Carrie Abner
Carrie Abner, MA, CAE, is an experienced association executive who has advanced professional associations at the local, state, national, and international levels. She currently serves as vice president of ICF Credentials and Standards, where she works to strengthen and grow the certification of coach practitioners around the world and ensure the highest standards for professional and ethical practice in coaching.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Global Coaching Insights: Outcomes from the 2025 Coaching Job Analysis and Competency Updates
Carrie Abner, MA, CAE, is an experienced association executive who has advanced professional associations at the local, state, national, and international levels. She currently serves as vice president of ICF Credentials and Standards, where she works to strengthen and grow the certification of coach practitioners around the world and ensure the highest standards for professional and ethical practice in coaching.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Global Coaching Insights: Outcomes from the 2025 Coaching Job Analysis and Competency Updates
Tolu Akande
Tolu Akande is an executive coach and leadership development enthusiast with experience across various industries. He specializes in helping leaders clarify their vision, align purpose with passion, and achieve sustained success. With a background in international relations and conflict resolution, Tolu integrates a global perspective into his coaching. He holds an EdD, with doctoral research focused on coaching’s impact on organizations. Tolu's mission is to coach individuals, teams, and organizations to leverage their leadership and create lasting change and meaningful impact.
The Power & Practice of Internal Coaching: Fresh Research, Real Insights, and What’s Next
Tolu Akande is an executive coach and leadership development enthusiast with experience across various industries. He specializes in helping leaders clarify their vision, align purpose with passion, and achieve sustained success. With a background in international relations and conflict resolution, Tolu integrates a global perspective into his coaching. He holds an EdD, with doctoral research focused on coaching’s impact on organizations. Tolu's mission is to coach individuals, teams, and organizations to leverage their leadership and create lasting change and meaningful impact.
The Power & Practice of Internal Coaching: Fresh Research, Real Insights, and What’s Next
Jen Akuna
Jen Akuna, PCC, MA, is a talent development professional who has worked with organizations across entertainment, news media, public transportation, and healthcare. She holds a master’s degree in positive organizational psychology and evaluation. Jen has served as a senior organizational effectiveness consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for five years. Her mission is to help clients find meaning in their work and build fulfilling, thriving careers.
Expanding Coaching’s Reach Under Budgetary Constraints – Internal Group Coaching at Scale
Jen Akuna, PCC, MA, is a talent development professional who has worked with organizations across entertainment, news media, public transportation, and healthcare. She holds a master’s degree in positive organizational psychology and evaluation. Jen has served as a senior organizational effectiveness consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for five years. Her mission is to help clients find meaning in their work and build fulfilling, thriving careers.
Expanding Coaching’s Reach Under Budgetary Constraints – Internal Group Coaching at Scale
Andrea Ames
Andrea Ames, PCC, MS, CPCC, is best known for helping businesses to design and facilitate group coaching programs, masterminds, and memberships that engage clients and create experiences in which clients make visible and measurable progress and lasting results. She uses her 35+ years in corporate product and customer experience strategy, design, and delivery to enable her customers to achieve wild success for their clients — and themselves through increased customer retention.
Group Coaching: Current Trends and Essential Practices
Andrea Ames, PCC, MS, CPCC, is best known for helping businesses to design and facilitate group coaching programs, masterminds, and memberships that engage clients and create experiences in which clients make visible and measurable progress and lasting results. She uses her 35+ years in corporate product and customer experience strategy, design, and delivery to enable her customers to achieve wild success for their clients — and themselves through increased customer retention.
Group Coaching: Current Trends and Essential Practices
Carly Anderson
An Australian-born American citizen. Continuously active ICF MCC (PCC and ACC) Assessor since 2005. Student of Bikram (hot) Yoga for 17 years so far, a key part of developing and maintaining my ‘Coaching Presence.’ This is only one practice, along with a myriad of other professional and personal self-care practices to keep me ‘fit for mastery’ as a coach. In June 2024, a milestone was reached, having mentored 200 MCCs (and counting) have been mentored by Carly. To read this article, go to https://carlyanderson.com/celebrating-200-mcc-coaches-mentored-so-far For more about Carly, go to https://carlyanderson.com/
What is Mastery? Defining Your Path to MCC
An Australian-born American citizen. Continuously active ICF MCC (PCC and ACC) Assessor since 2005. Student of Bikram (hot) Yoga for 17 years so far, a key part of developing and maintaining my ‘Coaching Presence.’ This is only one practice, along with a myriad of other professional and personal self-care practices to keep me ‘fit for mastery’ as a coach. In June 2024, a milestone was reached, having mentored 200 MCCs (and counting) have been mentored by Carly. To read this article, go to https://carlyanderson.com/celebrating-200-mcc-coaches-mentored-so-far For more about Carly, go to https://carlyanderson.com/
What is Mastery? Defining Your Path to MCC
William Arruda
William Arruda is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and the world’s leading authority on the topic of personal branding. He’s the bestselling author of the several books on the topic: "Digital YOU," "Career Distinction" and "Ditch. Dare. Do!" A personal branding pioneer, he has been credited with turning the concept of personal branding into a global industry. He created the leading personal brand survey, 360Reach, which has been used by nearly two million people and certified more than 1,000 executive coaches in his personal branding methodology. William has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC, CBS and NPR and has been featured in 1,000+ publications, including Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, GQ, Inc. and The New York Times. He’s a senior contributor to Forbes, where his column has received more than 15 million views.
