting
Over as well as some of the best coaches and
mentors FLI has to offer. Mike was the first Certified
Fearless Living Coach in the state of New Jersey
and is the youngest Certified Fearless
Living Coach in the world.
Mike
is the Founder of “Jumping into Freedom Coaching”,
an international coaching practice set up to support
people on their Fearless Path.
Mike
is a member of the International Association of
Coaching (IAC), Fearless Coaching Association (FCA),
Fearless Living Institute (FLI), International Coach
Federation (ICF), New Jersey Professional Coaches
Association (NJPCA), and President of the New Jersey
Coaching Alliance- IAC Chapter. He currently serves
on the Board of Directors at the Fearless Living
Institute and the Board of Governors at IAC.
Since
graduating high school in 2003, Mike has made a
180 in his life. He is no longer hiding from the
world, instead he is investing and interacting fully
with the world around him.
Aside
from being a coach, Mike is a student at Rowan University
majoring in Public Relations and a Leader at Weight
Watchers in which he leads weekly meetings across
South Jersey to over 500 members.
Sue Brundege, IAC-CC
Self
Made Self LLC
Sue
Brundege is an IAC-certified coach, communication
consultant and trainer, writer, and public speaker.
Through her business, Self Made Self LLC, she helps
service-based professionals gain confidence in public
speaking, writing, and networking to attract ideal
clients and grow their business.
Sue completed her coaching studies
through Coach Training Alliance, and currently serves
on their faculty as a Mentor Coach and Trainer.
Also, she is the Mentor Coach for Prosperous Coach,
a membership-based coaching community that helps
coaches grow their business by developing a prosperity
mindset, effective business practices, and niche
marketing skills.
Prior to coaching, Sue specialized
in sales and communication training, proposal writing,
and Web content management for a global engineering
and technical services firm. She also has experience
in organizational development consulting, coaching,
and communication skills training for healthcare
professionals.
Sue
lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and
three cats. She enjoys travel, hiking, camping,
playing ragtime piano and accordion, and making
stained glass and mosaic art.
Joan
Marie Johnson
http://joanmariejohnson.wordpress.com
Joan
Johnson has served for 20 years as an organisational
and personal development consultant and coach. She
has come to specialize in helping managers and employees
develop more effective relationships - so that the
work gets done, and inter-personal stress is reduced
or eliminated. She incorporates a coach approach
to organisational development and change management
processes, designs and conducts group coaching programs
for organisations, and takes individual coaching
clients on referral.
Joan’s
background includes: a bachelors degree in international
relations, a masters in business, 7 years with the
U.S. Peace Corps, more years with various government
organisations, wide-ranging interests in philosophy,
social psychology, change management, emotional
intelligence, coaching, neuro-linguistics, adult
education, leadership, etc. She did her coach training
through Coachville, and NLP training with the Chris
Howard Companies.
More
recently, she has been privileged to return to the
humanitarian aid sector in Australia, where she
has had the pleasure of conducting several personal,
interpersonal and supervisory leadership coaching
programs, primarily for one large agency –
in addition to individual coaching clients. This
work has inspired Joan to work toward improving
access to coaching for thousands of aid workers
and their managers, who may have little or no access
to this type of service.
Anthony
Betts
Anthony
is a business coach and a coach trainer working
mainly in UK, Europe and Hong Kong. With a background
in advertising, market research and international
trade, he has over 20 years global experience developing
and running businesses in UK, Africa, Canada and
Hong Kong.
He has been an executive coach for ten years and
qualified in coaching with Oxford and Cambridge
University in United Kingdom. He has logged more
than 3500 hours at top level with Directors, CEO’s,
CFO’s and business owners. Aside from his
own client base, he is a coach tutor for public
courses endorsed by the EMCC (European Coaching
and Mentoring Council) and the ILM (Institute of
Leadership and Management) as well as co-tutoring
the Mentorship program for the London Deanery funded
by the National Health Service.
He is the developer and founder of the Art of Not
Doing ©; a highly effective and cutting edge
approach which shows how to achieve more by actually
doing less.
He
was recently a guest speaker on leadership at one
of UK’s top business and coaching universities
and occasionally lectures in business strategy at
London's City University. He specialises in coaching
business owners in growth, globalisation and organisational
leadership.
Kristi
Arndt, PhD, IAC-CC
kristiarndt@yahoo.com
http://www.ilovecompass.com
Having
learned that life doesn’t always turn out
as expected, Kristi Arndt is a living example of
change. She knows that listening to and trusting
herself is the key to a life full of amazing adventures
and exciting surprises.
Kristi
is a Founding Team Coach at My Life Compass and
Mentor Coach at the School of Coaching Mastery.
An innovator at heart, she integrates extensive
knowledge of the Human Design System into the coaching
process to guide her clients according to life strategies
that are correct for them.
Kristi's
previous professional background includes fifteen
years in secondary and higher education where she
was involved with program development and curricular
reform using innovative teaching methods, especially
problem-based learning (PBL). She served as director
of Samford University's PBL Center and faculty development
coordinator for Mississippi State University College
of Veterinary Medicine’s PBL curriculum.
Kristi
received her PhD, EdM, and DVM from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A graduate of CoachVille's
Graduate School of Coaching, Kristi earned her certified
coach professional designation through the International
Association of Coaching. In addition, she completed
the Analyst Training Program at the International
Human Design School where she is certified as a
Living Your Design Guide.
