Every journey needs a guide. At ICF Converge 2025, our speakers are trailblazers, deep thinkers, and change-makers helping to lead the way forward in coaching. Explore the voices behind the sessions — and discover the insights they’re ready to share with you.

Carrie Spaulding
Carrie Spaulding, PCC, is a coach, speaker, facilitator, trainer, improviser, educator, nomad and human. More than 20 years of professionally performing, teaching and directing improvisation have empowered Carrie to thrive in each of these identities. Using her distinctively creative, experiential and outside-the-box approach, Carrie helps individual clients, teams, coaches, leaders and organizations harness the power of improvisation to be more effective, engaged, collaborative, agile, self-aware, confident and compassionate in all aspects of work and life. In her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach, Carrie helps thirtysomethings break through Thirtysomething Panic and create careers, relationships and lives they love. Learn more at http://carriespaulding.com.
I’m Not a Robot: How to Human Better in an AI World
Carrie Spaulding, PCC, is a coach, speaker, facilitator, trainer, improviser, educator, nomad and human. More than 20 years of professionally performing, teaching and directing improvisation have empowered Carrie to thrive in each of these identities. Using her distinctively creative, experiential and outside-the-box approach, Carrie helps individual clients, teams, coaches, leaders and organizations harness the power of improvisation to be more effective, engaged, collaborative, agile, self-aware, confident and compassionate in all aspects of work and life. In her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach, Carrie helps thirtysomethings break through Thirtysomething Panic and create careers, relationships and lives they love. Learn more at http://carriespaulding.com.
I’m Not a Robot: How to Human Better in an AI World

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
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