Lecturer
Program Director, Leadership Coaching Certificate Program
Linda Braun-Leibowitz is the co-founder and joint CEO of GloCo Leadership Consulting, a boutique consulting firm located in San Diego, California. She is a Clinical Psychologist and a certified Integral Coach®. She has twenty-four years of experience in leadership development, team coaching, executive coaching, life coaching, and group facilitation. She has consulted to a wide range of leaders, from CEO’s to senior and middle managers. She has also coached and mentored students training to become Integral Coaches. Linda was born in South Africa. She lived and worked in Johannesburg until immigrating to the United States in 2009.
Linda was educated as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she graduated Cum Laude. She worked both as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice and as a consultant in leadership development for several years, before committing herself exclusively to the field of leadership development and coaching. Linda earned her Integral Coach® certification from the Center for Coaching at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, in affiliation with New Ventures West (San Francisco). This certification is accredited by the International Coach Federation.
After certifying as an Integral Coach, and before immigrating to the United States, Linda was a member of faculty at The Center for Coaching situated at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business in South Africa. Since moving to the United States, she is an adjunct faculty member at New Ventures West, San Francisco. She is also a consultant trainer for the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC), facilitating workshops on resolving conflict and communicating across differences. She facilitates NCRC workshops with student leaders on the campuses of UCSD, SDSU and various community colleges throughout San Diego. Finally, she is currently a part-time lecturer in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, lecturing a class in the Leadership Coaching Certificate Program.
Linda lives with her husband and two sons in Carmel Valley, San Diego. When not working she loves to spend time with her family and friends, read, meditate, dance, and play tennis.