Board of Governors

José Manuel "Pepe" del Río Zamacona

President

BOG Term: 2012-2021 
President Term: 2018 – 2019 
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M. Shanmugam

President Elect

BOG Term: 2016 – 2019 
President Elect Term: 2017 – 2019 
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Dr. Luis Gaviria

Vice President

BOG Term: 2016-2020
Vice President Term: 2019-2020
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Anjali Nair

2nd Vice President

BOG Term: 2018-2021 
2nd Vice President Term: 2019-2021 
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Martha Pasternack, MMC

Secretary

BOG Term: 2016-2019 
Secretary Term: 2016-2019 
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Péter Rusznák

Treasurer

BOG Term: 2012-2019 
Treasurer Term: 2017-2019
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Leanne Chan

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2016-2019 
BOG Member Term: 2016-2019 
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Fernando Celis

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2018-2021 
BOG Member Term: 2018-2021 
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Monica Siu

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2021 
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Terry Lipovski

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2022 
BOG Member Term: 2019 – 2022 
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Carla Cofiño

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2022 
BOG Member Term: 2019 – 2022 
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Diana McFarlane

Virtual Assistant

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Becky Fyke

Bookkeeping

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Wendy Rumrill

Recording Secretary

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Georgina Gonzalez

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Weiwei Zhang

Virtual Assistant

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Juan "Charlie" Medina

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Pepe is a life and executive Coach. (His expertise includes communication, retirement, Outplacement, career & life coaching). Bicultural, he has a worldwide experience in different industries and organizations. In addition, He is a speaker in human development, personal transformation, family, communication, coaching and sales topics. He works on a daily basis in del Río training and back to business.

Pepe’s purpose is, Help human beings to build responsible and conscious awakening; encouraging their potential to achieve their goals, communicate better, and to live the life they want. Pepe’s style as a coach is friendly, empathetic and assertive. He rules his work under the masteries, and the code of ethics of the International Association of Coaching that handles the highest standards of practice of coaching in the world.

Pepe is the coauthor and facilitator of the certifications “High performance families”, “Quality a personal mission”, “productive communication”& ” Public Speaking transformation”. Together with his wife Aída was the former producer and host of the family radio show, “Vivir en familia” in Mexico.

Among other studies, he holds two Coaching certifications:

  • Coaching sistémico (Systemic coaching), from More global Consulting.
  • “Life Options”. Retirement Coach, from Careers Partners International.

Pepe’s interests include spending quality time with his wife and kids; Books and theater.

Shan is an International Trainer, Facilitator and Coach. Over the past 20 years, he has trained, facilitated and coached participants across the Asian region on various aspects of Leadership, Team Development and Performance Coaching. His innovative, interactive and high impact approaches empower his participants to experience, reflect and act for self and organizational improvements.

Shan has held strategic and senior management position with a multi-national Training Resource Company and coupled with his previous key position as a military officer, has given him a unique perspective in harnessing a myriad of adult-centered action learning tools to develop leadership and team competencies. A much sought after speaker, he has addressed local and international seminars and conferences.

Shan holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Management from University of Canberra, Australia. His professional qualification includes:

  • Certified Solution Focused Coach – Canadian Council for Professional Certification (CSFC-CCPC)
  • Independent Certified John C.Maxwell Team (JMT) Coach, Teacher and Speaker
  • Certified Professional Coach
  • Certified Executive Coach (UMCCed)
  • Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF – IAF)
  • Senior LPI Licensed Consultant and LPI Licensed EQ Coach
  • Pass Part 1: Certified Coach – International Association of Coaches (CC-IAC)
  • Certified EQ Trainer by Six Seconds, USA.
  • Certified Professional Marketer by Asia Pacific Marketing Federation (CPM-APMF)
  • Certified Trainer by the Malaysian Human Resource Development Council

Professional Associations

  • 2nd Vice President, International Association of Coaching
  • Founding President Malaysian Association of Facilitators
  • Member, International Association of Facilitators,
  • Founding President, International Association of Coaching, Kuala Lumpur Chapter
  • Member, Malaysian Institute of Management
  • Life Member, Institute of Marketing Malaysia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shan-moorthi-aa21a42/

Luis Gaviria is a high impact inspirational speaker, author and professional coach. He has been featured on WLRN PBS Miami, Telemundo, Univisión, Televid, LifeDesignTV, American Latino TV. He presented “Universo Interior”, his own show (Inner Universe) in PBS, dedicated to the exploration of human nature. Currently he presents his “Neurociencias y Coaching” show (Neuroscience & Coaching) on LifeDesignTV, aired by satellite to more than twenty Hispanic countries.