How to Use AI to Grow Your Coaching Practice and Expand Your Personal Brand
The Magnetic Coach: How to Attract and Retain Ideal Clients
William Arruda is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and the world’s leading authority on the topic of personal branding. He’s the bestselling author of the several books on the topic: "Digital YOU," "Career Distinction" and "Ditch. Dare. Do!" A personal branding pioneer, he has been credited with turning the concept of personal branding into a global industry. He created the leading personal brand survey, 360Reach, which has been used by nearly two million people and certified more than 1,000 executive coaches in his personal branding methodology. William has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC, CBS and NPR and has been featured in 1,000+ publications, including Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, GQ, Inc. and The New York Times. He’s a senior contributor to Forbes, where his column has received more than 15 million views.
How to Use AI to Grow Your Coaching Practice and Expand Your Personal Brand
The Magnetic Coach: How to Attract and Retain Ideal Clients
Adaora Ayoade
Adaora Ayoade, ICF-PCC, is an accomplished Executive and Leadership Coach with over 20 years of experience empowering leaders across multiple continents. She is the CEO of EZ37 Solutions Ltd, a leading HR consulting and professional coach certification firm accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Adaora served as the Global Co-Leader for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in the ICF Coaching Education Global Knowledge Community Leadership Team, as well as former President of the ICF Nigeria Chapter, reflecting her visionary leadership and dedication to advancing the coaching profession.
With a track record of partnering with global organizations such as ExxonMobil, Microsoft, and British American Tobacco, Adaora specializes in transforming high-potential individuals into dynamic leaders and fostering impactful coaching cultures. She holds an MBA from Business School Netherlands, is an ICF-certified Master Trainer and Assessor, and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Adaora’s strategic insight, rich coaching expertise, and commitment to leadership development make her a distinguished speaker poised to deliver transformative insights at the International Coaching Federation’s global conference.
Facilitating with EASE: A High-Impact Approach to Coaching Education ROI
Adaora Ayoade, ICF-PCC, is an accomplished Executive and Leadership Coach with over 20 years of experience empowering leaders across multiple continents. She is the CEO of EZ37 Solutions Ltd, a leading HR consulting and professional coach certification firm accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Adaora served as the Global Co-Leader for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in the ICF Coaching Education Global Knowledge Community Leadership Team, as well as former President of the ICF Nigeria Chapter, reflecting her visionary leadership and dedication to advancing the coaching profession.
With a track record of partnering with global organizations such as ExxonMobil, Microsoft, and British American Tobacco, Adaora specializes in transforming high-potential individuals into dynamic leaders and fostering impactful coaching cultures. She holds an MBA from Business School Netherlands, is an ICF-certified Master Trainer and Assessor, and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Adaora’s strategic insight, rich coaching expertise, and commitment to leadership development make her a distinguished speaker poised to deliver transformative insights at the International Coaching Federation’s global conference.
Facilitating with EASE: A High-Impact Approach to Coaching Education ROI
J. Matthew Becker
J. Matthew Becker, MCC, specializes in executive and leadership development. With a master’s in human resource development and certification as a NeuroTransformational Coach (CNTC), Matt brings over 25 years of expertise in advancing leadership effectiveness. He has coached more than 700 leaders — from the front line to the C-Suite — across industries, including healthcare, banking, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, industrial supply, higher education, government, and non-profits. Matt designed and led an internal coaching program that supported leaders through critical role transitions, achieving a 528% ROI over 10 years and earning an ICF Prism Award Honorable Mention in 2014. In addition to his coaching practice, Matt is committed to advancing the profession. He served for six years as co-leader of the ICF Internal Coaching Community of Practice and has contributed to multiple ICF task forces.
