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
Nicolo Francesco Bernardi
Nicolò Bernard, PhD, is a neuropsychologist, coach, and dialectical behavioral therapy skills trainer. Passionate about combining scientific rigor with practical strategies and somatic awareness, he helps individuals and teams develop effective emotion regulation skills and break free from dopamine-depleting habits related to technology.
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Emotions: A Transformative Coaching Tool from New Emotion Research
Nicolò Bernard, PhD, is a neuropsychologist, coach, and dialectical behavioral therapy skills trainer. Passionate about combining scientific rigor with practical strategies and somatic awareness, he helps individuals and teams develop effective emotion regulation skills and break free from dopamine-depleting habits related to technology.
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Emotions: A Transformative Coaching Tool from New Emotion Research
Karen Bernstein
Karen Bernstein, ACC, CAE, MSW, MA, is an experienced executive with a background in professional development, governance, and fundraising. As vice president for Learning and Development at the International Coaching Federation, she oversees strategy, curation, and delivery of educational content, events, and leadership development. Previously, she served as associate director for Leadership and Governance Learning at ASAE and held roles in development, HR, and executive leadership at various Jewish communal organizations. Karen holds degrees from UC Irvine, USC, USA, and Hebrew Union College, USA, a coaching certificate from Brown University, USA, and the CAE credential from ASAE.
COACHBOCK Unveiled: Your Guide to the New ICF Body of Competencies and Knowledge
Karen Bernstein, ACC, CAE, MSW, MA, is an experienced executive with a background in professional development, governance, and fundraising. As vice president for Learning and Development at the International Coaching Federation, she oversees strategy, curation, and delivery of educational content, events, and leadership development. Previously, she served as associate director for Leadership and Governance Learning at ASAE and held roles in development, HR, and executive leadership at various Jewish communal organizations. Karen holds degrees from UC Irvine, USC, USA, and Hebrew Union College, USA, a coaching certificate from Brown University, USA, and the CAE credential from ASAE.
COACHBOCK Unveiled: Your Guide to the New ICF Body of Competencies and Knowledge
Abhijit Bhattacharya, PCC
Abhijit is an Executive Coach who provides coaching to senior leaders across industries for them to lead their businesses successfully. He is also a coach educator and trains leaders across geographies for them to show up with a coaching mindset in their businesses and conversations.
For over 20 years, Abhijit has worked in various MNCs, such as S&P Global, Well Fargo, ADP, Entain, Wipro, Synnex etc. leading their talent agenda and developing their leaders. He also co-founded an Internal Coaching CoE in one of his engagements, which was featured in HBR and Gartner as one of the most people-centric initiatives redefining the Employee Value Proposition of the organization.
He also volunteers with the Coaching Science CoP of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) to make coaching a more evidence-based practice. Additionally, he serves as a Director on the board of the Hyderabad Chapter of ICF to spread more awareness about coaching.
Abhijit holds an MSc in Organizational Psychology from University of Essex and is also a Certified Coaching Professional from Columbia University. He is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach from International Coaching Federation. Additionally, he is licensed to run psychometrics like Hogan, DiSC, Core Strengths etc.
The Power & Practice of Internal Coaching: Fresh Research, Real Insights, and What’s Next
Abhijit is an Executive Coach who provides coaching to senior leaders across industries for them to lead their businesses successfully. He is also a coach educator and trains leaders across geographies for them to show up with a coaching mindset in their businesses and conversations.
For over 20 years, Abhijit has worked in various MNCs, such as S&P Global, Well Fargo, ADP, Entain, Wipro, Synnex etc. leading their talent agenda and developing their leaders. He also co-founded an Internal Coaching CoE in one of his engagements, which was featured in HBR and Gartner as one of the most people-centric initiatives redefining the Employee Value Proposition of the organization.
He also volunteers with the Coaching Science CoP of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) to make coaching a more evidence-based practice. Additionally, he serves as a Director on the board of the Hyderabad Chapter of ICF to spread more awareness about coaching.
Abhijit holds an MSc in Organizational Psychology from University of Essex and is also a Certified Coaching Professional from Columbia University. He is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach from International Coaching Federation. Additionally, he is licensed to run psychometrics like Hogan, DiSC, Core Strengths etc.
The Power & Practice of Internal Coaching: Fresh Research, Real Insights, and What’s Next
Annette Blum Pearson
Annette Blum Pearson brings experience, intuition, and coaching tools to her work with individuals and groups. She partners with entrepreneurs and corporate leaders as they focus on values-driven development and fulfillment. Annette worked in product management, sales, and marketing for more than 10 years in big tech and startups. She drives large-scale initiatives with creative passion and a growth mindset to cultivate thriving teams and success. Annette lives with her family in San Francisco, CA, USA, and enjoys nature, being with loved ones, traveling, learning, reading, and eating.