He specializes in coaching and training leaders in personal and organizational transformation processes. His mission is to transform lives towards excellence and happiness, in sustainable and meaningful ways.

He is the Director and Provost at the Neuroscience & Coaching Institute, where leaders are trained in powerful coaching and mentoring approaches, to get their results to higher levels. He is also the chairman at Gaventerprise Group Corporation an American consulting firm, that designs and deploys human and organizational development processes, all this with the help of a great team of consultants. He has been a member of Executive Committees in the Gas and Oil industry, in Turkey and the Middle East.

His main areas of interest are:

  • Coaching as an essential tool for transformational and highly effective leaders.
  • Luis is a Master Coach Trainer at Neuroscience & Coaching Institute.
  • His potent training course, “Think, Act & Succeed” has helped thousands in achieving great levels of success, reaching enormous personal transformation, with a great impact their lives and business.
  • Neuroscience & Coaching: Neurocoaching – His version of Neurocoaching, Neuroscience Base Coaching is a powerful discipline that enhances personal motivation and clarity of purpose, offering tremendous possibilities for personal and professional development.
  • HSE (Health Safety Environment) & SBC (BBS: Behavior Based Safety) – Neuroscience and Coaching Leadership Training geared towards accident free, highly productive industries.
  • Cultural Transformation Process Consulting.
  • His “Train the Trainers” programs tap into the organizations own leadership and teaching resources, offering a highly cost-effective means for multiplying and deploying training processes.

Anjali brings over 20+ years of experience in human resource management as HR business partner, learning facilitator and coach. She has worked across industries with organisations ranging from MNC to start-ups.

Anjali is a certified coach (CMC) and the founder of The HR Studio, a boutique HR consulting firm. She partners with organisations, to deliver projects that leverage her expertise in areas of performance management, leadership development, process interventions, psychometric assessment, performance and leadership coaching. She has extensive experience in designing and facilitating learning programs for organisations, and experiments with a compelling mix of learning methodologies to shape sustainable solutions. She believes in leveraging technology to build simple and scalable people processes that align with business strategy. She is passionate about creating platforms to coach women in leadership.

Anjali was heading the HR function at Acusis Software India Pvt. Ltd. (www.acusis.com) where she successfully conceptualized, designed and implemented simple and scalable people processes and systems for their unique business model across multiple talent segments. Her belief in “what gets measured gets done” significantly optimized the processes.

She is also certified on DiSC  (DiSC Classic and Everything DiSC), GPP and Watson Glacier Critical Thinking (Pearson).

She also holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from IIT- Roorkee (India), MBA with specialisation in Human Resource Development (Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, India) and a Masters degree in Labour Law and Labour Welfare.

I have been a member of the IAC since 2009 and am now certified by the IAC® with MMCC status. Over my 35+ years of professional life as a nurse, Family Nurse Practitioner, and my 10+ years as a certified life coach, I am excited to champion the development of life coaching as an elegant and potent way to promote global peace, kindness, health and self-acceptance for all people.

I feel committed to supporting life coaches worldwide to do the work they’re called to do in the name of “Expanding The Path to Coaching Mastery”, the IAC® slogan.

It is with a sense of humility that I am able to serve as a member of the IAC® Board of Governors.

I was initially certified as a life coach by the Fearless Living Institute and am currently a Master Coach, Mentor Coach and Certified Trainer for the Fearless Living institute. I have been the director of the International Coaching Program, now known as the LCCP, for the Fearless Living Institute. I am currently serving as mentor for the LCCP.

I have been writing for the IAC VOICE™ since 2013. In addition I have been writing for the Huffington Post since 2012. I have created and participated in mastermind groups focused on business building and professional growth.

My husband and I live in southwest Colorado with winter jaunts to southeast Florida. I have 2 adult children, that I am very proud of, and my first grandchild who inspires me to continue this work for a peaceful world for him and for  children the world over.

Peter is a business and life coach. His method is proactive and integrative: He precedes bigger problems, by solving the problems at the right time. He uses different types of coaching methods to best serve the coaches.

