Tom is an author, consultant, and speaker who specializes in assisting leaders in creating high-performance through the development of coaching cultures. He works with all levels of leaders and their teams to embrace coaching as a primary method of communication designed to enhance both individual and team effectiveness in achieving performance objectives.
Tom’s passion (and book, The Heart of Coaching) is focused on changing a leader's mindset from “the BOSS OF people” to the mindset of "the COACH FOR people." The premise of the book is that a performance-based, “feedback-rich” coaching culture will more effectively support an organization's business strategy, and lead to higher and more sustainable levels of performance.

He has worked as a consultant and engagement leader for the last 18 years in small and large organizations going through strategic change and culture alignment. Some of his clients include:

AES Corporation, AEP Corporation, Anadarko Petroleum, Aramark, A.T. Kearney, Baker & Botts, Bell Atlantic, Boise State University, Cable & Wireless Jamaica, CBS, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Caltrans (DOT), City of Encinitas, City of Sacramento, Columbia University, Copy Club West, Continental Airlines, Colorado Department of Education, Crown Educational Consortium, Crowne Plaza Redondo, Dixieline, Duty Free International, Dynegy, ENRON, Florida Power and Light, Future Shop Canada, GPU Nuclear, Homecomings Financial, Johnson & Johnson, KFC, KPMG, Leadership Long Beach, Los Alamos Laboratory, Marriott, Michelin, National Forest Service, New York Life, Nth Generation Computers, NYNEX, Pfizer, San Diego State University, SEI Financial, Southern California Gas, Sonat, Inc., The Marketing Store, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, The Helen Woodward Animal Center, Transco Energy, Vastar Resources, VISA USA, Von's Grocery Company, Woodgrain Millworks.

Prior to founding Crane Consulting in 1995, Tom was vice-president of Senn-Delaney Leadership for nine years and consulted with clients engaged in strategic culture change. Additionally, he worked in financial planning and project management roles with Solar Turbines, a division of Caterpillar. He has a BS from Purdue University and an MBA from Drake University.

Tom consults and speaks in the following areas: building Coaching Cultures to support High Performance, Leadership Development, Coaching Skills Workshops, High-Performance Team building, Group Facilitation and has authored several 360°, team, and culture assessment instruments.

Tom resides in San Diego, CA, and is a member of the San Diego chapter of OD Network, The Society for Human Resource Management, the American Society for Training and Development, and the National Speakers Association.

 

Joseph Shaules (PhD) has spent more than 20 years living and working abroad – first as an entrepreneur in Mexico, then as an educator, an academic and a trainer in Japan and Europe.
He is a recognized internationally as an expert on intercultural adaptation, working across cultures, intercultural learning styles and language education. He has published extensively and is the author of Deep Culture – Hidden Challenges to Global Living (Multilingual Matters, 2007), numerous articles, as well as books and educational materials for major publishers such as Oxford University Press and Longman International. He was for six years co-presenter of the NHK television program Crossroads Café. He does intercultural training in Japan and is currently working with the International House of Japan to develop seminars in leadership skills for intercultural professionals. He created the PICO (Personal Intercultural Change Orientation) profiling instrument and has developed the Deep Culture approach to intercultural learning. He holds a BA degree in foreign languages from Portland State University, an MA in teaching from the School for International Training, Brattelboro, Vermont, and a PhD from the University of Southampton, where he carried out research on intercultural adaptation. He is proficient in English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Currently, he is based in Tokyo and is an associate professor at the Rikkyo Graduate School of Intercultural Communication. He is a Japan expert for the German training and consulting firm Intercultures. He is also the director of the Japan Intercultural Institute (JII).

 Jill McGinn. HR Director with ADP Employer Services, with responsibility for the HR function providing services across Australia and the Asia pacific region. Jill has over 20 years experience in HR spanning across food retail, software and Service Outsourcing industries. Jill has established several external and internal coaching programmes both in the UK and more recently Australia and has recently completed her Diploma of Business & Workplace Coaching.

 

Karen Tweedie PCC has 16 years experience in coaching, training, facilitating and consulting. She is Past President of the International Coach Federation Australasia and President Elect of ICF Global.

Karen is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. She is passionate about loyalty, learning and leadership. She has a life-long interest in seeing people at their best, and holds herself accountable to this. She takes up the challenge by maintaining her own personal and professional development and by practicing her own leadership in her work and volunteer work.

Karen is committed to seeing Coaching become a true profession. She has been active in a number of profession-building coaching communities. Her most important involvement has been with the International Coach Federation (ICF) dating from 2001. Since that time she been a local Chapter volunteer, Director of Communications, Director of Chapter Presidents and Regional President for the Australasian International Coach Federation (ICFA). Since January 2006 Karen has had a place on the ICF Global Board. She is the current Secretary/Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee.

Apart from her own Executive Coaching Practice, Karen is Director of Coaching for Coachbroker Pty Ltd - www.coachbroker.com. In this capacity she is responsible for sourcing, recruiting and quality assuring the Coachbroker pool of executive coaches. These coaches provide coaching services to blue chip public companies.

She is a CoachCorp-trained coach, and has co-facilitated these programs since 2002. She has an extensive background in education at all levels, and has run a training, facilitation and consulting practice since 1991. Karen brings a depth and breadth of understanding of organisational development and the interplay of human behaviour, motivation, and communication to her work with clients.

Karen is married and the mother of four children who continue to help her understand the challenges inherent in values-based leadership.
 
 

Helen Thompson extensive local and international experience in organisational development. Her current role is Head of Customer Experience for The Academy at NAB.

 

 

Mick Francis and Associates was established in 2007. Business and Workplace Coach, Mick Francis has over 30 years experience in managing organisations with budget of up to $100 Million per annum.
Mick Francis has been working with senior management groups building awareness between stakeholders and executives. His current clients Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal(VCAT) and Integrated Court Management Systems(ICMS) have both developed stronger relationships and communication channels with Mick’s assistance. Mick likes to focus on newly appointed managers leading change initiatives and assist them with workplace coaching or mentoring programs as well as assisting with career transitions.
Mick will form a strong rapport with your management team identifying any relationship gaps, skill shortages and management requirements. With an ethical approach, Mick delivers change, fully understanding the pressures of modern management. Mick has vast and various experiences of technology reforms working in both regional and metropolitan settings.
Social and emotional politics can dominate upper management and having worked in the Victorian Court’s environment, most recently as CEO Magistrates Court of Victoria, Mick understands the need to drive and deliver reform.
Workplace coaching has gained momentum over the past 5-10 years and as a Nationally Accredited Business & Workplace Coach, Mick Francis & Associates will work together with you to help you transform and deliver change in your workplace.

 

 

 

MBA (MGSM), Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management & Psychology).
General Manager Human Resources
Avant Insurance Limited

Rebekah has over 15 years experience in senior HR roles in professional services, banking, finance and insurance industries.  Having worked through a number of mergers and business integrations, she has had first hand experience of how major workplace changes can affect senior people and how HR together with coaching can help senior management manage themselves and others more effectively through these times.  Rebekah built her HR career at Ernst & Young, then spent several years with HBOS Australia through Capital Finance Australia and working with sister companies including BankWest.  Most recently working through the merger of two of Australia’s dominant Medical Indemnity insurers to form Avant – Australia’s largest medical indemnity insurer, Rebekah is both pragmatic and strategic in her approach.

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 Murray Willmott