Magdalena Nowicka Mook offers her vision and strategic direction as the CEO and executive director of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), where she acts as a partner to the ICF’s Global Board of Directors. Mook has also held positions with the Council of State Governments, where she was the assistant director of National Policy and Director of Development. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has also utilized Mook’s international business acumen, bringing her in for coordinating technical assistance programs and implementing special projects in four European countries. Mook is a trained professional coach and systems’ facilitator.

She is a frequent speaker on subjects of trends in coaching and leadership development as well as regulation and ethics. In 2019, she was a finalist of Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Marshall Goldsmith Distinguished Award and received Marshall Goldsmith #1 Coach Global Influencer Award.

Mook received her Master in Science in economics and international trade from the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland. She also graduated from the Copenhagen Business School’s Advanced Program in International Management and Consulting. She is a member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, Forbes.com Council on Nonprofits, and Association for Talent Development and serves at the International Section Council of ASAE.