During the coaching consultations, he helps his clients to identify their goals and difficulties that hinder them from achieving their objectives in the first place, then he provides support for them to find out what and how to do in order to make changes to perform breakthrough in reaching their goals. Finally, he ensures with his feedbacks that the coaches stay on the pre-designated path, carry out the previously set actions and achieve their aims

Peter received a Master’s degree in political science from Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

He is the Chapter president of the IAC Hungarian Chapter. As a Chapter president he organizes monthly meetings, where they review the main goals, mission and values of the IAC and discuss recent coaching issues. They have translated the IAC Coaching Masteries and the Code of Ethics to Hungarian.

He is the managing director of Pro Bona Coaching & Training Center (Proactive Coaching Group). They are in the service of companies as well as individuals via providing coach training, business coaching, executive coaching, life coaching, organization development, economic mediation and business mediation.

Professional Coach/HR Practitioner, Hong Kong

Leanne is a career & leadership coach serving both on campus and in corporations leveraging her corporate talent management experience plus her interest in young people’s aspirations.  Drawing on over 15 years of a value-added human resources professional in multinational corporations, provides HR consultancy to senior executives and leaders on talent management and leadership coaching in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. 

For the past few years Leanne has been developing her career, performance and leadership coaching skills focus on helping individuals and organizations to unleash their potential and achieve greater performance through a blended approach of individual and team coaching, training, facilitation and action learning to enhance personal, interpersonal and organizational effectiveness.

Leanne obtained her Associated Certified Coach from International Coaching Federation since 2012.   Passed Test 1 (Written Test) from International Association of Coaching in 2013 and got the Practitioner Certification in 2015. Leanne keeps on expanding her path to coaching mastery. 
She has strong desire to help early career professional become who they’re, not being under others life. Enhance their conversation skill to improve the working life and family life.

Fernando Celis has been training, coaching and helping professionals, teams, sales forces and the general public reach outstanding goals in sales and leadership for over 20 years. He designed and created the Extreme Selling Curriculum and the International Life & Leaadership Coaching Certification after researching the key elements that make peak performers strive, the science of personal achievement and coaching. He has trained thousands of professionals in over 20 countries and his famous escapades to surf the legendary point breaks of Punta Rocas-Peru, Montanita-Ecuador, Rincon-Puerto Rico, Zunzal-El Salvador and Duppies-Barbados inspired Fernando to write the Personal development novel titled “The Executive Surfer”

Fernando is CEO and Master Life Coach Trainer of The International Life & Leadership Coaching Academy based in Miami Florida with Partners in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Orlando, Houston, and Spain. As an Authorized IAC International Association of Coaching Licensee, Fernando has been responsible for Certifying over 2300 Life Coaches.

Fernando found Life Coaching to be an invaluable resource over the years in developing a life aligned by values beliefs and purpose. He has worked with companies such as Avaya, British Petroleum, HP, Compaq, Lafarge, Citibank and Corp Banca among others. He is now focused on his Life Coaching Certification program being delivered worldwide through is organization and ONLINE through www.ilcacademy.com

Programs: Life & Leadership Coaching Certification. CEO Executive Coaching, Extreme Selling Skills, Extreme Negotiating Skills, The Master Coach: Life Coaching Certification Train the Trainer (2014) He recently created along with Maria Alexandra Duque CKO of ILC Academy the G.R.E.A.T. ™ Coaching Model.

Credentials: Anthony Robbins Mastery University, Leadership Academy, Communispond Inc Sales Coach and trainer for the Socratic Curriculum, International Coach #7004 of ICC the International Coaching Community led by Joseph O’Connor Masteries Practitioner IAC.

Monica is the Board Governor (Global), and Leader of HK Chapter of the
International Association of Coaching (IAC).She is a certified coach at master
level, accredited by the IAC. Monica is passionate about unleashing people’s
potential and exploring the megatrend of the world. Continuous life-long
learning is what she has been fascinated. She believes that the opportunity is
for those who have prepared. Anyone will shine if his or her strength
\potential is identified and developed.

Monica has solid experience in talent development, leadership\career coaching,
and leadership development training. She is a columnist for a local magazine,
the articles she contributes are mainly about career development and the future
trend in the talent market. Before being a professional full-time coach,
Monica had held responsible positions in the function of talent management with
sizable corporations in Greater China for more than 15 years.

Terry Lipovski is the Founder of Ubiquity, a trusted and referred leadership consultancy based in Canada. Terry helps organizational leaders and presenters maximize impact, inspire action and improve organizational performance. With a unique background in both occupational psychology and corporate leadership. Terry has served in leadership roles at Apple Inc, Bell and Rogers, and as a Board Director. He has worked with clients in over 20 countries. including Microsoft, HP, GE, Tesco, Enbridge, TD, Air Canada and the Government of Canada. As an IAC Certified Masteries Coach, he specializes in team building, engagement, strategy, relationships, balance, presence and presenting skills. He is an Instructor at the Algonquin College School of Business, a TEDx Speaking Coach, Podcast Host and Author.

