Faculty

Since the founding of this company, Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine have been dedicated to building and delivering a high quality coach training school. This has not only involved developing the curriculum and designing the learning architecture, is has also involved building a faculty that can skilfully contribute to the success of each and every course. In the Integral Coaching® Certification Program, Laura and Joanne remain the Senior Course Instructors of and have overall responsibility for the delivery and quality of all aspects of the Certification Program. The additional faculty members have specific responsibilities associated with Module 1: Course Instructor, Apprenticeship Phone Coach, and Coaching Conversation Formal Observer; and in Module 2: Coaching Conversation Formal Observer and Final Exam Assessor. Faculty members also join in the teaching of the Integral Coaching® Fundamentals course. For the Integral Coaching® Graduate Courses, Laura and Joanne are responsible for the design and delivery.

Qualifications that all faculty must meet:

1. Certified Integral Coach™ with Integral Coaching Canada Inc.
2. Have demonstrated Integral Coaching® knowledge and skills at the MCC level (PCC level for Mentors)
3. Have consistently modeled the coaching Code of Ethics in their coaching professions and in the classroom
4. Have demonstrated a dedication to the health and growth of the coaching community, specifically the Integral Coaching® community as well as beyond to the wider field and profession of coaching
5. Have demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and development, as an Integral Coach™ and as a human being
6. Have been and continue to be engaged in active study of Integral Theory
7. Have active Integral Life Practices
8. Have demonstrated exceptional teaching skills over time

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, PhD

Sean is an associate professor and Chair of the Integral Theory Program at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. He is founder and Director of the Integral Research Center, which supports graduate and post-graduate research. In addition, he is the founder and Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and the co-founder of the first global Integral Theory Conference.

Sean is a leading scholar-practitioner in Integral Theory. He has worked closely with Ken Wilber for a decade operationalizing the Integral (AQAL) model in multiple contexts. He is a founding member of Integral Institute. He is currently the most published author applying the Integral model to a variety of topics: education, sustainable development, ecology, research, intersubjectivity, science and religion, consciousness studies, and play. Sean co-edited Ken Wilber's book The Simple Feeling of Being and has just completed writing a book with environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman called Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World.

Sean has over twenty years of leadership experience always serving in multiple major roles simultaneously. His passion as an Integral Coach™ comes from his love of being alive, his commitment of looking directly at reality without blinking, and his desire to increase people's experience of intimacy with Being. He is a practitioner within both Tibetan Buddhism and A. H. Almaas' Diamond Approach. He lives in Sebastopol, California on five-acres of redwoods with his wife and daughter.

Johannah (Jody) Jones, PhD

Jody is President of Strategic Transformations working with organizations in the areas of strategic planning, organizational change, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has long combined the rigor of Integral Theory with the pragmatic reality of working with real people in real organizations across industries including manufacturing, software development, healthcare, financial services, high tech, and education. She co-authored the Course for Presidents and CEOs offered by the American Management Association and is one of a select group of leaders that facilitate that offering.

A life long passion for learning led Jody to earn a PhD in Business Administration with a major in marketing and minors in organizational behavior and statistics. An equal passion for personal development, she discovered Ken Wilber in the late 1990's. She attended the Integral Organizational Leadership Workshop at the Integral Institute and joined the core team for the Integral Business & Leadership Center. She worked to create materials for the Center and was a small group leader for the training subsequently offered.

Jody celebrates being a professional Integral Coach™ and the power of what that enables her to bring to clients. She is a teacher of the Foundation & Apprenticeship Module and a Phone Coach to apprentices in the program. Jody continues to work with a study group of coaches from her graduating class and her personal Integral Life Practices include training in aikido, weight training, yoga, and meditation. Jody lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with her husband and has two sons attending college.

Leslie Williams

Leslie Williams, President of LeaderShift Consulting, is a Washington, DC-based Integral Coach™ and organization development consultant who has 20 years of experience supporting organizations and leaders become more effective.

Leslie holds a Master's degree in Organization Development from American University and professional Integral Coaching® certification from Integral Coaching Canada Inc. She is a Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. She is certified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Emotional Competency Inventory. She is also proficient in the use of other personality profiles such as "DISC" and "FIRO-B."

Due to her reputation for excellence in both the coaching and consulting fields, Leslie is frequently sought out to share her expertise with others. She has served on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, USDA Graduate School and OPM's Eastern Management Development Center. Leslie has been quoted by the Washington Post regarding professional coaching and workplace culture and spoke at Linkage's Women in Leadership Conference in 2005. As an active member in the Integral Coaching® faculty practice community for many years, Leslie serves on the Certification Committees for the Integral Coaching® Certification Program, is a Formal Observer of student's coaching conversations in Module 2, teaches Module 1, and is an Apprentice Phone Coach.

Anne Wright

Anne Wright and Associates specialize in providing support to organizations to "walk the talk" of strategic planning by integrating individual and group development with program and strategic planning. Anne has a passion for community and has dedicated her personal and professional life to contributing to the many elements that enable communities to thrive. She is a professional Integral Coach™, group facilitator, organizational development consultant, and strategic planner. She has been contributing as a Certifying Committee member for Module 2 - Embodiment & Certification. Anne is an active member in the Integral Coaching® faculty practice community while supporting students as, expert coach observer at in-class sessions and "demo coach" exemplifying and embodying the Integral Coaching® method skilfully and wisely. Anne also teaches Module 1 and is an Apprenticeship Phone Coach.

Anne brings to this work over twenty years of experience in consulting to foster change and innovation in the human services sectors and several years' experience as a director and planner within municipal government. She is grounded in over 10 years of study and practice of various spiritual paths (Kripalu yoga, Pathwork). Anne is a founding member of the Ginger Group Collaborative, a national community of practice of consultants and scholars committed to the art and skill of supporting collaborative ventures.

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