True Alignment​

As a pioneer in the art and science of alignment, Edgar Papke is globally recognized for his work as an author, international award-winning speaker, podcast host, and master executive coach. His True Alignment presentation draws from his bestselling books True Alignment and Innovation By Design, as well as his over 30 years of experience helping leaders and organizations align and grow to achieve greater levels of success.

In exploring the elements of the TA system, practitioners will be provided a framework and insight into human-centered approaches to the alignment of customer experience, brand, culture, and leadership influence. Furthermore, participants will connect with their purpose and gain insight into their own unique approach to their professional pursuits.

Key takeaways:

• Discover the True Alignment System
• Explore the elements of alignment
• Understand how misalignments present powerful opportunities
• Learn how to apply alignment as a coaching tool
• Delve into the alignment of self

Making Coaching Fun​

We’ll explore where the “fun” in coaching lies.  Beyond the fulfillment, monetary and psychic income we derive from doing what we do, we’ll look at what makes it fun for us and those we coach.  

Fun can be defined in so many ways — light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, amusement, boisterous joviality, merrymaking entertainment — there’s probably a great deal more of it in our work than we may realize. So we’ll identify where it is and what it looks like — please be prepared to share your own personal stories of where you find fun in your work — how do we know when we experience it, what can we make of it, and what benefits do we and those we coach derive from adding more of it to the mix.

Key takeaways:

1. Determine what “fun” is and where does it fit in the coaching process
2. The differences between “fun” and “funny,” and what are the appropriate uses of fun
3. Increase our sensitivity to the fun we derive from coaching
4. Improve our creation of fun for our own benefit and the benefit to those we coach
5. Have fun while exploring the fun in coaching

Enhancing Human Coaching Through Artificial Intelligence​

The ongoing advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ushering in a transformative era in the field of executive coaching. From Digital Coach Assistants augmenting human effort to AI-enabled Coaching Supervision, these advancements are expanding how we engage as coaches but also inducing concerns about the future of human coaching. In this session, we will delve into the interplay between AI and the uniquely human elements that underpin effective executive coaching. Despite the increasing sophistication of AI, it is widely acknowledged that there are distinct human characteristics indispensable to successful coaching. Our exploration of the uniquely human value drivers in coaching will empower coaches to enhance their practice with the use of AI tools rather than see them as a threat to their existence.

Key take-aways:

• An understanding of the diverse AI tools currently being deployed or under development in the coaching industry.
• Strategies to leverage the uniquely human traits that inspire change and drive transformation, emphasizing the irreplaceable human element in coaching.
• Guidance on how to construct a tech-enabled coaching practice that harmoniously blends AI with traditional coaching methodologies.

Dr. Jonathan Kirschner holds the dual roles of Founder and CEO at AIIR Consulting and AIIR Analytics. AIIR Consulting, a globally recognized business psychology firm, is at the forefront of enhancing leadership effectiveness across diverse industries and cultures. AIIR Analytics represents a new generation of people analytics, developing pioneering tools for leadership assessment and strategic succession planning.
Dr. Kirschner is also an executive coach and team coach. He is an active contributor to the thought leadership landscape, regularly disseminating his research and insights through academic writing and presentations. He graduated from New York University and holds a Doctorate in Clinical and Business Psychology from Widener University.

Coaching for Courageous Leadership

Courageous leadership can inspire and motivate teams, foster a culture of innovation, and ultimately drive business growth. Investing in courage consulting can be a powerful tool for personal and professional development and can help you and your team tap into your full creative and leadership potential.

As an executive, having the courage to make difficult decisions and take calculated risks can be crucial to the success of your company. Consulting with CB can provide an outside perspective and support you in building the confidence to act on your convictions. A courageous leader is not afraid to challenge the status quo, speak their truth, and take action in the face of uncertainty.

PROGRAM TAKEAWAYS:
1) How to increase capacity for creativity and innovation.
2) How to turn failure into sustainable accomplishments.
3) How to create a culture of growth and step out in front of your competition.
4) How to recognize and support courageous behaviors

Coaching for Respect​

Description: The research is clear – our organizations are experiencing unprecedented levels of disrespect, which are negatively impacting performance, partnership, retention, and productivity. Fortunately, it’s possible to coach employees – who have ‘fallen our of respect’ for each other – back into productive relationships. Gregg Ward MCEC outlines his 10-step Coaching for RespectTM Process which Marshall Goldsmith calls, “A powerful process that restores respect and gets folks back to working well together again.”

Key take-aways:

• Respectful work cultures are far more important than previously thought.
• Coaching for Respect can make a positive difference in work relationships where respect has been lost.
• There’s an efficient and effective process that coaches can use to help restore respect.

