Set the stage to get what you need from the Conference with a deep dive into how you are feeling, showing up, and want to be seen. You'll have an opportunity to pause and reflect and then expand your point of view within a small group. You will leave with new insights and a take away for the coming week.

Are you interested in expanding your executive coaching practice to include group coaching? Join this session to learn group coaching best practices and ideas on how to conduct your initial sessions. There will also be a Q&A to answer questions from those aspiring to enter into the world of executive group coaching.

“So, what do you do?” a prospective client asks. “Well…” commence jargon-filled psychobabble that simultaneously tells them WAY too much and yet nothing at all. In this engaging session, we will dive deep into the critical challenges that often hold all coaches back from reaching their full potential. We'll call out the most common roadblock: saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Discover the power of strategic differentiation as we unravel the importance of aligning your branding pieces to effectively communicate the right messages at the right time. You'll gain a fresh perspective on how to craft a cohesive and impactful narrative that sparks opportunities with your target audience. This is your chance to invest in mastering your self-presentation using the Clarity & Connection Matrix for executive coaches.

Adults with ADHD can be highly energetic, creative, fun, courageous, and occupy a large variety of roles in the corporate world from C-Suite offices to frontline sales. At the same time, more than 85% of these lively humans share that their ADHD has negatively impacted their workplace performance, collegial & family relationships, and career paths. As a result, more and more professionals with ADHD are seeking executive coaching for help. In this fun, insightful, and high-energy session, participants will learn about the ADHD-wired brain, how to stay in the "coach zone", and how to more effectively partner with clients for their success. Presenter Aaron Tabacco is an international clinical expert in ADHD (PhD, RN), Certified Executive Coach, and BECI Coaching Faculty who will lead this session from a neurodiversity perspective. Approximately 40% of Aaron's coaching clients self-identify as persons with ADHD.

In this highly interactive session, explore how you can use your CliftonStrengths in your role as a coach. ECI Faculty Director Jennie Caleshu recently became a Certified Strengths Coach and will lead the group in an interactive discussion on ways their Strengths show up in their coaching. The focus of this session will be how you can invest in your own Strengths to develop as a coach (not necessarily in coaching others on their Strengths). While you do not need to have completed the StrengthsFinder assessment to attend, if you'd like to know your CliftonStrengths you can purchase the assessment here and use code 6VF887JYO to save $10.

Working in an international and multicultural environment either as coach, advisor or leader: How to build trust, and does trust building differ within different cultures and/or in an international context? Is trust perceived the same way when you look at trust creating across different cultures? Reflect on recent practical experiences and research on this interesting and challenging topic.

Struggling to get the "G"? This session will focus on ways to construct supportive, sustainable and engaging goals with coachees, both within sessions and across an engagement. The session is relevant for all coaches but it will have a particular focus on working within organizations, either as a third party or as an internal leader. This will be an interactive workshop, with coaches sharing their favorite goal modalities as well as play-time with my goals setting philosophy: Zone 2 Goals. We will discuss some of the most common goal modalities, as well as share new research that may upend what you think you know about goals.

How does our work as coaches uniquely position us to make a difference in the world? How do we make sure that our coaching is part of a larger vision, which represents our values and our hope for humanity? Can coaching be a calling? Join Benjamin Mertz for a session of storytelling, visioning, and inspiration! Through large group and small group dialogue, let's challenge one another to be the best version of ourselves in a world desperately in need of healing. This session will also feature an interview with Dr. Mark Rittenberg about his experiences in South Africa and the Middle East as part of human rights and peace movements.

Who were you before you became a coach? A teacher? An athlete? Maybe you built an entire career - or several! Yet when we leave that 9-5 job, we feel as if we’re starting over from zero. It’s not true. Knowing who you are and what propels you can help clarify your purpose, identify your ideal client, and even niche down your offering. In this session, you’ll mine your previous live(s) for the moments that made you the unique coach you are today. Using a tried and true formula for storytelling, get ready to articulate those key moments into your very own ignition story.

This workshop will give you a framework for selling, onboarding and keeping coaching clients while being authentically yourself. Today, you’ll get some of the tools you need to put your biz process together. You’ll also have time to share and learn from one another.

Many, if not most, companies profess a desire to have more diversity and inclusion in their ranks but struggle to accomplish meaningful gains in this area, a problem that has been compounded by the massive layoffs post-pandemic. How can coaching help? We will examine how coaches can leverage EQ habit building to facilitate change at the individual, program and organizational level. Our emphasis is on the importance of emotional intelligence to generate a safe, inclusive and growth-oriented environment / workplace. We approach DEI work as a critical success metric for tech evolution and seek to generate and share best practices to amplify voices, opportunities and allyship.

Ever worry about what to do if mental heath issues or deeper psychotherapeutic content start to arise in the course of your coaching sessions? How do we understand the difference between coaching and therapy? Where is the line between the two and how do we navigate it?

We will discuss how to have a working framework for ourselves, tools to engage with our clients around psychological material, and how to discuss when a therapeutic referral may be useful.

Develop your capacity as a coach through a more nuanced understanding of therapy. Learn to maintain a coaching focus while being comfortable with deeper content if it arises as well as how to respond when issues feel beyond your scope.

Are you inspired by the idea of designing a meaningful and sustainable lifestyle around your business as a coach? Let’s share stories and gather insights on what gives us the stimulus, structure and support to organically integrate coaching into our lives.

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs as they're commonly referred -- by champions and dissenters alike) are what John Doerr writes about in his how-to titled: Measure What Matters. Objectives are the wildly audacious, bold goals that people want to accomplish; Key Results are the specific, measurable, and time-bound metrics that calculate success. Whether you're an OKR-veteran and already have practice working with this framework, or you're brand new to it (and perhaps still back-checking what is what and which is which), this session will help you translate a powerful goal-setting framework to your coaching practice, to help your coachees de-abstract, and build a roadmap to, their loftiest goals.

One of the common challenges clients bring to us coaches is how to make changes in how they approach their work, managing work rather than work managing them. Of course that starts with being visionary - what do they want from work? what would it look like for their work lives to be successful? And then, we help them think through: how do they get there? I find much of these next steps include helping my clients become more intentional - about setting priorities, managing time, supporting their direct reports, managing up, setting limits. In this session I will share some concepts and modalities (in action, with you!) that have helped my clients shift their way of thinking and operating. To whet your appetite, examples of tools I share are: 1) physical activities and objects that can serve as reminders to interact differently at work; 2) wordplays that help us focus; 3) a creative visualization technique; and 4) a time capsule!