Webcast:
Succession planning and advancement of high potentials are vital initiatives to ensure the future of sustainable business. Coaching is one of the most valuable resources for confirming decisions about potential and readiness for future roles as well as helping high potentials find success in current assignments. The challenges high potentials experience in having to deliver more and do it sooner in their careers can pose an equal set of challenges to their coaches. Join us for a discussion of how systemic coaching initiatives can be designed and delivered and how coaches can have a powerful and quick impact with this special group.
Presenters
Kirk Hallowell serves as a Senior Consultant for Personnel Decisions International (PDI) in the Los Angeles Operating Office. Kirk works with PDI's network of practice area experts to support our clients' design and implementation of leadership assessment and development programs. Kirk has served as an executive coach, feedback and developmental planning consultant to over 400 mid to senior level leaders. As a designer of executive development programs, he has had the opportunity to implement coaching processes which are aligned with corporate strategy and integrated with executive leadership programs. Participants in these programs are typically identified as high-potential executives who are transitioning to accountabilities of scope and complexity. These managers are often challenged with a significant increase in number of direct reports and increased developmental needs around dealing with ambiguity and strategy integration.
As global practice leader of PDI's Development Services Practice,Marc Sokolis responsible for intellectual property development,curriculum,andconsulting services in the areas of leadership development,coaching,teamservices,and organizational change.During the past few years he has led thedevelopment of more than 25 new programs and co-authored a book onAction Learning.Previously managing director of PDI United Kingdom,where he directedstrategic alliances throughout the EMEA region,Marc works with clientsaround the globe and has developed expertise in expatriate adjustment andmultinational talent management.He was also general manager for PDI'sWashington,D.C.office.Before joining PDI,Marc held positions in theUnited States Federal Sector at Bell Laboratories and worked for a business-to-business service provider.He has been adjunct faculty to the psychologydepartment at Rutgers University and to the management department atPolytechnic University.His work on innovation,stress management for teams,expatriate adjustment,and implementing change across countries has beenpresented at conferences and published both nationally and internationally.
