Ziv Soferman, PhD, MCC
Dr. Ziv Soferman is a computer scientist, master-certified executive coach and Co-founder of Experience Resolution Methodology Coaching™, (ERM Coaching™.)
Dr. Soferman has earned the distinction of ICF-Certified Master Coach, placing him in the top 5% of certified coaches worldwide. He has worldwide coaching experience with a wide variety of high-performing professionals in business, medicine, high-tech and the arts. He is the co-author of the Amazon best-selling book based on ERM Coaching, 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
Extensive coaching in medical and business settings, including group, individual and executive coaching.
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)
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
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.
Nancy Lonsdorf, MD
Dr. Lonsdorf is a Johns Hopkins and Stanford-trained physician, coach and Co-founder of Experience Resolution Methodology Coaching™ (ERM Coaching™.)
She is a Certified Leadership Coach and is ICF-Associate Certified Coach-eligible, with 100’s of hours experience coaching and co-coaching clients in private, medical and academic settings. Dr. Lonsdorf is the co-author with Ziv Soferman, PhD 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.
Dr. Lonsdorf has over 35 years of clinical experience in an integrative medical practice that has supported her passion of comprehensively addressing clients’ whole health: mind, body and spirit.
ERM Coaching helps fulfill her goal of delivering deep and lasting results on specific issues of healthy, high-performing individuals, relieving stress and promoting full potential, inner calm and outer achievement.
Coaching Training and Credentials
International Coach Federation, Associate Certified Coach-Eligible (application in process)
Certified Leadership Coach; Life Coach Certification Group, Success Conversion Coaching
Certified NLP Practitioner
Coaching Experience
Extensive and diverse individual and group coaching and co-coaching, primarily via video-conference, in 100+ clients in medical and academic settings, 2009 –present.
Coaching for Crisis Management- group coaching, Spring 2020, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Executive and Research Group Coaching, Fall 2019- Spring 2020, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Current Position
President and Medical Director, Nancy K Lonsdorf, MD PC
President and Director, Soferman and Lonsdorf Coaching, LLC
Private practice, Integrative Medicine, 2005-present
Prior Positions
Medical Director, The Raj Ayurveda Health Spa (2000-2005) Medical Director, Maharishi Ayurveda Medical Center, Washington DC metropolitan area (1987-2000) Treated 25,000+ patients in over 35 years of integrative medicine practice.
Postgraduate Training
1984-1986
Residency, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Medical Education
1978-1983
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine, 1983 (early admission program)
Undergraduate Education
1976-1978
Oberlin College: Oberlin, Ohio
1978-1980
Johns Hopkins University, B.A. with Honors, Major in Human Biology
Awards
Books
Scientific Articles
Joshi S, Vaishnavi S, Puro N, Prince J, Lee R, Lee J, Barnard K, Brucker A, Chow S-C, Feyereisen S, Lee P, Lonsdorf N. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Coaching Interventions for Physician Burnout: Building Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021 (submission in progress.)
Wenuganen S, Walton KG, Katta S, Dalgard CL, Sukumar G, Starr J, Travis FT, Wallace RK, Morehead P, Lonsdorf NK, Srivastava M, Fagan J. Transcriptomics of Long-Term Meditation Practice: Evidence for Prevention or Reversal of Stress Effects Harmful to Health. Medicina (Kaunas). 2021 Mar 1;57(3):218. doi: 10.3390/medicina57030218. PMID: 33804348; PMCID: PMC8001870.
Orme-Johnson, D., Walton, K., Lonsdorf, N., “Meditation in the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia,” pp. 27-32, in NIH echnology Assessment Conference; Integration of Behavioral and Relaxation Approaches Into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia, Program and Abstracts, October 16-18, 1995.
Training of Health Professionals
Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, San Diego CA 2018, health professional Integrative Medicine Fellowship
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, San Diego California; 2009-2015, Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Ayurvedic medicine.
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2012-present Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Ayurvedic medicine.
Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Health, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, Current, Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Integrative Medicine.