AMI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Master Certified Coach
- Public Board Member
Agnes Mura is an experienced public board member and is available for Board Directorships.
"Recruiting Agnes to join the board of Aircastle, a 10-year old, publicly traded company, has proven to be very useful, according to her fellow board members, the CEO and senior management. Thanks to her experience with US corporate executives and with business owners from across the world, she can clearly contribute to a table that is fast-paced, very demanding and international. She is making contributions in matters of global talent strategy, compensation and governance, proving to be wise, knowledgeable and thoughtful, with a unique perspective. We are proud to have a colleague who has a strong financial background, is fluent in six languages, has lived and continues to work all over the world, and cares so much about our company as to relentlessly guide and challenge the management team…"
Agnes Mura has special expertise in coaching and consulting with leaders towards an agile culture, a global mind-set and masterful communication with complex sets of stakeholders, and adapting their leadership practices to rapid changes in the work force, in the market or in job scope. Multi-generational executives and their teams turn to her at critical junctures in their evolution to strengthen their strategic perspective, their impactful, authentic executive presence and their learning agility for sustained, effective execution.
A hands-on business leader, Agnes was voted in 2013 to the Board of Directors of Aircastle LLC, a multi-billion-dollar global company that acquires, leases and sells high-utility commercial jet aircraft to airlines world-wide. After 15 years as a public company, the board approved a merger in 2020 that created exceptional shareholder value, while securing the company's exponential growth. Agnes also chairs the Board of the Institute of Professional Psychology Studies, where she teaches Coach-Based Consulting and Coach-Based Leadership.
Over her 20 years in executive development, Agnes has not only coached across many industries, but also designed and delivered leadership and management development programs in English and Spanish in the Americas, and worked with public Boards and senior teams on their efficacy.
Agnes serves as adjunct faculty in the University of Miami's Certified Professional Coach program. She 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 California State University at Long Beach professional coach training program.
In 2005, Pacific Soundings Press published her book, Ten Themes and Variations for Postmodern Leaders and Their Coaches, co-authored with Dr. William Bergquist. Their seminal book on organizational coaching strategies and practices, coachbook was released in 2011, followed by The Ark of Leadership in 2023.
Agnes Mura's personal journey as a leader was forged in her escape from communist Romania; then included teaching and managing an academic program in Germany, helping break the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympics as the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's Envoy, followed by a ten-year senior career in international banking, last at Bankers Trust Co. of New York.
Fluent in six languages, she holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and Linguistics from Cologne University, Germany; and a Bachelor of Arts (1st) from Edinburgh University, UK.
Her clients have included: AT&T, Accenture, AltaMed, Amita Health, Abbot, Bank of America, Banco Santander, The Coca Cola Company, Colgate Mexico, ConAgra, CEMEX, Citi, Coors, CooperVision, CBS Paramount, Catholic Healthcare West, Dell, Deloitte, DineEquity, East West Bank, ExEd, Experian, First American, Hologic, Gensler, Gilead Sciences, Goodyear, ITRON, Kraft Foods, KPMG, Lovelace Health System, LivCor, Mission Hospital, Mercer, McKesson, MGM, Mead Johnson, Merck, Nantworks, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Nissan, PVH, Polyglass, Raytheon, Roche, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sasser Family Holdings, Shell Midstream LP, Sony, Symantec, Toyota Financial, Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., UBS, Time Warner… and many "fast" small and mid-size firms in the US and abroad.
Anne Miller is distinguished by her action-oriented approach based on the key premise that "it is far easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting". For over 35 years she has worked globally with individual leaders and teams committed to going beyond past successes to create extraordinary futures for themselves and their organizations. She specializes in leadership development, action learning, rapid cycle time innovation and executive alignment.
Anne takes a pragmatic approach in working with individuals and multi-cultural teams. She created the Action Lab™ as a tool for C-level executives to accelerate the delivery of breakthrough results while developing their leaders and their collaboration practices through a series of iterative accomplishments. Anne has led successful leadership development and organizational transformation efforts for Fortune 100 companies in many areas of the world. She has coached senior executives and their teams in a variety of cultures and industries with clients such as Intel, Toyota, Goldman Sachs, Novartis, Shell, MillerCoors, Coca-Cola, Intel, Citigroup, Humana, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, BP, Group Lotus Plc, Plastic Logic and Dow Chemical Venture Capital. She has been invited to work with four leading business schools - London Business School, Vanderbilt Owen, Thunderbird School of Global Management and Arizona State University. At London Business School, she designed and served as director and faculty for the Entrepreneurship Summer School and developed the initial concept for the Master's in Management.
