Dexter Valles, CEO, Valmar International is an internationally certified professional Life and Executive Coach.

A coach is someone who facilitates the level of one's thinking to provide direction, focus, motivation and determination to generate solutions in areas of life covering professional and personal success strategies. The focus of the coach is to provide constructive support as a mentor, manager, personal trainer and guide.

The prime objective of a coach is to help people across the spectrum right from the "ordinary mortal" to the "chief executive" move their life experiences from "doing" to "being" using the dance-n-duel of extraordinary insight to illuminate the way to incredible solutions which unblock the path to success.

A coach is someone you can trust implicitly to help you be the person you want to be, do the things you want to do, walk the path you know is right, live the life you deserve and be the best you can possibly be. At the organizational level, a coaching culture needs the disciplines of building a shared vision, learning and a desire for personal mastery to realize its potential. Building a shared vision fosters commitment to the long-term.

At the heart of a coaching culture is a shift of mind --from seeing ourselves as separate from the world to connected to the world, from seeing problems as caused by someone or something "out there" to seeing how our own actions create the problems we experience. An organization with a coaching culture is a place where people are continually discovering how they create their reality. And how they can change it.