James Flaherty, MCC
James Flaherty, MCC, is the founder of New Ventures West, the coach training school based in San Francisco. Over the past 25 years, James has designed and led coaching and leadership courses in North America, South Africa, Asia and Europe. He has developed a unique approach to coaching by integrating discoveries in linguistics, developmental psychology, twentieth-century philosophy, spirituality and biology into the practical and customized methodology known as Integral Coaching®. He is the author of the seminal text Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, which is used in colleges and universities around the world. He is currently finishing a second book entitled Coaching Now. James lives in San Francisco with his wife and has a daughter he adores. In addition to being a voracious reader, he practices yoga and qigong. He owns a large collection of CDs, mostly in the classic, rock, and jazz genres, and he is a Zen student, studying with Norman Fischer of Everyday Zen.