Gregg Ward, MCEC is the Founder/Executive Director of the Center for Respectful Leadership, the developer of the Coaching for RespectTM Process, and the author of the bestselling, award-winning business fable, The Respectful Leader and the follow-on companion book, Restoring Respect.

Tune In To Lead

We know that listening is a critically important leadership skill. This means listening effectively to others to build alignment, engagement and accountability. But equally if not more important is listening to our deeper selves to ensure motivation, high performance, and fulfillment.

Most of us don’t do either kind of listening very well, or very frequently. And that’s because true listening is hard to master; it’s fundamentally about being present, tuning in, and connecting to our personal purpose. How can we do that in an overstimulating world that’s becoming even more demanding?

This is a conversation about the benefits of and barriers to deep listening, and how we can do better for ourselves and our clients. A variety of strategies will be discussed. One specific innovative, yet traditional, experiential approach will be included in the conversation, namely engaging with horses- it may not be what you think!

Key take-aways

1. The relationship between listening and engagement, effective decision-making, and personal fulfillment
2. Strategies for successfully tuning in, both to others and to ourselves

Coaching to Accelerate Diverse Executives​

Mission: To serve as a catalyst for the advancement of ethnic minorities and women across the country, facilitated through the development of talent pipelines for higher education and industry.

Vision: To help close educational attainment gaps, wealth gaps, skills gaps, and opportunity gaps for minoritized groups in order to transform our living, working, and learning communities, into thriving ecosystems where human flourishing is a realistic endeavor for all.

Purpose: To foster the professional growth and development of ethnic minorities and women leaders, acting as a vehicle for local firms to attract and retain talent, who are empowered to become change agents in communities across the country. 

Barbara will talk about her work with the Executive MBA Council and how they are setting the standard for challenging business schools to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and accession.  Through our work with the Diversity in Leadership Program and many other diversity initiatives in corporations, we are helping to move the needle.

• Organizations
  Organizations directly supporting education and  advancement of DEI leaders.
  • Provide an opportunity to excel and advance,
  • Focus on the development that matters; co-build your diverse talent,
  • Establish a strong, supportive network of diverse colleagues, and
  • Participate in speaker events and establish your firm as a premier DEI employer.
• Leading Business Schools
  Schools partner to deliver academic courses, while increasing their exposure and attractiveness to potential DEI graduate degree enrollment.

“The American economy has the capacity to grow an additional $8 trillion by 2050, if only our nation would commit to professionally advancing ethnic minorities and women.”

– W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Key takeaways:

We have to move beyond talking about barriers to removing them.  Explore ways you can increase your impact with diverse executives, change how you measure impact, and partnering for results.

Ditch the ROI conversation and shift to Business Value

For years, the coaching industry has tried everything possible to demonstrate the return on investment for coaching.  It’s an impossible feat, given we are dealing with humans and complex systems working together to create better leadership.  Holly will share how she has learned to speak with senior-level buyers, connecting the dots between behavioral shifts and achieving business goals. It’s a conversation that gets attention.

Enhancing Your Organization’s Marketing Success​

Howard will present two key approaches to marketing for senior-level coaches for today’s economy, which are based on your attributes and key success variables. To put it differently, one approach does not fit all.

How to use different marketing approaches, depending on the type of person you are. Discuss the pros and cons of two major marketing approaches, depending on your attributes.

One is the traditional approach of looking to build imaging awareness through public vehicles, such as webinars or books. The second would be how to take relationships and clients you’ve had in the past and turn them into revenue. 

1. Identifying your key attributes towards marketing and selling
2. How to use your knowledge to result in a stronger success ratio
3. How does this fit into today’s culture and financial environment

“Impact Without Burnout: Unlock Your Human Potential with the P.I.E. Method”

In today’s fast-paced, high-stakes world, making a meaningful impact while preventing burnout is a pressing challenge. Drawing from her extensive background in psychology, business, and her personal journey of resilience, Ana presents a simple yet powerful foundation – the innovative P.I.E. Method™. This approach underscores the importance of Pausing, Increasing self-awareness, and Embracing experimentation as the pathway to sustainable success and the key to unlocking your fullest potential.

Ana’s method leverages the power of self-leadership, equipping individuals to navigate even the most challenging circumstances. Don’t miss this opportunity to embark on a transformative journey towards a fulfilling and impactful life enriched by Ana’s expertise, inspiring stories, and engaging experiential exercises.

Key takeaways:

• In this deeply insightful and engaging keynote, Ana helps audiences:
  • Unlock their potential through self-leadership.
  • Understand burnout, its different manifestations, and strategies to prevent it.
  • Master the P.I.E. Method™, a simple yet powerful three-step approach for amplifying impact while avoiding burnout.
  • Achieve meaningful, lasting results, transforming the journey into a rewarding process.

Attendees will leave equipped with practical strategies, a renewed mindset, and the inspiration to excel in their dynamic and demanding environment

Coaching from Within the Organization​

We will explore concepts and successful applications of developing and implementing an Internal Executive Coaching program.

