Geoffrey N. Abbott is an executive coach and researcher. He has been based in El Salvador since 2003, where he is completing his doctoral dissertation under scholarship from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the Australian National University. He has been working with expatriate managers and studying how coaching might assist cultural adaptation. Geoff’s academic background is in organizational psychology. His related consulting and research interests include the influence of culture and values in the workplace, and—of course—executive coaching. Geoff’s coaching clients in Central America, the United States, and Australia are drawn from the commercial, government, development, and academic sectors. His expertise lies particularly with executives who work in cross-cultural or multicultural contexts. Geoff is an associate with the School of Economics and Business (ESEN) in El Salvador. He was formerly Senior Policy Advisor for SBS Australia, a government-funded national television and radio broadcaster specializing in multicultural programming, where he managed strategic planning and cultural research. He has a keen interest in improving his Spanish and golf.

Seth Allcorn, PhD, is an assistant dean and chief financial officer for the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. Dr. Allcorn has 20 years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola-Chicago, and as the administrator of the departments of medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Rochester schools of medicine. He has worked for 20 years as a part-time and full-time organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic planning, and organizational restructuring. Dr. Allcorn is extensively published. He is the author or co-author of 10 books and over 60 papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Dr. Jeffrey E. Auerbach is the founder and president of the College of Executive Coaching, the leader in coach training for professionals with graduate degrees. The College of Executive Coaching is an International Coach Federation Accredited Coach Training Program with courses ongoing worldwide and is based in Pismo Beach, California. Jeffrey is the author of the best-selling Personal and Executive Coaching: The Complete Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Seeing the Light: What Organizations Need to Know—The 2005 State of the Coaching Industry, the editor of Building Competence in Personal and Executive Coaching, and the research director of the 2005 State of the Coaching Industry Project. He is the program committee co-chair of the Tenth International Coach Federation Conference, a steering committee member of the Executive Coaching Summit, on the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, board of directors member of the Association of Coach Training Organizations, steering committee member of the American Psychological Association Healthy Workplace Awards, a consulting psychologist, a certified personal and executive coach, a professional certified coach, and a master personal and executive coach. Dr. Auerbach is available for keynote presentations and consultations to industry groups on the emerging field of executive coaching.

Jennifer Garvey Berger consults and teaches in the areas of adult development, individual differences, and transformational learning. She teaches coaches about complexity of mind and leadership, and how to use advanced listening and questioning techniques to better understand and support their clients. In her writing and her teaching, Jennifer explores the workplace as one of the major centers of learning for adults, and she uses her research and consulting to help adults think about their work and their workplaces in ways that help them make positive changes. An assistant professor at George Mason University, Jennifer has also taught undergraduate, graduate, and professional development courses at Harvard and Georgetown Universities, among others. As a partner with Kenning Associates, Jennifer works with executives in a variety of industries (e.g., BNSF Railroad, Fidelity Investments, McKinsey & Company, SpectraLink) to help people develop the skills and the perspectives that will make their work more effective. She is co-editor of two books, Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research (Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2000) and Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives (Davies-Black, 2002), and is currently writing a book called Thriving in a Complex World: Twenty-First Century Professional Development (Elsevier: Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books, scheduled for publication spring, 2007). Jennifer holds a master’s degree in teaching and learning and a doctorate in adult development from Harvard University.

Michael Cavanagh, PhD, is both a practicing coaching psychologist and an academic. Michael is the deputy director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Sydney, where he has been involved in the development of the world’s first coaching degree program from its inception to the present day. He is also currently the National Convenor of the Australian Psychological Society’s Interest Group in Coaching Psychology (IGCP) with over 650 members across Australia and internationally. As a practitioner, Michael works with senior leaders in a range of multinational and national organizations. Michael’s coaching practice and teaching emphasize the use of empirically validated techniques and draw on cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and solution-focused approaches. His areas of special interest include coaching in complex systems, communication and interpersonal skills, solution-focused approaches to goal achievement and problem solving, and working with challenging executives.

Elaine Cox leads the MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice for the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University, and is also now developing a Professional Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring for the University. She has a master’s degree in continuing education from the University of Warwick and undertook her PhD at Lancaster University exploring the development of mentors in the voluntary sector. In addition, Elaine is editor for the International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council’s Ethics and Standards Committee. In addition to her interests in adult learning and development, Elaine is a regular contributor to academic journals. She is currently researching the use of emotion in coaching and is involved in a collaborative project exploring the coaching interaction and how this engenders change.

