This dynamic workshop is designed for volunteer leaders who want to build stronger, more innovative teams. Through hands-on activities and practical frameworks, participants will learn how to shape team culture intentionally, foster collaboration, and spark creative problem-solving. Whether leading a long-standing group or forming a new team, attendees will leave with strategies to inspire engagement, strengthen team dynamics, and drive meaningful impact in their volunteer organizations.

This exclusive pre-conference session is offered by invitation only to our Global Leadership Volunteers and is provided complimentary as part of their ongoing volunteer leadership development.
 

This hands-on workshop is designed to engage participants in an immersive exploration of the new ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies. Through facilitated group discussions, collaborative exercises, and reflective dialogue, attendees will deepen their understanding of these competencies and their practical applications. Whether you are a coach, mentor coach, or coaching supervisor, this session provides a dynamic space to share insights, learn from peers, and develop actionable strategies for integrating these competencies into your professional practice. 

This hands-on workshop uses arts-based experiential learning to spark innovative thinking by helping participants overcome self-limiting beliefs and see the world through new eyes. Through simple artmaking, attendees discover personal creativity and growth while learning frameworks to strengthen innovation skills, enhance collaboration, and cultivate Future Ready Mindsets. The session draws on techniques developed in an eight-year National Science Foundation research collaboration. Led by Principal Investigator Harvey Seifter, the workshop offers practical tools to boost creativity and prepare for future challenges.

This interactive, 3-hour workshop is designed for organizational leaders, coaching program managers, consultants, and change professionals interested in developing strategic coaching initiatives. Through collaborative case solving and small group design pods, participants will learn to strategically position coaching within their organizations for maximum impact. The workshop includes a comprehensive review of coaching types and complementary development programs, hands-on practice co-designing real-life scenarios with peers, and access to proven tools and frameworks for strategic coaching alignment.

Each participant receives a complimentary copy of the Organizational Coaching Program Development Cards, co-created by Sandra L. Stewart and the International Coaching Federation. This innovative toolkit helps brainstorm, plan, and grow effective coaching cultures through thought-provoking questions and real-world examples that guide participants through every stage of their coaching journey, from aligning initiatives with business strategies to enhancing ethical practices.

In this hands-on workshop, discover how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to market and grow your coaching practice. Learn techniques for using AI to gain brand clarity, increase visibility with your ideal clients, and attract and retain clients effortlessly. We’ll explore AI tools that help you craft compelling brand communications, generate captivating content, design stunning visuals and videos, and analyze client data for smarter decisions. Ideal for coaches ready to scale their impact, this session will help you create an action plan to elevate your brand and expand your reach — all while staying true to your authentic voice.

Explore how LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) turns hands-on creativity into powerful coaching insights. In this immersive session, you’ll use the hand-mind connection to build models (ARTifacts) that express real-world challenges, ideas, and opportunities. Together, we’ll experiment with LSP’s evidence-based techniques to improve communication, deepen reflection, and construct meaningful conversations — brick by brick. The session consists of three components that include experiential skill development of an applied coaching methodology and a deep dive exploration into a topic facing our community. You'll walk away with new ways to explore coaching questions, foster collaboration, and make thinking visible.

As group coaching grows in popularity, many programs fall short of delivering the core elements that drive true transformation. This session demystifies group coaching by aligning it with ICF Core Competencies and integrating best practices. Learn to design group coaching experiences that are as impactful as one-on-one coaching—while fostering inclusion, belonging, and driving cultural transformation in organizations and communities. Uncover strategies that lead to powerful, impactful group coaching sessions.

Unlock coaching’s transformative potential to drive social change and empower individuals and communities. This dynamic session explores the meaning of social impact and its relevance to coaching, featuring stories like the ICF Foundation’s Ignite Initiative. Learn strategies for integrating coaching into social impact efforts, with a focus on collaboration, creativity, and cultural change. Participants will develop actionable plans, set measurable goals, and explore how coaching can create meaningful, lasting change in communities around the world.

This interactive session explores how coaching can support communities in times of crisis. Participants will learn practical strategies to foster resilience, develop leadership, and support recovery. The session highlights the ICF Foundation’s work, including the Ignite Initiative, which supported Ukrainian leaders during conflict. Attendees will create crisis coaching action plans, engage in a Q&A, and share their own experiences and ideas.

