Coaches Without Borders

Welcome to 2012 – Would you like to work with us?

“CWOB is an innovative experiment in delivering coaching to people who need and deserve the support, but who might not have the funds or access. We really can make a difference.” – Doug Silsbee, Coach 

Pairing Executive Coaches with leaders of aid organizations around the world to advance efforts that support the eradication of poverty and disease, and efforts toward freedom, equality, and dignity, and the sustainability of these things.

Deb and Heidrun

Coaches Without Borders began as an idea discussed during a Presence Based Coaching retreat with Doug Silsbee in Asheville, NC.  One of the coaches attending, Deb Denis, carried the idea forward and shared it with her coaching colleague Heidrun Kippenberger, in Accra, Ghana.

Heidrun and Deb had been working together for over a year via Skype and realized the format could work as a way to link U.S.-based professional coaches with clients in the non-profit sector in Africa.  Thus Coaches Without Borders started to form.

Deb and Rebecca

Senior leaders of aid organizations in Ghana were the first clients in a pilot coordinated by Deb Denis on the North American side and Rebecca Teiko-Dottey, Acting Country Manager for Christian Aid in Ghana, in Africa.   Marcia Johnson from The Schutz Group signed on to support the work with LIFO Strengths Assessments.  And now we begin..

With an impressive group of clients who are committed to developing their own leadership acumen, and coaches who are dedicated to helping their clients achieve, we’re working together to make a difference in the world.

Our mission is to make a difference in the world, one person at a time.

The mission of Coaches Without Borders is to extend the power of coaching in the world, to support leaders in aid organizations who do amazing work every day and without a lot of resources – in this small way, we contribute to that, to them, and are grateful for the opportunity.

We recognize the power of coaching and see it work all the time with clients who work one-on-one with a coach.  Advances in technology have made it possible for what was previously always done face-to-face, to be done over the telephone and now over the internet.  With voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) tools like Skype, we’re able to connect with each other to/from most places in the world.  Granted, internet connections aren’t everywhere but progress continues.

It used to be that you needed a plane ticket and a passport; now, just an internet connection makes it possible to see and hear each other all around the world, to virtually be in the same place at the same time.  Cheaper than a plane ticket and better for the planet.