Carla Cofiño is a Personal and Team Coach, she defines herself as a confidence and awareness coach for change and that is how her clients and students identify her. She is CEO, together with her husband Tomas Lozada, of the BCF Group, learning platform whose mission is to train leaders and empower teams with Coaching tools. They have trained about 300 Coaches since 2014 with their Training Program in Life & Sport Coaching and providing training and support to teams, project leaders and entrepreneurs in Venezuela, Panama and Chile in face-to-face format and in different Spanish-speaking countries in an online format.

From the age of 21, she has trained people, initially, in academic and technical areas such as economics and financial risk, and later in the management of organizational change, the development of communication skills, speaking, impact presentations and the strengthening of relationships on their teams.

Certified Coach by the International Coaching Community led by Joseph O’Connor (ICC #8006). Founding Coach of the Venezuela Chapter and the Panama Chapter of the International Association of Coaching. IAC Member #169756 with the IAC Masteries Practitioner Designation. Coach in training of the Empowerment Coaching Program of del Río Training.

As a Personal and Team Coach, Carla has specialized in working with beliefs, which has earned her the recognition of clients and colleagues for her Power Class Program “The World of Beliefs”, where she delivers her methods and tools to transform behaviors and results on a personal and professional level.

Economist (UCV University degree) with a Master in Financial Management (ISEAD & Westfield Business School, Spain) and a Teaching Diploma (UCV & UNEFA, Venezuela). Financial Risk Specialist with extensive experience in banking, reaching important positions at a young age. Researcher and Instructional Designer with experience in the design of models and methodologies.

Lover of physical activity, with training in different disciplines: CofiDance™ Free Dance, TRX® Suspension Training, Pilates and Functional Training System (FTS)®. Mother of a beautiful son and two pets (a furry cat and loving Pitbull), passionate about human potential and eternal apprentice with an extended family in the world.

Carla’s Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bcfgroupoficial/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coficc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coficc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coficc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coficc

Diana McFarlane, President and founder of DKM Online Office Solutions, currently holds the position of Virtual Assistant Administration to the IAC. She has 10 years experience in the virtual administrative support field working for a variety of clients both in administrative and website design. At the IAC, Diana is the Certification Processor, handles email correspondence, sends out the VOICE newsletter, maintains the website and has various other duties. Diana can be reached via her websiteDKM Online Office Solutions.

Becky Fyke, together with her partner, has been doing bookkeeping and accounting for about 25 years through their company, Checks & Balances, Inc. Checks & Balances has a diverse group of clients consisting of personal accounts, retail, service, non-profits and more. They design their services to meet the specific needs of each client. Becky began working with IAC in 2006 and has watched the organization grow considerably since that time. She finds it to be a pleasure to work with everyone associated with the IAC. She is responsible for getting everyone compensated in a timely manner and creating the monthly and annual financial reports for the IAC Board of Governors.

Wendy Rumrill has worked with the IAC since March, 2010 in the capacity of Recording Secretary / Transcriptionist through Tya Bolton and Exceptional Business Solutions. She attends monthly BOG meetings for the purpose of taking minutes and also transcribes IAC Certification interviews. Her career has consisted of various administrative support roles. She has been a transcriptionist for 15 years and currently specializes in virtual assistant and transcription services with a particular focus in the coaching industry.

Georgina Gonzalez is a Professional Assistant with more than 25 years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Administrative and Virtual Assistant with extensive experience in global work mainly focused on Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean. She is owner of Express Assistant , an entrepreneurship that works providing support an personalized administrative assistance. Georgina is an Ontological Coach – Facilitator of the MMK Process. At IAC Georgina is responsible for supporting the management and monitoring of serving Spanish-speaking, renewals, members, providing support to Chapters, Certification, Memberships, Research, Licensees and Communication Teams, She providing information on operational management to President, Vice President and Board Members. 

Weiwei Zhang is a linguist by nature and languages are her passion. She speaks fluent Chinese (Mandarin), German, English and Spanish. Her fields of expertise are Teaching, Translation, Virtual Assistant and Multilingual Customer Service. She holds a Masters degree in German as a Foreign Language.  

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