ICONDA Solutions : Your Partner in Professional Development
Learn about ICONDA Solutions, offering coaching, training, and workshops for technology professionals worldwide, from Grenoble in the French AlpsI am Andrew Betts, ICONDA Solutions is my company.
We work in close collaboration with several other independents and small companies, mentioned below. This works well – ICONDA has been going strong since 2009. It has a reliable, international client base, solid financial and is able to respond flexibly to new demands.
I have over 25 year’s experience in industry, the first half in design roles, the second in the field (Sales, Marketing and Applications).
A confirmed trainer, I am also a qualified coach: Accredited as a Senior Practitioner by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC); Certified by the Institut Maieutis, level 2, code NSF 315, European level CEC: 6); Certified in Process Communication by Kahler Communication France.
As a facilitator, I use training, coaching and mentoring in due measure. I enjoy developing original programs and creating new tools, and begin with the assumption that the people I meet are doing their best in complex circumstances. The rest depends on where they’re starting from and where they want to go.
I am also a sales consultant for EDA tools and, as such, I strive to walk the talk, applying the values and beliefs that underpin my facilitation work to the techno-commercial domain.
I agree with Frankl about the importance of meaning, and believe that this generally comes from work with and/or for others – human animals are wired that way! For myself, I’ve noticed that when I’m working towards the transmission of knowledge and skills, then I feel the greatest sense of fulfilment/flow.
I am also rather attached to the Schutzian notion of truth as a fundamental enabler, and to Isaiah Berlin’s idea of plurality – the complex and unfortunately rather dull opposite of extremism – as a sensible approach to the problems of the world.
For their long-term support and active collaboration I am particularly grateful to the following people: Séverine Hessel, Suraj Ethirajan, Lionel Touchart, Paul Double and François Cerisier.