AGNES MURA - EXECUTIVE COACH
Agnes Mura, M.A., is an international Master Certified Coach to executives, entrepreneurs and consulting companies. She has special expertise in coaching leaders through successful cultural adjustments of all types, including changes in location or geographic reach, integration into new corporate or departmental cultures, and how to successfully shift the culture of a function or a department. She is a founding director of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association and prominent in the coaching community as an expert practitioner and advocate of the profession.
Agnes is an experienced and globally focused leadership coach who inspires and develops Fortune 500 corporate executives from Europe to Latin America. Fluent in six languages, Ms. Mura has also mediated among diverse peoples and cultures. She is currently coaching in English, Spanish and German. Her clients include: Accenture, Avon, The Coca Cola Company, ConAgra, CEMEX, Citigroup, Coors, Deloitte, Habitat for Humanity, KPMG, MGM, Novartis, SAFECO, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics, UBS, Warner Bros., and many “fast” small and mid-size firms in the US and abroad.
Ms. Mura is a coach and partner to leaders who deal with the complexities, uncertainties and turbulences of today's global business world - while having to deliver ever better business results. She understands organizational (and national) cultures and how best to navigate them. Her profound humanity is coupled with a keen strategic eye for what's really going on, and a strong business sense from her 10 years as an executive. Her capacity to elicit authenticity in her clients helps leaders and key contributors achieve the personal and professional shifts that are required to deliver... and to bring their teams along with them.
Ms. Mura's coaching is credited with supporting:
- A senior partner in a global consulting company repatriating from an assignment in Asia. Accepted a substantial regional responsibility in the US with minimal adjustment period, making a smooth and cost-effective transition for the company and quickly leveraging her experience to lead her region to top tier performance.
- Supported a senior partner in a professional services firm during a transition to a stretch assignment. Coaching led to a new function with global responsibilities and a seat on the executive committee.
- Coached a female Senior Partner in one of the nation's Big Four Accounting Firms to achieve election to the firm's board by strengthening her firm-wide strategic perspective, building credibility and connections through collaboration and sharpening delegation and mentoring skills.
Agnes Mura has taught Coaching and Assessments to global executives in the Advanced Executive Program at the Anderson School of Business (UCLA) and to new coaches in the Cal State University Long Beach professional coaches training program. She is a regular and frequent guest lecturer in Pepperdine University's doctoral program in Organizational Leadership.
In 2000, her accomplishments were honored with the Woman of Achievement Award by Century City - Los Angeles. In 2002, she earned the Builders' Award of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. In 2003 she became a founding member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations. In 2004 she became the first President of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. Pacific Soundings Press published her book, co-authored with William Bergquist, Ten Themes and Variations for Postmodern Leaders and Their Coaches in 2005.
