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| e-Mentoring & e-Coaching 2004 |
| Expanding the Support Network |
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| Presenters |
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| World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends and developments
in technology and web strategies for e-Mentoring and e-Coaching Programs in global
organizations. |
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| Presenters include: |
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Rita Boags, PhD
Principal Consultant,
Leadership Technologies
Rita S. Boags, Ph.D. is the principal consultant at Leadership Technologies, LLC.
The company specializes in the implementation of mentoring and leadership programs
which impact the Glass Ceiling in Fortune 500 companies and public agencies. She
is the author of several guidebooks on mentoring which include MENTORING: Information
Guide, Implementing a Best Practices Mentoring Initiative: A Coordinator’s Guide
and Toolkit, and The Mentoring Bridge: A Self-Study Guide for Informal Mentoring
Partnerships.
Before launching her consulting practice in 1985, Dr. Boags worked as an independent
clinical psychologist, taught at the California School of Professional Psychology,
and became a staff member of the Training and Development department at Hughes
Aircraft Company. She gained valuable experience as an associate consultant to
Dr. Price Cobbs of Pacific Management Systems working on major diversity projects.
Dr. Boags has served as the coordinator and co-host of four Best Practices in
Mentoring Conferences. She is currently a member of the American Society for Training
and Development, the Diversity Leadership Forum, the International Mentoring Association,
the Multi-Cultural Foodservice and Hospitality Association, and the Society for
Human Resource Development.
Dr. Boags received her B.A. from Mt. St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and
a doctorate degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
While a graduate student she was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship
for Black Americans. |
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Deb Colden
Owner and Manager,
Deb Colden Executive Coaching
Deb is an independent coach and strategy consultant in the Silicon Valley. Her
clients include companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, AMD, and Blue Pumpkin
software. A 20-year veteran of the high-tech industry and former manager of an
innovative internal management consulting practice at Hewlett-Packard, Deb specializes
in powerful, simple and immediate coaching techniques that boost the energy and
unique leadership capabilities of busy professionals in real time.
Prior to her own consulting business, Deb had extensive experience in management
and cross-organizational leadership roles. She joined HP in 1982 as a management
development specialist in Corporate Education. For the next 15 years, she held
a variety of marketing management roles within the company focused on establishing
HP’s direct and indirect distribution channel programs. Before joining the
high tech field, she worked in publishing and broadcast industries in a variety
of operational positions.
Deb holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and MBA with emphasis
on corporate finance and organizational behavior from the University of Southern
California. |
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Mike Jay
Executive & Master Business Coach,
Leadership University and B Coach
Mike Jay has been a professional business coach, consultant and successful entrepreneur
for more than 35 years. As a business leader for much of his life, he has experienced
first-hand what it means to deal with difficult management issues. As an active
entrepreneur, he has participated in his share of "successful failures."
Mike's broad business background adds a depth of real-world knowledge to his ability
to connect with clients, audiences and organizations.
As an award- winning U.S. Marine, Mike parlayed his military leadership experience
into cutting-edge agribusiness and was a nationally featured agribusiness innovator.
He received his Bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, where he
also won the highest award for senior athletes, the "Aggie Heart Award",
leading the 1975 Aggies to a Southwest Conference Football Championship as a quarterback.
Mike's experience in leadership led to management success in medicine, hospitality
and professional business services. He went back to graduate school at the age
of 40 to study Business & Organizational Behavior. After coaching managers
in entrepreneurial business and corporate environments for over 15 years, Mike
founded a premiere business & executive coach training system [www.b-coach.com],
when he realized the way leaders communicate and develop were key to leadership
success.
Mike has been featured in international publications for his innovative work with
employees. His service to people in businesses such as Coca-Cola, Exxon, EDS,
Ford, Boeing, General Dynamics, and other business leaders through executive coaching
has led to broad experience all over the world in coaching, consulting and leadership.
Mike is a member of the International Consortia of Business Coaches, the International
Society for Performance Improvement, the International Coach Federation, the Society
for Human Resource Management, American Society for Training & Development,
and the Association for Psychological Type. Mike holds numerous certifications
in emotional intelligence, resilience, spiral dynamics, coaching, and training.
Mike is the author of COACH 2 THE BOTTOM LINE: “An Executive Guide to Coaching
Performance, Change and Transformation in Organizations” and, NOW WHAT?
“A Strategic Leadership System for Discovering and Operationalizing What
Really Matters.” COACHING as a Transformational Leadership Competency; Coach
of Many Colors: the CosMos Coaching Model utilizing Spiral Dynamics Integral and
a book in progress called Emergenics: How to Solve More Problems Than You Create
featuring the MindArchitect™ System.
Mike is also responsible for the designation of “Developmentalist”
and the field of Emergenics, exciting new leadership paradigms integrating a variety
of methodologies towards sustainability and well-being.
2004 brought about the realization of a 9- year project called Leadership University—a
global virtual university focused on the Leadership Development System Mike created
over the course of the past 17 years. LeadU as we call it contains more than 36
different programs for leaders in a variety of leadership venues. A complete performance
leadership system for elearning and ementoring is available at http://www.leadu.com/perflead.
B Coach and Leadership University are virtual schools with professional coaching
students and graduates throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
For more information on business coaching, visit www.b-coach.com or leadership
development: www.leadu.com. For more info write press@b-coach.com
or call 877-901-COACH (2622). |
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Dr. Meera Manahan
Manager,Customer-Centered Design Services
Hewlett Packard
Meera Manahan manages the Customer-Centered Design Services team for Hewlett-Packard
Company. Her team is located in three cities: Cupertino, Houston, and Littleton,
MA (near Boston). She and the group have supported the design of hardware, software,
documentation, web sites and other user interfaces using a variety of human factors
techniques including participatory design, contextual research, usability testing,
and rapid prototyping of user interface designs. Meera is passionate about using
various complementary research methods to create insightful understanding of customers
around the world.