This session will focus on the importance of embedding practices in coaching education programs that support the development of cultural humility. Session participants will gain insight into how cultural humility aligns with coaching core competencies and will hear a snapshot of best practices from one program’s approach. The session will highlight select tools and techniques to inspire coach educators to begin weaving cultural humility into their own curriculum and teaching practices, enriching both their development and that of future coaches.

Breakthroughs in the neuroscience of emotion, including Lisa Feldman-Barrett's theory of constructed emotion, challenge the idea that emotions are automatic and universal. This shift impacts coaching, where emotions and reason are often viewed as separate. Discover a coaching tool that helps clients deconstruct and rebuild emotions through functional reasoning and embodied awareness. This method fosters emotional clarity and unlocks new energy for action.

This session will highlight the success of a well-established group coaching program for frontline managers at a standalone safety-net Children's Hospital. It covers the coaching modality used and the evaluation of the program's impact on engagement, retention, and wellbeing. The session includes an opportunity to practice group coaching, offering practical insights into the coaching process used in this internal program. Additionally, it provides details on the unique benefits and challenges of internal coaching that informs the program's evolution. This comprehensive approach aims to foster a supportive environment, enhancing managerial skills and career satisfaction.

In a world shaped by images, self-perception often limits transformation. 
Photographer-turned-coach Dasha Dare explores how working with self-image can deepen self-awareness and provide support in creation of a new meaning. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to help clients recognize how contrasting thinking shows up and affects their life, how to make sense of complexity, and quite literally see a different way of being available to them - using images as powerful mirrors of self-perception. Discover the DareMethod, a unique approach that integrates visual tools and intuitive insight to support breakthroughs in self-awareness and transformation.

Coaching success is not just about skill — it’s about strategy. This interactive workshop blends business development and coaching supervision to help coaches grow their businesses and maintain well-being. Explore the Power of One — focusing on one ideal client to clarify your niche, streamline marketing, and drive growth. Through case studies and hands-on exercises, you’ll develop practical strategies to enhance your coaching effectiveness.

Organizations are transforming — and so is coaching. In an AI-driven era, how can coaches remain strong partners in driving client transformation? Using action research, real-world cases, and insights from the “Transform Tomorrow Today” podcast, we’ll reveal how brands like L’Oréal, Standard Chartered Bank, and IKEA use coaching for sustainable change; introduce Our CHANGE Framework for High-Impact Coaching, structured approach that navigates complex transformations; and explore practical strategies to blend coaching with AI, change management, and leadership development.

This 45-minute presentation introduces virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) in coaching for foundational learners. Grounded in experiential learning, it explores current applications like VR inclusion training and benefits such as engagement and safe practice. Aligned with ICF Core Competencies, attendees will examine future possibilities, and ethical or sustainability challenges through polls and Q&A. Participants leave with a VR/AR basics toolkit. Presented by a business psychologist, blends research and practice to help coaches adapt to emerging tech trends.

How does career coaching impact organizations? This session shares findings from a joint study by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Randstad RiseSmart, exploring career coaching’s goals, implementation, challenges, and outcomes. Learn how coaching supports retention, mobility, and engagement while aligning talent with business needs. Discover best practices, success stories and data-driven insights to make coaching accessible beyond leadership—and actionable strategies to maximize the impact of career coaching in your organization.

Branding blends aesthetics and psychology. For independent coaches, trust is the foundation of client attraction and success. This interactive session explores the neuroscience of trust-building, revealing how psychological cues shape client perceptions. You’ll discover brand strengthening strategies, how to attract ideal clients, and uncover:

• How first impressions shape credibility.

• The role of cognitive biases in client decision-making.

• How storytelling enhances trust and memorability.

• A neuroscience-backed blueprint for building a trusted coaching brand.

Many coaches are skilled at what they do but struggle with marketing and sales. Talent alone isn’t enough — you need to talk about your work in a way that inspires and attracts clients. Your story is key. In this session, we’ll look at the incredible impact of a story well told, and how to build trust and credibility, develop our best offers, and close the business we desire.

This session explores the profound impact of nature on well-being and presence, offering practical tools and techniques for ICF coaches to deepen their practice and personal growth. Discover how connecting with nature can enhance self-awareness, reduce stress, and cultivate a more grounded and authentic coaching presence.

