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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." … Max De Pree, Author, Philosopher and former CEO – Herman Miller Company.
Professional Experience
Innovation Coaching is a high performance coaching organization that measures our own performance only by the achievements of our clients. Our client base has looked like this over the past 15 years:
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• Professionals (physicians, accountants, attorneys, therapists)
• Entrepreneurs in technology, interior design, manufacturing, product design
• Non-profit executives and boards of directors
• Media and entertainment personalities
• Professional coaches at all levels of training and career development
• Executives in Fortune-1000 Companies
• Managers and officers in the U. S. Military
• Large governmental agency leaders and managers
Note: For reasons of confidentiality, we do not disclose the names of our 500+ individual coaching clients. We can say that we coach individuals from:
Our Company's organization client base (a partial listing that also includes consulting projects):
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• 4-D Systems, Inc. (NASA, Northrup-Grumann, APL)
• Beyond Borders, Inc. (Center for Disease Control)
• United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB
• Informatica Corporation
• Long Beach (CA) Sports Council
• Qualté (HostedSupport.com)
• Spondylitis Association of America
• TechnoConcepts, Inc.
• Plandisk®
• Rona Barrett Lavender Company, Inc.
• TransQuest Technologies, Inc.
• NuVision Financial Federal Credit Union
• Armacel Armor Corporation, Inc.
• The Lotto Group, Inc.
• AudioLibros del Mundo, Inc.
• The Intellworks, Inc.
• Mobile Cellular Phone, Inc.
• A Major Theme Park and Residential Community
• D&D Engineering, Inc.
• Lloyd Klein, Inc.
• Himaya
• Mayerson Marketing and Public Relations, Inc.
• Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County (CA)
• Ventura County Superintendent of Schools Special Projects
• MetroMom.com
• Cardkey International®
• Individual clients at ESPN, Pfizer, Lucent, IBM, Prophet
Our Work Today
Today Innovation Coaching works primarily under contract with organizations. We utilize the 4-D Systems Leadership Assessment for our work in NASA. Christine also works as a contract coach for Informatica Corporation, a California-based high technology firm. She maintains a private practice coaching professional coaches on their practices, their coaching skills and their personal lives.
Innovation Coaching accepts individual clients who are committed to unrelenting high performance in their work and/or their personal lives. We believe in giving back what so generously has come our way; our clients typically share the same value for themselves.
How We Work With Clients
Our contract work with NASA is delivered one-on-one by telephone throughout the USA. Our work with Informatica is delivered one-on-one by telephone on a global basis with clients in the U.K., The Netherlands and throughout the USA. Our private clients are located throughout the USA, Canada (English and French speaking), and Australia.
"To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise." … Mitchell Caplan, CEO – E*Trade Group, Inc.
Michael McNaught is a superb coach whose work is sourced by his long career in the military. He will coach selected individuals who are up to the demands of a strong and powerful personality who expects only top performance from his clients, with some latitude of course. This is a teaching evolution after all.
Coaching Philosophy and Style
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are made for." … Admiral Grace Hopper
The coaches of Innovation Coaching subscribe to the International Coach Federation Definition of Coaching, the Core Competencies of Coaching, and the ICF Code of Ethics.
Christine Martin is a Master Certified Coach who works with a natural, rigorous style delivered with a velvet touch. She is known for her unrelenting support, her sense of humor, her ruthless compassion and lifelong appreciation for the potential of individuals and organizations.
Michael McNaught is a rigorous coach whose work is sourced by his long career in the military. He will coach selected individuals who are up to the demands of a strong and powerful personality who expects only top performance from his clients, with some latitude of course. This is a teaching evolution after all.
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." … Joseph Campbell, U.S. folklorist and expert on mythology.
Our Creative Work
Christine Martin designs, co-designs and delivers original programs in coaching. Some of her recent original tele-seminars (TS), Keynotes (K), and workshops (W) include:
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• "I Shouldn't Know That: The challenges of confidentiality in professional coaching" (TS)
• "The A-typical Client: coaching individuals who are ADHD, devoted entrepreneurs, and over-the-top Type A's" (TS)
• "The Art of Partnering with Your Client" (TS)
• "Love Those Competencies: Understanding and using the ICF Core Competencies" (TS)
• "Coaching Techniques for Managers" (for the U. S. Air Force) (W)
• "So You Want to Be a Business Coach" (W)
• "Measuring the Results of Coaching in Organizations" (K in French and English)
• "Coaching Presence: Working with Indefinable to Achieve Definable Results" (TS)
• "The Art and Magic of Coaching Presence" (K, W)
• Many workshops and teleforums on credentialing for the ICF (TS, W) (given as workshops in the USA, Norway, Australia, Spain and
Belgium)
She also designed and teaches three graduate level courses (T) for the UT Dallas program:
For MentorCoach, a specialty coach training program for therapists making the transition to coaching: Christine will be teaching the Group Coaching Intensive in 2008.
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