Deborah (Sunni) Smith
As an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Sunni Smith is the principal of her own
coaching and consulting enterprise that specializes in executive/leadership development.
Among others, she has provided strategic and innovative professional services for leaders
at Salesforce, National Arts Strategies (NAS), Genentech within the Roche Group, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the UCLA Anderson MBA Program.
With a background in counseling, business, and law, Sunni earned certifications in Team
Advantage Coaching®, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and Conversational Intelligence®(C-IQ)
as well as several other coaching modalities and assessments. She is distinguished as a
trained, accredited facilitator in Coaching Supervision and was awarded an EMCC
Supervision Quality Award in 2022. Her latest certification is with Creating Futures that
Work® (CFTW), including its LISA (Leadership Innovation Skills Assessment) instrument.
She was also recently recruited to facilitate Group Coaching Supervision for Coaching for
Social Justice (CSJ).
Innovation Begins With “I:" Experiential Learning for Leaders and Coaches
As an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Sunni Smith is the principal of her own
coaching and consulting enterprise that specializes in executive/leadership development.
Among others, she has provided strategic and innovative professional services for leaders
at Salesforce, National Arts Strategies (NAS), Genentech within the Roche Group, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the UCLA Anderson MBA Program.
With a background in counseling, business, and law, Sunni earned certifications in Team
Advantage Coaching®, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and Conversational Intelligence®(C-IQ)
as well as several other coaching modalities and assessments. She is distinguished as a
trained, accredited facilitator in Coaching Supervision and was awarded an EMCC
Supervision Quality Award in 2022. Her latest certification is with Creating Futures that
Work® (CFTW), including its LISA (Leadership Innovation Skills Assessment) instrument.
She was also recently recruited to facilitate Group Coaching Supervision for Coaching for
Social Justice (CSJ).
Innovation Begins With “I:" Experiential Learning for Leaders and Coaches
Francesca Smith
Fran Smith, PCC MSc, is an experienced leadership coach with a deep passion for addressing the climate crisis. After her own climate awakening in 2020, she became a facilitator for Climate Cafes and educational workshops, helping others move from fear and despair to hope and action.
Originally from the UK and now based in Brazil, Fran founded the Brazilian community of the Climate Coaching Alliance in 2024. She holds an ICF-approved certification in Climate Change Mastery and has increasingly integrated her climate values into both her personal and professional life. She runs workshops for coaches and helps corporate clients navigate the complexities of climate change.
As part of an international research group, Fran is currently interviewing coaches successfully integrating climate change into their work. She is thrilled to share their insights and the practical implications for coaching at this conference.
Breaking New Ground: Exploring the Landscape of Climate Coaching
Fran Smith, PCC MSc, is an experienced leadership coach with a deep passion for addressing the climate crisis. After her own climate awakening in 2020, she became a facilitator for Climate Cafes and educational workshops, helping others move from fear and despair to hope and action.
Originally from the UK and now based in Brazil, Fran founded the Brazilian community of the Climate Coaching Alliance in 2024. She holds an ICF-approved certification in Climate Change Mastery and has increasingly integrated her climate values into both her personal and professional life. She runs workshops for coaches and helps corporate clients navigate the complexities of climate change.
As part of an international research group, Fran is currently interviewing coaches successfully integrating climate change into their work. She is thrilled to share their insights and the practical implications for coaching at this conference.
Breaking New Ground: Exploring the Landscape of Climate Coaching
Carrie Spaulding
Carrie Spaulding is a coach, speaker, facilitator, educator, artist, nomad, improviser, and human. Carrie pulls from this breadth and depth of experience to help humans human better.
A globally acclaimed speaker and trainer, Carrie empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to develop the soft skills, clarity, courage, conviction, and confidence they need to be who they are, do what they're here for, and venture boldly forward in an ever-changing world. Using her distinctively creative, experiential, and outside-the-box approach, Carrie facilitates real-time growth and leaves participants equipped with improved competencies, instantly applicable tools and strategies, and a feeling that development was never this much fun!