Step into the future of coaching with CoachBoCK: The ICF Guide to the Coaching Body of Competencies and Knowledge. This session introduces a comprehensive resource designed to deepen expertise and elevate coaching practice. Developed by more than 100 coaching professionals, CoachBoCK explores the ICF Core Competencies, the credentialing process, and the foundations of the profession. You’ll discover how it supports coaches at every stage — students, educators, mentors, and supervisors — and dive into industry trends and growth pathways. Plus, get a firsthand look at an interactive learning system, packed with tools, quizzes, and real-world examples to help bring content to life.

This session explores how team coaching shifts from individual to collective success, rooted in the "Me-We-World" concept. It highlights presence, deep listening, and awareness for fostering trust, collaboration, and sustainable performance. Learn the "3 Ps" (Present, Presence, Presencing) to effectively guide teams, moving beyond reactive problem-solving to intentional co-creation.  By holding space, observing dynamics, and evoking awareness, team coaches can empower teams to unlock their full potential.

In today's business world, networking is about building meaningful relationships that open doors. This session will equip attendees with practical strategies to confidently initiate, nurture, and leverage professional connections. Through interactive discussions and real-world examples, learn to network with authenticity, maximize your presence, and turn conversations into collaborations. Whether you’re an introvert or a seasoned connector, this session will provide actionable insights to elevate your networking game and build thriving businesses and careers.

Join ICF staff and research partners from the Human Resources Research Organization as they present findings from the latest Global Coaching Job Analysis. This session explores key trends in coach behaviors, competencies, and emerging knowledge and skills. Expert facilitators will provide an overview of the job analysis methodology and share insights into today’s coaching profession. Learn how experienced practitioners around the world are shaping the future of coaching — and how these findings can inform your practice and professional development. Whether you’re an established coach or just starting out, this session will help you stay ahead in a dynamic profession.

Join ICF Credentials and Standards staff and assessment experts for an inside look at the ICF credentialing exams. This session will explore exam formats, the rigorous development process behind them, effective strategies to excel, and the psychometric principles that ensure fairness and validity. You'll gain study techniques, preparation strategies, and a clearer understanding of what to expect — whether you're pursuing an ACC, PCC, MCC, or an Advanced Certification in Team Coaching. Learn how to approach the exam with confidence and take the next step toward credentialing success.

Join us for a 45-minute session exploring updated demographic insights collected by the ICF DEIB Department from 2022 to 2024. We’ll review trends across identity groups, with a focus on underrepresented communities, and examine what the data reveals about access, inclusion, and areas for growth. This session will equip coaches and stakeholders with the knowledge to better understand the evolving landscape of our global coaching community — and to use that knowledge for informed, equitable action.

Discrimination and harassment are systemic realities that harm careers and well-being — not just limiting beliefs. This session equips coaches with evidence-based frameworks to validate client experiences, navigate workplace trauma, and help clients reclaim their power. Move beyond mindset coaching to support those facing discrimination, institutional betrayal, and retaliation. Coaching should empower, not dismiss the realities of systemic oppression.

This engaging session explores the critical role of coaches in crisis response, cultivating spaces for safety, connection, and stillness. Through mindfulness practices and interactive activities, they will develop emotional resilience and self-care strategies. Inspired by the Ubuntu philosophy, participants will gain practical tools to integrate mindfulness, stillness, and psychological first aid into their coaching practice, fostering a more compassionate and resilient community.

As ICF Ethics Independent Review Board members, we've witnessed situations that have created ill will between coaches and clients due to improper contracting. Without conscious ethical contracting, the stage can be set for misunderstandings, unmet expectations, and ultimately, damaged trust. In some cases, this harm leads to clients feeling disempowered, coaches facing reputational damage, and in some situations, legal ramifications.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore guidelines for ethical client contracting through real-world examples. We'll dive into the importance of written contracts for the coaching process, helping you create clear, ethical agreements that foster trust and client success.
 

This interactive workshop explores key principles and strategies for building a thriving organizational coaching culture. Through a case study, uncover how one organization successfully implemented coaching to drive transformation, enhance collaboration, and empower teams. Attendees gain practical insights, learn about real-world challenges, and walk away with actionable steps to create and sustain a coaching culture that fosters growth and innovation. This session will provide valuable tools for long-term success.

