Dr Travis Kemp, PhD, International Graduate School of Business, University of South australia, Australia. Dr. Travis Kemp holds academic appointments as Affiliate Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide; Adjunct Lecturer, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney and Adjunct Research Fellow, International Graduate School of Business, University of South Australia where he was previously MBA Director and Head of the Discipline of Leadership. He is a registered Psychologist and Full Member of both the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and the College of Organisational Psychologists. He was a founding national committee member of the APS Interest Group in Coaching Psychology, is co-editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review and has published in the areas coaching psychology, education and leadership. He is also a registered Psychotherapist with the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia. He has held a range of senior business and academic appointments throughout his career and is currently the Managing Director of corporate psychology services firm The Teleran Group Pty. Ltd. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Human Resources Institute, a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the Australian College of Educators.
Dr Otto Laske PsyD PhD, is Director of Education at the Interdevelopmental Institute. He holds doctoral degrees from the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany and from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. In 1998-99, he conducted the first executive coaching study from a developmental perspective, establishing the Developmental Structure/Process Tool (DSPT™) as the focus of coaching methodology.
Professor Roy Moodley PhD, is Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Co-ordinator of Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Toronto University. It is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to research and development of multicultural and diversity issues in counselling and psychotherapy, focussing particularly on the stigmatized social identities of gender, race, sexual orientations, class, disabilities, religion, and age. He has published books and articles on a range of topics.
Dr Astrid Palm-Beskow is the founder of Centre for Cognitive Psychotherapy in Gothenburg. She is also Co-founder of adSapiens, the Swedish Centre for Work Based Learning which is a training and coaching centre specialising in cognitive coaching. She is a recognised expert in the cognitive approach.
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, is recognized as a leading international coaching psychologist. He is Honorary President of the Association for Coaching, and Honorary Vice President of both the International Stress Management Association and Institute of Health Promotion & Education. He is Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at City University, London, UK. He is also Director of the Centre for Coaching, London. He has authored co-edited over 35 books on coaching, counseling, therapy and stress. He is UK Co-ordinating Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, Consultant Editor of The Coaching Psychologist, and Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. He Co-edited (with Whybrow) the first Handbook of Coaching Psychology. He was specialist adviser to the Defence Committee of the House of Commons in their Duty of Care enquiry in 2004-05. In addition, he has over 30 years experience in business and has demonstrated coaching and therapy on BBC television.
Professor Nuno Rebelo dos Santos PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Évora, Portugal. He is a scientific supervisor for a number of PhD and MSc students and teaches on the European Master on Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology programme (Erasmus Mundus Master).
Dr Charles D. Spielberger
Dr Spielberger is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Center for Research in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology at the University of South Florida. In accepting the appointment as an Honorary Vice President of the SCP, Dr. Spielberger said, “I am greatly impressed with this newly developing field and look forward to linking my work on the assessment of emotions and personality with Coaching Psychology”.
During his distinguished career Dr Spielberger has authored, co-authored or edited more than 20 books and 400 professional publications. His State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (1970, 1983), with translations and adaptations in 72 languages and dialects, is widely recognized as the standard international measure of anxiety. His research contributions have also been recognized in the awards he has received from Professional Psychology Associations and Research Societies, both at a national and international level.
During 1991-1992, Dr Spielberger served as the 100th President of the American Psychological Association. He has also served as President of the International Association of Applied Psychology (1998-2002) and the International Stress Management Association (1992-2000), and as Chair of the US National Council of Scientific Society Presidents (1996-97) and the International Psychology Committee of the US National Academy of Science (1996-2000).
Professor Reinhard Stelter holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Copenhagen and is Professor for Sport and Coaching Psychology at the University of Copenhagen and head of the research group on body, learning and identity. He is head of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences. He has received further training in psychotherapy, counseling and applied sport psychology. He is the author and editor of one of Scandinavia’s most successful books on coaching (published in Danish and Swedish) with the English title “Coaching – learning and developing”. He is member of the Editorial Board of the International Coaching Psychology Review and Associate Editor of Psychology of Sport and Exercise. He is editor and author of ten books and about 150 articles in scientific and research oriented journals or books. He is member of the Managing Board of European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) in Denmark, member of the Advisory Board of Copenhagen Coaching Center, where he also works as a coach and teacher in the coaching training program. From 2009 this program shall be an accredited Master of Coaching program at the University of Copenhagen, which Reinhard Stelter shall lead.
Professor Jinkook Tak is Professor of Department of Industrial Psychology and also Chair of Coaching Psychology Program at Graduate School of Education in Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea. He was President of Korean Industrial and Organizational Psychological Association (2003-2005) and Chair of Psychological Test Committee at Korean Psychological Association (2007-2008). He was also a visiting scholar to Department of Psychology at Ohio State University and Michigan State University. He is Certified Industrial and Organizational psychologist and Certified Health Psychologist acknowledged by Korean Psychological Association. Now he is on the Board of Directors of Korean Employee Assistance Program Association, Korean Job Stress Association, Korean Industrial and Organizational Association, and Korean Health Psychological Association. He also has a lot of field experiences as an assessor on Assessment Center for companies as well as government organizations. Professor Tak has been published more than 80 articles on career development, leadership, and job stress. He also has developed a number of career guidance tests for adults financially supported by Department of Labor, Korea.
Dr Pat Williams - Pat has been a licensed psychologist since 1980 and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak and other companies along the Front Range. He is a member of PHI BETA KAPPA and CUM LAUDE graduate of Kansas University in 1972. He went on to get his masters in Humanistic Psychology and doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology in 1977. He joined Coach U in 1996, closed his therapy practice 6 months later and became a full time coach. Pat was a senior trainer with Coach U from 1997- 1998, when he started is own coach training school for therapists only, the Institute for Life Coach Training He has trained over 1500 helping professionals at Inst for Life Coach Training and is now opening offices in Korea, Turkey, Italy, UK, and China. Pat has taught graduate coaching classes at Colorado State University and Denver University, City University London and many others. Pat is a past board member of the International Coach Federation, and co chaired the Regulatory committee as well. In May of 2006, Pat was honored as the first Global Visionary Fellow by the Foundation of Coaching, for his Coaching the Global Village initiative of bringing coaching methodologies to third world/developing villages.
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