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:

Certified Integral Coach™ with Integral Coaching Canada Inc.
Have demonstrated Integral Coaching® knowledge and skills at the MCC level (PCC level for Mentors)
Have consistently modeled the coaching Code of Ethics in their coaching professions and in the classroom
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
Have demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and development, as an Integral Coach™ and as a human being
Have been and continue to be engaged in active study of Integral Theory
Have active Integral Life Practices
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.

Suzy Lister, PhD

Suzy is the Assistant Director of Training working directly with Laura Divine in supporting Integral Coaching Canada’s flagship Integral Coaching® Certification Program (ICCP) and all in-development training programs. She is a Foundation & Apprenticeship Module Phone Coach and Teacher. And Suzy is, of course, a certified Integral Coach™ working with ICC clients and students.

Prior to joining Integral Coaching Canada, Suzy was an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University in Montreal. Suzy’s primary teaching responsibilities were in the areas of leading-edge research and assessment. She is as comfortable in the classroom as in the world of research. Suzy’s doctoral dissertation was in the domain of parental bereavement, which had been inspired by her early work in pediatric oncology as an art therapist. Her research explored how parents find meaning after the death of their child. Understanding suffering from this unique vantage point has served Suzy in supporting parents, students, clients, colleagues, and anyone who comes into contact with her loving and skilful way of being. Suzy was also an art and play therapist for ten years where she explored the mind-body connection found in the spontaneous images of children dealing with cancer.

Twenty-five years of experience teaching at the graduate level serves Suzy well in her varied roles within Integral Coaching Canada. She continues to inspire others towards living their lives with ever-expanding fullness and freedom.

Kevin Snorf

Sensei Kevin Snorf is the West Coast Director of Warrior Yoga and Quantum Jujitsu and lives in Santa Cruz, CA where he trains, teaches and competes. He runs popular classes at University of California Santa Cruz in power yoga and mixed martial arts teaching not just technique, but how the martial way inspires personal development through an Integral lens. He has also taught to at-risk youth in local high schools and the juvenile hall for over 8 years.

Kevin has a M.A. in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology where he specialized in Integral Development and Eco-Psychology. He is trained as a practitioner and teacher of ecological design and runs a consulting business in Santa Cruz, SalmonBerry Designs. Kevin has been published in the Journal of Integral Theory & Practice with co-author James Baye, another Integral Coach™. The two are working with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens in building “Coaches for Climate Change” using Integral Coaching® to build alliances with pioneers in climate change to advance global initiatives.

As a certified Integral Coach™, Kevin has his own coaching practice, coaches for Integral Life and is a phone coach and teacher of ICC’s Module 1 – Foundation & Apprenticeship. He has also done ample spiritual cross-training with Sofia Diaz, Sally Kempton, Lama Surya Das, Genpo Roshi, David Deida, and at his local zen center. His passion resides in reminding himself and others to live and love each moment of life from freedom and fullness, while offering innovative ways to consciously and responsibly live on this planet.

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.

Alexandre Costa

Alexandre Costa is the Managing Partner of Integral Human Performance, an organizational development consulting firm dedicated to developing “living organizations” - organizations capable of learning and innovating continuously as key enablers for evolution and adaptation. This work combines the development of specific capabilities and infrastructures in the three dimensions of an organization (I, WE and IT). Alexandre and his associates apply Integral Coaching® as the “main engine” in the “I” dimension, directly impacting WE and IT capacities.

Alexandre brings to this work more than 15 years of experience in management consulting (Corporate & Operations Strategic and Organizational Development) to foster sustainable development and growth in local and global companies in Brazil, Latin America and Europe. He is grounded in over 15 years of study and practice of various spiritual traditions and self-development approaches and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management with a major in Marketing from the University of Sao Paulo (FEA – USP) where he has served on the adjunct faculty at the Executive MBA Program. He also holds the distinction of being the first Certified Integral Coach™ in Brazil.

Alexandre lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil with his wife, daughter, and their baby son.

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