DEI is complex and heavily nuanced. To fully utilize the ICF Core Competencies when addressing sensitive DEI-related topics, coaches must understand their personal relationship to DEI and shift their mindset. This session offers tools to build awareness and develop an inclusive mindset, allowing coaches to leverage ICF Core Competencies when coaching sensitive DEI related topics with courage and vulnerability.

Leadership today requires connection, adaptability, and trust — not control. This session explores how coaching-based leadership, grounded in the ICF Core Coaching Competencies, fosters meaningful human connections and high-performing teams. You’ll gain practical insights into adopting coaching skills to build trust, adaptability, and collaboration. Explore a case study and actionable tools for integrating coaching into leadership training. Plus, examine leadership’s future in an AI-driven world, highlighting coaching’s role in creating human-centered workplaces.

Stories shape identity, beliefs, and behavior. Yet many clients remain trapped in limiting narratives. This session explores the neuroscience of storytelling — how the brain encodes, recalls, and reshapes narratives. Learn how coaches can help clients reframe limiting beliefs to enable resilience and transformation. Participate in a “Rewrite Your Story” exercise and explore how culture, bias, and systemic narratives impact self-perception. You’ll learn to create psychologically safe spaces that promote deep reflection.

As AI evolves, the coaching profession asks: Can AI truly support human transformation — and if so — how? This experiential session explores the intersection of AI, ancient wisdom traditions, and coaching. You’ll engage with ChatGPT (Sakura) and Rlung AI, a bot trained in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Experience a triadic coaching model — human, AI, and wisdom — and reflect on your own approach.

This interactive session empowers coaches to help clients transform conflict into opportunity. With minimal input, participants engage in plenary and small group discussions using real-life conflict scenarios. We'll explore practice and key principles from transformative mediation. Coaches will develop tools to help clients understand conflict dynamics, evaluate options, and develop action plans. Through shared experiences, we enhance coaching capacity to facilitate insight, self-awareness, and empowered action.

This session explores how organizations can embed coaching principles at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Participants will gain insights into the key competencies required at each level and engage in practical exercises to apply these principles. Through facilitated discussions, case studies, and collaborative problem-solving, attendees will leave with an action plan to strengthen coaching culture in their organizations.

In this dynamic session, Anna Gallotti, chair of ICF's task force on coaching and AI, explores the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and coaching. Drawing from research and real-world experience, she shares insights on AI adoption in HR, overcoming resistance, and practical applications for coaches. Anna addresses ethical considerations, unpacks ICF's AI guidelines, and reveals cutting-edge developments. This thought-provoking session explores how AI may enhance — or challenge — coaching practices, and includes an interactive Q&A.

Executive coaching requires balancing client well-being with a coach’s mental and emotional health. "The Care Conundrum" explores this challenge, addressing ethical and practical dilemmas coaches face in sustaining both. Through discussions and real-world scenarios, attendees examine factors influencing coaching effectiveness, including sleep, emotional awareness, and social media use. They'll gain insights into boundary management, ethical considerations, and sustainable coaching practices. Practical tools and reflection will help coaches maintain resilience, navigate relational challenges, and foster professional and personal balance.

What is coaching’s role in creating a regenerative future for life on Earth? Presenter Sarah DeWitt, PCC, certified forest therapy guide and 2025 With Life Fellow in regenerative design, will show how coaching can uniquely support a flourishing future for people and the planet. Participants will explore regenerative design and how its frameworks align with ICF Core Competencies. Participant’s gain tools to support themselves and clients in complex times.

In this interactive lab, we’ll share the evolution of our internal coaching program — from a pilot designed to support new school leaders to an accredited, sustainable systematic approach to coaching and coach education that empowers people, builds culture, and centers humanity. Participants will engage in reflection, a Q&A, and develop next steps for themselves. We encourage partners and small teams from the same organization to attend together.

The highest-paid, most sought-after coaches don’t just scratch the surface — they unlock profound transformation by diving deep into the beliefs that create lasting success. In this high-energy, interactive session, you’ll learn how while discovering:
• The No. 1 missing ingredient in coaching today — and how to harness it.
• The science behind what sets elite coaches apart.
• How to position yourself as a premium coach who delivers life-changing results (and gets paid accordingly!)
Expect a playful, powerful journey packed with actionable tools to help your impact — and income — soar.