Carrie's innovative group programs The Lab and The Life Workshop help people live, work, and lead better while building connections. In her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach®, Carrie helps thirtysomethings break through Thirtysomething Panic and create careers, relationships, and lives they love.
In January 2018, Carrie embarked on the ultimate improvisation: a nomadic adventure, living, coaching, speaking, training, creating, and improvising all over the United States. This journey capitalizes on and continues to stretch and hone Carrie’s mastery in creating presence in the midst of disruption, fostering instant connections in a wide variety of settings, spotting and nurturing emergent opportunities, pivoting and adapting to the unexpected, embracing the “not knowing,” and finding home wherever she is. Explore more at carriespaulding.com.
I’m Not a Robot: How to Human Better in an AI World
Carrie Spaulding is a coach, speaker, facilitator, educator, artist, nomad, improviser, and human. Carrie pulls from this breadth and depth of experience to help humans human better.
A globally acclaimed speaker and trainer, Carrie empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to develop the soft skills, clarity, courage, conviction, and confidence they need to be who they are, do what they're here for, and venture boldly forward in an ever-changing world. Using her distinctively creative, experiential, and outside-the-box approach, Carrie facilitates real-time growth and leaves participants equipped with improved competencies, instantly applicable tools and strategies, and a feeling that development was never this much fun!
Carrie's innovative group programs The Lab and The Life Workshop help people live, work, and lead better while building connections. In her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach®, Carrie helps thirtysomethings break through Thirtysomething Panic and create careers, relationships, and lives they love.
In January 2018, Carrie embarked on the ultimate improvisation: a nomadic adventure, living, coaching, speaking, training, creating, and improvising all over the United States. This journey capitalizes on and continues to stretch and hone Carrie’s mastery in creating presence in the midst of disruption, fostering instant connections in a wide variety of settings, spotting and nurturing emergent opportunities, pivoting and adapting to the unexpected, embracing the “not knowing,” and finding home wherever she is. Explore more at carriespaulding.com.
I’m Not a Robot: How to Human Better in an AI World
Lisa Spinelli-White
Lisa Spinelli, president and founder of Blue Pinecone Consulting, is a sought-after credentialed leadership and career coach, learning and development manager, and workshop facilitator. She is certified by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and thrives on helping develop others in their careers and wellbeing.
With more than 15 years of experience in journalism and content marketing before entering the world of coaching, Lisa profoundly understands how the stories we tell ourselves—and others—have a deep impact on our perspective and lives. Words and how we communicate can make or break any relationship, including the one we have with our career. She uses her storytelling ability and research-based approaches to develop impactful coaching moments for her clients.
Lisa was raised in Rome, Italy, which gave her a unique upbringing of being exposed to many cultures and helped her discover the beauty and one-ness of us all. She is a dual citizen with Italy, a military (now veteran) spouse, and has three little divas who keep her busy when she is not coaching or training others.
Elevating Career Growth Through Transformative Communication
Lisa Spinelli, president and founder of Blue Pinecone Consulting, is a sought-after credentialed leadership and career coach, learning and development manager, and workshop facilitator. She is certified by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and thrives on helping develop others in their careers and wellbeing.
With more than 15 years of experience in journalism and content marketing before entering the world of coaching, Lisa profoundly understands how the stories we tell ourselves—and others—have a deep impact on our perspective and lives. Words and how we communicate can make or break any relationship, including the one we have with our career. She uses her storytelling ability and research-based approaches to develop impactful coaching moments for her clients.
Lisa was raised in Rome, Italy, which gave her a unique upbringing of being exposed to many cultures and helped her discover the beauty and one-ness of us all. She is a dual citizen with Italy, a military (now veteran) spouse, and has three little divas who keep her busy when she is not coaching or training others.
