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Coaching Competency Center (CCC)

As the logo of EADA states "Where Business People Grow", EADA emphasizes the development of their students, with special attention to human development. EADA is a pioneer in offering coaching services for over 5 years, providing students of their management training programs (International MBA, Executive MBA, CEO, HR programs) with coaching sessions. In the academic year 2011 – 2012 the "EADA Coaching Competency Center" was created, to offer training, research and coaching services at EADA Business School. The center, run by Prof. dr. Steven Poelmans and Prof. Dr. Lucia Langa, Co-Director of People Management Department, has three pillars that support and reinforce each other:

• Master in Organizational Coaching – Master for managers-coaches, HR and management development specialists, and coach-entrepreneurs, with the objective of creating a strategic vision of coaching services and schools, te design and implementation of organizational coaching systems and processes, and coaching supervision. The first edition starts in October 2012
• Coaching Services - Individual and team coaching for EADA students, alumni, business associates and clients. We broaden the services starting in September 2012.
• Coaching Lab – Assessment services for evaluating leadership and coaching competencies with the help of the latest audio-visual and biometric technology.

Dr. Steven Poelmans

Director of the EADA Coaching Competency Center (CCC), Partner / Director of WorkItOut, Scientific Collaborator of the Leadership Development Research Center at ESADE Business School and Academic Director of DDRR, the Deloitte Diversity Research Roundtable. He holds a Master in Organizational Psychology (Catholic University of Leuven), a Master in Marketing Management (Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School) and a Ph.D. in Management (IESE Business School). For the last 10 years dr. Steven Poelmans was professor at IESE Business School. He has taught leadership, self-leadership and coaching to MBA students and executives. His research, teaching and consulting mainly focuses on employee wellbeing and flexible work arrangements, cultural intelligence and coaching, mostly with a cross-cultural perspective: His research was published in journals like the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, and Personnel Psychology. His research was nominated twice (2005; 2009) for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for the best paper in the field of work and family. He has carried out training or consulting for both profit (Abbott Labs, Henkel, Randstad, Caixa Cataluña, Novartis, Sun Microsystems, Nestlé, Roche Diagnostics, ENEL/Endesa, Telefonica, BBVA, Banco Santander, and Nike) and not-for-profit organizations (Aga Khan Development Network, Mossos d’Esquadra, Peace Islands, Comunidad de Madrid). Over the last 10 years Steven has coached over 200 managers from more than 20 countries. He is trained as a neuroscience-based coach by London-based Results Coaching Systems Europe and the NeuroLeadership Institute. He is the former Academic Director of the Focused Program on Coaching at IESE Business School.