What's New at Global Coaches?
US-China Women Business Leaders in Beijing
Global Coaches Network, a Charles County, Maryland globally positioned executive education and global business consulting organization is facilitating better business relationships between the United States and China. This is happening in both the United States and in China.
Edith Coron, a French national living in Beijing and Lesley Lewis, a US national living in Hong Kong, both working with Global Coaches Network, recently presented on executive development for women leaders doing business globally at the annual conference of US-China Women Business Leaders in Beijing China in late September, 2007.
In October 2007, Barrie Zucal, MS, President and CEO of Global Coaches Network presented to small and medium sized business leaders from the US and China on “Etiquette that Makes or Breaks an Intercultural Business Relationship”. Barrie spoke about the values of the US and Chinese cultures and the etiquette that is a reflection of the culture and the positive impact of knowing how to behave with those from countries and cultures that are very different from ones own. She also told stories of missed opportunity and business disaster related to a lack of preparation and misunderstanding related to cultural differences and similarities.
This conference was sponsored by American & China International Group, a Rockville based organization whose mission is to provide a bridge for cultural information and exchange between US and China between people and companies.
Global Coaches' Zucal Named Consultant at Maryland University College
Barrie Zucal, president and CEO of Global Coaches Network a Charles County global executive coaching, consulting, training, and facilitation business, was selected by the University of Maryland University College as their consultant on global leadership education and as the administrative leader of the executive master's executive coaching program. In this capacity, Barrie consults with the University of Maryland University College professors on global executive education assessments, the design of the coaching program, plans and execution of coach education, and aligning the coaching program with the larger program outcomes. Zucal was selected for this position because of her expertise in global executive education and doing business globally.
June 2006: Barrie Zucal and GGCN Featured in Southern Maryland Newspaper Article
Going worldwide: Barrie Zucal's passion for different cultures and traveling around the world spurred her to establish a global network of professionals who teach business leaders how to deal with cultural diversity in the workplace.
Zucal established Global Coaches Network in her Waldorf home in 2004. Possessing experience as a global traveler helped the Pennsylvania native take flight with the business, she said...
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April 2006: Global Coaches President Barrie Zucal presents at L3Global Leadership Conference, Shanghai, PRC
Barrie Zucal, president and CEO of Global Coaches Network, a worldwide alliance of forty global leadership coaches, consultants, and counselors home based in Washington DC in the United States, presented a case study to the participants of the L3 Conference which took place in Shanghai, PRC in April. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of San Diego and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Barrie presented on a global leadership coaching program designed by Global Coaches Network for a leadership team and the individual leaders in a global customer organization.
This collaborative conference brought together leaders from business, government, and academics, interculturalists, and others interested in learning more about best practices and new research in the field of global leadership. The subtitle for the 3LConference was “many paths, one journey.” There is a 2007 conference planned. See www.L3Conference.com.
March, 2006: Global Coaches Network Expands to China
“I know it would come, I just didn't know it would come this fast.” That's what president and CEO of Global Coaches, Barrie Zucal said referring to her organization's recent expansion to China. Global Coaches, which is just sixteen months old, has global leadership coaches in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, India, and Australia. These coaches have expertise in twenty-three cultures, and coach in twelve languages.
Now due to client demand they need coaches in China. Barrie Zucal, president, and CEO of Global Coaches, traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong to interview coaches she connected with before her travel through professional associations and colleague referrals. Barrie is happy to report that she found executive coaches with senior level experience, Chinese and western living in Asia, who will be joining the network.
Pamela Tse is one of those coaches. She holds a business degree and has received intensive training and career exposure in U.S. and Asia. She brings 30 years of coaching, human resources development, and management consulting experience to her practice. She has worked for some of the world's largest corporations including Exxon, Chase Manhattan Bank, HSBC and Cathay Pacific Airways. Lesley Lewis is another. A long time Hong Kong resident, she has more than twenty years experience in Asia, Europe and North America working with top executives in leading financial services organizations, multinational corporations, and governments including the U.S. Department of State and the Hong Kong SAR. Pamela and Lesley are just two examples of the professional coaches who are joining with Global Coaches to provide global leadership coaching to their client organization in China.
