Bringing Coaching to the Creative Industries

The Art of Coaching: Inspiring Our Futures

Coaching is an art. As a creative and as a management specialist, I have been there - working with Fortune 500 executives and key decision-makers, with entrepreneurs, and with leaders forging new pathways in the creative industries.

Creativising

As an ICF-credentialed coach, as part of my professional toolkit, I engage creative-muscle to engage each client on ways forward. Coaching is a unique space that identifies powerful, efficient and concrete steps towards each goal. Coaching improves time management and manifests time where it is most needed. For more information on creativising see my website: www.creativising.com.

Coaching ‍is ‍conducted ‍in ‍person, ‍on ‍Zoom ‍or ‍phone ‍in ‍50-minute ‍weekly ‍sessions. ‍Key areas include: Work-Life Balance, Change Management, Cross-cultural Performance, Engaging Innovation and Creativity, Leadership development, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, Onboarding and Long Term Strategies, Personal Effectiveness, Leader’s Voice, Respect. As a coach, I am specialized in both management and creativity and supporting the client in balancing of their right and left brain.

Testimonials

“Dr. Joynes is a phenomenal coach who influences how I think, plan, and act, to achieve my ambitions and maximize my potential. His methods combine creative and strategic problem solving techniques that ensure that the paths I define and choose simplify complexities and focus on the most important outcomes. Our work has helped me grow as a more impactful partner to my clients and influential leader and member on my teams”

- Peter Sun | Consultant, McKinsey & Company

Coaching is recognized today as a value-add resource for international organizations, diplomatic communities and government working in multi-cultural environments. It is my pleasure to recommend Dr. Les Joynes as an experienced and thoughtful leadership coach. Experienced across thirty-five countries, Les works alongside leaders and teams to build strategic goals, team effectiveness, mission focus, and maintain work-life balance.

- Anthony Diaz | Chief, Political and Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy

As a venture capital professional, it's easy to get caught up in a daily routine and relegate career development decisions to our "someday" to-do list. A leadership coach, Dr. Joynes engaged unique approaches to align my professional and personal goals and work-life balance. I highly recommend him.

- Hugues Dongmo | Vice President, XBTO Humla Ventures, New York

Les’s unique coaching style blends his diverse training and deep experience in both creativity and management enabling him to work effectively with leaders as they build their pathways towards their professional and work-life balance goals.

- Paulette Rao MCC, BCC

An ICF-credentialed Leadership Coach at Columbia, I bring 35 years of global experience and have served Fortune 500 leaders across Management Consulting, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Healthcare and Technology, Government, Education, Marketing and the Creative Industries. When I was in college, I took a management course for interpersonal problem-solving which focused on building clear goals and objectives within teams. Later, during my graduate training in management, I discovered how essential coaching skills were, especially within diverse teams. During my MBA at CalPoly, I had the opportunity to study under Organizational Behavior specialist Dr Abraham Rami Shani. Together, Rami and I published on parallel learning models for cross-cultural collaboration and technology transfer. Our research inspired my path to management consulting where I served multinationals including General Motors, 3M, General Electric, Du Pont de Nemours, Dow, Ashland and Bayer on global strategy and competitive intelligence. During my journey in coaching an iconic book for me was John Whitmore’s Coaching for Performance (1992) which has become a staple for coaches around the globe.

In addition to management, I am also trained in the creative fields and completed my training in London and Tokyo. In 2000, I worked with my first coaching client, an entrepreneur in the creative industries, and together we examined what was keeping her from moving forward. We unpacked her goals and ways forward - and within six months she launched a new business focus that was better aligned to her career goals and she became extraordinarily successful - and happy.

I also discovered how creativity is one of the most powerful components in coaching to leaders in any industry. This has led me to initiate coaching labs and pilots at Yale, University of Melbourne and California State University. Since then, I have served future leaders as an entrepreneurship and leadership coach at Columbia Business School, Columbia’s start-up lab, Almaworks, California State University and Parsons School of Design. He is also a GoldAward Mentor at University of London.

About Les

Les Joynes is an executive and leadership coach based in New York and Columbia University Research Scholar on Coaching Leadership in Global Organizations and serves as an entrepreneurship mentor at Columbia’s start-up lab, Almaworks in New York. He brings three decades of international experience across 32 countries and coaches entrepreneurs and leaders in finance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, administration, education and the creative industries. Les received his BA cum laude from Boston University and specialized in international business in his M.Sc in Management from Boston University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium) and MBA from California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly). Also trained in the creative industries, he received his MA Fine Art from University of London; MA from Musashino Art University Japan; PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; and Post-Doctorate from University of São Paulo, Brazil. Trained in coaching at New York University. He is recipient of Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Awards for China and Mongolia and was selected by the US Presidentially appointed Fulbright Board for the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award in 2022 for India.

Individual and Group Coaching

Working directly with each client, their teams in person, by phone and Zoom.