Our Team
The CoachingOurselves founders:
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Phil LeNir developed CoachingOurselves, following the new approach to management education used in the International Masters in Practicing Management. He experimented with delivery formats for the content he used, and began facilitating management learning sessions with his managers and later with peer groups. Phil is Executive Director for CoachingOurselves, working to bring it to organizations worldwide. |
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Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada, is an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management. He has been described by Tom Peters as "perhaps the world's premier management thinker." Henry has published 140 articles and thirteen books, including Managers not MBAs, from which CoachingOurselves has sprung, and Strategy Safari. |
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Sasha Sadilova has over 20 years of experience in managing and developing managers in R&D, Marketing, HR, and Services in the telecom industry in Canada and Europe. Following Phil's lead, Sasha established a CoachingOurselves group in HR in a mobile operator in Prague. |
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Jonathan Gosling is Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies, and Head of Executive Education in the School of Business and Economics, at the University of Exeter. Jonathan's research focuses on leadership and ethics in current strategic change, and on contemporary innovations in leadership development. A current research program, Virtual Mindsets, investigates how top managers provide leadership in the new economy. His most recent articles are on leadership education. |