Exploration will include research, feedback from current practitioners, benefits and potential pitfalls, structuring a successful program, and ideas for how to market your Executive Coaching skills to provide Internal
Executive Coaching services.

Key takeaways:

• Gaining new perspectives about launching an internal executive coaching program
• Ideas for how to structure an Internal Executive Coaching program
• How to avoid potential pitfalls and challenges
• Understanding how to differentiate the roles of Leadership and Management Coaching from that of a Professional Internal Executive Coach.

How to Effectively Select and Use Assessments

Assessments and instruments are vital for any coach’s toolbox; however, there are so many options and applications that choosing and using the right assessment is confusing and daunting.  In this presentation, we will explore an integral approach to the landscape of instruments and demystify the process of selecting the right tools for specific applications in individual, group, team, and organizational coaching.  

Key takeaways:

• Understand the Integral Map of Assessments and how you can measure psychological, behavioral, cultural, and social perspectives in coaching engagements.
• Access free tools that you can try out for yourself or your clients right away.
• Understand the benefits of using assessments for clients, coaches, and your business.
• Outline the key factors to consider when choosing specific instruments for client engagements.
• Hear about how Artificial Intelligence and automation are enabling better instruments and client interpretations.

Reimagining Leadership

Dr. Daher’s presentation on “Reimagining Leadership” covers four areas for enhancing leadership and organizational effectiveness:

1. “Charting a Course for Organizational Alignment and Improvement” emphasizes aligning an organization’s goals, culture, and structure for better performance.
2. “Unleashing Organizational Potential through Leadership Enhancement” explores how leadership development programs can identify high-potential employees, boost engagement, and drive innovation.
3. “Enhancing Team Dynamics” highlights effective communication, collaboration, and trust in building high-performing teams.
4. “Humanizing the Digital Revolution” stresses the importance of leaders assessing their readiness to embrace Industry 5.0 (IR5.0) and adopting mindsets like change, learning, and customer-centricity to leverage technology responsibly and navigate the upcoming industrial revolution successfully.

Key take-aways:

1. Align your organization’s goals, culture, and structure to thrive and achieve sustainability in a constantly evolving business landscape.
2. Revolutionize your leadership development programs to identify and nurture your high-potential employees, boost employee engagement, and foster innovation in your organization.
3. Build high-performing teams through effective communication, collaboration, and trust – the secret sauce of success.
4. Gear up for Industry 5.0 (IR5.0) by embracing change, lifelong learning, and customer-centricity mindsets to leverage technology responsibly and seize opportunities presented by the next industrial revolution. Be the leader who not only survives but thrives!

Marketing Your Coaching Practice Publishing/ Publishing Your Book

Jeremy C. Jones, a proud military veteran, is also a family man and entrepreneur who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. His accomplishments include being a four-time #1 Best-Selling Author on Amazon, hosting the popular podcast “Ideas & Impact,” establishing AuthorityCoach.com, and founding and serving as CEO of Jones Media Publishing

Key take-aways

• Discover how to position yourself as an industry authority to your perfect clients
• Learn how to convert more cold leads into warm referrals with a published book
• The three ways we use a published book to get more leads and client applications to grow your business

Coaching Principals for Third World Countries

By serving the extreme poor in Myanmar, led to a cutting-edge movement in community-led development and powerful insights and expertise about global poverty.  The Shanta Foundation, an international NGO headquartered in Durango, CO, has a unique approach to community mobilization, leadership development, and community banking that would actually work, facilitating more than 35 villages to find paths out of extreme poverty, even in under the terror of the military dictatorship. As coaches—you get the potential inherent in the leaders you work with and how, with a little support and insight, most can become an even greater force for the good in their worlds.  But for some reason, most development approaches have yet to translate that dynamic to unlocking solutions to extreme poverty.  We are still bringing our colonialist, racist, sexist biases to this work, and despite incredibly sincere and expensive initiatives, we often end up either enabling or simply not helping those we aim to serve. We will discuss Shanta’s approach to the work because it is tightly aligned with the principles of the work that we do every day as coaches and consultants. And because it works—bringing about sustainable and outrageously uncommon results.

Key takeaways:

• How and why traditional approaches to poverty reduction fall short
• Key principles to activate local leadership and embed agency and sustainability into the work
• How to become an influencer for unlocking sustainable solutions to extreme poverty

Coaching Assessment: Discover Your WHY operating system for Leaders to Improve Employee Communication Skills​

Everyone has heard of the importance of knowing your WHY. Simon Sinek wrote the book, “Start with WHY.” Tony Robbins says, “When you know your WHY, you’ll know how to live.” Friedriech Nietzsche said, “He who has a WHY to live can bear almost any HOW.”

