MONITORING AND EXPERTISES

The professional coaches at Évolutrek are skilled, passionate, well-prepared, and open-minded. They integrate scientific advancements to offer innovative, effective, and tailored approaches for each individual. Benefit from high-quality support and discover various tools, methods, and tips—including those from NeuroLeadership—to succeed in life and in your endeavors.

Évolutrek is attentive to advancements in environmental sciences, astrophysics, and cosmology, which help us understand our place within the Universe. We participate in and contribute to the advancement of executive coaching.

Inspiring leaders have contributed to the evolution of professional coaching. We aim to honor the work of pioneers and continue this momentum by helping our clients achieve success based on their own definitions, criteria, and values.

COGNITIVE SCIENCES

 Applied collective intelligence? And thanks to all these scientists, researchers, pioneers, curious minds, and leaders who help us better understand the famous developing equation: **Nature * Nurture = Humans** And live a successful life on Earth!

HISTORY of Cognitive Sciences

 

1942

The Macy Conferences in New York, with mathematicians John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, psychiatrist Milton Erickson, gathered to create a general science of mind functioning.

1956

The first conference dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to the psychology of cognition.

Computer scientists Allen Newell, John McCarthy, and Marvin Minsky, mathematician Claude Shannon, economist and psychologist Herbert Simon, linguist Noam Chomsky, psychologists George Miller and John Swets, neurobiologists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel participated.

Applied collective intelligence?

And thanks to all these scientists, researchers, pioneers, curious minds, and leaders who help us better understand the famous developing equation:

Nature * Nurture = Humans

And live a successful life on Earth!

INSPIRATION SOURCES

for the Évolutrek Team

Cognitive sciences offer breakthroughs and key insights into the functioning of the brain, body, behaviors, emotions, relationships, and ultimately our vitality and ability to act—or not—as humans and leaders.

• Antonio R. Damasio, body, emotions, consciousness

• Lisa Feldman Barrett, brain and emotions

• David Rock and his research team, Neuroleadership Institute

• Matthew Lieberman, social brain

• Daniel Siegel, creator of the hand model to represent the brain. He helps parents and teenagers understand each other.

• Tara Swart, neuroscience and leadership

• Sonia Lupien, human stress

• Bruno Dubuc, lecerveau.mcgill.ca

• Daniel Siegel, neurobiology

• Matthew Walker, sleep

• Elizabeth Gould, neurogenesis in humans

• Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness

• Joël de Rosnay, epigenetics

• Jean-Pierre Changeux, perceptions

• Israel Rosenfield, neuroscience and the history of ideas

• Oliver Sacks, exploration of human potential through clinical cases and exceptions. He should be awarded a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Prize!? Fascinated and concerned with different people, for example, “The Man Who Took His Wife for a Hat.” Not a researcher or scientist, but a physician-writer… He made us aware that it is the patient who explores “their world.” Consciousness and visionary humanism.

• David Perlmutter, (the Gut-Brain Axis) one of the pioneers of the gut microbiome, nutrition, microbiota, inflammation, links to the brain, mental health, depression, mental illness, and overall health.

• Isaac Kohane, bioinformatician at Harvard

• Michel Rochon, Brain and music

• Henri Laborit, pioneer of complexity theory, self-organization of life, introduction of cybernetics and systems theory

• Two (2) Nobel Prize winners who disliked each other and contributed to our understanding:

  • Gerald M. Edelman, the theory of neural group selection, a form of neuronal Darwinism (note: at his time, he denied neurogenesis), and the selected circuits form what Edelman calls “neural maps.”
  • Francis H. Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA (with Watson), Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, 1962

• Moshe Feldenkrais, Israeli physicist, one of the pioneers who introduced judo in France in the 1930s. After a knee injury, he developed an unconventional method of treatment in the 1950s, inspired by neuroscience, called the “Feldenkrais Method.”

• Margaret Mead, anthropologist

• Gregory Bateson, communication and cybernetics, anthropology. Known for the effects of the “double bind” and the iceberg of learning: a hierarchical schema in several levels, where only the peak is visible, but the majority is hidden below the surface (his book “Towards an Ecology of the Mind”).

