Global Team

The Centre comprises a global team of highly skilled and experienced coaches and consultants. We combine together as a global virtual team to ensure a high level of service delivery across all of the Centre’s activities. Click on the names and countries below for information about what is happening in your region.

AUSTRALIA

Geoffrey Abbott, PhD

Global Director

Geoffrey Abbott is an executive coach, cross-cultural management/ organizational change consultant, researcher, lecturer, conference presenter, and author. He has a strong professional interest in global leadership and people development.

His main expertise and contribution to the business is in coaching individuals and teams through transition and change related to international business. Typically, he works with people who are on international assignment, or who lead or are members of global virtual teams. He prefers to work with multiple members of an organisation so that he can assist with existing or new organisational change processes. Geoffrey’s services are valued through and after cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Geoffrey is currently under contract with the Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, specialising in leadership and coaching education. 

Geoffrey co-edited the Routledge Companion to Business Coaching (Moral and Abbott, 2009) which contains the best of contemporary theory and practice about this expanding consultancy niche. He contributed chapters on Global Virtual Teams, MergersE and Acquisitions, Selecting Executive Coaches, and also on Coaching Expatriate Managers. The Companion is available through www.Amazon.com. The Centre's  international seminars will cover central themes in the book. In addition to the Routledge Companion, Geoffrey has authored and co-authored articles for academic journals on various topics related to organizational behavior, cross-cultural management and executive coaching. He is a recognized authority on international business coaching. He co-authored (with Philippe Rosinski) a chapter on intercultural coaching for the Evidence-Based Coaching Handbook (Stober and Grant, 2006). He has also co-authored a chapter for a coaching text Excellence in Coaching (Passmore, 2006) which was recently published in the UK. Geoffrey is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring. Full text, peer-reviewed articles from this journal are available at: http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/areas/coaching&mentoring/

Geoffrey is a skilled adult educator. He has given lectures, seminars, workshops, and conference presentations in many academic and business environments. He has run advanced experiential workshops in executive coaching, specializing in cognitive and behavioral techniques. He is particularly adept in the group coaching environment.

Prior to his role with the Queensland University of Technology, Geoffrey taught in various business schools at Masters level. His teaching has included Organizational Behavior at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and Strategic Human Resources Management at the University of New South Wales. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney, the School of Economics and Business (ESEN) in El Salvador and the Harvard-linked regional business school INCAE in Costa Rica.

Geoffrey conducts intercultural business coaching seminars. He has run seminars on cross-cultural issues and mentoring for MBA graduate programs with multinational companies in Central America and Australia. He has given major presentations at academic and industry conferences around the world, including in Canada, the USA, and Australia.

Geoffrey received his doctorate in Business from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He studied the effectiveness of executive coaching as an intervention to assist managers placed overseas. The fieldwork was conducted in Central America. He lived in San Salvador, El Salvador from 2003 to 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honors (1st class) in Organizational Psychology from the University of Western Sydney, Australia. In 2002, he received the Australian Psychological Society Prize for Psychology at his university for his thesis on organizational commitment and work values. This study was published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. (Geoffrey’s various conference presentations, book chapters, published articles and research are detailed in the Publications section.)

He also holds a Graduate Diploma of Psychology from Charles Sturt University and a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education from the University of Tasmania.

Geoffrey has over 1000 hours of coaching and consulting experience in Australia, Asia, Europe, the USA and Central America. His international clients include executives from multinational companies, international development agencies, embassies and educational institutions. He uses a variety of evidence-based models, particularly those based in cognitive-behavioral psychology and cross-cultural research and management practice. The context of the client’s situation determines the specific approach within a stable broader consulting coaching framework. Testemonials are available on request.

Up until 2003, Geoffrey was an executive with the Special Broadcasting Service, Australia (SBS). He managed executive strategic planning processes, research projects (including a cultural research study) and various policy initiatives.

Geoffrey has extensive community counseling experience. He has a keen interest in sport as a coach, administrator and player. He received a full blue for cricket from the University of Tasmania. He enjoys playing golf, travel, jogging, reading and Spanish.