Prior to joining HP, Meera worked at Compaq Computer for nine years, where she
led the Human Factors team. Previously, she worked for NASA-JSC, for Lockheed
on the Space Station, and at IBM. She has a BS & MS in Industrial Engineering,
with specialization in human factors, from Texas A&M, and a PhD in Industrial
Engineering (again, specialization in HF) from the University of Houston. |
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Merci Miglino
Communications Director, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional
Research University at Albany, SUNY
Merci has been promoting ideas and people within the New York political scene
for nearly 20 years. A former teacher, reporter, communications director, and
campaign manager, she left a six-figure job with the NYS Senate to build a successful
practice as a coach, facilitator and trainer for individuals and organizations.
Merci trains for the New York State AIDS Institute, Civil Service Employees Association,
Seton Health, Magellan Behavioral Health, the State University of New York at
Albany, NY, and the Capital District Employee Assistance Program. Her private
coaching practice includes entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, career-changers, students,
and other coaches/facilitators. She recently completed her book,
From Doormat to Diva© Taking Center Stage in Your own Life, based
on her signature presentation. |
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Margo Murray
President and COO
MMHA, The Managers' Mentors Inc.
Margo has a unique combination of experience in line and staff management, academic
work in business and behavioral sciences, and experience in structuring and managing
human performance systems. Her innovations include application of a criterion-referenced
approach to management skill development and creation of a facilitated mentoring
process. Her best seller book,Beyond the Myths and Magic
of Mentoring: How to Facilitate an Effective Mentoring Process, includes
thirty years of research and client experiences with her Facilitated Mentoring
Model©.
Margo earned a B.S. degree, with honors, at Sacramento
State College, and MBA at John F. Kennedy University and was elected to membership
in Beta Gamma Sigma, National Honor Society in Business. California State University,
School of Business, Awarded Margo the 1998 Alum of the Year; CSUS Alumni Association
honored her with the Distinguished Service Award, 1988. In 1987 Margo was invited
to be a Founding Member of the McLaren College of Business Advisory Council, University
of San Francisco, 1988-1998. John F. Kennedy University Board of Regents elected
her to the Board of Regents 1990-1999. |
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Laura Whitworth
Co-Founder, The Coaches Training Institute
Laura Whitworth, co-founder of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), is one of
the world's most accomplished and renowned coaches. A former CPA, she is also
co-author of the book, Co-Active Coaching, a best-seller addressing the skills
and practice of coaching.
A professional coach, she works with individuals, groups, teams, and organizations
toward greater productivity and effectiveness. Laura has worked with hundreds
of entrepreneurs and organizations such as Pacific Gas and Electric, Pacific Bell,
and the Oakland Unified School District. In 1997, she was named one of the ten
most influential coaches by Professional Coach Journal.
A frequent keynote speaker, Laura also recently co-founded The Bigger Game Company
which delivers programs focusing on coaching and training leaders. Through a non-profit
organization, she is taking Co-Active Coaching into federal and state prisons
where it has had a profound and transformational impact on the lives of prisoners.
Prior to embarking on a coaching career in 1989, Laura was a Peace Corps Volunteer
in Nepal, a CPA with Arthur Andersen & Company, an Administrative Vice President
at an advertising agency and an Alaskan Bush outfitter and explorer.
A founding member of the Personal and Professional Coaches Association, which
merged with the International Coaches Federation (ICF), she is currently on the
Board of Directors for the International Association of Professional/Personal
Coaches.
Laura graduated cum laude, from the College of Business and Management at the
University of Maryland. |
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Hannah S. Wilder, PhD, Master Certified Coach
and Master Certified High Impact Teaming™ Coach,
President and CEO of Advantara Executive Development Worldwide, Inc.,
President and Dean of Faculty of Academia Global Executive Coach Training Institute
An MA in Regional Studies from Harvard University and a PhD in Political Science
(International Communications and Behavior) from MIT initiated Hannah’s
career working with global leaders and executives. Her vision is the creation
of a sustainable human and business environment through executive leadership worldwide
- one executive, one team, one company or organization at a time.
With a strong background in global marketing and communications, Hannah has worked
with executives and executive coaches in diverse functional areas in the private,
public and non-profit sectors in over 45 countries in North America, East and
West Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia and enjoys a worldwide network of
colleagues and clients.
A Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, Hannah is
a leader in promoting awareness of global and cross-cultural coaching and in training
global executive coaches. She hosts ICF’s Global Executive Coaching Special
Interest Group. One of the first coaches to receive the designation Certified
Teleclass Leader, she has also trained many coaches and facilitators to lead interactive
teleforums.
She has developed a number of Executive Education Programs, including the very
successful Coaching as a Function of Leadership™ in its third year as a
core part of an internal corporate leadership development program. She is a Master
Certified Coach in High Impact Teaming™, a coaching program for developing
business teams.
Hannah is Chancellor of the Academia Global Executive Coach Training Institute,
a comprehensive curriculum for coaching global executive coaches, founded in 2003.
The Institute offers a combination of in-person and telephone training, mentor
coaching, study groups and coach practice partnerships, and offers Certification
as a Global Executive Coach, as well as continuing education programs.
A well-known author and presenter, Hannah has been a Keynote Speaker and presenter
at many international conferences in Europe, the US, and online. She is the author
of many published articles and e-books on executive coaching and leadership and
the forthcoming book, Becoming a Global Executive: Coaching
Leaders for an Interdependent World (forthcoming 2004). |
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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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