Laureates of the prestigious Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, awarded every two years, such as:

  • Brenda Milner, work on memory
  • Michael S. Gazzaniga, neuroplasticity

Key moments in the emergence of professional coaching

The term “Coach” and the occupation of “Coaching” are not regulated titles. Indeed, it is not like engineer, pharmacist, doctor, nurse, dentist, or architect…

At the crossroads of cognitive sciences, positive psychology, behavioral sciences, and their contributions to the emergence of executive coaching and professional coaching:

  • 1830: The first use of the word “coach” to refer to a person seems to be in an academic context at the University of Oxford in the 1830s. In this case, the word “coach” was used to designate a tutor supporting academic work.
  • 1860: Coaching begins to be used in the sports context in England.
  • 1960: The modern embodiment of coaching finds its roots in the Human Potential Movement. A decade of exploration in human growth and development by two eminent psychologists, Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers (humanistic psychology).
  • 1974: Publication of a landmark book in the United States. Gallwey, W. Timothy (1974). The Inner Game of Tennis (1st ed.). New York: Random House. In the 1960s, Timothy was captain of the Harvard University tennis team and had learned meditation techniques that greatly improved his concentration and game.
  • 1995: The birth of the ICF (International Coaching Federation) in the United States. At the time, there were no prerequisites other than paying a membership fee. The high costs and investment required for post-secondary education in the U.S. created a vacuum effect for many people who saw an opportunity to create a “professional occupation” with little academic foundation and no entry barriers other than paying for an Association membership.
  • 2006: The creation of SICPNL, the International Society of Professional NLP Coaches in Quebec, Canada, where professional coaching programs were accredited and coaches with a minimum of 1000 hours of training/supervision, active in the global Francophone community, could obtain professional certification.
  • 2011: The EMCC and ICF teamed up to integrate a coaching and mentoring charter in the European territory (EMCC stands for European Mentoring and Coaching Council).
  • 2012-15: While there were already thousands of ICF members worldwide, the ICF established minimum training/supervision criteria for membership by instituting 3 levels: ACC, PCC, and MCC. At the time, ACC required 60 hours of training, PCC 125 hours, and MCC 250 hours.

    Here is a very interesting video by Timothy Gallwey if you are curious to discover one of the pioneers of executive coaching. His book, published in 1974, has had a significant influence on the entire coaching industry for the past 50 years.

    CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROFESSION

    At the forefront and with an innovative spirit, Évolutrek continuously monitors developments and maintains a vast network of contacts with competent and inspiring individuals, researchers, practitioners, and scholars in the areas of the firm’s expertise: professional coaching, neuroscience, leadership, management, and governance.

    PROFESSIONAL COACHING

    • Timothy Gallwey
    • Sir John Whitmore
    • Carole Kauffman (IoC, Harvard Medical School)
    • Anthony Robbins (applies NLP tools)
    • Marshall Goldsmith
    • Ben Croft (WEBCS)
    • Martin Latulippe (Coaching and business development on the WEB in the Francophonie)
    • Fernando Flores, James Flaherty, and Julio Ollala (ontological coaching)
    • Ken Wilber (integral coaching)
    • Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl (founders of Co-Active)
    • Rick Tamlyn (The Bigger Game)
    • Louise Hay (countless contributions)
    • Suzanne Skiffington and Perry Zeus (The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work, 2001)
    • Anthony Grant (Basketball Coach)

    And also,

    • Ken Carter, high school basketball coach.
      A movie, “Coach Carter,” presents this inspiring story… which perfectly illustrates the Pygmalion Effect (self-fulfilling prophecy that leads to improved performance in a person based on the belief in their success from an authority figure or environment).

    GENERATIVE LEADERSHIP | CONSCIOUSNESS | SYSTEMIC | GOVERNANCE

    • Robert Dilts
    • Marita Fridjhon and Faith Fuller (ORSC, Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching)
    • Laure Varidel
    • Richard Barrett
    • Vandana Shiva
    • Stéphane Leblanc
    • Ananda Fitzsimmons
    • Pierre Rabhi
    • Greta Thunberg
    • Janice Marturano
    • Louise Champoux-Paillé
    • Jacques Grisé
    • Peter Drucker
    • Peter Senge
    • Henry Mintzberg (with Phil LeNir for the development of Coaching Ourselves)
    • Jack Welch
    • Richard Barrett (Value Barrett Center)
    • David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva (Appreciative Inquiry)
    • Rolf Faste (Stanford University and “Design Thinking”, creative intelligence)
    • Rémi Tremblay

    COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES, NEUROBIOLOGY, NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

