Our background is unique. The Global Coach Center combines a well-rounded international experience with rigorous coaching training to offer its clients an exceptional level of services.

We work with individuals to:

• Overcome frustrations of living and working in a different country/culture
• Create successful and rewarding cross-cultural relationships/partnerships
• Learn how to decipher different cultures
• Design an action plan to help expats live international experiences to the fullest
• Build self-empowering, sustainable skills that will benefit them for years to come

Please refer to Specialized Coaching for more information.

We work with organizations and companies to aid their professional and entrepreneurial development through interactive workshops and seminars on:

• Multicultural workplace issues
• Communicating across cultures
• Managing across cultures
• Cultural Intelligence
• Developing global leaders
• Team building

Each such workshop or seminar has a built-in component of follow-up individual or group coaching. Please refer to Workshops and Courses for more information.

Margarita Gokun Silver, MPH, CPCC, PNLP
I first learned about coaching in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina from a
friend who turned out to be the very first Co-Active life coach I have ever
met. After the initial confusion over the term I realized that I had been
"coaching" for years supporting, listening and encouraging friends,
colleagues, and extended family members. I also realized that there is
nothing I like more than helping people reach their highest potential and
live the lives they have always wanted. Today I work with my clients to
help them move ahead, do and be their best, and embrace change.

There is a personal reason behind wanting to help people achieve their
dreams. I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union and when my family was
given an opportunity to escape to the United States in search of a better
life, we took it. We arrived poor and humble yet hopeful. Now, years later,
we are living the lives of our dreams, the lives that would have never been
possible had we stayed behind and ignored this chance for change. I have
founded the Global Coach Center to help others seize their chances for
change and move towards a better life.

I hold a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University and I coach in
English, Russian, and Spanish. I have been trained by one of the most
prestigious coaching schools in the United States - The Coaches Training Institute I hold a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) Certification. I am an NLP Practitioner. In addition to being a coach, I am also a writer and a mother. I currently live in St Petersburg, Russia but I have also lived in Buenos Aires, Moscow, New Haven, New York, Rome, Tashkent, Vienna, Warsaw, and Washington, D.C.