Dr. Haesun Moon

Dr. Haesun Moon is a communication scientist, an educator, and author of Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words and several collaborative books, including Thriving Women, Thriving World, and Foundations of Brief Coaching, a short handbook for professional coaches.

Haesun received her Ph.D. in Adult Education and Community Development from the University of Toronto. She cares about people experiencing better conversations at home and at work - and she does that by training, coaching, and consulting. She believes that conversations can change the world, and she defines this process as hosting dialogic conditions in which people participate to imagineer and perform their preferred change.

Her academic and professional research in coaching, dialogues, and pedagogy from the University of Toronto led to the development of a simple pedagogical framework, the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ). The DOQ has transformed the way people coach and learn coaching worldwide. The DOQ also serves as a research framework in communication studies that offer evidence-based process research of coaching and mentoring conversations.

She was most recently celebrated as one of the world's leading thought leaders in "Coaching and Mentoring" by Thinkers50, an accolade often referred to as "the Oscars of Management Thinking" by the Financial Times.

Her most current contribution in the field of coaching and mentoring includes active speaking engagements, both in-person and online, at the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, International Coach Federation, Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, and WBECS by Coaching dot com. Haesun was voted as the highest-ranking speaker in the WBECS pre-summit in 2022 and 2023, where over 12,000 people worldwide registered in her session.

She serves as a faculty at the Institute of Coaching, Harvard Medical School affiliate, where she is currently teaching on the topic of Efficacy of Coaching.

Haesun contributes to the coaching and mentoring community in Canada as she serves as a chair for the Canadian Universities and Research Alliance Summit (CURAS), where coaching research, praxis, and community of practice are actively organized and growing. Haesun teaches Brief Coaching at the University of Toronto and serves as Executive Director at the Canadian Centre for Brief Coaching and Principal at The Human Learning Institute.