    • Antonio Damasio (study of the brain, nervous system, and states of consciousness)
    • Donald Hebb
    • Paul J. Zak
    • David Rock, founder of the Neuroleadership Institute, and his research team
    • Tara Swart at MIT (neuroscience and leadership)
    • Glenda Milner, Michael Merzenich (and many Kavli Prize winners in neuroscience)
    • Norman Doidge (neuroplasticity)
    • Matthew Lieberman (Social Brain, his book “Social Brain” where he challenges Maslow… amusing)
    • Joël Monzé (active in Quebec)
    • Vincent Paquette (neurosciences, neuropsychologist)
    • Mario Beauregard (neurosciences and consciousness)
    • David Lefrançois (NLP and applied neuroscience)
    • Bruno Dubuc (McGill Brain)
    • Irena O’Brien (The neuroscience school)
    • Ann Betz (link between coaching and neuroscience)
    • Amy Brann (link between coaching and neuroscience)
    • Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville (medical hypnosis)

    Other researchers in embodied cognition “Embodied Leadership,” focusing on psychosomatics:

    • Stephen W. Porges (originator of polyvagal theory)
    • Deborah A. Dana (Deb Dana and applications of polyvagal theory)
    • Dr. Daniel Siegel, “Mindsight”
    • Bessel Van der Kolk, “The Body Keeps the Score”
    • Betty Rothschild, “The Body Remembers,” “Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System”

    COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING NVC, NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION)
    Note: Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is part of cognitive sciences.

    • Alfred Korzybski, general semantics
    • Martin Seligman (positive psychology)
    • Barbara Frederickson (positive psychology)
    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (flow)
    • David Servan-Schreiber
    • Brene Brown
    • Judith E. Glaser (conversational intelligence)
    • Richard E. Boyatzis, Peter Salovey, John Mayer, and Daniel Goleman (EI – Emotional Intelligence)
    • Lisa Feldman Barrett (Theory of Constructed Emotions)
    • Penny Tompkins, James Lawley, David Grove
    • Marian Way, Caitlin Walker, Shaun Hotchkiss
    • Martina Foreman, Cheryl Winter
    • Alison Blackler, Eve Holt, Phil Swallow
    • Nicola Waterworth, Doris Leibold, Rachel Gilmore (clean language and symbolic modeling)
    • Jennifer de Gandt (clean coaching and symbolic modeling linking Anglo-Saxon and Francophone worlds)
    • Abraham Maslow
    • Carl Rogers
    • Marshall Rosenberg (originator of Non-Violent Communication or NVC)
    • Thomas d’Ansembourg
    • Noam Chomsky
    • Heinz von Foerster
    • Guy Corneau
    • Michael Hall, neuro-semantics
    • Philippe Turchet, synergology, body language, non-verbal communication
    • Paul Ekman

    STRESS, HORMONES, EPIGENETICS, HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

    • Hans Selye
    • Serge Marquis
    • Deepak Chopra
    • Sonia Lupien and David Spiegel (human stress)
    • Marie-Lise Labonté
    • Candace Pert (PNI, psychoneuroimmunology)
    • Valerie Hunt (quantum physiology and biology)
    • Louise Hay
    • Bruce Lipton (epigenetics)
    • Joe Dispenza, “Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind”
    • Dr. Robert Willix
    • Doc Childre PhD, Deborah Rozman PhD, and Rollin McCraty PhD, HeartMath Institute

    SCIENCES OF THE HUMAN MIND AND CURRENT WORK ON THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
    Researchers from the Mind & Life Institute gathered by the Dalai Lama

    • Richard J. Davidson, PhD
    • Daniel Goleman, PhD
    • Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD
    • Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
    • Matthieu Ricard, PhD

    The founder of Évolutrek, Roxane Vézina, occasionally reviews this fabulous list of inspiring individuals.

    She had created it for the members of SICPNL when she was Chair of the Board in 2019-2020.

     

    Yes, these leaders are part of a group of persistent pioneers, researchers, and scientists who passionately dedicate themselves and contribute to the advancement of professional coaching and the evolution of its tools, methods, techniques, and approaches.

    The professional coaches at Évolutrek are well-prepared, equipped, and open-minded, ready to embrace and support the diversity and various “worldviews” of their clients—an essential condition for enabling inclusion.

    Depending on the interests and specialties of our certified experts, we remain vigilant about scientific advancements that could influence the effectiveness of Évolutrek’s approaches—such as quantum physics, epigenetics, quantum biology—and how environmental sciences, cosmology, and other fields of science help us understand the universe and nature, of which humans are ultimately an integral part, connecting the infinitely large, the infinitely small, and the infinitely complex.