Elevating Career Growth Through Transformative Communication
Jessica Srikantia Field
Jessica Srikantia Field, PCC, PhD, ITCA, academic director of Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership, is dedicated to developing transformational leaders, coaches, and practitioners for a sustainable and compassionate future. A Rhodes Scholar, accredited team coach, and associate professor of practice, she holds a joint doctorate in psychology and conceptual foundations of science. Her coaching focus includes supervision, inclusive coaching, and systems and relational coaching. As a lifelong passion, Jessica walks her own inner journey alongside her outer work, and has been humbled and transformed by the blessing to engage in global solidarity with extraordinary leaders and communities.
Crisis Response for Coaches: Finding Stillness in Turmoil
Jessica Srikantia Field, PCC, PhD, ITCA, academic director of Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership, is dedicated to developing transformational leaders, coaches, and practitioners for a sustainable and compassionate future. A Rhodes Scholar, accredited team coach, and associate professor of practice, she holds a joint doctorate in psychology and conceptual foundations of science. Her coaching focus includes supervision, inclusive coaching, and systems and relational coaching. As a lifelong passion, Jessica walks her own inner journey alongside her outer work, and has been humbled and transformed by the blessing to engage in global solidarity with extraordinary leaders and communities.
Crisis Response for Coaches: Finding Stillness in Turmoil
Dez Stephens
Dez Stephens, PCC, is founder and CEO of Radiant Coaches Academy, a prominent international coach training school that certifies holistic life coaches, wellness coaches and business coaches. She is a certified and credentialed coach, master trainer and marketing strategist. Dez is a humanitarian coach, a social entrepreneur, a people’s advocate and a planetary activist. She has coached professionally since 2005, when she received her life coach certification. Since its founding in 2012, Dez’s Radiant Coaches Academy has now trained and certified more than 600 students in 20+ countries.
In 2017, the ICF Tennessee Chapter honored Dez with the Prism Award for her work in the advancement of the coaching profession. In 2022, the ICF Foundation’s Ignite Initiative recognized her for her nonprofit work in Honduras. Through her co-founded non-governmental organization, the Melanie Gissell Foundation, Dez provided grief and pain recovery coaching to Central Americans.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Dez Stephens, PCC, is founder and CEO of Radiant Coaches Academy, a prominent international coach training school that certifies holistic life coaches, wellness coaches and business coaches. She is a certified and credentialed coach, master trainer and marketing strategist. Dez is a humanitarian coach, a social entrepreneur, a people’s advocate and a planetary activist. She has coached professionally since 2005, when she received her life coach certification. Since its founding in 2012, Dez’s Radiant Coaches Academy has now trained and certified more than 600 students in 20+ countries.
In 2017, the ICF Tennessee Chapter honored Dez with the Prism Award for her work in the advancement of the coaching profession. In 2022, the ICF Foundation’s Ignite Initiative recognized her for her nonprofit work in Honduras. Through her co-founded non-governmental organization, the Melanie Gissell Foundation, Dez provided grief and pain recovery coaching to Central Americans.
Enhancing Coaching Practice: Exploring the New ICF Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision Competencies
Sue Stevenson
Through Lifted Fog, a Global Executive Coaching practice, Sue applies the latest research in neuroscience, strategic humor management, and positive psychology.
Sue facilitated Brain-Based Coaching Certification Programs for the NeuroLeadership Institute and is an Author of “Impossible to Possible: Neurostrategies for Healing, Humor and a Reimagined Life.” Keynote addresses include “Resilience, Burnout and Humor,” “Humor, Happiness and the Hippocampus,”and “Coaching and the Brain.”
Coaching credentials gained at The Hudson Institute of Coaching, NLI, Shift Positive, and C-IQ. A Certified Humor Professional awarded by the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor.
Coach with Levity! The Serious Business of Humor in Coaching as a Transformational Coaching Tool
Through Lifted Fog, a Global Executive Coaching practice, Sue applies the latest research in neuroscience, strategic humor management, and positive psychology.
Sue facilitated Brain-Based Coaching Certification Programs for the NeuroLeadership Institute and is an Author of “Impossible to Possible: Neurostrategies for Healing, Humor and a Reimagined Life.” Keynote addresses include “Resilience, Burnout and Humor,” “Humor, Happiness and the Hippocampus,”and “Coaching and the Brain.”
