Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., MCC (born May 30, 1949) is a #1 New York Times Best Selling author, and Master Certified Executive and life coach, often referred to as ”The Mother of Coaching” due to her pioneer work in the coaching industry.
Education
Carter-Scott attended Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City, and briefly boarded at Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut. She attended Bradford College in Massachusetts, followed by the University of Dijon, in France, then the University of Denver where she received her BA in theatre and education; then she attended the University of Minnesota graduate school in theatre, and Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara where she received her MA and Ph.D. in 1994 in Human and Organizational Development.
Her dissertation was focused on the relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction.
Career
Carter-Scott started coaching professionally October 15, 1974, when a colleague asked her to help him with his business. Carter-Scott managed to solve his business problems and started building her coaching practice based on asking questions rather than providing answers. [source] After that, she started training professional life coaches in 1975. She has been coaching and training coaches ever since. She specializes in motivation, self-esteem, customer relations, change management, communication, team building, leadership training and overcoming Negaholism, coaching skills for HR professionals, employee engagement, Employee Owned Change, Feedback, Inner Negotiation Workshop, Customer Service, Masterclasses for already trained coaches, Coach Training, presentation skills, self-management, stress management, teambuilding, Inner Negotiation Workshop for teens, women in leadership, diversity training, HR leadership, interviewing skills, management development, performance appraisal, time management. which is one of the key concepts in Carter-Scott's coaching school of thought. She defines it as "a condition where people unconsciously talk themselves out of their visions, dreams, and goals. They diminish their capabilities, tell themselves that they can't have what they want, and at times even sabotage their wishes, desires, and aspirations". Her original work in overcoming Negativity started in 1974 and was formalized in 1989 with the publication of her book, Negaholics. She is considered a pioneer in human development, layind the groundwork in overcoming negativity and helping individuals and organizations ”realize their dreams”.
Carter-Scott was professor of Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, and Coaching INSEAD, Antioch and Webster Universities for limited engagements because of other commitments.
In 2013, she received her Master Certified Coaching credential from the International Coach Federation and was recognized as one of ICF's 100 pre-eminent Assessors worldwide.[4] She is currently the CEO of the MMS Institute LLC, a firm which specializes in global Coach Trainings, personal development and custom-designed professional training programs, which received ICF accreditation as a school authorized by the ICF to teach and train students globally. In order to coach CEOs, Carter-Scott needed to know from the inside out what it means to be at the helm. Running a global business on three continents with her sister Lynn U. Stewart, her husband Michael Pomije and their licensed business partners has stretched them to learn and work with multi-cultural diversity and to bring the soft skills of coaching and training to countries around the world. For example, the MMS Coach Training partner in Vietnam, LCV is the #1 coaching school in the entire country. She originally founded MMS (short for: Motivation Management Service) in San Francisco in 1974 and in 1988 the MMS Institute expanded to Europe by licensing its first course in the Netherlands. Through MMS, Carter-Scott has delivered trainings to several corporate clients that include Fortune 500 companies worldwide such as American Express, IBM, Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, Burger King, Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Cigna Global Healthcare, Estee Lauder, CH, FMC, Ford Motor Company, Genpact Corporation, KPMG Thailand, GTE/GTEL, Hyperion Solutions, MGM Resorts, Meredith Corporation, Montecito Bank and trust, Pandora Production Thailand, Platinum Technologies, Republic Indemnity Corporation, US Air National Guard, ThyssenKrupp, Covestro, Unilever, and Vitallife Corporation, MGM Resorts, KPMG, Cigna Global Healthcare, Hyperion Solutions, Pandora Production, Thailand, GTE, Republic Indemnity.
With NSG requesting to be licensed to represent the Negaholic content, the licensing program was launched in 1998. Next was a client in the Netherlands in 2000 that requested to be licensed to promote, produce, and present the MMS courses in Holland. Following this was Switzerland, Singapore, Hungary, Vietnam, Thailand.
Carter-Scott has lived in France, Switzerland, Netherlands and Thailand as well as the US. In 1998 she got an instrument-rated private pilot license and obtained her PADI scuba diving certification despite of blocked ears and confirmation that she would never be able to scuba dive.
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- Cherie Carter-Scott