Tools to Elevate Coaching in Organizations — Introducing the Coaching Culture Compass & LUCS
J. Matthew Becker, MCC, specializes in executive and leadership development. With a master’s in human resource development and certification as a NeuroTransformational Coach (CNTC), Matt brings over 25 years of expertise in advancing leadership effectiveness. He has coached more than 700 leaders — from the front line to the C-Suite — across industries, including healthcare, banking, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, industrial supply, higher education, government, and non-profits. Matt designed and led an internal coaching program that supported leaders through critical role transitions, achieving a 528% ROI over 10 years and earning an ICF Prism Award Honorable Mention in 2014. In addition to his coaching practice, Matt is committed to advancing the profession. He served for six years as co-leader of the ICF Internal Coaching Community of Practice and has contributed to multiple ICF task forces.
Tools to Elevate Coaching in Organizations — Introducing the Coaching Culture Compass & LUCS
Clare Beckett-McInroy
Clare Beckett-McInroy, EdD, is the founder of BECKETT MCINROY GROUP (BMC), an accredited training school and consultancy providing coaching, mentoring, and supervision. Her global team created the CoachME Model, available in over 30 languages, delivering leader-as-coach programs while coaching executives, teams, and boards.
BMC won the first-ever ICF Coaching Impact Award as a Distinguished Training Provider in 2023. Clare received EMCC's Coaching Award for 2024 and was the nominating coach for ICF Middle East Prism Award winners, Qatar Financial Centre, in 2020.
Clare is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC), EMCC Master Practitioner, and Accredited SUPERvisor. She specializes in culture transformation, systemic team coaching, and values activation. Her 'Team Advance Profile' (TAP360) tool has been used by organizations including PwC and the LEGO Group.
Clare co-founded ICF Bahrain and ICF Doha, trailblazing the Middle East's first ICF ACTP and EMCC Systemic SUPERvision programs in Arabic.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Clare Beckett-McInroy, EdD, is the founder of BECKETT MCINROY GROUP (BMC), an accredited training school and consultancy providing coaching, mentoring, and supervision. Her global team created the CoachME Model, available in over 30 languages, delivering leader-as-coach programs while coaching executives, teams, and boards.
BMC won the first-ever ICF Coaching Impact Award as a Distinguished Training Provider in 2023. Clare received EMCC's Coaching Award for 2024 and was the nominating coach for ICF Middle East Prism Award winners, Qatar Financial Centre, in 2020.
Clare is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC), EMCC Master Practitioner, and Accredited SUPERvisor. She specializes in culture transformation, systemic team coaching, and values activation. Her 'Team Advance Profile' (TAP360) tool has been used by organizations including PwC and the LEGO Group.
Clare co-founded ICF Bahrain and ICF Doha, trailblazing the Middle East's first ICF ACTP and EMCC Systemic SUPERvision programs in Arabic.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Toni Benner
Toni Benner, D.ODC, MPOD is a scholar-practitioner dedicated to advancing interprofessional team learning. She recently completed her Doctor of Organization Development & Change, where her dissertation, Exploring Interprofessional Team Learning in Healthcare Settings (2025), introduced the “DYNAMIC Teaming” framework to explain how teams build adaptive capabilities through coaching, systems thinking, growth mindset, and collaborative learning practices.
Toni is currently a Health Professions Education Postdoctoral Fellow at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where she integrates Lean principles, Organization Development, and coaching approaches into interprofessional practice and education. Her work focuses on designing and facilitating learning environments that enhance team performance across professions.
With prior experience spanning healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, and higher education, Toni bridges change management theory and practice to help organizations innovate, collaborate, and thrive. She has contributed to national conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and leadership development programs that emphasize generative conversations and system transformation.
Transforming Organizational Culture Through Coaching Centers of Excellence
Toni Benner, D.ODC, MPOD is a scholar-practitioner dedicated to advancing interprofessional team learning. She recently completed her Doctor of Organization Development & Change, where her dissertation, Exploring Interprofessional Team Learning in Healthcare Settings (2025), introduced the “DYNAMIC Teaming” framework to explain how teams build adaptive capabilities through coaching, systems thinking, growth mindset, and collaborative learning practices.
Toni is currently a Health Professions Education Postdoctoral Fellow at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where she integrates Lean principles, Organization Development, and coaching approaches into interprofessional practice and education. Her work focuses on designing and facilitating learning environments that enhance team performance across professions.
With prior experience spanning healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, and higher education, Toni bridges change management theory and practice to help organizations innovate, collaborate, and thrive. She has contributed to national conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and leadership development programs that emphasize generative conversations and system transformation.
Transforming Organizational Culture Through Coaching Centers of Excellence
