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BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL COACH CERTIFICATION ALLIANCE
The following individuals oversee the quality of
all ICCA training programs
(both content and service provision), and
ensure the integrity of our credentialing process:
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GLENN LIVINGSTON, PHD: CEO and Co-Founder of the
Alliance. Dr. Glenn Livingston
is the son of two
therapists in a family of 20 psychologists, social
workers, counselors, and therapists. Shortly
after getting his Ph.D. (from
Yeshiva University at the Einstein
Medical Campus in New York City) Glenn built a 65
person practice in approximately eighteen months, and has
now worked with well over 1,000 clients. When
people's symptoms resolved, he invited them into his
coaching practice until, five years later, he was working
almost entirely as a coach, and also directly supervising
other coaches and therapists. But because he
doesn't have children, thoroughly enjoys his work, and
has never had
to commute, Dr. Livingston launched a second career as a
consultant, helping large companies like Whirlpool,
Novartis, Bausch & Lomb, and Panasonic, evaluate
psychological response to advertising. His
companies (jointly owned with his wife Sharon - see
below) eventually sold more than $30,000,000, and
along the way obtained publicity in major media like The
New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun
Times, the NY Daily News, Crain's NY Business, The
Milwaukee Business Journal, The Indiana Star Ledger,
American Demographics, CBS & ABC Radio, Bloomberg Radio,
WGN & UPN TV, and many, many more. Later
accomplishments include co-founding and developing a 21
person online marketing agency, and developing his own
profitable publishing business. (Details) |
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HOWIE
JACOBSON, PHD: Training and Educational
Advisor to the Certification Program. Dr. Howie
Jacobson earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton
University and his Ph.D. in Education from Temple
University. After working as a school teacher for
several years, Howie decided to develop educational
programs for the business world, and specializes in
creating simple, easy to understand methods for teaching
complex concepts. He's the author of AdWords for
Dummies (Wiley Publishing), and has
co-authored a book "Whole" with T. Colin Campbell
(author of "The China Study" - the world's largest
epidemiological study on nutrition and disease).
Dr. Jacobson has also developed his own online
marketing agency, traveled the world presenting his
ideas, work, and theories, and maintains a small, high
priced coaching practice from his home office in North
Carolina. (Howie's
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SHARON
MELNICK, PHD: Dr.
Sharon Melnick is a psychologist and business coach whose
practical behavior change tools are informed by 10 years of
research at Harvard Medical School, field tested by over
7000 training participants, and applied by hundreds of
coaching clients to succeed at their next level. As CEO
of her company, Horizon Point Inc, she has coached high
potential and senior leaders at Deutsche Bank, Oracle,
Freddie Mac, Pitney Bowes, Deloitte and numerous business
owners. Her
presentations receive the highest ratings and repeat
invites from organizations such GE, Procter and Gamble,
Pfizer, Merck, Bloomberg, Coldwell Banker, Chubb and for
conferences hosted by American Management Association,
National Association of Female Executives, Working Mother
Media, Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and the
Healthcare Businesswomen's Association. Her education is
from Yale University, UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School
and she received a certification in executive coaching from
the Institute for Management Studies. Sharon is also the
author of Success under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying
Calm, Confident, and Productive When The Pressure's On.
(Sharon's
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JAN
SEWARD, PSY D: Dr. Seward is clinical psychologist, and currently Clinical
Professor of Psychology and Medicine at the College of
Naturopathic Medicine at the University of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, where she coordinates the Health Psychology
and Counseling curriculum. (For 10 years Jan also served
on the faculty and executive team of the New York College
for Allied Health on Long Island, NY.) Jan is also the
former co-producer and co-host of the award-winning "Radio2Women"
on WBCR 97.7 FM in Great Barrington, MA, where she and her
co-host (Serene Mastrianni) interviewed hundreds of guests on topics about health care, politics,
education, and the arts. An accomplished public
speaker—Jan is known for her lively intelligence,
humor, and unconventional perspective on today's most
pressing issues—Dr. Seward particularly enjoys educating
women about financial "self-defense", and has worked to
improve financial thinking and financial literacy with her
well-attended seminars "Nice Girls Can Get Rich" and
"Ready
for Anything: Talk for Tough Economic Times". Her
company, Fruition™ Dynamic Change Services, offers business
and personal growth coaching and consulting services
founded on the principle of "Real Results in the Real
World"; with over 25 years of experience, she has helped
entrepreneurs, CEO's and professionals from all walks of
life to fulfill their potential and realize their dreams.
