Sally Bendersky

And I worked in that center.

And then 18 years later, I was appointed the executive director of that institution after I left it.

And since then, I think I've been a promoter of innovation.

By then, when I became the head of that technology center, I was already a coach, a certified coach.

And I think I'm certain of that.

I belong to the first cohort of certified professional coaches.

Coaches, I think, have been on earth forever.

Yeah, well, that happens with some coaches too.

It hasn't been so easy, you know, to validate the profession.

It's not an easy profession.

And people sometimes don't take it seriously.

Yeah, yeah.

In Chile, there are some companies that say, I do not want any coach whatsoever to be hired.

I am a coach since 30-something years, and I am a chemical engineer since 53 years.

And I've not been an engineer.

I haven't practiced the chemical part of engineering, but I have been an engineer all my life.

And I just finished my term as the president of the Chilean Academy of Engineering.

And so I integrated my studies.

I've seen the development of technology, of innovation.

I was one of the first people to use the term innovation in my country and that was in the mid-90s.