Our interview with ExpatsRadio about Expatriate Coaching:

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Global Coach Center partners with today's international and expatriate leaders to help them be successful in unfamiliar environments and cultures.

• About the Global Coach Center
• About the Founder

The world is getting smaller and our communities are becoming more diverse. We find ourselves moving half way around the globe as expatriates; engaging in a cross-cultural relationship or partnership; running a virtual business with employees overseas; and managing intercultural teams. What is the secret to success amidst all this diversity? How can we manage frustrations in our expatriate lives and be effective across cultures?

Global Coach Center specializes in expatriate and cross-cultural coaching. We help you find ways to make expatriate lifestyles work for you; we provide you with tools to communicate across cultures; and we assist you with overcoming frustrations of working and living overseas. We coach expatriates individually and in groups; we facilitate meetings and retreats; and we conduct workshops. Coaching is a unique tool that empowers people to do their best – why not make it work for you when you need it the most as an expat?

Our background is unique. The Global Coach Center combines a well-rounded international experience with rigorous coaching training to offer its clients an exceptional level of services.

Global Coach Center works with individual expatriates to:

• Overcome stress/frustrations of an expatriate life
  
• Manage Culture Shock in an effective and fun manner
• Create successful and rewarding cross-cultural relationships/partnerships
• Learn how to decipher different cultures and work across cultures
  
• Design an action plan to help expatriates live international experiences to the fullest
• Build self-empowering, sustainable skills that will benefit expats for years to come

Please refer to Specialized Coaching for more information.

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Global Coach Center works with organizations and companies to aid their expatriate staff development through interactive workshops and seminars on:

• Cross-Cultural and intercultural workplace issues
• Communicating across cultures
• Managing across cultures
• Culture awareness and Cultural Intelligence for expatriate and local staff
• Developing global leaders
• Team building for multi-cultural teams and teams of expatriate managers
  

Each such workshop or seminar has a built-in component of follow-up individual or group coaching. Please refer to Workshops and Courses for more information.

The Founder

Margarita Gokun Silver, MPH, CPCC, PNLP

I first learned about coaching in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina from a friend who turned out to be the very first Co-Active life coach I have ever met. After the initial confusion over the term I realized that I had been "coaching" for years supporting, listening and encouraging friends, colleagues, and extended family members. I also realized that there is nothing I like more than helping people reach their highest potential and live the lives they have always wanted. Today I work with my clients to help them move ahead, do and be their best, and embrace change.

There is a personal reason behind wanting to help people achieve their dreams. I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union and when my family was given an opportunity to escape to the United States in search of a better life, we took it. We arrived poor and humble yet hopeful. Now, years later, we are living the lives of our dreams, the lives that would have never been possible had we stayed behind and ignored this chance for change. I have founded the Global Coach Center to help others seize their chances for change and move towards a better life.

I hold a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University and I coach in English, Russian, and Spanish. I have been trained by one of the most prestigious coaching schools in the United States - The Coaches Training Institute - and I hold a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) Certification. I am also an NLP Practitioner.

In addition to being a coach, I am also a writer and a mother.  I was one of the contributors to the Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience along with such writers as Desmond Tutu, Marianne Williamson, Julia Cameron, and others.  

I currently live in Miami but I have also lived in Buenos Aires, Moscow and St Petersburg, New Haven, New York, Rome, Tashkent, Vienna, Warsaw, and Washington, D.C.

Listen to Margarita's interview with ExpatsRadio about Expatriate Coaching:

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