Annie Gibson, PhD

Working with Annie: Annie is a certified executive leadership and resiliency coach and intercultural educator who helps clients and teams embrace opportunities and challenges of the global age through intentional facilitation. She specializes in helping clients achieve emotional resiliency, adaptability, innovative project management, and in developing their individual and/or group skills to navigate difference and/or language barriers. She supports clients as they hone their perspectives and unleash their inner potential. Trust, mutual understanding, creativity, and joy are essential elements of this coaching
relationship. 

Core coaching competencies: Intercultural communication, group facilitations and team engagement, design thinking, higher education leadership and management, high performance coaching, career coaching, global partnership development, immigration and cross-cultural transitions, 3rd-culture family
adaptation. 

Coaching Philosophy: Global Vision, Resiliency and Adaptability, Structure and Responsibility, Creativity, Connectivity and Communication, Balance.

Certifications:

• ICF Certified Coach PCC, May 2024
• Center for Executive Coaching, Certified Executive Coach, December 2023
• Tulane University Leadership Institute Certified in Leadership and Resiliency Coaching,
  December 2022
• Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator, 2017
  Professional Highlights
• 20+ years of experience in higher global education teaching, research, and administration.
• Trilingual, available to coach in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
• Director of Study Abroad and Administrative Associate Professor at Tulane University.
  • Manages portfolio and contracts of study abroad partnerships in over 60 countries, leads
    intercultural training initiatives for domestic and international students, consults with
    faculty as well as cultural and ecotourism organizations, oversees the Intercultural
    Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator’s Group at Tulane.
• International Experience: Annie has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, Cuba, Costa
  Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Senegal, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and
  Greece and has travelled to over 40 countries.
• 25+ years university teaching and publications in the field of intercultural learning, social
  innovation, migration, travel and tourism. https://stonecenter.tulane.edu/people/annie-gibson
• Education: Interdisciplinary PhD in Latin American Studies with a concentration on Cuban and
  Brazilian immigration from Tulane University and a B.A in Spanish and Portuguese languages
  with a minor in Latino Studies from Dartmouth College.

About Annie: Annie loves exploring the world through travel, dance, music, hiking, canoeing, and other active forms of reflection. She dances and plays music regularly with Brazilian and Cuban cultural groups at home in New Orleans. She is interested in body language, non-verbal cues, and how language contributes to invisibility and confirms or liberates us from privilege. She was a Division I athlete in college and continues to play soccer in an adult league.