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Angela Spaxman,
President
president@certifiedcoach.org
Spaxman.com.hk
President
Vice
President
Treasurer
Secretary
Immediate
Past
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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
Coaching Community.Angela
works with managers,
professionals
and business people
who want to love
their jobs and
be excellent
at what they do.
Her clients could
be accelerating
their learning
about management
and leadership
skills, 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
13 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.
Jean
Gran, IAC-CC,
Treasurer
treasurer@certifiedcoach.org
Jean is a retired
CPA who is thoroughly
enjoying a second
career as a personal
growth counselor
and coach. During
her successful
career in public
accounting, manufacturing,
and health care
accounting she
especially enjoyed
taking complex
financial information
and presenting
it simply and
clearly to clients,
co-workers, and
college students.
Currently she
is exploring ways
of combining coaching
and money by working
with individuals
and couples who
want to build
a healthy relationship
with money.
She will graduate
from CoachVille
Schools of Coaching
in mid 2006 and
loves the challenge
of building her
coaching business,
True Wealth Coaching,
which helps clients
build prosperity
from within. Prior
to coach training
she completed
a 3 year Psychosynthesis
Counselor Training
Program which
helps her bring
spiritual and
psychological
depth to her coaching.
Jean
lives in rural
Massachusetts
and enjoys hiking,
canoeing, nature
photography, and
reading in her
free time.
Tara Robinson,
Ph.D., Secretary
secretary@certifiedcoach.org
www.GetGoodThingsDone.com
Tara
Rodden Robinson,
Ph.D. is a Duct
Tape Marketing®
coach and the
founder of Zugunruhe.
Zugunruhe (it's
German, pronounced
zoog.un.roo.ee)
is built on Tara’s
crazy vision that
the world can
be a better place
and she works
with business
owners, individual
professionals,
and non-profit
organizations
to make that happen.
The name Zugunruhe
means "migratory
restlessness."
Tara sees it as
the state of mind
that signals getting
ready for the
future. Tara says,
“I help
professionals
to manage their
busyness and businesses
to manage their
marketing. Zugunruhe
helps great people
to get good things
done.”
Tara
got her coaching
training from
Mentor-Coach (Bethesda,
MD). She has also
received training
as a spiritual
director from
Shalom Prayer
Center at Queen
of Angels Monastery
(Mt. Angel, OR).
Her PhD (Biology)
was earned from
the University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
She is the author
of Genetics for
Dummies (Wiley,
2005) and continues
to teach genetics
via distance ed
at Oregon State
University. She
lives in Corvallis,
Oregon where she
hikes the hills
with her husband
and their dog.
Coaching leaders
to create consonance
with their careers,
families and selves,
Natalie Tucker
Miller has been
helping people
grow personally
and professionally
for several years.
Growing up in
Long Island, NY,
she graduated
from Five Towns
College, then
continued her
education in the
pastoral setting
of northern NY
at SUNY Potsdam.
There she met
Paul, to whom
she's been married
since 1982. In
1985 she moved
to Vermont where
she and Paul currently
reside.
Additionally,
she home educated
her two daughters,
who are now successfully
fulfilling their
own dreams. She’s
served on several
boards, including
the Vermont Association
of Home Educators
(VAHE).
As an instructor
and certifying
examiner at the
Thomas Leornard
Coaching School,
Natalie has taught,
mentored and evaluated
coaches using
the 15 Coaching
Proficiencies.
Additionally,
she is part of
the team developing
new standards
for measuring
coaching by which
the IAC will be
certifying coaches.
She
concludes, "The
most valuable
experience I've
gained is through
the lessons taught
to me by the hundreds
of people I've
had the good fortune
of being involved
with over the
years. And most
notably, the two
I call my daughters."
An IAC-CC, she
is also a certifying
examiner for the
IAC.
Diane Krause-Stetson,
IAC-CC
LeadYourLife.com
Diane Krause-Stetson
concentrates on
career enrichment,
leadership development
and organization
effectiveness.
She serves as
a catalyst for
principled success
for business leaders,
small business
owners and “lady
lawyers”.
Diane works with
her clients on
how to maximize
their personal
strengths; how
to make principled
and strategic
decisions; and,
how to create
effective business
systems and environments
to achieve sustainable,
bottom-line business
results. She helps
leaders examine
and raise the
level of their
own professional
performance, as
they manage others
to their potential.