Carolyn Watts

Communications/Media/Strategy

Carolyn Watts is the Director of All About People, a company that specialises in getting the best out of people.

Carolyn has a background in business, in the media, and in coaching people to their highest potential. She utilises all of these elements in delivering outcomes to corporations and individuals.

Having been a CEO, a broadcaster and a University lecturer, Carolyn has studied Coaching Psychology at he University of Sydney and is the Professional Development Co-ordinator for the University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Alumni.

With experience in facilitating programs for all levels of business managers including senior executives, Carolyn has worked in Australia, USA, Europe, and New Zealand. She has many years experience as a media trainer and is accredited to design and deliver training programs under the Australian Training Guarantee Act.

Carolyn’s successful broadcasting career with ABC Radio, led to her becoming the first Australian woman to win the prestigious Benton Fellowship for Broadcast Journalists at the University of Chicago.

Later, she was to become the first female CEO of Outward Bound.

Carolyn has studied psychoanalytic applications and is an accredited facilitator of the DiSC Behavioural Analysis system.

Her company, All About People Pty Ltd specialises in communication, media and in coaching managers and teams to facilitate personal and interpersonal change.

Carolyn’s role as company director includes taking an active role in individual projects such as leadership coaching, facilitation and management development, as well as coordination of teams of other highly skilled professionals brought in for their specialist skills on specific assignments.

Over the last decade, through her own and other business development companies, Carolyn has worked with representatives of Australian and international business including: Allens Arthur Robinson, AMP, Avis Australia, Bayer Crop Science, BMW, IBM Australia, Lend Lease, Mars Confectionery, Oracle Systems, TV New Zealand, Westpac Banking Corporation.

Janet Horton

Janet Horton is the founder of Handspring Consulting, providing independent coaching and consulting services for leaders tackling change. She has 20 years of consulting, business development, and management experience, including 10 years in senior leadership positions.

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Prior to forming Handspring, Janet served as Managing Director for International Decision Systems in Sydney – a software company providing IT products and services to the financial services industry. Her previous roles include Vice President of Global Client Services, Business Development Manager, and Consultant.   

Janet is in her final year of the Masters in Organisational Coaching program at University of Sydney, where she is currently working on a research essay on the role of human agency in change, supervised by Professor Richard Hall.

She is especially interested in helping organisations enhance their capacity to change and grow.

Qualifications and Certifications:

• Masters of Organisational Coaching, University of Sydney (2010 projected)
• Bachelors of Business Administration. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Pragmatic Product Marketing certified
• Hogan’s Assessment Systems certified
• Kegan’s subject-object interviewing certified

CENTRAL AMERICA

Carlos Enrique Romero

Business Strategy / Latin America

Carlos Enrique Romero, MBA is an executive coach and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in helping companies and executives to exceed their own expectations. He has worked with entrepreneurs and executives in several countries in Central America. His experience and training have earned him the reputation as one of the region's top executive coaches.

United States of America

Paulette Bethel

Intercultural / Family / Virtual Coaching

Dr Paulette Martinez Bethel is a global citizen with a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur, researcher, licensed psychotherapist, consultant, trainer and a certified global executive coach who specializes in cross-cultural management and global transition impacts.

Paulette is a retired United Sates Air Force Officer, and has worked for over 20 years in a leadership and organization development capacity in both the private and public sector. As a USAF Supply & Logistics Officer and Program Manager, she was responsible long-range logistics support and involvement in several DOD business-case initiatives, including responsibility and oversight for $468 million, life-saving F15/F-16 F100 engine upgrade. She also launched an award-winning regional base closure initiative by strategizing the multimillion dollar transfer of USAF property to fill critical needs throughout the Department of Defense and in support of local communities in the affected areas.

Paulette’s passion for understanding cross-cultural experiences began while growing up in the melting pot city of New Orleans with its potpourri of cultural influences. She traveled extensively while serving in the USAF, while living and working in numerous countries during her career. She continued to hone her cross-cultural competencies through immersion experiences in Mexico and her international doctoral internship in Guangzhou, China.

