The Future of Global Dialogue in Coaching
Building for a better [global] future.
The world has changed in the past 36 months - we have changed the way we work and have accelerated our global connectivity. A result of the Global Pandemic has been and will continue to be:
“the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life….We expect digital transformation to be an even bigger imperative for organizations in the short-term future.”
(Harvard Business Review, 2020)
Global Dialogues on Coaching
300 million people are using Zoom every day - it has changed the way we work. ICF members are an active part of a global community and meet via Zoom at the speed of thought.
Building connection
“The challenges facing us globally cannot be resolved by acting only locally and - to address them effectively we have to collaborate also at a global level.”
Building ICF Reach
An inclusive work environment is one in which leaders are vocal about encouraging everyone to share their contributions and, when done well, makes employees feel valued through positive reinforcement and clear outcomes. (Forbes 2019)
“The challenges facing us globally cannot be resolved by acting only locally and - to address them effectively we have to collaborate also at a global level.”
ICF Member Coach, London
Les Joynes
Working with Global organizations since 1986, Les Joynes (PhD, MBA, ACC) is an ICF-credentialed coach trained at New York University and serves on the ICF-NYC Membership Committee and volunteers his time building events that support ICF’s global communities.
With a career spanning 35 years across 35 countries, Les is a specialist in international organizations. He has served Fortune 100 clients including 3M, GM, Du Pont, General Electric, Dow Chemical and Bayer.
Les is a member of the International Leadership Association, the College Arts Association, a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and serves on editorial boards for the University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design and is former New York Chair for the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) responsible for 1,400 professionals.
Les coaches executive leadership at Columbia Business School, entrepreneurship at Parsons School of Design, creativity at University of Melbourne and is a Gold Award Mentor at University of London. As a research scholar at Columbia University, Les is examining cross-border connection in global organizations. He hosts regular zoom forums across the US, EU and Asia.
Les is recipient of the 2022 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award. A native of Southern California, he has been resident in France, Belgium, Germany, UK, and Japan and since 2014 leads US Public Diplomacy projects in Mongolia, China and India.
Educated in the US, Europe and Asia, Les has an M.Sc Management from Boston University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels; MBA from California State University; MA from University of London; MA from Japan; PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; and Post-Doctorate from University of São Paulo.
