Master Certified Coach since 2002, mostly recognized for his specific competencies in team and organizational coaching, Alain Cardon is also a coach trainer and coach supervisor with coach students in France, Belgium, Spain and Romania where he has opened a coaching school in 2007.
B.A. Social Sciences, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA. Educational Psychology at the U. of Minnesota, USA.
Alain Cardon is a former member of the Institut Français d’Analyse Transactionnelle (I.F.A.T.), « expert » in l’Association Progrès du Management (APM), author (of twelve books) at the Editions d’Organisation, Paris, France, consultant and coach. Alain Cardon is presently the managing director of Métasystème France.
COACH
MCC (Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation).
Executive Coach.
Alain Cardon is also a team and Organization Coach specialized in accompanying transitioning leaders and corporations in international and intercultural contexts.
He participates in numerous volunteer activities in the International Coach Federation (France and US)
CONSULTANT
Starting in 1976 and within "Transformation Consultants", Alain Cardon was a communication and management consultant with a Transactional Analysis slant. From 1985 he specialized in Systems Analysis applications in Team Building, Team Development and Organizational Development.
COACH AND CONSULTANT TRAINER
Since 1980, Alain Cardon has been a coach trainer at Transformation Consultants, then at Transformation Ecole (today Mozaik International), within Transformance, a Paris-based coach school, and at Metasysteme Coaching of which he is the founder, in Bucarest. As a visiting professor, Alain Cardon also occasionally participates in numerous other personal coaching and team-coach training programs.
Within Metasysteme, Alain Cardon offers International Coach Federation approved coach training supervision and workshops. These coach training options for confirmed coaches and consultants are offered on this website in the "Metasysteme Coach Academy" pages.
SPEAKER
Since 1983, Alain Cardon has been speaker for the European Transactional Analysis Association, and keynote speaker for the 2002 International Coach Federation European Conference at Sitges in Spain, for the first ICF Morocco conference in Casablanca in March 2006, the ICF Spain Conference in Madrid, November 2006, for the World Trade Center (Bucarest), and internally for numerous corporations.
(Consult our CONFERENCE page on this website).
AUTHOR
Alain Cardon is author of numerous books (12+) all first published at the Editions d'Organisation (Paris), some translated to Italian, Spanish and Romanian. He has also written articles published in daily papers (LESECHOS) and periodicals in France, the United States, Italy and Romania. Unless specified otherwise, all the English, French and translated texts on this website are written by Alain Cardon, and are his or Metasysteme EURL copyright.
(for a list o published articles and books, consult the "publications' section of this website.
And, More Privately:
Alain Cardon was born in Algeria in 1949.
He grew up in Egypt, until 1967, so he can understand Egyptian Arabic.
Graduate studies in the United States until 1973, so he speaks English with a slight Middle-West American accent.
He is married and has two adult sons.
Alain Cardon is based in Carry le Rouet (southern France, close to Marseille).
Alain Cardon's executive and team coach practice is international and often in English (CEE, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin and North, Africa and Asia). In these regions, his role is to initiate and sometimes pilot strategic organization development activities that are often relayed by local or internal coaches and consultants.