• Consulting since 1989 to global clients: Du Pont, Dow, 3M, General Motors, GE, Braun, Bayer.
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
― Peter Drucker
TheNew 2020. Today, museums, artists, educators and foundations are quickly adjusting to work effectively within virtual workspaces while maintaining high standards. Within each 50-minute session Coaching creates a space of laser-focus on current needs so that the client can:
• Effectively plan, prepare and optimize future scenarios
• Develop sound methodologies for decision-making
• Build just-in-time solutions and identify opportunity in change.
I am working with future global leaders at Columbia Business School to develop their careers and mindfully navigate strategic decisions. I use International Coaching Federation standards and best practices to prepare clients to optimize performance especially in dynamic and transforming social, economic and political landscapes. Like we are in now.
What is coaching? The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching differs from mentoring (which offers opinions for more experienced individuals) and instead draws from the experience, goals and realities of the client. Coaching is not counseling which often looks to the past, and instead focuses on the client’s present and desired future.
How does coaching take place? Coaching is conducted in person, on Zoom or phone in 50-minute weekly or twice-weekly sessions over four to eight weeks. In each session the ICF trained coach and the client sets the session goals and outcomes and during the fifty minute unpack the Goal, Reality, Obstacles, Options and Ways (GROW) forward.
About Les: In addition to coaching at Columbia and Yale, Les is Visiting Scholar in Contemporary Visual Cultures at the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University in New York and is Visiting Professor of contemporary art at Renmin University of China and Peking University, Beijing. A US Department of State ZERO1 Art and Technology Artist, Les possesses a combined background in the arts and management and has produced museum exhibitions and workshops in Asia, the Americas and Europe. He is an Editor for ProjectAnywhere at University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Art and features in Art in America, Flash Art, Art Monthly, Sculpture Magazine and NHK Television Japan. He is recipient of the 2021 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for his work on experimental film and identity at the Department of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Areas of Focus in Coaching
• Coaching Artists
• Coaching Leaders in Foundations, Museums and Government
• Career development in changing economic climate
• Building robust peer networks
• Transferable skills for 2020 and beyond.
Education
Post Doc School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil
PhD Faculty of Art, Environment & Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
MBA California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
MA Musashino Art University, Tokyo
MA Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
M.Sc Boston University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB)
BA (Hons) Central St Martins College of Art, (University of the Arts London)