Dr. Kauffman is the Founder of the Institute of Coaching with Margaret Moore and Susan David.

She is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School and a Senior Leadership Advisor at Egon Zehnder. In 2009 she received a gift from the Harnisch Foundation for $2,000,000 to launch the IOC and we are now a community of over 20,000. 

She is known globally as one of the top leaders in the field of coaching. Thinkers 50 shortlisted her as one of the top 8 coaches in the world for her contribution to thought leadership and coach. With over 40,000 hours of client contact she is described as a lateral thinker who pushes the edges with a sense of humor and can disrupt people out of their comfort zone. Her client roster included many CEOs of Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 and their teams.