Cody is a Leadership minor and a member of the prestigious Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program. He will be working on various projects, ranging from personal interviews with the coaches to research for an upcoming book.

When asked how he was enjoying himself so far, he smiled and said, “I’ve had a wonderful time thus far and cannot wait to see what each new day brings. With each project, I’m learning about new leadership skills, current coaching debates, and hot-off-the-press techniques that the professionals are using. This is a great opportunity for me to immerse myself within a leadership world.”

We look forward to seeing what Mr. Benoit accomplishes, and we thank him for all of his hard work on behalf of The Coaching Association.

The Coaching Association is a network of executive and business coaches with extensive experience in leadership development, business and organizational consulting and career transition counseling.  If you are interested in the internship program at The Coaching Association, contact Executive Director, Barbara Demarest at info@TheCoachingAssociation.com or 336-303-1577.

Ronnie is also an Executive Coach at The Center for Creative Leadership. In her prior life, Ronnie spent many years as a Human Resource executive, most recently completing ten years as the VP of HR for a mid-size jewelry retailer that completed a bankruptcy and liquidation in 2010.

Ronnie’s private coaching practice focuses on companies and individuals undergoing transition.

After earning a BA and MBA from Rutgers University, Ronnie led HR functions in a number of different environments including: retail, professional services and educational institutions.  She has been the Vice President of Human Resources for a multi-state retailer.  Within organizations, Ronnie has been involved extensively in business strategy, human resources and options.

Currently, Ronnie consults in the area of executive coaching for the Center for Creative Leadership, the number one leadership training organization in the country.  In addition, she does a variety of consulting with individuals planning for transitions, as well as organizations trying to match their human resource strategy with their business strategy.

To see Ronnie’s full profile, please visit TheCoachingAssociation.

Because I am one of the 700,000 people signed up with Authentic Happiness, I received their announcement about a new Master program in Positive Psychology (MAPP).  I share the announcement in its entirety below.

For those of you considering school, this may be of interest.  It is an executive education model, so many of the students will also be full-time workers who travel in to Philadelphia for the program.  I think it sounds really fantastic and if someone would give me a scholarship, I’d be all over it!

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Dear Authentic Happiness Member:

We are happy to announce that the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 academic year.

We are looking for the next class to join the more than 190 students who have enrolled in this extraordinary program in the five years since its inception and who are now applying positive psychology in education, medicine, law, business, psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, consulting, and elsewhere.  Some of our younger students are now enrolled in Ph.D., J.D., or M.D. programs to further their training before engaging in the practice of positive psychology.

Because MAPP is offered on an executive education model, most of our students continue to work full time during the year and commute to Philadelphia – from across the United States and as far away as Mexico, the UK, Sudan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand! – for the on-site classes.  While many students have already earned other master’s degrees or even Ph.D.’s, only a Bachelor’s degree is required for admission.

If you hold at least a Bachelor’s degree (or will complete one this spring), have an excellent academic record, and are interested in learning about positive psychology and its applications from leading researchers and practitioners in the field, we invite you to find out more about our program.  If you think the program may be a good fit for you, we encourage you to submit an application before the deadline of March 1, 2010.

For more information about our program, please visit our website at www.pennpositivepsych.org

In addition to general program information, the website contains a link to a recorded Virtual Information Session that features input from administrators, professors, and students of the MAPP program.
Please feel free to pass this message along to anyone else you know who might be interested in this program.

Whatever you choose to do in this New Year, we hope it will be one of authentic happiness for you and yours.

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Yes! You may use this article by Strategy and Executive Coach, Barbara Demarest, inyour blog, newsletter or website as long as you include the following bio box:

Barbara Demarest (BarbaraDemarest.com) received her MBA from the Babcock School of Management at Wake Forest University and her BA from Duke University. After 20 years at the Center for Creative Leadership with executive roles in global marketing, new product development, knowledge management, and fundraising, Barbara launched her own executive coaching practice. She helps executives, entrepreneurs, and individuals in career transition to leverage their ideas and position themselves, their products, and their organizations. Barbara is also the co-author of Getting Your Kid Out of the House and Into a Job. You can find Barbara’s profile on TheCoachingAssocation.com.

To see Lily’s full coaching profile, please visit The Coaching Association.

Geoff Grenert

To see Geoff’s full coaching profile, please visit The Coaching Association.

Melodie’s previous experience includes serving as the Group Director of Organizational Development for leading international re-insurance company, Partner Reinsurance, Ltd., based in Hamilton, Bermuda. She continues to work with them on a retained consultancy basis.

Prior to her role at PartnerRe, Melodie spent 16 years at the Center for Creative Leadership in both operational and profit and loss responsibility roles. These experiences contribute to her ability to put together practical, sustainable systems for development.

To read Melodie’s full coaching profile, please visit The Coaching Association.

Donna holds B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.  She is certified in MBTI, BarOn EQ and several 360 instruments as well as Future Search and Whole Systems Design.  Donna developed a research-based instrument, the Team Performance Questionnaire, and a team-building activity,  Polygon Puzzle, which are marketed internationally.

In addition to being a partner in the firm Leadership Solutions, Donna also has executive experience in a number of corporations, bringing both the coach and the corporate perspective to her work.  Donna has worked with Fortune 100 global companies and has consulted internationally, including work in Bermuda, Bosnia, Canada, People’s Republic of China, and the United Kingdom.

To see Donna’s full coaching profile, please visit The Coaching Association.

Pamela is particularly attuned to the unique coaching needs of executives and seasoned professionals in technology, health, energy, hospitality, banking, law, academia and nonprofits.  Her credentials in assessment instruments coupled with her work experience and academic grounding position her as a master coach and trainer.  Pam is credited with helping clients reach goals more quickly and navigate challenges more effectively in both domestic and international environments.