Coaching credentials gained at The Hudson Institute of Coaching, NLI, Shift Positive, and C-IQ. A Certified Humor Professional awarded by the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor.
Coach with Levity! The Serious Business of Humor in Coaching as a Transformational Coaching Tool
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart is the Director of Operations for the International Coaching Federation’s Coaching in Organizations, where he partners with global organizations to design and scale coaching programs that drive talent development and cultural transformation. With a foundation in HR and expertise spanning Talent Management and Organizational Development, Corey bridges the work of developing leaders with the work of shaping the systems in which they succeed. He helps organizations align strategy, culture, and people practices so that strategic initiatives deliver measurable business impact.
Tools to Elevate Coaching in Organizations — Introducing the Coaching Culture Compass & LUCS
Corey Stewart is the Director of Operations for the International Coaching Federation’s Coaching in Organizations, where he partners with global organizations to design and scale coaching programs that drive talent development and cultural transformation. With a foundation in HR and expertise spanning Talent Management and Organizational Development, Corey bridges the work of developing leaders with the work of shaping the systems in which they succeed. He helps organizations align strategy, culture, and people practices so that strategic initiatives deliver measurable business impact.
Tools to Elevate Coaching in Organizations — Introducing the Coaching Culture Compass & LUCS
Sandra Stewart
Sandra Stewart, MCC, MBA is an executive, team and group coach as well as a coaching and leadership program consultant with her firm SLS Coaching & Consulting established in 1999. She is an instructor for Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance at AU and Foundations of Coaching at NYU. In her book Building the Core Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations she defines coaching and how to deploy coaching in organizations. She is also a contributor to the academic text Building an Organizational Coaching Culture. She is a member of the ACMP/ICF Task Force exploring synergies between coaching and change management. She serves on the ICF Independent Review Board adjudicating ethics complaints worldwide. She received her MBA from Columbia University Business School and her BA from Colgate University.
Creating Coaching Programs That Fuel Business Success
Sandra Stewart, MCC, MBA is an executive, team and group coach as well as a coaching and leadership program consultant with her firm SLS Coaching & Consulting established in 1999. She is an instructor for Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance at AU and Foundations of Coaching at NYU. In her book Building the Core Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations she defines coaching and how to deploy coaching in organizations. She is also a contributor to the academic text Building an Organizational Coaching Culture. She is a member of the ACMP/ICF Task Force exploring synergies between coaching and change management. She serves on the ICF Independent Review Board adjudicating ethics complaints worldwide. She received her MBA from Columbia University Business School and her BA from Colgate University.
Creating Coaching Programs That Fuel Business Success
Catherine Tanneau
Catherine Tanneau, MCC, is a global master coach and CEO of Variations and Activision Coaching Institute, specializing in executive coaching, leadership transformation, and coaching cultures. She co-hosts the Transform Tomorrow Today podcast, exploring change-making in organizations. Catherine lives between Canada and France and works across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, partnering with global companies like L’Oréal and Pernod Ricard. She is a leadership professor at HEC Paris, the author of three books on leadership and coaching, a dynamic keynote speaker, and a passionate advocate for coaching ethics. Cahterine is a past chair of the ICF Professional Coaches Global Board of Directors.
Transformation Whisperers: The New Era of Corporate Coaching
Catherine Tanneau, MCC, is a global master coach and CEO of Variations and Activision Coaching Institute, specializing in executive coaching, leadership transformation, and coaching cultures. She co-hosts the Transform Tomorrow Today podcast, exploring change-making in organizations. Catherine lives between Canada and France and works across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, partnering with global companies like L’Oréal and Pernod Ricard. She is a leadership professor at HEC Paris, the author of three books on leadership and coaching, a dynamic keynote speaker, and a passionate advocate for coaching ethics. Cahterine is a past chair of the ICF Professional Coaches Global Board of Directors.
Transformation Whisperers: The New Era of Corporate Coaching
