Ziv Soferman, PhD, MCC
Dr. Ziv Soferman is a computer scientist, executive coach and Co-founder of Experience Resolution Methodology Coaching, (ERM Coaching™.)
ERM Coaching™ is a structured coaching method that promotes breakthroughs in thinking, creativity, professional development and well-being through strategic, reflective inquiry and deep inner resolution.
Dr. Soferman has attained the rank of ICF-Certified Master Coach, placing him in the top 5% of certified coaches worldwide. He has 1000’s of hours of professional coaching experience with a wide variety of professionals in the medical, business and high-tech industries and is the co-author of the Amazon best-selling book, Your Mind-Brain Reboot: How to Dissolve the Limiting Impact of Life’s Greatest Challenges and Prosper in Your Life.
He has a rigorous scientific background and takes a data-driven approach to coaching, complemented by highly-honed “coaching intuition” developed over his many years of coaching.
Dr. Soferman credits his scientific background and education with allowing him to see even the “irrational” side of humans as very logical, and any issue as inherently solvable.
Coaching Training and Credentials
Master Certified Coach (MCC), by International Coach Federation, the gold standard in coaching credentials.
Team management and leadership training courses; Communications skills training courses.
Professional Coaching Experience
2022-2023
Provided all coaching services for Department of Defense-funded Clinical Trial at Duke University, 2022-2023: Data-driven Approaches to Healthcare Provider Resilience & Burnout During COVID-19
2019-2023
Executive and Research Group Coaching, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
2020-present
Coaching for Crisis Management- group coaching, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Professional coaching in the private sector, medical and business settings. Over 8000 coaching hours including group, individual and executive coaching.
Leadership and management coaching to executives and managers (while CTO, Chief Scientist) in high tech companies and start-ups.
Scientific Education
Post-Doc
PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Dept. of Applied Math. and Computer Science (1989). Image processing.
Mathematics & Physics – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
High-Tech Corporate and Teaching Experience
2010-present
Senior Lecturer, Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering. Software Engineering courses; Project supervision in machine learning in medicine.
2000-present
Consultant, RSIP Vision, image processing and computer vision in the medical field.
2009
Co-founder, shareholder and Chief Scientist, Sonarium Medical, a startup in the field of tomographic 3D ultrasound.
2005-2007
Consultant and technology provider in various fields of computer vision, image and signal processing: IIT (satellite imagery), Trig Medical ( fetal position during delivery by 3D ultrasound), FTK (real-time processing of webcam imaging), Glucon Medical- advanced signal processing for noninvasive glucose measurements, Biomedicom- image processing of 3D ultrasound. Mate (real time traffic analysis)
2004-2005
Director of Imaging and Co-founder, Camero-Tech Ltd.
2002-2003
Research and Chief scientist, Emblaze Systems Ltd. (communications field)
1998-2002
Co-founder, CTO and Chief Scientist, Biomedicom Ltd.
1995-1998
CTO and Chief Scientist, SGBL (Silicon Graphics Biomedical Ltd.)
1982-1997
An independent consultant and inventor for high-tech companies including SGI, Scitex, Kodak, KLA, GDE (General Dynamics Electronics), Pictel Technologies (later Accord Video Communication Ltd.), Tadiran (digital communication plant), and others.