As executive coaches, you encounter clients who exhibit negative beliefs and behaviors that become stumbling blocks to the success they deserve in the workplace. They look at their careers (and life) through a lens of people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety and often debilitating self-doubt, often referred to as the imposter syndrome.

All heavy burdens that get in the way of their full potential at work. There’s a reason for this: nearly 2/3rd of the U.S. population (and validated in other countries) are what Susan Schmitt Winchester calls adult survivors of a damaged past – ASDPs – people who experienced one or more of adverse childhood events (ACEs) that the CDC has identified as being damaging to their long-term physical and mental well-being. Could your high-achieving client be an ASDP? The odds are the answer is yes.

In Susan’s presentation, “Healing at Work” she introduces you to the principles behind her book, Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, with co-author Martha I. Finney. She teaches you fresh insights and offers tips regarding how to support your ASDP clients so that they learn the skills necessary to thrive beyond their past and achieve the future they deserve. An ASDP herself, she speaks from personal and professional experience as she has climbed the corporate success ladder in her 30+ years in HR for Fortune 500 companies. Today, Susan is the CHRO of Applied Materials, a Silicon Valley global technology company with 25,000+ employees.

Join Taiwo, an authentic and results-oriented leader with over 20+ years of practice driving intersectionality, employee engagement and diversity of thought in senior teams in technical industry, as she shares her Relatability Checklist.  Get help in answering the “How” behind being a more connected coach when interacting with a diversity lens: How do you relate across the table? What assumptions are you coming in with? How do you find the commonalities? How to check your biases during coaching? How to build trust during coaching? Discover how to lead with humility, curiosity and without ego as a fully present coach, relating with deep intention, presence of mind, body & soul.

Executive coaching sessions focused on heart and meaning often invite the potential for clients to share from places of deep emotional difficulty. Such moments require the confident, compassionate, intentional practicing of presence. Many coaches, particularly earlier in their practice development, struggle to know how to respond in these critical moments. In this session, Aaron Tabacco brings his 17 years of experience as a nurse and nurse educator forward, and offer four pillars to assist the practice of presence in just such highly-charged encounters.

You deserve to be paid for what you do. Period. Let's take that dream and transition it into a goal to make it happen. During this session, Kati Ryan will help you take your dream and take steps to set actionable goals to transition you from pro bono to paid clients. This session will be a form of individual and group coaching to help you map a plan for you.

Do you struggle to feel confident when it comes to sales calls, leading workshops or have doubts about how you show up as a coach? Can you easily celebrate your strengths but get stuck in a story about your weaknesses? Join Executive and Empowerment coach, Ali Dunn, for this workshop on how to connect your head with your heart in your coaching practice. It is time to ask yourself the powerful question, “What about that is true?” In this workshop, you will learn a mind and body exercise to dismantle your limiting beliefs, redefine your personal brand and connect with your clients on a deeper level. Walk away feeling empowered with an elevator pitch worth celebrating.

Big decisions are complex, clouded by numerous considerations, emotions that push and pull, and uncertainties about the future. We as coaches can be invaluable thought partners for our clients in these situations. Over the past decade, Michelle Florendo, PCC, has learned how to use tools from her background in decision engineering to coach hundreds of her clients through big decisions in work and life. Join this session to learn some tools for helping your clients tackle decisions with less stress and more clarity.

As an Executive Coach, can you help your clients create workplaces with less ego induced drama and less stress? In this session, Amy Lynn Durham will explain Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), why it is a critical skillset leaders should develop and offer two modalities one can utilize for their clients and teams. Topics include: *Making Wise & Compassionate Decisions *Being A Wise & Effective Change Agent *Complexity of Thought and Perspective Taking. Find out what servant leadership means from a quantum perspective and walk away with at least two modalities that will help your clients and/or organizations skill-build in the ability to "behave with wisdom and compassion, while maintaining inner and outer peace, regardless of the situation" (quoted definition of SQ from Cindy Wigglesworth).

Join ECI alumni T Hamilton Casalegno, Sherri Howard, Stacy King and Tom Nelms for an interactive discussion on business development for coaches - how do you get started? What does it mean to build your brand? Share tools and successes (and failures!) in this moderated discussion.

Ancient wisdom meets modern coaching. As coaches we sometimes use personality assessments to help our clients with leadership, but how do we adjust our coaching style for different client personalities? Vish Chatterji will draw from the the ancient Indian medicine tradition of Ayurveda to help you identify 3 different personality archetypes. Participants will be given a short quiz to understand their unique archetype. Then we will discuss the most effective ways to coach different personalities, drawing from this ancient but intelligently-practical insight into human nature.

After 20 months of video calls, online work, and digital interactions, join us for an in-person celebration of the power of the human spirit. We will unlock our creativity and reconnect with one another through music, song, and storytelling. The sound of real human voices resonating together is irreplaceable. This inspiring session of community and civil rights songs will be led by Benjamin Mertz, who has been singing with us at BECI since 2018.