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.

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Kristine Foley
Kristine Perez-Foley is founder and CEO of The Confidence Network LLC, a full-service leadership development firm specializing in inclusive mindset development. As a bicultural, bilingual leader of her own firm, she also serves as a PCC mentor coach. Through her company’s social impact initiative, Kristine provides leadership development services to three nonprofits focused on underserved communities: LatinaVIDA®, African American Reach Teach Health (AARTH), and Operation Smile in Latin America.
LEAD Inclusively™: Coaching Sensitive DEI Related Topics


Anna Gallotti
Anna Gallotti
Anna Gallotti is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) with more than 20 years of experience coaching executives and facilitating organizational transformations across cultures. Chair of ICF's task force on coaching and artificial intelligence, she is the founder of the Group Coaching Institute and author of three books, including her latest, "Unlocking Success." As an entrepreneur with companies in both France and the United States, Anna brings a truly international perspective to her speaking engagements. She is known for expertly identifying organizational "weak signals" that drive sustainable transformation and is a regular contributor to Forbes newsletters.
AI: Coaching Superpower or Competitor? YOU Decide


Anne Game
Anne Game
Anne Game, executive adviser and leadership coach, has more than 38 years of consulting experience serving manufacturing, consumer products, hospitality, and retail clients. As a Deloitte principal and, more recently, a North Highland managing director, she has led large-scale transformations through change management, team development, and strategy execution. A Creating Futures That Work Certified Innovation Coach, Anne combines her business experience with her love of music and the arts to offer arts-based experiential learning workshops. She serves on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra board and holds degrees from Vanderbilt University, Berklee College of Music, and Harvard Business School, USA.
Innovation Begins With “I:" Experiential Learning for Leaders and Coaches


James Garcia
James Garcia
James Garcia, an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ACC), is passionate about helping others achieve their personal and professional goals. He believes that by overcoming obstacles and unlocking potential, everyone can attain success and fulfillment. In his current role, James supports individuals on their growth journey and holds certifications in several assessments, including Hogan and EQ-i.
Creating an Internal Coaching Culture: Insights from Real-World Implementation


James Garrett
James Garrett
James Garrett is a brain coach and founder of Brain by Design. He has spoken on stages ranging from Harvard to TEDx, and his work has been featured by The New York Times, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review. He spent years conducting research at Columbia University, Tufts University, and Yale University, USA. His courses — The Brain Science Advantage and Brain Science Masterclass for Coaches — are ICF-certified for 32 and 36 CCEs, respectively. A rare combination of scientist, trainer, and entrepreneur, James launched the Deep Change Project in 2019 to discover what’s possible at the outer edges of neuroplasticity.
Mini Habits: A Small Tool for Big Success


James Gavin
James Gavin
Jim Gavin, PhD, is a full professor and director of the Centre for Human Flourishing at Concordia University in Montreal, where he also leads an ICF Level 2 coach training program. He is an ICF Master Certified Coach and an Integral Master Coach. He is widely published, with his latest book titled, "Foundations of Professional Coaching." Jim has coached and consulted worldwide over the past five decades. His deep interests in the somatics of human development and personal change are informed by his practices in Aikido, Iaido, meditation, and yoga. He has five absolutely amazing children.
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Emotions: A Transformative Coaching Tool from New Emotion Research


Genevieve Genevieve Feliú, PhD
Genevieve Genevieve Feliú, PhD
Genevieve Feliú, Ph.D. is the Futurist Researcher of ICF Thought Leadership Institute (TLI). A trained social scientist mixed methods researcher, Genevieve has spearheaded innovation initiatives for national organizations and local communities for over ten years in higher education and workforce development. Before joining the TLI team, she obtained a master’s degree in sociology from East Carolina University, focusing on social network analysis and social capital. Genevieve received her doctorate in Organization and Management from Capella University, continuing her focus on measuring social capital within networks. She is also a certified UX/UI and human-centered designer with a certificate from the Springboard Intensive Bootcamp.

With an insatiable curiosity, Genevieve is committed to studying how technology, society, and culture intersect and impact our well-being. Her objective is to understand how we can shape the futures we desire. In her current role at TLI, she delves into how coaching will adapt to transformative forces that drive changes in work dynamics, education systems, and our planet’s ecology. By closely examining these areas of inquiry, she aims to uncover valuable insights into how these factors will influence coaching practices and ultimately shape the future of human growth.
Coach the Future: What’s Your Hunch?



Damian Goldvarg
Damian Goldvarg
Dr. Damian Goldvarg has thirty years of experience in executive coaching and leadership development, working with individuals and organizations in over sixty countries. He is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant University in California. He is also the author of five books, a Professional Certified Speaker (CSP) and an Accredited Coach Supervisor (ESIA), and facilitates global virtual certifications in Professional Coaching, Mentor Coaching, and Coaching Supervision (ESQA). He was the 2013-2014 International Coaching Federation Global President and received the 2018 ICF Circle of Distinction Award and 2019 EMCC Supervision Award.
The Meeting Point Between Leadership and Coaching: Forging a New Era of Leadership


Kat Haber
Kat Haber
Kat Haber is a pioneering climate leadership coach who discovered her calling as one of 150 women in the United States Air Force Academy's second female class. Her military training in facing uncomfortable truths and taking decisive action now drives her climate work. Living in Alaska with the retreating Grewingk Glacier outside her window—losing 98 feet annually—transformed her from observer to activator. As a certified Climate Coach and international research collaborator, Kat pioneers methods for integrating climate change into coaching practices. She embodies transformation by currently driving 13,444 miles in an EV to demonstrate range management, covering four times the distance of her cross-country climate march eleven years ago in one-third the time. Combining her experience coaching TEDx speakers with military-grade systems thinking, Kat activates executives and business owners in online leadership labs, helping them recognize climate change as their greatest leadership and business opportunity rather than someone else's problem.
Breaking New Ground: Exploring the Landscape of Climate Coaching


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