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.

Nicole Scott
Nicole Scott, PCC, is an accomplished educator with more than 25 years of experience in promoting teaching and learning for all, with a focus on adult learning and transformational leadership. Nicole is a dynamic, systems-level leader who engages in school leadership coaching to support school and systems-level leaders. Nicole currently serves as an Educational Leadership Executive Coach and supports early career and veteran principals with extensive coaching strategies. During her career, Nicole has held the roles of principal, assistant principal and classroom teacher.
Empowering People Within: Building Culture and Centering Humanity with an Internal Coaching Program
Nicole Scott, PCC, is an accomplished educator with more than 25 years of experience in promoting teaching and learning for all, with a focus on adult learning and transformational leadership. Nicole is a dynamic, systems-level leader who engages in school leadership coaching to support school and systems-level leaders. Nicole currently serves as an Educational Leadership Executive Coach and supports early career and veteran principals with extensive coaching strategies. During her career, Nicole has held the roles of principal, assistant principal and classroom teacher.
Empowering People Within: Building Culture and Centering Humanity with an Internal Coaching Program


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: Level Up Your Key Differentiators 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: Level Up Your Key Differentiators in an AI World
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