As a consultant, coach and licensed counselor, she has assisted business leaders, government agency leaders, families and individuals through a variety of challenges and changes in the workplace and at home. She combines her skills in counseling, consultation and training to provide clients necessary support to identify and implement creative and relevant solutions. She is committed to maximizing understanding of international transition in a way that translates to improved personal and professional results. Paulette uses her personal experiences of international relocation, along with her professional training and expertise to enhance her clients’ knowledge and understanding of the complexity of cultural adjustment that comes with a highly mobile lifestyle.

She holds a doctorate in International Education and Entrepreneurship from the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. She conducted her doctoral research on transformative learning experiences of an international group of executive and business coaches involved in an Internet entrepreneurship business development program. She also conducted research on “hidden diversity” of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) in the classroom. Other research interests include transition and identity impacts on Third Culture/Cross Cultural Kids and biracial/multiracial individuals, especially those who have lived and worked internationally. She also holds a Masters of Counseling, with specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from St Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines.

Paulette is multiple listed in Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who Among American Women. She is a volunteer with the International Economic Development Association, and consulted with the City of New Orleans and area businesses following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She was invited to participate as a co-author for the Wrestling with Race and Class in Post-Katrina New Orleans, chapter in the Report to Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring Back New Orleans Commission: An Alternative Vision for Rebuilding, Redevelopment & Reconstruction. She co-authored, with Ruth Van Reken, Third Culture Kids: Prototypes for Understanding Other Cross-cultural Kids. Her blog, Third Culture Adults in Global Transition is at http://thirdcultureadults.com/3culture.

Paulette "I believe that these combined experiences have been key to my enjoyment and understanding of the expatriate lifestyle and the issues that accompany overseas living and the crises of repatriation

Christian Nadeau

Not-for-Profit Organisations, International Law

Christian Nadeau is the President and founder of EcoDomo. He is a Canadian-born attorney who has worked in international development and democracy promotion for twelve years on a world-wide basis in more than twenty countries. As a Division Director in Moscow and Washington, DC, he analyzed change strategies and legal frameworks for tribunals, election commissions, and NGOs in more than 30 countries. An accomplished manager, he ran on-site country-wide projects with $6M budgets with tight, election-driven, highly-charged deadlines such as Haiti and Russia. Exceptionally organized, Mr. Nadeau "sold" democracy to a wide range of characters while working with the International Foundation for Election Systems and serving on assignments repeatedly with the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and other organizations.

Entrepreneurial, Christian worked with Aid to Artisans as a career transition from 2002-2005 as Regional Director based in San Salvador, El Salvador generating 2,500 new products and more than 2M$ in sales – exceeding challenging sales objectives by 40%. Clients recruited for El Salvador included Kirkland, Crate & Barrel, CostPlus, 10,000 Villages. His experience helping artisans expand their businesses through marketing and design was useful and convinced him to launch his own business venture in 2005.

Christian is a Member of the Quebec Bar; he holds an LL.B. in civil law (U. of Montreal), a LL. M. in Comparative Law (McGill University), and an M.A. in Economics and International Relations (John Hopkins/ SAIS).

Christian speaks French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, is the proud father of Andre (10) and Jacqueline (7). The family lives in the Chevy Chase area of Washington, DC.

EcoDomo was initiated in May 2005 in response to the need for high-design, highly ecological and renewable products. Our first collection on the market is Recycled Leather Tiles which are suitable for floors and walls. After two years of R&D, our tiles are comparable to cork or linoleum for abrasion and wear; they are easy to maintain and look exceptionally luxurious. The tiles are made from scraps of top-grain leather hides used to manufacture BMW® car seats and luxury handbags in South America. Our product is now sold in more than 400 stores across the USA and across Canada by The Home Depot and other retailers. Our clients include Bank of America, Starbucks, Whole Foods, the MGM, Kimpton Hotels, and other fine hotels and retailers.