(Jan's
Website #1) (Jan's
Website #2)
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BECKY CASTRO, CPCC, PCC: Becky Castro has
been an entrepreneur for the past 27 years. (She started
her first business at 26 years old in 1986, a graphic
design company) In 2001, she began
intensive training to become a certified business and
personal coach, starting her second business "I Love Monday
Mornings!" For the past 12 years, she has coached
entrepreneurs and CEO's internationally to reach their
highest success of both profit and more importantly living
their "values" and their "reason why" for their business in
the first place. Becky says, "Clearly the old ways of
running a business can no longer sustain us. There is
actually a new business model out there that respects ones
"values" and one's "why" as well as the triple bottom line
of people, profit and the planet." Becky has been
awarded the second highest level of coaching certification,
a PCC from the International Coaching Federation--a distinction granted to less than 2K coaches
worldwide--and has previously been named woman of the year
by the Women Business Owner Alliance. (She was also named one of 25 Business Women to
Watch in the Pioneer Valley.) An inspirational public
speaker, Ms. Castro prides herself on lifting people up to
do things that they think they can't do. She can
coach people on the spot, without any preparation; she
encourages clients to dare themselves and not rely on
what's comfortable. Becky loves to see clients clarify what
they want, remove obstacles in their way, and achieve their
goals. "If you don't love Monday mornings," she says,
"really, what's the point of being in business or having a
career? Aren't we supposed to love what we do?" (Becky's
Website #1) (Becky's
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BURTON F. CAMPBELL: Burt
Campbell - Burt provides a diverse and international
background to the International Coach Certification
Alliance. He began his career in sales,
design, marketing consulting, product development and
extensive brand management for high profile companies
such as Oakley to SAP. But his ability to connect and
understand people, along with his ability to break down
processes and analyze data helped him strike a powerful
balance between the analytical and emotional, objective
and subjective, and eventually led to an extensive
self-education, evolutionary psychology, and the
insatiable pursuit of how the brain works, Along with
his personal quest to understand human behavior (and
in particular, what gets people to take action) Burt
began his coaching career. Now he focuses
specifically in the areas of charisma, social dynamics
and entrepreneurship (both online and offline),
empowering men to become their "best and true selves" -
thus creating a magnetic attraction in all aspects of
their life. While his focus is foundational and the
inner self, the results are exponential & lifelong.
Burt was also the top Canadian in Stockholm marathon two
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JOHN CHANCELLOR, CPC:
John
is a Double Certified Professional Coach and author
of two books ("Designing Your Life" and "The Hungry
Entrepreneur--Why so Many Business Owners Fail to Achieve
Their Goals.") Mr. Chancellor's original degree
was in business from Tulane University in New Orleans, and
he has since accumulated over 40 years experience in
management and consulting working with companies ranging in
size from small start-up mom & pop businesses to mid-size
companies up to $50 million in revenue. John
has also
worked with over 350 individuals from around the world via
AllExperts.com in the categories of health, fitness,
self-improvement, and how to get what you want in life...
with a feedback rating of 9.5 on a 10 point scale.
Finally,
Mr. Chancellor is a Top 500 reviewer on Amazon.com--ranking
in the top 99.99% of ALL Amazon reviewers!--and a
regular reviewer for American Management Association,
McGraw Hill, and several PR firms including Jane Wesman,
The PR Freelancer, The Cadence Group and Author Services,
LLC as well as several independent publishing companies and
independent authors. (John's
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TERRY DEAN: Terry Dean has made his living as an
entrepreneurial and copywriting coach for the last 17
years. started his online business from scratch in 1996. He went from
delivering pizzas for a living to building a million dollar
business promoted primarily through the Internet. Within a
few years he was also consulting with home based
businesses, local companies, and million dollar
corporations. His original company and websites were sold
in 2004, and he founded MyMarketingCoach, LLC. which is
dedicated to coaching entrepreneurs in the 10 key
principles of success in business and life.
Terry provides consistent feedback and content regarding
the development our "origin story" workshops... where new
coaches learn powerful ways to present their unique
background and passion in order to create a foundation for
attracting highly qualified clients.
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DEREK DEARDEN, M.A., CPC:
Derek has been coaching small businesses for the past
twelve years, with a particular emphasis on using the
internet as a marketing medium... but also spends
considerable time with clients focusing on how to
achieve harmony in a fast paced, growing business.