To see Pamela’s full coaching profile, please visit www.thecoachingassociation.com.

A World in Need of Globally Responsible Leadership – Call for Action
A pioneering group of 60 business schools/learning institutions and companies representing five continents, over 300,000 students & 1.000,000 employees are engaged in developing a next generation of globally responsible leaders.

The Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative (GRLI) was co-founded and is supported by the United Nations Global Compact and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).  The GRLI’s mission is to act as a catalyst to develop a next generation of globally responsible leaders. In doing so it challenges the issues of the company for the 21st Century, the mission of business schools/learning institutions and the process for cultural change in organisations.

Bill Gates in Time magazine in August this year said:

“Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people … But it has left out billions more…” “… we need a more creative capitalism: an attempt to stretch the market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off.”

There is a need for this creative capitalism, but also a need for a more responsible capitalism and a leadership able to make that responsibility happen. A Call for Action is made to business leaders & academics by the GRLI with three main areas of focus:
* Re-visiting the raison d’être of the firm
* Integrating leadership and ethics
* Making corporate statesmanship a reality

“The (… current free market …) model becomes increasingly ambiguous and paradoxical. At the same time as producing more wealth than ever and ensuring unprecedented growth, it pollutes, excludes, and often encourages domination and social injustice. It promotes a desperate race that no longer has any visible purpose, or raison d’être beyond the race itself.”

Concretely, GRLI believes that business schools should focus on educating the whole person as entrepreneurs, leaders, and corporate statesmen. Leadership is the art of motivating, communicating, empowering and convincing people to accept a new vision of sustainable development and the necessary change that this implies.

Realising the urgency with which a failing system needs to be adapted to human needs in a globalized economy, we will:
1. enhance the change factors that will help us to implement a more sustainable development model
2. embed the appropriate values and behaviours in our strategies and management practices
3. aim to develop pedagogies and curricula which enable the development of a globally responsible leadership
4. exchange innovations, good practices and cases in business and education, and share them with our partners and the wider public through the development of learning platforms for critical and constructive dialogue.

The GRLI call for action aims at re-enforcing the strengths of our entrepreneurial system while correcting its defects and the financial excesses of the system. We strive to achieve this through enhancing responsibility at all levels.

A new way of educating managers and a next generation of globally responsible leaders will play a major role in making this come true.

Contacts:
Anders Aspling
GRLI Secretary-General
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Pierre Tapie
Chairman of the GRLI Board; Dean & President, ESSEC Business School (France and Singapore)
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Mark Drewell
Outgoing Chairman of the GRLI Board; Investment Director and Co-founder, 3 Laws Capital South Africa; +27-21-7834709; mark@3lawscapital.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Philippe de Woot

Member of the GRLI Board and special adviser; Prof. Emeritus Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); +32-2-7676279; phildewoot@scarlet.be This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Henri-Claude de Bettignies
Distinguished Professor of Global Responsible Leadership, China-Europe International Business School – CEIBS (China); the Aviva Chair Professor of Leadership and Responsibility INSEAD (France)
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John Alexander
Former President and Senior Adviser, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
+1-336-643-4892, alexander779@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For general enquiries:
Martine Torfs
Manager, GRLI Centre
+32-2-6290810; martine.torfs@efmd.org
www.grli.org

The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI)
The mission of the GRLI is to be a catalyst to develop a next generation of globally responsible leaders.
GRLI delivers results on three levels:

1. Wide impact; through its advocacy, collective communication, and engagement and shared learning with other organisations globally and locally
2. Value added to its partners; through concrete initiatives and projects for and within the partner organisations, with best practices being benchmarked
3. Personal growth for the representatives of the partner organization; through a unique global community of action and learning producing thought leadership, acting as a laboratory for innovation, delivering writings and publications both in research and education related to Globally Responsible Leadership and Corporate Global Responsibility

GRLI is a foundation of public interest based in Belgium with the purpose of developing a new generation of globally responsible leaders through the development and support of worldwide projects and initiatives.

The board representation is broad and global.
* Pierre Tapie, Chairman of the GRLI Board, Dean and President, ESSEC (France & Singapore)
* Carol Adams, Professor of Accounting and Sustainable Development Strategy Deputy  Dean Faculty of Law and Management, LaTrobe University (Australia)
* Rosemary Bissett, Group Manager, Sustainable Business Practices, National Australia Bank (Australia)
* Walter Brito, General Manager  PETROBRAS University, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Brazil)
* Fernando d’Alessio, Director General, CENTRUM PUCP (Peru)
* Philippe de Woot, Special Adviser to the GRLI (Belgium)
* Mark Drewell, Outgoing Chairman of the GRLI Board, Investment Director and Co-founder 3 Laws Capital South Africa (South Africa)
* Jean-Louis Duquéroix, Director External Communications, Caisse d’Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes (France)
* Nick Ellerby, Co-Director, The Oasis School for Human Relations (UK)
* Dennis Hanno, Dean Undergraduate Education, Babson College (USA)
* Swar Kranti, Faculty – HR, Welingkar Institute for Management Development and Research (India)
* Björn Larsson, CEO, The ForeSight Group (Sweden)
* Linda Livingstone, Dean, Pepperdine University Business School (USA)
* Pascal Lizin, Director, External & Public Affairs, GSK Biologicals (Belgium)
* Laura Quinn, Senior Associate, Center for Creative Leadership – CCL (USA)
* Michael Powell, Pro Vice Chancellor, Griffith University Business School (Australia)
* Manuel Escudero, Special Adviser, UN Global Compact (GRLI Founding Partner)
* Liliana Petrella, Director Development Initiatives Unit, EFMD (GRLI Founding Partner)
* Anders Aspling, GRLI Secretary-General