Everything You Need To Know About The ICF and Credentialing
with Dr. Liz Lasky and Paulette Rao
About Dr. Liz Lasky, PhD, LCSW
Dr. Liz Lasky is the founder and CEO of The Lasky Institute of Coaching™, The Coach Training Program For Helping Professionals™ and lizlasky.com. Dr. Liz has a commitment to helping people get what they want in business, life, and love. She is the author the book “Get What You Want”© as well as several peer-reviewed journal articles.
After 15 years of successfully counseling, coaching, and mentoring thousands of people, Dr. Liz came to understand that personal transformation requires not just taking action but a change in mindset that comes from personal growth. She found that coaching expedites these processes.
Dr. Liz Lasky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (NY State, MSW from Yeshiva University). She holds a PhD from Yeshiva University in Social Welfare. She is also a New York University Certified Coach and holds the International Coach Federation credential of Associate Certified Coach (ACC). She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University. She is a published author (both in peer reviewed academic journals and her own book), a professional expert for Bravo TV, and presents her research on coaching single women internationally, most notably at Harvard University.
She is also a proud Fellow of The Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard University.
About Paulette Rao MCC, BCC
Paulette Rao is a leadership coach and trainer at major corporations worldwide. As founder of True North Resources, her coaching consultancy, Paulette helps leaders enhance their performance as well as the performance of their teams while achieving organizational objectives.
Paulette’s leadership coaching is informed by her 28 years of experience as a senior executive and marketing leader in corporate America. She was a Managing Director for Marsh, the world’s largest risk services firm, where she ran the Mercer Northeast employee benefits division and was responsible for its P&L. She was one of only 100 female managing directors at Marsh. Paulette led and coached hundreds of marketing professionals in that role to establish and develop significant relationships with their clients.
As a Board Certified and Master Certified coach, Paulette works with senior executives and high potentials at Fortune 500 and smaller organizations to help them hone the skills they need to improve their performance and develop others in their organization to create positive and profitable change. While she works predominantly with senior male executives, she has gained particular notoriety working with female leaders to grow their confidence, mindsets, and skillsets to reach their unique potential as a leader.
Paulette has expertise in an evidence-based coaching approach that helps leaders transform the way they think, communicate, manage, and lead. She brings the benefits of coaching into corporate settings to transform conversational skills, develop and retain talent, and improve performance and leadership. Her coaching model is solution-focused and self-directed learning, heavily informed by leadership theory, models and principles, systems science, psychology, change principles, learning theory, and contemporary neuroscience. Paulette works within a broad scope of industries to help incorporate coaching into their business relationships and communication skills to enhance their management capabilities. Her engagements span the globe, including India, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Australia, South America, Canada, and the UK. Clients run the gamut from Fortune 500 to mid-size entities, including Amazon, WHO, Merck & Co., Benefit Cosmetics, GSK, EDS, AIG, Apollo Management, Sephora, McKay Shields, Texas State, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Newell Rubbermaid to name a few.
Paulette was a trainer for Neuro Leadership Institute, Franklin Covey Southeast Asia, and Ken Blanchard Companies, three of the highest-profile global coaching firms, and is currently part of the coaching faculty at Korn Ferry and GSK. Paulette holds a B.A. in Education and an Advanced Leadership Certificate from the Bell Leadership Institute. She is certified by New York University as an Executive and Organizational Coach. She is an Adjunct Professor/Curriculum Developer in the Coaching Certification Program, where she received the 2014 NYU Award for Teaching Excellence. She has achieved the designation of Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation and serves as the Past President of the New York City ICF Chapter. She is a Founding Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Coaching (IOC). Paulette was also inducted into the YWCA’s New York Academy of Women Achievers in 2002 for her transformational leadership after the attacks on NYC on September 11, 2001.