But how do you Discover your WHY? How do you help your clients Discover their WHY?  As a coach, finding it can be a long and sometimes frustrating process that can take multiple sessions to uncover, and even then, you can’t be sure if you got it right.  

What if there was a way to help your clients Discover not just their WHY, but their WHY operating system?  Their WHY, their HOW, and their WHAT.  WHY you do what you do.  HOW you bring your WHY to life.  And WHAT people can count on from you.  During this short session, we will show you exactly how to do that.

Key takeaways:

1. You’ll learn what a WHY operating system is.  What is a WHY, What is a HOW, and What is a WHAT.
2. Learn how to use your WHY.os to create your message and attract the right people to your business and how to help your clients create their message and attract the right people to their business.
3. Learn how to use the WHY.os to help your teams communicate at a deeper level and connect with each other and their leader better.
4. You’ll learn your own WHY operating system to let the world know your WHY, your HOW, and your WHAT.

Victim vs Target Coaching Those Who Work With Abrasive Leaders

Jordan Goldrich is a Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC), a Member of Marshall Goldsmith’s MG100 Coaches, and a Professional Certified Coach. A former COO, he specializes in working with valuable executives who are experienced as abrasive to be completely authentic, fulfill their mission, and drive results without damaging relationships® Jordan is co-author of the Amazon best-seller, “Workplace Warrior: People Skills for the No-BS Executive.” He is the producer/host of the podcast, “Workplace Warrior®: Drive Results Without Damaging Relationships®”

When your client is subject to disrespectful, bullying behavior, do they feel victimized and wounded, or do they see themselves as a target who can remain calm, confident, and in control? You will hear three areas related to coaching people who work with abrasive, bullying executives to survive and even thrive. Author, speaker, and Master Corporate Executive Coach Jordan Goldrich shares perspectives from the martial arts and his background as a retired Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Key-takeaways

1. Know how the brain of abrasive leaders is wired
2. Application of martial arts philosophy for dealing with a psychological attack
3. How to give feedback to people who don’t want to hear it

What is vertical development, and what might it bring to our coaching?​

Building on the work of Jean Piaget with children, Bob Kegan, Suzanne Cook Greuter, Bill Torbert, Jennifer Garvey Berger, Theo Dawson and others have considered how adults can continue to develop in how we experience and think about ourselves and the world. In this session, we’ll look at how a focus on what is often called vertical development might be applied in our coaching and what it might add to our work with individuals and teams. We will also look at the shadow side of vertical development and things we might want to watch out for.

How Leaders Get Stuck​

A discovery of what kind of leader your clients want to become and the ways they limit themselves from getting there. As leaders, we tend to make our decisions the same way every time. When we are in distress, we tend to get stuck in the same quicksand for our teams and our organizations. When leaders become frozen, the consequences to the organization, staff, productivity, profits, and workflows can be devastating. When leaders are stymied, choices for escaping the situation can be skewed and narrow, and solutions may seem non-existent. 

Key takeaways:

1. Objectives: Why is my capacity as a leader limited
2. Learning how to unleash my potential
3. Learning how to establish an aspiration to direct my goals and decisions

Subtopics:

1. “Charting a Course for Organizational Alignment and Improvement”
2. “Unleashing Organizational Potential through Leadership Enhancement”
3. “Enhancing Team Dynamics”
4. “Humanizing the Digital Revolution”

Dr. Daher’s presentation on “Reimagining Leadership” covers four subtopics for enhancing leadership and organizational effectiveness:

1. “Charting a Course for Organizational Alignment and Improvement” emphasizes aligning an organization’s goals, culture, and structure for better performance.
2. “Unleashing Organizational Potential through Leadership Enhancement” explores how leadership development programs can identify high-potential employees, boost engagement, and drive innovation.
3. “Enhancing Team Dynamics” highlights effective communication, collaboration, and trust in building high-performing teams.
4. “Humanizing the Digital Revolution” stresses the importance of leaders assessing their readiness to embrace Industry 5.0 (IR5.0) and adopting mindsets like change, learning, and customer-centricity to leverage technology responsibly and navigate the upcoming industrial revolution successfully.

Get ready to challenge the status quo! Dr. Daher’s presentation on “Reimagining Leadership” unveils four game-changing takeaways for enhancing leadership and organizational effectiveness:

1. Align your organization’s goals, culture, and structure to thrive and achieve sustainability in a constantly evolving business landscape.
2. Revolutionize your leadership development programs to identify and nurture your high-potential employees, boost employee engagement, and foster innovation in your organization.
3. Build high-performing teams through effective communication, collaboration, and trust – the secret sauce of success.
4. Gear up for Industry 5.0 (IR5.0) by embracing change, lifelong learning, and customer-centricity mindsets to leverage technology responsibly and seize opportunities presented by the next industrial revolution. Be the leader who not only survives but thrives!