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!