Hybrid Intelligence for Executive Development

Dr. Terrence E. Maltbia is Professor of Practice in the Department of Organization and Leadership, at Teachers College and serves as Faculty Director, The Columbia Coaching Certification Program (3CP). Scholarly interests include strategic learning; leadership and organizational development; diversity and cultural intelligence; executive and organizational coaching. Terry came to Columbia after 20 years in various corporate and consulting roles.

He is the recipient of The Academy of Human Resources Development’s Malcolm Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award in 2001 and was recognized as #1 in Coach Education by Thinkers50 in 2019, along with numerous awards for his work in coaching education. He is an AHRD Board Member and serves on the Antiracism Committee.

Estíbalitz Ortiz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit, which provides executive and leadership coaching to global executives and managers participating in IESE educational programs around the world. She has a PhD from IESE, and the topic of her doctoral dissertation was mentoring and coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach and senior practitioner by EMCC.

Most of Ortiz’s professional career has been developed in multinational environments. She worked 10 years in human resources at Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 nationalities.

Since 2008, she has collaborated as a lecturer in International HR Management at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in business schools. She is the author of the book La práctica del mentoring en la empresa (EUNSA, 2003), and co-author and co-editor of the book The 7 Moments of Coaching (REM, 2020).

She is certified in different training and assessment methods like The Leadership Circle and Crucial Conversations.

She is the Director of the IESE Leadership Coaching Program, and she teaches the elective course “Coaching for Peak Performance” in the 2nd year of the MBA program.

Yih-Teen Lee is Full Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations and the Academic Director of the IESE Coaching Unit. He specializes in leadership, fit, and cultural bridging in his roles as educator, researcher, and consultant. His research work appears in leading scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Discoveries) and books such as The Handbook of Chinese Organizational Behavior, Leadership Development in a Global World, and The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. He is also co-editor of the books Les compétences culturelles and CulturalContexts of Human Resource Development. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, and Advances in Global Leadership. He is also the Director of the book series “Diversité culturelle et dynamiques des organisations” (Cultural Diversity and Organizational Dynamics), published by the Editor L’Harmattan, Paris. He has served as a member of the Teaching Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. At IESE, Yih-Teen teaches subjects such as leadership, leading global collaboration, self-leadership, leading multicultural teams, and strategic human resource management in the MBA and executive programs.

Prof. Lee has been living and working in Europe for almost 20 years, and identifies himself as a multicultural individual. He is fluent in Chinese, English, French, and Spanish, and has delivered training programs and seminars to senior executives in all four languages. This exposure, alongside his unyielding passion for various cultures, drives him to embrace diversity and devote his energy to the search of deep-level cultural knowledge and cultural competences, with the goal of contributing to the ability of managers and organizations to navigate global cultures effectively. He sees such development as a transformational journey of each individual and emphasizes the importance of anchoring cultural competences in one’s cultural identities and sense of self.

Prof. Lee earned his PhD from HEC, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from National Taiwan University. Prior to IESE, he taught at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Angers Graduate School of Business ESSCA (France), and the American Graduate School of International Management Thunderbird Europe (France), among others.

Estíbalitz Ortiz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit, which provides executive and leadership coaching to global executives and managers participating in IESE educational programs around the world. She has a PhD from IESE, and the topic of her doctoral dissertation was mentoring and coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach and senior practitioner by EMCC.

Most of Ortiz’s professional career has been developed in multinational environments. She worked 10 years in human resources at Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 nationalities.

Since 2008, she has collaborated as a lecturer in International HR Management at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in business schools. She is the author of the book La práctica del mentoring en la empresa (EUNSA, 2003), and co-author and co-editor of the book The 7 Moments of Coaching (REM, 2020).

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