Anne has also designed and co-led a ground-breaking Women in Leadership Program for a Fortune 100 company to raise the performance contribution of women as leaders in the business. The program was recognized as Best Practice by Catalyst.
Prior to founding her own business, Anne was a Partner with Oliver Wyman Delta Organizational Consulting, helping to grow the brand in the UK for organizational change and leadership development; and formerly a Principal with CSC Index, both in the UK and Hong Kong. She began her career in IT, leading teams of analysts and programmers in the design and development of customer solutions for banking, seismic exploration, financial planning and oceanographic research. She is a citizen of the USA and the UK, and has lived and worked in Europe, Malaysia, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.
Anne is co-author, with Richard Pascale, of "Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking" in Leader to Leader, and "Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change" in Strategy and Business. She is qualified to deliver several leading assessments and training such as the Myers-Briggs, the Hogan suite, Focused Energy Balance Indicator, Tilt365, Voices® 360, Global Mindset Inventory, Cultural Orientations Indicator and The Corporate Athlete course from the Human Performance Institute.
Her pro bono work has included entrepreneurship training for vulnerable women in Eastern Europe as part of a reintegration process to build confidence and competence. As a former board member, she is now an advisor to Silver Bullet Productions in New Mexico and is a Mentor with the Creative Startup Accelerator for the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship.
Education: Anne received a BA in mathematics from Colorado College, and graduated with merit as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School. She has trained with the College of Executive Coaching and is certified with the World Association of Business Coaches (CBC™), the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Process and Higher Ground Leadership®.
As a former triathlon champion, she still thrives on sports and adventure travel and lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she built an award-winning "green" house.
John C. Heinritz is an executive coach who has held senior executive positions and built effective global teams for Fortune 100 companies. He brings both a wealth of business experience and a proven coaching methodology to his coaching practice.
John has over thirty years of global leadership experience and special expertise in the Consumer Products and Services segments. His no-nonsense pragmatic approach, insightful ability to give feedback, supported by his laser instinct and courage to identify what matters most resonates well with A-players seeking to learn and grow. He is most useful to executives and business people who are overcoming critical hurdles, self-derailment issues or facing critical junctures and opportunities in their business or career trajectories.
His passion is to help leaders achieve their full potential, both personally and professionally, while using their energy efficiently and striving towards a fulfilling life.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner, Executive Coaching Connections, May 26, 2020
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board, Aircastle. July 2014
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Ing.
- Professor
- Psychologist, Certified Coach
Ramiro Ponce is an executive coach, facilitator and consultant, whose areas of specialization include change management, executive coaching, leadership development and team building.
For over 20 years, he has developed regional and global leaders for diverse Fortune-500 enterprises in the financial services, high-tech, pharmaceutical and consumer products industries in Latin America.
He has developed, coached and inspired top executives and their teams at Microsoft, Banco Santander Mexico, Nokia, Novartis, Citigroup, Amex, Coca Cola, and Bayer, and has also facilitated change management processes at Telefónica, CARE, and Exxon, among other global corporations in the Latin America region (Brazil, Ecuador, México, Colombia, Chile, Central America and the Caribbean, and recently Miami, USA)
Coming from a rich dual engineering & psychology professional background, Ramiro Ponce quickly empathizes with his clients from a genuine sense of caring as a coach, while simultaneously diagnosing - with an engineer's eye - the systemic problems (Process - People - Culture) the organization is going through. He also quickly identifies and sharply focuses on the issues that block personal, team and organizational development.
Ing. Ponce has taught as an invited Professor in diverse Masters of Science programs in several Latin American Universities, has acted as chair coordinator and keynote speaker for multiple regional Human Resources and coaching conferences, and has published diverse articles in specialized Leadership, HR and Coaching journals. His book Gerente del Cambio (coauthored with two colleagues) was published in February 2020 to great professional response.
In addition to his practice, Ramiro has been associated as a program facilitator and coach with Mercer for over 15 years. He has also served as an active Board Member for ICCO (The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations) as its Latin American leader and has run the International Coaching Symposia held by ICCO in México, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Ramiro, completely bilingual in English and Spanish, has a BS in electrical engineer and a BA in Psychology. He has completed post-graduate studies in Applied Mathematics at Stanford University, and in Redecision Psychotherapy at the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy. He dedicated 10 years to private clinical practice before becoming a coach. For 25 years, he has been the CEO of Ponce & Associates, while being based in Guatemala City, where he lives with his Mexican wife - a professional graphic designer - and son Alex.
Bilingual Spanish/English people developer, with degrees in engineering and psychology, & professional certifications in executive coaching.