Additionally, Derek spent 14 years coaching high board
and springboard divers, producing literally dozens
of champions. Finally, he is an entrepreneur
in his own right. Derek's accomplishments across more
than 42 years have included: design, development and
manufacture of audio effects equipment for musicians and
recording studios; software development for retailing
Point-of-Sale systems; computerized spectrometry
systems; installations for toll-bridge collections; and
educational software development. Derek operates
mostly from his home in the New Forest National Park in
the South of England. Of course, Derek is also an ICCA
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YOAV EZER:
Yoav Ezer's unusual background in managing and coaching
literally thousands of underlings while a high level
instructor for the Israeli Defense Forces proves
invaluable to the ICCA programs.
His familiarity with the systems and training programs
required to instill new skills, values, and expertise in
over 10,000 people at a time allows us to disseminate
difficult information with ease to large groups. Yoav has
also headed several companies as CEO, and has brought at
least one to a multimillion dollar level. (He
now specializes in coaching and management systems for
start ups, and is currently building a massive coaching
system for brides-to-be on a large scale) |
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ESTHER GENDELMAN, MS, LPC,
CPC: Esther Gendelman is a highly experienced
licensed mental health counselor and certified
professional coach who specializes in working with
relationships. She's a veteran educator, and speaker,
who has a passion for helping people grow and maximize
their potential. She lives with her husband in their
recently emptied nest in Oak Park, Michigan and
cherishes her role as wife, mother and grandmother.
Esther is also a successful "shadchan" -- matchmaker -- who helps men and women connect. She's had wonderful
success in coaching them from first date to their
wedding day and beyond, encouraging healthy
communication, problem solving and loving, deep
emotional connection. We think you'll fall in love with
her sensitive and intuitive way of working with people, too. Her training includes a degree in education which
combines spiritual studies with teaching skills,
methodology and theory. Her Master's degree is in
counseling and human services from Indiana University,
and her BA is in education and spirituality from Yavneh
Teacher's College. She holds advanced training
certificates in EMDR levels 1 & 2, Gottman Couples
Therapy levels 1 & 2, CBT for Anxiety, Emotionally
Focused Couples Therapy, Motivational Interviewing,
Collaborative Couples Therapy...and of course, she is an
ICCA Certified Professional Coach! (Esther's
Website | Phone 248-915-9122) |
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RYAN
LEVESQUE: Ryan Levesque is a Brown University
graduate where he studied and taught neuroscience. After
graduating he transitioned from academia to finance &
business — first working on Wall Street, then in China
(overseeing a multi-million dollar expansion initiative),
and eventually launching his own publishing & ecommerce
business. He's had success in markets online ranging from
Jewelry-Making (a partnership with his wife) to Memory
Improvement (leveraging his background in neuroscience). Today, Ryan
coaches other entrepreneurs looking to launch or grow
their own businesses online. He's worked with
dozens of clients in other "coaching markets"
ranging from Golf Instruction, Marriage Counseling,
Naturopathic Medicine, Dating Advice, Drumming
Instruction, Functional Medicine, Annuity Planning,
Homeopathy, and many others... His work has
been featured in the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco
Chronicle, and the Miami Herald as well as places like
Yahoo Finance, CNBC and TheStreet.com. Since 2008, when
Ryan transitioned from a Fortune 100 employee to
self-employed business owner, he's been responsible for
growing his client revenues by over $25 million.
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MICHAEL MCCARRELL: Michael McCarrell is an
entrepreneur who has managed and owned several businesses
since 1992. His businesses have spanned from wireless
phones and service, to installing automotive accessories to
helping clients resolve anxiety and trauma. In addition to
his own projects, he is a certified consultant for the
Livingston Bulls Eye(tm) process which finds the most
important keywords, the language of the best customers and
the business model of the most successful competitor for a
specific online market. While very comfortable with
technical analysis, Michael really enjoys (or excels at)
helping businesses and business owners understand the deep
emotional needs, emotional impact and messaging that is
needed to attract, enroll and resolve their potential
clients' problems. Michael's personal coaching
focuses on working with emotional conflicts and the
physiological aspects of change (transformation).