And, she encourages
professionals
to make choices
that will enhance
their personal
fulfillment at
work and happiness
in the rest of
their lives.
Diane has an M.B.A.,
a J.D., and about
25 years of experience
as a lawyer, a
corporate human
resources executive
and a solopreneur.
Diane brings all
of her knowledge
and experience
to discern key
issues and opportunities
and to generate
strategies and
solutions. Diane
is an IAC Certified
Coach. She is
also a certified
Inscape DiSC™
trainer and a
certified Life
Purpose and Career
Coach.
Diane has been
married to Jim,
her high school
sweetheart, since
1979. They divide
their time between
Chicago, Illinois
and Elkhart Lake,
Wisconsin.
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.
Lucia Murphy,
Ph.D.
DoctorMurphEvents.com
Lucia
has developed
her expertise
from over 20 years
of corporate and
academic experience.
On the corporate
side, Lucía
has made significant
contributions
to marketing,
strategy, and
human performance
technology for
Fortune 100 companies,
including Xerox,
Frito-Lay and
Campbell Soup.
In
academe, Lucia
has taught, published
and developed
important thought
leadership pieces
for Penn State
University and
the University
of Arkansas.
An avid runner
and accomplished
woman of laughter
and energy, Lucia
lives in "Amish
Country USA" --
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
-- with her husband
and children,
along with various
and sundry pets.
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.
Donna Karlin,
CEC
www.abetterperspective.com
Donna
is an Executive
and Political
Leadership Coach,
based in Ottawa,
Canada’s
capital. Founder
of A Better
Perspective™,
she has pioneered
the specialized
practice of
Shadow Coaching™
with global
senior organizational
and political
leaders and
is committed
to growing individual
and collaborative
leadership capacity.
By
entering the
client’s
environment,
Donna uses an
adaptable and
comprehensive
approach in
working with
her clients
that enables
her to understand
individuals
sufficiently
to design coaching
that shifts
their developmental
level and attends
to the individual,
social, relational
and environmental
aspects of her
client's ‘world’.
This integral
approach results
in the client
developing a
deeper, more
comprehensive
sense of themselves
and their place
in their organization
and the world
as a whole.
In response
to widely expressed
interest to
her highly successful
and innovative
approach to
coaching, she
established
the School of
Shadow Coaching™
to enable others
to learn the
practice.
In
addition to
being on the
Board of the
IAC, she serves
on the Board
of the International
Consortium for
Coaching in
Organizations,
and is an original
member and key
player on the
Microsoft Vision
Team, small
team of independent
visionaries
/ experts who
provide valuable,
contextual insight
into technology,
business and
workplace issues
and trends.
Her
work has been
written up in
Fast Company
Magazine, The
Financial Post,
The Globe and
Mail, the New
York Times,
and The Boston
Globe. She is
an author and
columnist, an
avid Blogger,
leadership expert
for both Fast
Company and
SelfGrowth.com,
lectures internationally
and has clients
spanning the
globe.
Kim Nishida
www.readytoevolve.com
www.membershipsitesupport.com
Kim
Nishida is a
small business
coach, specializing
in helping personal
growth professionals
plan and maintain
profitable,
fulfilling membership
sites. Her lifelong
passion for
inspiring and
supporting others
has led her
towards such
diverse roles
as coxswain
of the men’s
crew team at
UC Berkeley,
Wellness Director
of the Berkeley
YMCA, and leader
of her own group
coaching program,
the Results
Mastery Club,
focusing on
leading entrepreneurs
to sustainable
success.
She
graduated from
the University
of California,
Berkeley with
a B.A. in English
and has worked
in non-profit,
university,
and corporate
settings in
the fields of
marketing and
publicity, book
publishing,
management and
program direction,
and fitness
and wellness.
She
first came to
coaching through
WellCoaches
and then studied
at the Graduate
School of Coaching
and Schools
of Coachville.
Kim
is an avid writer,
runner, and
foodie living
in Southern
California with
her two dogs.
She looks forward
to getting married
in 2008 to her
fiancè,
Mark, and traveling
to as many National
Parks as possible.