All Global Coaches Network coaches have lived and worked in cultures other than their own. Many have been business leaders themselves and have industry specific experience in many different industries. Others come from a psychological background and have coached senior organizational leaders. They are all familiar with the unique challenges and opportunities of working globally while trying to achieve business objectives. They have all been trained in Global Leadership Coaching by Global Coaches Network.
January 2006: Global Coaches Network begins an Alliance with Healthy Companies International
Global Coaches Network, a worldwide alliance of forty global leadership coaches, consultants, and counselors home based in Washington DC in the United States has joined forces to work with Healthy Companies International, an Arlington, Virginia, US based organization. Healthy Companies International helps CEOs build healthy high performing companies. Global Coaches Network coaches organizational leaders and their teams worldwide to sustainable high performance and productivity. They are especially active in work with global organizations.
To begin their relationship, Global Coaches will coach senior leaders of Healthy Companies customer companies in the manufacturing industry.
October, 2005: Global Coaches Holds first Training for Global Coaches in Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Global Coaches Network, worldwide alliance of forty global leadership coaches, consultants, and counselors home based in Washington DC in the United States held their first coach training in Alexandria, Virginia in Oct. 2006.
Executive coaches from Australia, Europe, Canada, India, and the United States met for three and a half days to expand their already high level competencies and experience to include the competencies necessary to coach global organizational leaders. Many of these coaches have been global business leaders themselves before they became coaches.
Mary Ann Donahue was there. Before she studied coaching, she served as Vice president, Human Development at Medtronic, Inc. Before that she spent fourteen years as Global Management and Organizational Development and as a Human Resource generalist with Honeywell. Jeff Reed also attended. Before he got into coaching, he was in corporate leadership himself as an expatriate manager building brands and businesses for a number of leading global consumer goods companies in a wide variety of cultural environments in Asia Pacific and Europe. He worked for companies such as Gillette, Carnation International and Unilever in places such as London, Scandinavia, Singapore, Pakistan, and China.
These experienced business leaders turned coaches came together to become pioneers in the field of “global leadership coaching” where basic coaching skill and even excellent experience at executive coaching is not enough. At this training they became certified and skilled in the use of the Cultural Orientations Inventory, and the Cultural Orientations Model for assessing individual cultural preferences which are often influencing the way that a global leader leads without him or her having any awareness of the impact of cultural preferences on what they do. This tool and model, developed by the Training Management Corporation, in Princeton, New Jersey help leaders to engage their culturally diverse workforce.
Coaches were also schooled in the EAGLE program, a leadership development plan for global leaders developed by Barrie Zucal, President and CEO of Global Coaches Network and Senior Associate Kathy Trickey. EAGLE stand stands for Executive Assessment and Global Leadership Excellence. As the flagship program of Global Coaches Network, this program provides basic knowledge of concepts and processes needed for global coaches working to enhance the capacity of global leaders in global organizations worldwide. The end result for the leader is competency in the personal, business and leadership, and cultural arenas of his/her life and the opportunity to have a powerful positive impact on their organization's results and the global community.
This is the first of several trainings as Global Coaches Network grows rapidly to meet the needs of their client organizations worldwide.
September 2005: Global Coaches Network to become exclusive providers of coaching for Training Management Corporation.
Global Coaches Network, a worldwide alliance of forty global leadership coaches, consultants, and counselors home based in the Washington DC in the United States is teaming with Training Management Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, USA, a firm providing training, consulting, and learning solutions to global organizations. An established and respected organization, Training Management Corporations has been partnering with organizations like IBM, American Express, and BP to meet their training and learning needs.
When TMC decided to expand into offering “global effectiveness coaching” to their clients, Global Coaches Network was the coaching organization of their choice. The Network offers TMC's customer organizations the opportunity to offer global effectiveness coaching to their senior leaders and managers locally and world wide. Global Coaches Network has coaches on the ground in seventeen countries, has coaches with expertise in twenty-three cultures, and can coach in fifteen languages.
Together TMC and GCN can provide comprehensive learning solutions leading to sustainable results in global organizations. Specifically they work in the areas of global effectiveness, global leadership development, international assignment success, cultural transition coaching, and personal mastery for senior leaders.