Anthony M. Grant, PhD, is a coaching psychologist and the founder and director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. Anthony has pioneered the evidence-based approach to coaching. Anthony’s background is grounded in the realities of the commercial world. Having left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications, he completed his training as a carpenter and ran his own contracting business. Embarking on a second career, he made a successful transition into direct sales and marketing, before beginning tertiary studies in psychology as a mature student and commencing a third career in his 30s. He holds a BA(Hons) in Psychology from the University of Sydney and a Master of Arts in Behavioral Science and PhD from the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University. His PhD thesis is one of the few that explicitly examine the effectiveness of evidence-based coaching. In addition to his academic work, Anthony has many thousands of hours of coach training and coaching experience and works with leaders of national and international organizations as an executive coach. His coaching research and practice have frequently been reported in the national and international media. This is his fifth book on evidence-based approaches to coaching.

Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, department of psychiatry, runs seminars and offers supervision in positive psychology. She teaches coaching research at the Institute for Life Coach Training, is on the editorial board of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and is a reviewer for the Journal of Positive Psychology and Routledge Publishing. She holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and is an examiner for the American Board of Professional Psychology. As a performance and personal coach, Dr. Kauffman loves working with people who want to be more effective at work, live their lives purposefully, and become closer with those they love. She specializes in those who have a book, artistic, or research project in their minds and hearts and need help getting it out the door and into the marketplace.

Travis Kemp, PhD, is managing director of The Teleran Group, a registered psychologist and secondary teacher, and a registered member of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia. He is a founding national committee member of the Australian Psychological Society’s Interest Group in Coaching Psychology and is a member and past state chair of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists. He is a fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute and Australian Institute of Management, a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and member of the Australian College of Educators. In addition to holding the position of adjunct research fellow with the International Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia, he also holds an appointment as adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Psychology’s Coaching Psychology Unit.

David B. Peterson earned his PhD in counseling and industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota. He joined Personnel Decisions in 1985, became leader of PDI’s worldwide coaching practice in 1990, and was promoted to senior vice president in 1996. David has coached hundreds of senior executives from organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Shell, Mayo Clinic, 3M, and Target. The models that David developed, such as the Development Pipeline and GAPS Grid, form the foundation of PDI’s coaching and leadership development services and products. With co-author Mary Dee Hicks, David has written two best-selling books—Leader as Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others and Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Directed Learning. A pioneer in the field of executive coaching, David has been researching, writing, and training others on the topic for almost 20 years. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Time, BusinessWeek, and USA Today.

Philippe Rosinski is an expert in executive coaching, team coaching, and global leadership development, sought after by leading international corporations. He is the author of Coaching Across Cultures (Nicholas Brealey Publishing/Intercultural Press, 2003) and his pioneering work in bringing the crucial intercultural dimension into the practice of coaching has won him worldwide acclaim. Philippe Rosinski is the first European to have been designated Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. He is principal of Rosinski & Company, a global consulting firm that helps leaders, teams, and organizations unleash their human potential to achieve high performance together with high fulfillment. Previously, he was the Director of Custom Programs at the Center for Creative Leadership Europe. He received an electrical and mechanical engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Brussels, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and the Cepac postgraduate business degree from the Solvay Business School in Brussels.

Dianne R. Stober, PhD, is on the faculty of the Organizational Management and Development master’s program at Fielding Graduate University. She also teaches in Fielding’s Evidence-Based Coaching Certificate Program. As a contributor to the development of coaching as a profession, she has presented and published her work in a variety of scholarly and professional venues such as the American Psychological Association, the International Coach Federation, the Professional Coach and Mentor Association, the Australian Evidence-Based Coaching Conference, and the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations. In addition, Dianne maintains an active coaching practice working with a diverse range of individuals and organizations. She has found coaching to be a fruitful application of her longstanding interests in leveraging people’s strengths, capitalizing on our many differences, and developing people’s inherent potentials. Dianne received her PhD in clinical psychology from Georgia State University, completed her internship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and received a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University.