Harnessing the Power of Coaching for Social Impact
Annette Blum Pearson brings experience, intuition, and coaching tools to her work with individuals and groups. She partners with entrepreneurs and corporate leaders as they focus on values-driven development and fulfillment. Annette worked in product management, sales, and marketing for more than 10 years in big tech and startups. She drives large-scale initiatives with creative passion and a growth mindset to cultivate thriving teams and success. Annette lives with her family in San Francisco, CA, USA, and enjoys nature, being with loved ones, traveling, learning, reading, and eating.
Harnessing the Power of Coaching for Social Impact
Paul Boehnke
Paul Boehnke, speaker, author, and certified life coach, helps solo-preneurs find alignment with their businesses so they can have greater impact, earn more money, and have more fun.
First as a classical musician and now as a coach, Paul has lived the entrepreneurial life for more than 30 years. During that journey, he has discovered what really matters in business building and loves sharing that with others.
In his book, "Thoughts on Demand: Turn Negative Self-Talk into Unstoppable Confidence," he shares the process he uses to help clients transform that little voice in their heads from an adversary to ally.
The #1 Skill Separating High-Paid Coaches from Everyone Else — It's Not Strategy
Paul Boehnke, speaker, author, and certified life coach, helps solo-preneurs find alignment with their businesses so they can have greater impact, earn more money, and have more fun.
First as a classical musician and now as a coach, Paul has lived the entrepreneurial life for more than 30 years. During that journey, he has discovered what really matters in business building and loves sharing that with others.
In his book, "Thoughts on Demand: Turn Negative Self-Talk into Unstoppable Confidence," he shares the process he uses to help clients transform that little voice in their heads from an adversary to ally.
The #1 Skill Separating High-Paid Coaches from Everyone Else — It's Not Strategy
Karyn Buxman
Karyn specializes in applied humor. With a background in neuroscience and humor, she helps leaders achieve peak performance and well-being through strategic humor. A pioneer in her field, she has collaborated with top neuroscientists and was inducted into the National Speaker’s Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame—one of only 39 women to receive this honor. Her mission is to enhance global health, business, and peace through laughter while helping the humor-impaired embrace joy.
Coach with Levity! The Serious Business of Humor in Coaching as a Transformational Coaching Tool
Karyn specializes in applied humor. With a background in neuroscience and humor, she helps leaders achieve peak performance and well-being through strategic humor. A pioneer in her field, she has collaborated with top neuroscientists and was inducted into the National Speaker’s Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame—one of only 39 women to receive this honor. Her mission is to enhance global health, business, and peace through laughter while helping the humor-impaired embrace joy.
Coach with Levity! The Serious Business of Humor in Coaching as a Transformational Coaching Tool
Susan Caesar
Susan Caesar, director of artificial intelligence (AI) at ICF, brings extensive experience in driving human-centered innovation, digital transformation, and ethical AI. Susan is passionate about promoting AI as a force for good.
Transform Your Coaching Practice
Transform Your Coaching Practice
AI: Coaching Superpower or Competitor? YOU Decide
Elevate Your AI Coaching Strategy
Transform Your Coaching Practice
Susan Caesar, director of artificial intelligence (AI) at ICF, brings extensive experience in driving human-centered innovation, digital transformation, and ethical AI. Susan is passionate about promoting AI as a force for good.
Transform Your Coaching Practice
Transform Your Coaching Practice
AI: Coaching Superpower or Competitor? YOU Decide
Elevate Your AI Coaching Strategy
Transform Your Coaching Practice
Tracey Cammock
Tracey Cammock, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, has more than 15 years of experience as a leadership, executive, and team coach; leadership development consultant; human resources leader; career coach; and facilitator. She leverages her corporate experience and expertise in Hogan and emotional intelligence assessments to customize solutions that unlock potential. Tracey brings a strategic, centered, and solutions-focused approach to coaching on executive presence, leadership transitions, difficult conversations, strategic leadership, culture and team engagement, leader-as-coach training, and high-performance teams.
Creating an Internal Coaching Culture: Insights from Real-World Implementation
Tracey Cammock, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, has more than 15 years of experience as a leadership, executive, and team coach; leadership development consultant; human resources leader; career coach; and facilitator. She leverages her corporate experience and expertise in Hogan and emotional intelligence assessments to customize solutions that unlock potential. Tracey brings a strategic, centered, and solutions-focused approach to coaching on executive presence, leadership transitions, difficult conversations, strategic leadership, culture and team engagement, leader-as-coach training, and high-performance teams.
Creating an Internal Coaching Culture: Insights from Real-World Implementation
