Business Partners | Masterful Coaching

Dr. Edward Choi — Seoul, Korea

Edward Choi Dr. Choi is the author of “Coaching for Business Performance.” Dr. Choi earned a PhD from Yale and was in a brilliant career as an IBM executive when he decided to return to South Korea and start his own consulting company. Dr. Choi brought executive coaching to South Korea, introducing it to thousands of executives in companies like Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Hana Bank and many others. Out of his commitment to provide leading edge ideas to leaders in Asia, Dr. Choi’s has been instrumental in introducing Robert Hargrove and Masterful Coaching approach to Asia and in developing the Masterful Coaching Game-Changer process for building high growth companies. Dr. Choi is a professor at Yonsei University, one of the top schools in his country. He teaches a course on leadership and Masterful Coaching, based on Robert Hargrove’s book. Dr. Choi is a contributing editor and writer at the Korean Economic Dailey (Koreas Wall Street Journal), where he has written articles on leadership, as well as masterful coaching.

Jay Abraham — Los Angeles, California

Jay Abraham has been called, “America’s Number One Marketing Wizard.” Jay is dedicated to growing businesses and advancing careers exponentially. Jay can bedazzle an audience with his strategic insights, or listen in a way that business leaders come to a much clearer understanding of their own ideas. He has worked with the business royalty of the Fortune 500, as well as countless entrepreneurs. He’s produced many thousands of success stories and spawned an entire generation of marketing consultants and experts who credit him as their primary mentor. Nearly 2,000 websites reference his successful work on the Internet alone. Forbes Magazine listed Jay as one of the top 5 executive coaches in the country saying Jay’s specialty is, “Turning corporate under-performers into marketing whizzes.” Jay specializes in successfully identifying and ethically exploiting a company’s hidden, marketable assets to create windfall profits for his clients.

Tom Kaiser — Houston, Texas

Tom Kaiser has had a distinguished career as a CEO, President, Vice President of Global 1000 firms. Tom currently serves on the Board of Directors of major corporations and nonprofit educational institutions. Among the positions Tom has held are President of Arch’s Property Marine and Energy Division, Chief Executive of Zurich Corporate Solutions (Zurich Financial Services), Chief Executive of Global Energy (AIG). Tom was an Air Force Captain and attended University of Albany, Northwestern University, Harvard University Advanced Management Program, and Stanford University Change Management Program. Says Robert who has worked with Tom for 20 years, “Tom is a great business leader who doubled or tripled the revenues of almost every business he run.” Tom did this by differentiating companies from the competition, continuously identifying hidden assets and overlooked opportunities, and bringing out the best in people. Tom says business is actually simple if you consider that “everyone makes their living by selling something.” He coauthored with Robert Hargrove The Great Wheel of Sales Success.

Patty Smith — Philadelphia, PA

Patty Smith

Patty Smith, who specializes in business growth and enterprise risk management for major companies in the financial service industry, formed a joint venture in 2011 with Masterful Coaching. She has a proven track record of helping her executive coaching clients accelerate their way to the C Suite by focusing on their impossible future, as well as this year’s financial performance. Patty is both very strategic and very process oriented and methodical. Patty has consulted executives on a wide variety of business issues and has specialty in bringing major financial institutions into compliance with Dodd Frank Regulations. As the Chairman of International Investment Bank said about Patty, “Any board member or senior management team member that has gotten to know Patty knows she is one of those rare minds in risk management who ‘gets it.’ She gave us great advice. She doesn’t just talk about what needs to happen, she executes.” Patty will play a major role in 2012 in developing “Masterful Coaching in A Box,” including an iPad app that helps to grow leaders and companies, while managing the risk.

Michael Taylor – Johannesburg, South Africa

Mike Taylor Michael Taylor is CEO and Director of Executive Coaching at Xponential (Pty) Ltd, a consulting firm based in South Africa, and a key player in its dynamic, growth-oriented emerging market economy. He works with CEOs and HR to identify emerging leaders who touch the organization’s strategy, and to accelerate the development of leadership transition. Michael has worked with CEOs in Fortune 500s globally, including South Africa, United Kingdom, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey. Michael has a Masters in organization behavior and most recently management coaching from Stellenbosch Graduate Business School. He has an extraordinary depth and breadth of business experience, including business turnaround strategies, leadership and top team development, organisational restructuring, business improvement strategies, organisational HR transformation. Michael is an internationally accredited Master Coach and has recruited, deployed, and supervised teams of ten executive coaches or more in large company interventions. As a MC business partner, Michael implements Game Changing strategies with leaders in global organizations.

Eric Deschamps – Ottawa, Canada

Eric Deschamps is the author of “Turbocharge Your Business Now!” He is an accomplished public speaker with over twenty years of experience motivating audiences around the globe. He is a highly successful executive coach for true entrepreneurs (not just proprietors) who are committed to building high growth gazelles. He is a master of social media, and can help apply this to any business. One focus is using the Masterful Coaching approach based on Robert Hargrove’s Blueprint to a Billion, and the 10 Multipliers of High Growth Companies to help achieve a business breakthrough in a 100 days or less. As a native of Ottawa, Canada, Eric is bilingual in English and French. As a former church pastor with more than a decade of counseling experience, Eric naturally wins trust. He is a lifelong student of leadership and a graduate of the Arrow Leadership Program. As John Deagan, Founder of the Professional Business Coaches Alliance says, “If you want to be a winner, surround yourself with winners who give good counsel. Eric fits this bill perfectly. He is grounded, energetic, smart, and funny.”

Luis Alberto Zuleta — Bogota, Colombia

Luis Alberto Zuleta in Bogota, Colombia, is a joint venture partner of Masterful Coaching. Luis comes from a distinguished family of political and business leaders, including his grandfather who was former Secretary General of the United Nations. Luis has been a Nation Tennis Champion in Colombia for 18 years. Luis has a business degree from Troy University in New York, was trained as a consultant by Arthur Anderson Consulting, and was certified in the Masterful Coaching Method. His objective in coaching is to help clients take their leadership to a whole new dynamic level, while helping them to win at their business. Luis created the “Leader as Coach”— a world-class coaching and mentoring program for leaders and managers in large multi-national companies like Nestle, General Motors, McDonalds, Banco de Occidente.

Hans Peter Hartmann — Zurich Switzerland

Hans Peter Hartmann was a Swissair Captain who flew 50,000 hours on MD-11 wide body jets all over the world before retiring. Robert and Hans Peter worked together with Hargrove and Partners in Zurich, a leadership consulting firm that coached and trained thousands in leadership, both on a public basis and in companies like UBS, Zurich Financial Services, Swissair, Nestle, and Alusuisse. His area of coaching specialization is “Leadership in Crisis,” both at the Global 1000 level, as well as for the healthcare industry and government agencies. Hans Peter is also the founder of a highly successful company called Avi Agency, which provides emergency decision making courses to Special Forces, Swat Teams, Police, Fire, Medical Teams, and of course pilots. He is an expert in the “human factors” of crisis management. He exudes wisdom, compassion, and humor.