This session introduces The Leadership Equation—a simple, systems-based model that brings clarity to how leadership identity (i), external impact (x), and context interact to shape performance (Lp). The session explores what happens when old patterns no longer fit a complex world—and how leaders can shift from control to development. You’ll learn how to use the equation to support your coaching practice, helping leaders become more aware of their impact, more adaptive in uncertainty, and more intentional in shaping a developmental organization. Whether you're coaching individuals or entire systems, this session offers a clear and practical way to work with leadership performance in real time.

This session explores climate coaching through interviews with diverse coaches, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and successes to raise awareness and inspire action. Participants learn how climate coaches started, overcame obstacles, and created opportunities. Key questions include what drives engagement in climate coaching and how coaches sustain their energy. Designed for coaches and educators, this session provides insights into climate-conscious coaching and its role in driving sustainable change.

Accelerate your coaching beyond leadership readiness — help executives collaborate across cultures, unlock leadership potential, and inspire inclusive practices. This session draws on global research, real-world examples, and insights from CEOs, corporate leaders, and coaches. Learn how to fast-track a client’s rise to senior leadership or support them through inclusion challenges. Discover strategies that drive diversity, executive success, and measurable impact. Prepare to be the coach leaders today need.

Coaching the future starts by imagining it—together. This interactive session engages participants in the ICF Thought Leadership Institute's "What's Your Hunch?" initiative, a global crowdsourcing project uncovering weak signals and intuitive nudges pointing toward coaching's future. Celebrating ICF's 30-year milestone, attendees will reflect on professional evolution and co-create emerging possibilities. Through real-time engagement, participants share hunches and explore collective insights shaping coaches' evolving roles. The session previews the forthcoming ICF Annual Futures Report, highlighting five key Drivers of Change reshaping coaching. Participants gain practical tools for futures fluency—sensing change, surfacing possibilities, and leading with clarity amid uncertainty.

In a world of constant disruption, team coaching bridges short-term change and lasting transformation. This interactive session explores how coaches empower teams to overcome resistance, align around a shared vision, and take ownership of transformation. Through practical approaches, case studies, and exercises, participants will learn to cultivate resilience, drive collaboration, and embed accountability. You’ll gain tools to unlock team potential, accelerate cultural shifts, and create sustainable impact in today’s evolving workplace.

Coaches often focus on shifting mindsets, but neuroscience shows safety is the foundation for transformation. When clients feel stressed or uncertain, survival response limit self-reflection, problem-solving, and goal achievement. Using ICF’s 2024 Mental Well-Being Study and Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia’s neurobiology and trauma research, this session explores why safety accelerates change, how to cultivate it, and which behaviors foster resilience. Learn science-backed strategies to strengthen presence, deepen trust, and create conditions for lasting transformation.

AI can be a game-changer — but for many Neurodivergent thinkers, it can also trigger overwhelm and hyperfocus. Coaches can guide clients to use AI in support of their goals. This session explores neurodivergent-friendly strategies and AI-powered tools to help clients manage cognitive overload, process emotions, and build sustainable habits. We'll discuss privacy, accessibility, and trauma-informed best practices for ethical AI use. Learn practical strategies to help neurodivergent clients build resilience and maintain progress between sessions.

This session showcases Sun Life's journey establishing a thriving internal coaching practice. From its grassroots beginnings during the pandemic to a game-changing initiative, explore how Sun Life democratized coaching across leadership levels. Discover how it created a diverse coaching community, integrated coaching into learning and development, and achieved impressive organizational outcomes. Learn how coaching accelerated talent development, career advancement, and change management. Gain insights into Sun Life's success metrics, plans, and transformative impact of coaching on leaders, teams, and organization./p>

This session combines 30% presentation with 70% interactive exercises, designed to educate, inspire, and ease anxiety about the IRB/ECR process. Participants will explore common pitfalls and ethics case trends. In the interactive portion, they’ll review a fictional IRB Initial Review, determine its merit, and apply the 2025 Code of Ethics. Discussions will include cultural differences and biases. The goal is to deepen ethical thinking, maturity, and decision-making.

Traditional adult learning emphasizes skill acquisition, knowledge retention, and assessment-driven success. In contrast, human development approaches prioritize self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and deep behavioral transformation. For ICF coaches and educators, bridging these two paradigms is essential.