Contact : www.EcoDomo.com * (202) 230-7873 * Email: Christian@EcoDomo.com

CHINA

Grace Cheng

Executive Recruitment / Cross-border Management

Grace Cheng is the Country Manager for Russell Reynolds in Greater China. Working across Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, she also conducts industrial/natural resources searches in China, with emphasis on general management and cross-border assignments for multinational companies at both the market entry and consolidated growth phases. She has eleven years of executive search experience. Before joining the executive search industry, she was Head of Human Resources for TNT’s China joint venture where she played a key role in the company’s initial growth and later expansion strategies. Grace has lived in the United Kingdom, where she was a Research Fellow at the London-based think tank, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), where her focus was work, employment and organizational behavior. Grace serves on the advisory board of the Chinese Returnee Association of Entrepreneurs. Grace received her B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University and her M.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts. She received her D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Marina Zhang PhD

Innovation / Enterpreneurship / China

Marina Zhang has over fifteen years experience in management consulting and executive education in diversified cultural contexts. She works as a management consultant and coach. She also lectures for various universities in and out of China. Her speciality is in high-tech start-ups, technological innovation in the network economy and cross-cultural management. 

Marina obtained her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Peking University, and her MBA and PhD in management from the Australian National University. She is currently living in Beijing with her husband and two daughters.

Organizational Performance / Human Resources Management

Sue is an Organizational Performance Specialist, with a particular
focus on developing capability in an organisations greatest resource,
its people, and always with a view to contributing tangible bottom line
results.

Sue is co owner and Director of an Organizational Performance Consultancy business, Harding Wyatt Consultants. (www.hwc.co.nz).  Having worked in both Human Resources Management and Operations Management for over 20 years, she has had the opportunity not only to advise and counsel on  best practice HRM principles at both an operational and strategic level, but also to apply them at the coal face.

She has worked with a range of stakeholders from factory staff to middle management to senior executive teams and across a range of sectors including large international corporations, the education and health sectors, as well as government and public sector. Her broad experience and learnings over the years have formed her business philosophy.  This is based on the premise that there are some fundamental variables that determine an organization’s success. These include leadership, strategy, culture and systems.

Organisational performance best practice is about accurately defining the nature of these variables in an organisation and mapping a path that ensure their integration into operational business strategies and practices.  This is Sue’s key strength.

Sue is a pragmatist in her approach and passionate about performance, particularly in the area of transformational leadership.  She is able to apply a range of tools and methodologies focused on developing and enhancing individual and organizational performance, primarily by digging deep enough to help others understand what makes them, or their organization tick.

Sue is a certified Master Coach and a member of the International Coaching Council (ICC). She has a B.A in Social History, a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology and a range of certifications and accreditations in HRM.

She is also owner and Co Director of Trilogy Smarthomes Ltd a new generation residential design and construction management company based on sustainable design, construction and technology. (www.trilogyhomes.co.nz.)   Like Harding Wyatt  Consultants, a strong ethical base and set of values underpin the philosophy of the company, those being Integrity, Passion and Excellence.

Sue has two busy teenagers and is into marathons, good food and great wine. (The marathons are a necessary post requisite to keeping at bay, the effects of the good food and great wine!)

 

UNITED KINGDOM

Malcolm Nicholson

Return on Expectations / Psychological Perspectives / Sport

Malcolm Nicholson is a leadership and executive coach, who works with senior business people. He has been running his own coaching and consultancy business (Aspecture) since 1998. www.aspecture.com

Malcolm works with his clients to achieve transformational change, i.e. changes that profoundly alter the way a person works and lives.

Because of the length and breadth of Malcolm’s experience, his approach is broad based and focuses on constructively challenging people’s beliefs. This liberates their capabilities and their actions follow creating high performance in work and life.

Malcolm currently works with a wide range of people in a variety of industry sectors including banking, financial services, entertainment, healthcare, education, outsourced services, logistics and IT. Client roles vary and include the Chairman of a £2.0bn turnover company and a range of senior (and middle) positions.

Malcolm has over 25 years work experience having started in Human Resources and moved in to Sales & Marketing. He has board experience of an operating division and has extensive experience in Europe and South Africa.

