CSES (Coaching Skills Evaluation System)

Patricia Hirsch interviews Takefumi Yoshikawa, PCC (in process) . Takefumi will be discussing the recent announcement by the ICF in its January Member Update that ICF is asking all members to contribute to ongoing research on coaching effectiveness with CSES (Coaching Skills Evaluation System). Takefumi will be discussing the following items related to CSES:

• What is CSES?
• The background and purpose of this CSES joint project with ICF.
• Request for listeners to join this project.

Takefumi Yoshikawa, Executive Coach, Corporate Officer of Coach A (USA) has over 20 years of experience working in the Telecommunication and Software industry as an executive. His professional expertise is covering global business development, M&A, Business Alliance, and PMI (Post Merger Integration).

When Takefumi moved to the Oracle Corporation from NTT, he met his first executive coach. Based on his experience to be coached, Takefumi obtained a coaching credential in Japan seven years ago. Now, as a professional executive coach and corporate officer of Coach A (USA) in charge of the Americas and EU, he is providing executive coaching services for many Japanese and American executives in the US. Recently, Takefumi provided PMI (Post Merger Integration) Coaching for companies making efforts to make synergies through bridging both organizations with coaching.

(Mr. Musashi Bansho is the Project Manager of CSES in CRI. CRI (Coaching Research Institute) is an independent sister company of Coach A, which focuses on gathering and analyzing data about systemic organizational coaching globally and releasing newsletters regarding the results of the research. CRI and Coach A are jointly developing the Visualization of the Effectiveness of Coaching. Mr. Yoshikawa is talking about the CSES project as spokesperson on behalf of Mr. Bansho).