In this session, you’ll learn how to move beyond skill-building to foster identity shifts in learners, leverage tension and discomfort as part of mastery development, and apply generative coaching methods that support lasting change.

When high-achieving leaders feel demotivated and unfulfilled by old drives and dreams, they worry about burnout. But what if these leaders are not burning out? What if it’s an invitation to deeper growth? This session explores how mid-career angst connects to Vertical Development, a research-based phenomenon. Gain tools and techniques to help leaders embrace this growth and find more fulfillment in work and life.

Great leaders don’t just communicate — they design the perception they want to create. This 90-minute interactive lab introduces a coaching method inspired by Stanislavski’s acting technique, empowering leaders to rehearse, refine, and embody their executive presence. Unlike improv, this approach builds mastery first, helping clients practice high-stakes situations. Exercises demonstrate how to improve communication, enhance audience perception, and turn discomfort into confidence. Gain repeatable techniques to help clients command presence, influence effectively, and lead with impact.

What happens when organizations invest in internal or sponsored coaching? This session unpacks global research on internal, external, and hybrid coaching models — and their impact on HR strategy, employee experience, and executive perceptions. Tolu Akande, MCC, will share findings from his doctoral study on internal coaching, followed by an experienced panel offering insights, lessons learned, and best practices. Whether internal, external, or a coaching leader, you’ll leave with data-driven insights and practical takeaways to elevate your work and navigate and evolving landscape.

While organizations recognize coaching's strategic value, scaling it remains a challenge. This session explores how to build internal coaching centers of excellence that transform organizational culture. From strategy and coach selection to development and integration, we’ll examine governance, quality assurance and impact metrics that support sustainable, high-quality coaching. Case studies will offer first-hand insights into what it takes to create effective, cost-efficient coaching centers within organizations.

Effective coaching requires more than mastering skills — it demands deep personal transformation. To occur, initial coaching education must go beyond traditional training and embrace dialogic learning and reflective practice. This session explores how praxis-centered education, adult development theory, engaged faculty facilitation, and rigorous peer review create conditions for meaningful growth in aspiring coaches. You’ll discover how these elements shape a more impactful and sustainable coaching education that serves the learner and the client.

Is treating neurodiverse clients as neuro-normative an ethical coaching violation? Neurodiverse clients — about 40% of the population — deserve coaches who honor all ICF Core Competencies. Without neuro-informed coaching, partnerships risk harm and diminished outcomes. This workshop introduces Neuro-Informed Coaching fundamentals to better serve all clients.

A 2024 ICF survey found 85% of coaches reported clients seeking mental well-being support. As workplace stress and burnout increase, coaches play a critical role — but are also at risk. In this session, you'll explore burnout as a workplace issue within broader mental well-being coaching. Learn to distinguish burnout from stress, identify its five phases, complete self-assessments, gain tools to protect your own well-being, and learn evidence-based burnout prevention strategies.

Coaches are increasingly asked to show up on camera. But many struggle to create a strong connection with their audience — whether it’s a single client on Zoom or thousands on YouTube. I’ll show participants how to set up their smartphone or webcam, including everyday office items, how to mentally show up, and how to choose the right format. Through a brief demo and small group practice, you’ll boost your on-camera confidence for client calls or larger online audiences.

Inclusion in coaching goes beyond awareness — it’s a practice. This 90-minute session explores how to weave inclusive principles into coaching, from first interaction to final reflection. We’ll discuss tools, language, and frameworks that foster belonging, psychological safety, and equity. Whether you're new to inclusion work or deepening your approach, you’ll gain strategies to coach across identities and lived experiences — ethically, effectively, and with heart. 

Join a panel of expert coach educators as they dive into the transformative potential of the new ICF Coach Educator Competencies. Learn how these competencies establish a global standard for excellence in coaching education and help prepare the next generation of coaches.
Through real-world examples and interactive discussion, panelists will share insights on integrating the competencies into curriculum design, teaching practices, and learner engagement. You'll gain practical strategies, hear creative solutions to common challenges, and leave inspired to strengthen your impact as an educator — whether you're new to the field or a seasoned leader.

Habits are our brain's go-to tool to tackle almost any goal or task, which is why helping your clients get in the driver’s seat of their habit-making machinery can be a game-changer.

