Yves Richez is a founder and an associate of SUCCESS Communication & Leadership and Executive of the Scientific Committee of ICFF (International Coach Federation France).

He holds an MA degree in Educational Sciences (the coaching Function). He was one on the participants in the CESA II Coaching 2007/2008 HEC (Haute Ecole de Commerce de Paris), with a presentation on team coaching. Author of numerous articles on coaching, potential, performance, he is the author of the book Louis du vieux continent (Louis From the Old Continent), and also of the book Petit éloge du héros (A Brief Praise For the Hero), which is to be released on November 11 in Romania.

What we notice and appreciate about him :

Yves makes us notice him by the numerous different aspects of the ordinary résumé of a man who is in the same time a professional coach and a scientist. Moreover, when 14 years old he was oriented towards a car mechanic school, because his intellectual level was considered not to be enough for him to attend university studies. Meanwhile, he is a practitioner with a seventeen-year experience in traditional martial arts (Kung-Fu). Along with the French producer Michel Fernandez, he wrote the script of a documentary trilogy on the hero (inspired from his book). His objective is to resume his PhD studies in 2010, in order to follow that sinuous path between the enterprise reality and the production on new knowledge. His apparently contrasting personality recommends him for a presentation concerning the means of cooperation between research – an activity which does not lack precision – and coaching, in order to develop performance.

Petra works as an Executive Coach, Team Coach and Management Trainer in Romania, Bulgaria and Germany. After several years in an international company she continued her carrier as an independent consultant and supported the development of her clients with various projects building up her reputation as one of the leading Coaches in Romania.
Since 2006 she is Managing Partner in the MDI - Management Development Institute (Vienna-Bucharest),  Executive Coach for Spreng - Partners for Excellence (Frankfurt) and co-founder of SEQUOIA – Growing at work (Bucharest – Munich). She is an appreciated speaker on international conferences and trains managers and professionals in Solution Focused Coaching.

Company: SEQUOIA – Growing at work www.sequoia-consulting.eu

Kirsten Dierolf is the owner of SolutionsAcademy, a training and development company that operates globally with offices in Germany and Belgium. SolutionsAcademy partners mainly with global corporations on issues of strategy implementation through HR development. With their network of over 50 trainers worldwide, they run programs like performance management programs, leadership development programs, coaching and mentoring schemes, outplacement programs and organizational change programs.
 
Kirsten started her work life as a coach 12 years ago and loves doing executive and business coaching. She also trains solution focused coaches, consultants and managers together with her partner Ingrid Reisch at http://www.wunderwunder.de and offers courses in English and German. Kirsten regularly speaks at international conferences on HR development (especially coaching), the interactional view of organizational psychology and solution focused management. She really loves interacting with her colleagues, learning and sharing with them.

The winner of Business-Edu Awards for "Best coach of the year 2008", Mihai Popa-Radu is an accredited Professional Coach, working through his coaching practice Seeds for Success with both European companies and individuals who believe in his motto: “Impossible is a matter of opinion!”

His main interests are in the areas of executive development, leadership coaching and team performance, and he assists senior executives in maximising their career opportunities.

Besides the fact that he is the owner of Tryact HRD both in the Netherlands and in Romania, John Bax is an enthusiastic international consultant, trainer and coach in business and organizational development. His experience sums up about 19 years in this field and 28 as an entrepreneur.
In the training and coaching field, his development has passed through different stages: starting as coach and trainer for the goalkeepers of a junior soccer team, John Bax has interacted with many categories and domains until deciding to found his very own Language Training and Translation company, at the age of 21. In this context he has started his team / individual leader and coach experience for corporate clients. 

Peter Schutz M.Sc -  EuCF President

Born in Viena, Peter is specialized in Coaching, NLP and Psychodrama, being also trainer, mediator and supervizor. He has an impressive background in Training & coaching for Industry and Government in Austria & CEE, in Conflicts management in Organisations, Teamcoaching & Teamdevelopment, Leadership and motivation.

Since 1983 is CFO Austrian Training Center for NLP & NLPt, EMDR Institut Austria and CEO at Arthur Schütz & Co - the business company of his family.

Sir John Whitmore - Business Coach No 1!

Sir John Whitmore is Executive Chairman of Performance Consultants. He is a pre-eminent thinker in leadership and organisational change and works globally with leading multinational corporations to establish coaching management cultures and leadership programmes. He has written five books on sports, leadership and coaching, of which Coaching for Performance is the best known having sold 500,000 copies in 17 languages.

Honoured with the President's Award by International Coach Federation (ICF), rated as the Number One Business Coach by the Independent newspaper and as having had the most impact on the coaching profession by the UK Association of Coaching, John is is one of the leading figures in the international coaching community with activities and operations globally.