He is a Certified Master Coach. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology, has studied NLP, (neuro-linguistic programming), and is an accredited coach with the Sportsmind Institute of Australia. He is also a member of the ICF, (International Coaching Federation).

Malcolm’s coaching philosophy is simple - to inspire people to recognise their potential; to discover how to remove the roadblocks stopping them from achieving that potential; and to generate momentum to achieving that potential. Malcolm’s approach has been described as ‘engaging – yet ruthlessly results orientated!’ This along with 10 years experience coaching at the top, world class training, pragmatism and the ability to galvanise people into action helps make his approach unique!

Malcolm is married with three children and his interests include sports, (participating and coaching), music (particularly jazz) and family activities.

SWEDEN

Charlotte Nilsson

Transition Coaching / Anthropology    

Charlotte is CEO, senior consultant and partner of Mindmatch, a Swedish company specialized in coaching and training www.mindmatch.se . She is an experienced and qualified executive coach, with over twelve years experience of team and individual coaching in the private as well as the public sector, in Sweden and overseas.

Charlotte has developed and designed training and coaching programs for companies and give particular attention to tailoring programs for the specific needs of the client organisation. She has developed a niche in providing in-house integrated leadership and coaching programs for teams. She provides tailored in-house training for skills in communication, conflict management, performance/effectiveness, achievement/ goals, emotional intelligence, coaching leadership. 

Her company’s clients include; Governmental agencies, local small and medium sized companies, larger international companies (in Sweden), mainly within the industry of technology/IT and finance sectors.

Charlotte’s pedagogical and coaching approach is to work with emotions, cognition and behaviour through experience-based orientations in adult learning. Charlotte draws on solution-focused coaching methodologies.

 Charlotte has a global view of business. She has considerable experience in international business, training and supervising local and international teams in cultural awareness. She specializes in communication, ethics, values, and identity. She has delivered programs for employees and leaders for organizational change and provided coaching and training for a consultancy agency in Wessex, UK.

 Charlotte is a guest lecturer at Swedish business colleges in the area of communication, and cultural awareness,

 Charlotte’s qualifications include:

• Bachelor of Anthropology from Stockholm and Barcelona
• Certified Master Coach (CMC) through Behavioural Coaching Institute
• Certified in conflict management

 

FRANCE

Michel C Moral, PhD

Team / Organisational Coaching

Michel Moral spent most of his career in an international environment. After several years in IBM France sales, he joined IBM Euro-coordination where he was involved in different Business Units: Program manager in the Large Systems division, then manager of operations in the Networking Systems division, and manager of operations in Telco and Media Industries and later in Government Industries. Each of these Business Units is running a 2-4 billion dollars in annual revenue. He finally participated in re-organizing the Emerging Markets entity (Eastern countries, Middle East and Africa, a total of 124 countries) where he had the opportunity to manage teams or projects in more than 30 countries. He therefore has a deep knowledge in intercultural management and coaching and wrote a book on this subject (see publications)

In 2003 he decided to leave IBM to create his own consulting and coaching practice. He currently coaches executives, executive teams (multicultural, usually) and organizations in global companies. He also teaches coaching and intercultural management in Universities (Paris VIII) and Business Schools MBA’s.

As an executive coach, Michel Moral works either in French or English. He also supervises coaches either in French or English.

Education

Michel Moral holds a Masters degree in Science & Technology from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University Paris 5 La Sorbonne.

Publications

Michel Moral has published 5 books in French and one in English:

• One on intercultural management (Le manager global, Paris: Dunod, 2004)
• Three on coaching (Coaching, outils et pratiques, Paris:Armand Colin, 2006 ; Coaching d’équipe, outils et pratiques, Paris: Armand Colin, 2007 ; Coaching d’organisation, outils et pratiques, Paris: Armand Colin).
• One on stepfamily dynamics (Belle-mère ou marâtre, quel rôle pour la femme du père, Paris: Châtelet)
• And a collective book with Dr Geoffrey Abbott from Sydney : The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching, London: Routledge)

Contact Information

(33) 6 73 31 27 36

mmoral@attglobal.net

Advisory Board

Bruce Stening

David Buckley

Regina  Andreu