In today’s competitive job market, applicants and employees need more than skills and experience — they need the ability to communicate with empathy, authenticity, and confidence. Coaches play a critical role in helping clients uncover their true selves and values, articulate their strengths, advocate for themselves, and navigate their careers with clarity and impact. In this interactive session, attendees will explore coaching strategies for career fit and growth using storytelling and transformative communication techniques.

In this interactive session, coaches deepen their understanding of how othering, microaggressions, and discrimination show up in workplace environments, their impact on clients, and how to support clients facing these challenges. Through reflection on identify and allyship, participants will explore their own biases and identities, and commit to being allies for marginalized individuals. In addition, learn to implement actionable tools, such as specific coaching techniques to help clients overcome feelings of alienation and support inclusive environments at work.

Innovate to Inspire. Learn to confidently design coaching education that builds digital literacy supporting mastery of the ICF Core Competencies. Coaching Educators must harness emerging technologies to enhance training delivery and model operational efficiency. In this hands-on session, Kathy shares strategies for integrating digital tools to maximize learner engagement, streamline compliance, and future-proof coaching programs. Attendees will gain practical insights and leave excited about augmented reality!

Discover how two of ICF’s newest offerings can bring coaching to the heart of your organization’s success. This 90-minute interactive session introduces the Coaching Culture Compass, a research-based assessment that measures key behaviors contributing to a coaching culture, and Leaders Using Coaching Skills (LUCS), an eight-hour training  designed to strengthen leadership through core coaching skills. The ICF team will walk you through the development, insights, and practical application of both tools — designed to drive business impact. Bring your questions and curiosity as we explore how to leverage these resources to build a stronger coaching culture.

Explore the unique intersection of military experience and life coaching with Dr. Larry D. Parker, Jr. Learn how coaching can support veterans as they navigate identity shifts, reintegration, and purpose beyond service. Parker shares practical insights, cultural considerations, and the value of coaching for this often-underrepresented community. Whether you're a veteran, coach, or ally, this spotlight invites deeper understanding and equips you to serve with greater empathy and skill.

Whether you see AI as an exciting opportunity or a problematic Pandora’s box, it’s here. And whether you are enthusiastic or reluctant about embracing AI, it’s natural to go through tremendous growing pains as we grapple with a massive shift in the way we--and our clients and colleagues--work and live. How will you meet this moment? How will you prepare yourself to meet the next one? One key is to double down on the very human soft skills that are evergreen and ever-essential.

In this experiential and fun session, Carrie Spaulding shares insights from improvisation, visual art, and a nomadic adventure that will empower you to thrive in your practice, enhance your contribution, and grow your career. In an AI era, soft skills are more important than ever. The good news is that the most vital soft skills that you, your coaching clients, and your organization need to thrive in an increasingly automated world can be learned and practiced. What's more, your inquiry into your relationship with AI is a portal into deeper empathy, inclusion, belonging, fulfillment, connection, and awareness and embrace of the diversity that surrounds you.

Access innovative approaches straight from the road, the stage, and the studio that will help you move boldly forward in an ever-changing landscape, while honoring your authenticity, your values, and your mission. Discover unexpected ways to upgrade your adaptability, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, learning orientation, communication, innovation, and collaboration skills. In the age of AI, let's human better.

This timely session explores supporting mental health without crossing ethical boundaries. As coaches, we don't diagnose or treat, yet we care deeply about clients' wellbeing and their impact on others. Learn a "Recipe for a Healing Community" that helps shift from surviving to thriving, build safe human-centered teams, and create cultures of care that transform workplaces. Through moving storytelling and active engagement, discover new mindsets for improving mental health at work and beyond. This session provides practical tools for both you and your clients to foster healing communities while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.

Gen Z isn’t just showing up in coaching sessions — they’re stepping into the coaching seat. And they’re doing it differently than generations before. In this provocative, intergenerational session, a 24-year-old coach and a seasoned coach educator (and Gen Z parent) explore what it takes to coach Gen Z — and how to train them as coaches themselves.

You’ll learn how to foster the psychological safety Gen Z needs, challenge assumptions about young coaches, and understand the mindsets that resonate with emerging adults. Blending stories, research, and real-world strategies, this session reimagines coaching when Gen Z leads the way.