His experience is that cognitive learning (information
about WHAT to do) is most often only a small piece of
what it takes to effect personal change. Michael has found
the best results - both on his personal journey, and with
his coaching clients - from working with deeper (often
unconscious) emotional responses as well as working
with physical reactions and nervous system (somatic)
responses. By working with these aspects he and his clients
have found the longest lasting, deepest and ultimately most
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GARY MEGEL: Gary Megel
is a business coach and educational expert who began his
career in the family jewelry store which he eventually
purchased. After achieving an average 16% year over
year growth rate for more than 15 years (and taking
sales from $200,000 to $2,000,000+ per year), Gary
pursued his interest in educating his industry. As a
traveling instructor for the Gemological Institute of
America, he delivered gemology classes to approximately
900 students annually in multiple cities. He was also
responsible for delivering GIA’s Accredited Jewelry
Professional courses to aspiring and veteran members of
the industry. After semi-retiring in 2009, Gary turned
his attention to helping other small business owners
build their enterprises, as well as cope with the daily
stresses and strains every entrepreneur must face.
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ROBERT MICHON: Since
1995, Robert Michon has built a number of successful,
real-world businesses from scratch in a variety of highly
competitive industries. He has a keen eye for finding the
"air pockets" in a marketplace and positioning companies to
fill the void that's hidden where no one else is looking.
Rather than focusing on toe-to-toe competition, his
approach is to manufacture profitable opportunities by
matching the unique characteristics of business owners to
that most profitable unaddressed area of the marketplace
that's silently screaming for attention. Having marketed
and sold face-to-face, by mail and over the phone, his
focus is to get both the strategy and the tactics
coordinated and working in tandem, so each function
enhances the others. Robert has also spent several years
coaching football and baseball at the youth level, as well
as football and strength and conditioning at the high
school level. In business, he has successfully coached
several hundred clients through high-stress, high stakes
situations. He currently shares the strategies and
experience he's gained in these diverse areas with business
owners and companies to find the best opportunities to
attract, convert and retain more ideal clients so they can
break through the million dollar mark and beyond. |
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JOEL RAPHAEL: Joel holds a Master's in Advanced
Management from Pace University. Mr. Raphael is
also the former director of market research at AT&T which
he managed a multimillion dollar budget and was
responsible for supervising a team which did hundreds of
studies annually. (He was responsible for all
customer satisfaction measurements collected for consumer
and business service units). Joel is invaluable
for the Alliance's board because of his ability to
evaluate (and input into) the STRUCTURE of our
certification and training programs, and our ability to
disseminate learning across a broad audience and large
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BRIAN THERRIEN:
After working as sales manager, sales and marketing
consultant, and coach Brian has settled into his current
role as an agent of change for the disabled.
Since 2006 Brian's company "The Disability Digest" has
helped over 11,000 clients collect $12,320,000 in
monthly Social Security Disability payments an average
of ten months faster...while simultaneously providing a
reliable source of income for the twelve disabled
individuals who work for his company. He's also
helped 124,000+ others weave through the confusing maze
of disability issues. Brian team now teaches a select
group of other companies how to leverage the untapped
potential of a disabled labor force to decrease cosst,
increase employee retention, and improve results.
Brian serves as our chief advisor for helping disabled
persons work through our coach certification program,
and is sometimes able to secure educational financing to
cover our tuition for those receiving SSDI payments.
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Additional Board
Members and Advisors
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DAVID ENDLER,
PHD:
Individual and Group Coaching Advisor to the
Certification Program. Dr. David Endler has been
practicing with individuals and groups for more than 50
years, has helped thousands of clients, and was a founding
member of the Board at the Center for Modern Analytic
Studies in Boston. He originally studied with Hyman
Spotnitz (an American doctor who—after studying at
Harvard University—courageously broke with over-sexualized
Freudian tradition and pioneered the modern analytic
method).
Dr. Endler also studied extensively with Lou Ormont,
a group therapist who pioneered methods for
effectively engaging group members to interact directly and
responsibly with one another in specific ways.
(The Ormont method creates a transformative power in the
group which is many times greater than any particular
leader could ever hope to engender through his or her
direct intervention...Dr.
Endler has helped us instill these principles into the
group component of our programs) Dr. Endler's
private practice is overbooked at this time and he's unable
to accept new referrals.
DAVID OLIVER:
David Oliver is a Yale University graduate who serves a
difficult set of niches in mental health
with lay-coaching systems.
(He also sells DVDs, CDs, Books, and eBooks).
Mr. Oliver has done literally thousands of coaching
sessions, and has gathered over 11,000 testimonials from
raving fans at last count...all while competing with
major drug companies
(as essentially a lone-wolf coach and small business
person with less than 15 employees)
for share of voice. David has also developed
creative coaching techniques and systems which work with
families in serious emotional and financial turmoil.
He regularly reviews and inputs into our program. |
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