An Issue of Trust in Executive Coaching: A Cross Cultural Conversation

M Moritz, K Zepuntke International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2006

This is the fourth in a series of IJCO dialogues among senior organizational coaches. Meryl Moritz and Klaus Zepuntke are executive coaches who met at the executive Coaching summit in 2003 where they both signed up to work on the issue of diversity in executive Coaching. Moritz, a U.S. national with a smattering of german, and Zepuntke, a german national married to a Canadian and poised on the brink of dual nationality, entered into a three year peer coaching relationship to explore coaching across cultures from a new perspective…in part to study the phenomenon of diversity. This interview is an excerpt of a three year exchange of views on a host of topics.