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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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>

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coaches often struggle with marketing and sales. They are talented and experienced yet struggle to get enough clients. It’s not enough to be good at what you do, you need to be able to talk about to inspire and attract clients. Your story is key to connecting with your ideal clients. In this session, we’ll look at the incredible impact of a story well told; how to build trust and credibility, develop our best offers and close the business we desire.

Branding isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about psychology. For coaches stepping out independently, trust is the foundation of client attraction and long-term success. This interactive session explores the neuroscience of trust-building and branding, showing how subtle psychological cues shape client perceptions. Through small group discussions and hands-on exercises, attendees will 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. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen their brand and attract ideal clients.

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.

Traditional adult learning methodologies emphasize skill acquisition, knowledge retention, and assessment-driven success. In contrast, human development approaches focus on fostering self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and deep behavioral transformation. For ICF coaches and educators, the ability to bridge these paradigms is crucial. During this session attendees will: ✅ Move beyond skill-building to foster deep identity shifts in learners, by leveraging tension and discomfort as a necessary part of mastery development. ✅ Use generative coaching and delivery methods that help individuals sustain long-term transformation. ✅ Integrate developmental coaching into ICF-aligned education programs for lasting impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whether you're enthusiastic or reluctant about embracing AI, it’s natural to experience growing pains while grappling with massive shifts in how we work and live. How will you meet this moment, and prepare for the next? In an AI era, soft skills are more important than ever. Good news: the skills you and your clients need to thrive can be practiced. Further, your relationship with AI is a portal into deeper empathy, inclusion, and belonging. In this experiential session, gain insights from coaching, improvisation, art, and a nomadic adventure to help you human better in the age of AI.