Professor Carol Kauffman Moves To New Role

Meyler Campbell & Carol Kauffman
30th April 2021



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Professor Carol Kauffman Moves To New Role

After almost 14 years as Meyler Campbell’s Chief Supervisor, Professor Carol Kauffman is leaving us to undertake a new role as Senior Advisor at Egon Zehnder.

After almost 14 years as Meyler Campbell’s Chief Supervisor, Professor Carol Kauffman is leaving us to undertake a new role as Senior Advisor at Egon Zehnder.

Carol was Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School when she became our Chief Supervisor in 2007 and founded the Institute of Coaching at MacLean Hospital there two years later. In her many years with us, Carol has run Masterclasses for the community, attended Graduation, and contributed at Faculty meetings. She has also, despite the many other calls on her time, always set aside time in her busy diary each year, so she could directly Supervise many of our Graduates. We thank her warmly for all she has done for Meyler Campbell and our community over the years, and send her off to her new tasks, with our very best wishes for the future.

Meyler Campbell’s Founder, Anne Scoular, commented:

“Daniel and I first met Carol in person, at a Positive Psychology Conference at Lake Garda in 2006 – what a lot has happened over the years since! The major article and research survey on executive coaching in Harvard Business Review in 2009, the annual Conferences at the Institute of Coaching, attended by people from all around the world each year, including many of our Faculty and Alumni, and the three-sell-out events Carol led for us on the Imposter Syndrome, to name just a few. We were also very pleased to support the Institute of Coaching right from its inception, and of course that will continue. I was delighted to hear of Carol’s new venture, I will follow it with much interest, and wish her ‘bon voyage’ with my sincere thanks for all she has done for me, and for our community, over many years.”

Professor Carol Kauffman commented:

“Many of you know me directly through supervision, workshops, masterclasses and the Annual Lecture or through Meyler Campbell’s long-standing sponsorship of the Institute of Coaching. But most do not know how our relationship began. After giving a keynote at the Gallup Organization I was asked to write a chapter “Toward a Positive Psychology of Executive Coaching.” However, I was new to the field and needed a co-author. Help arrived in the form of Anne, and our chapter was published in 2004 in the first handbook of its type, Positive Psychology in Practice.  We were not to meet in person until 2006 when I had begun traveling the world introducing positive psychology to the field of coaching. The rest is a bit of history.

It has been a privilege to see Meyler Campbell grow over the years, I have loved supervising dozens of your Faculty and alumni and have more fond memories than I can count.

And now we have reached a poignant moment when my official connection with Meyler Campbell has to end. As part of your growth trajectory, you are now affiliated with Spencer Stuart. This is now in conflict with my role as Senior Advisor at Egon Zehnder. I have been working with Egon Zehnder intensively for the past five years and we have a non-compete clause. Therefore, I am not able to continue being your Chief Supervisor.

Looking to the future, I hope to see you at the Institute of Coaching Conference this September 23-26, “Shaping the Future: Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare”, sponsored by the Institute of Coaching and Harvard Medical School."

 

My best and love to you all,

Carol


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