EMCC Global

Vice President Accreditation | Global Executive Board

Applied Wisdom

Senior Expert, Mentor and Coach in Knowledge Management, Leadership Development & Organisational Change in international organisations.
I partner with leaders of companies, start-ups, the public sector and NGOs on the following:
- Knowledge sharing  (what, how & where) & Strategic Development – people and organisational change
- Coaching for transition and success – individuals and teams. Team Management and Leadership for middle and senior managers - delivering value and making sense of knowledge and experience in complex environments. Successful online collaborative team working. 

Working in English and French.
Client assignments successfully completed for national and international government bodies, manufacturing companies, tech start-ups, international charities, social entrepreneurs, business schools and utilities companies.

Founder & Managing Director

Providing Individual and Team Coaching for managers and executives in international organisations, corporations and start-ups. Experienced coach trainer, providing assessment and supervision to new and established coaches. I offer individual and group coach supervision.

Senior Executive Coach & Coach Supervisor

European School of Administration, the European Commission & all EU Institutions

1. Executive Coaching for Senior & Middle Managers - topics include Stakeholder Relationship Management, Performance, Leadership, Personal Productivity & Well-Being, Strategic Direction, Interview & Assessment Centre preparation etc.

2. Team Coaching. Design, delivery and facilitation of middle and senior management training courses, workshops and Masterclasses. 
Topics include: 
Team Management & Leadership Skills for new Managers,
Positive Presentation Skills
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Retention & Transfer,
Network Management, 
On-line Collaboration and Virtual Team-working, 
Developing Communities of Practice, 
Customer Service Excellence

3. Management Training
New Manager, Leadership Development, Knowledge Management, Communication, Coaching Skills.

Senior Executive Coach & Supervisor & Leadership Trainer

EMCC Belgium

• Lead on Accreditation and Supervision at EMCC Belgium to elevate coaching and mentoring standards
• Spearheaded initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion within the coaching profession in Belgium
• Supports the evolution of EMCC Belgium by fostering connections and promoting research in the field.

Vice President & Board Member

Academy of Coach Supervision & Mentoring

Professional Coach Supervision training and accreditation offered in partnership around the world. 
Cohort 2 Russian diaspora Jan-Oct 2022

Co-Founder

Cognitive Edge network

Integrate Cognitive Edge tools and methodologies into knowledge sharing projects and programmes where appropriate to enhance strategic decision making and collaboration. See www.cognitive-edge.com

Accredited Practitioner

Novum UK

Associate lecturer, Leeds Beckett University. 
Design, delivery and evaluation of accredited coach training programmes from EMCC Foundation level to University Post-Graduate level.  
Assessment of coaching students.
Supervision and mentoring of new coaches.
Executive Coaching for senior executives and middle managers. 
Team Coaching.

Senior Coach Tutor & Executive Coach

Community Intelligence Ltd.

Building and nurturing Communities of Practice through Masterclasses, workshops and coaching.

Senior Associate & Lead Consultant

Warwick Business School

Facilitator, Account Manager and Co-ordinator of Action Learning Group on SNA (Social Network Analysis)

Facilitator, Knowledge & Innovation Network

Innovation Unit, Department for Education & Skills

Development of online community of educational practitioners using Confluence and knowledge sharing techniques. 
Knowledge sharing support for two UK national projects : "Communities for Learning" and "Parents and Carers". 
Knowledge elicitation interviews.

Next Practice Knowledge Facilitator

I have been coaching and mentoring leaders and teams for three decades. As an EMCC accredited Senior Executive Coach, Team Coach, Coach Supervisor and Assessor, I provide support and challenge to people interested in improving their well-being, performance and results. As an accredited Coach Supervisor, I offer supervision to coaches, both individually and in groups.

As an experenced management trainer, I provide training needs analysis, leadership programme design and delivery,  assessment and evaluation.

I am passionate about developing effective communities of practitioners and have supported over 200 in the last 15 years.  I offer OD and Knowledge Sharing consultancy to companies/organisations looking to improve their collective wisdom and accelerate learning.

Having lived long enough to see the arrival of computer technology in the office ("the new paperless office"), the arrival of the Internet ("the information superhighway"), the rise and fall of dot.com era (20th century version of the 17th century "Tulip Mania") and the increasing dominance of profit-driven social media, I've been reading about the 
evolution of AI and it's key players for several years. I remain both open and sceptical. 
Here's some news that is both depressing and exciting at the same time. Reaching for the popcorn and watching this chapter unfold...

Cheryl Cooper

I have been coaching and mentoring leaders and teams for three decades. As an EMCC accredited Senior Executive Coach, Team Coach, Coach Supervisor and Assessor, I provide support and challenge to people interested in improving their well-being, performance and results. 

As an experenced trainer, I provide training needs analysis, programme design and delivery,  assessment and evaluation. Co-Founder of the Academy for Coach Supervision & Mentoring, I offer individual and group supervision to coaches world-wide.

I am passionate about communities of practitioners and have supported over 200 in the last 15 years.  I offer OD and KS consultancy to companies/organisations looking to improve their collective wisdom and accelerate learning.

Founder & CEO, Curiouser.AI | Berkeley Instructor | Building Values-Based, Human-Centered AI | LinkedIn Top Voice in AI

Yann LeCun just left Meta.
Let that sink in.

One of three people who invented modern deep learning. Turing Award winner. 

Chief AI Scientist at a company spending billions on AI.

Gone.

Not to a competitor. Not to retirement. 
To a startup building technology 
Meta apparently doesn't prioritize.

This matters more than most people realize

LeCun has spent 40 years being early and right. 

In the 1980s, he couldn't find a PhD adviser because machine learning was "a dead end." 

Three decades later, that dead end became the foundation of modern AI.

Now he's saying large language models, the technology behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and Meta's Llama, are another dead end.

"Nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today" within 3-5 years, he said at MIT last month.

His alternative: world models. Systems that learn from visual data and build causal understanding, like a child learning physics by dropping things thousands of times.

Current LLMs? 
They predict the next word. 
They don't understand gravity. 
They don't know that objects exist when you're not looking at them.

LeCun compares their intelligence to a cat's. He thinks the cat is smarter.

Here's what troubles me:

Meta is spending countless billions on technology that its own Chief AI Scientist publicly called a dead end. 

Either LeCun is wrong (possible, but his track record suggests otherwise), or Meta is chasing market narratives over technical reality.

His departure suggests he's betting on the latter.

The implications for current AI investments are significant. If LeCun's 3-5 year timeline holds, companies built entirely on LLM scaling may face architectural obsolescence.

That's not a guarantee. Even geniuses miss sometimes.

But LeCun has never been wrong about something this big before
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The trick with technology is to avoid spreading darkness at the speed of light.
Stephen Klein
Founder & CEO, Curiouser.AI
Instructor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
WeFunder (link in comments)

Sources:

Wall Street Journal - LeCun departure and startup plans (November 2024)
MIT Symposium - LeCun remarks on LLM limitations (October 2024)
Meta FAIR Research Publications - World model architectures
Turing Award Archives - LeCun, Bengio, Hinton recognition (2018)

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