How can coaching be made accessible to employees at all levels in a large, complex organization? This case study explores how Microsoft designed and scaled its employee coaching program beyond its executive suite — integrating internal and external coaching, individual and group coaching, and aligning with other leadership development initiatives. Attendees will gain insights into how to structure coaching programs that drive impact, foster leadership growth, and embed a coaching culture that empowers employees at every level.

Session information coming soon.

The most powerful forces that shape our work — and our worth — are intangible.
Not written down. Not consciously chosen. Yet they shape how we show up, how we lead, and how we connect with others. These unseen dynamics live in the pause before someone speaks, in the urge to prove and perform. As coaches, we help people navigate what they can see — what if we also helped them name what they can only sense? Great coaching makes the intangible tangible. It invites individual growth and shared flourishing. This session explores how to uncover the intangibles that can propel us forward.
 

This timely session explores supporting mental health without crossing ethical boundaries. As coaches, we don’t diagnose or treat, yet we care deeply about clients’ well-being and their impact on others. Learn a “recipe for a healing community” that helps shift from surviving to thriving, builds safe, human-centered teams, and creates cultures of care that transform workplaces. Through moving storytelling and active engagement, discover new mindsets for improving mental health at work and beyond. This session provides practical tools for you and your clients to foster healing communities while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.

In today’s noisy digital world, even brilliant ideas can go unheard. Many voices are muted — by self-doubt, cultural barriers, or online chaos. In this powerful session, Heather Hansen introduces her award-winning Unmuted Framework to help individuals and teams find and use their voice effectively. Drawing on linguistics, social psychology, and cultural intelligence, she shows how conscious, confident, and connected communication drives innovation, inclusion, and influence. Discover your default communication style, explore what’s holding you back, and learn clear strategies to unmute yourself—and others. Are you ready to unmute?
 

What if your next word changed everything? In this interactive session, Dr. Haesun Moon — communication scientist and creator of the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ) — invites coaches to rediscover the power of words. Drawing from her book Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words, Moon will show participants how to recognize the impact of everyday language, use the DOQ as a guide toward preferred futures, and enrich coaching conversations through purposeful listening and words that carry hope, direction and possibility. This session offers practical, poetic and research-informed ways to co-author meaningful progress — one word at a time.

•    If you support early career professionals, or are one, you know the struggle: lack of direction, confidence, soft skills, or perceived commitment. What "unspoken rules" hold early career professionals back? What can we demystify them? What unique challenges do first-generation college grads and new professionals face?
Join this interactive crash course, based on thousands of survey data points and hundreds of interviews and learn to: 1. Explain the rubric behind career advancement. 2. Diagnose why some thrive while others underperform. 3. Help others adopt a proactive, ownership mindset. 4. Navigate common interpersonal challenges. 5. Educate managers to better support/retain talent.
 

In this energizing keynote, best-selling author and innovation strategist Sheri Jacobs reveals how intentional constraints can spark bold thinking, smarter decisions, and transformative breakthroughs.
Drawing on her work with Fortune 500 companies and startups, Sheri shares vivid stories and a practical framework to illustrates how the right limits can inspire fresh thinking, foster greater experimentation and psychological safety, and fuel innovative breakthroughs.
You’ll leave with:
· A fresh framework for turning constraints into creative fuel. 
· Tools for asking questions to reframe stuck points.
· A new lens on how limits create the freedom needed for bold moves.

Just one more email. Just one more report. Just one more hour. Many still view an “always-on” mentality as the path to success. But with burnout and stress at all-time highs, hustle culture is taking a serious toll on well-being—and on the bottom line. In this keynote, professor and recovering workaholic Malissa Clark explains the science behind workaholism, debunks myths about long hours and productivity, and reveals why overwork is so insidious. Participants will leave with a roadmap for recognizing workaholic behaviors and building a healthier, more sustainable approach to work.

Successful professionals often find themselves inside an emotional paradox: being happy with their professional and personal achievements, while simultaneously experiencing stagnation and lack of fulfillment. We often don’t read the ‘red flags’ of slowed or stalled development: exhaustion, excessive comparison, resentment, unacknowledged envy, and irrational hope that building better habits will somehow lead us to fulfillment. Instead of moving forward, we frequently burn out. In this session, we will learn how to address the paradox of stagnating success and orient our motivational system toward growth and lifelong development.