Breakout Presentations and Presenter Bios
Akin, Michelle; Technology: The Death (& Rebirth) of Intimacy
In our current technologically focused world, we are offered an infinite number of ways to connect with people around the globe. Consequently, we also have a infinite number of ways to cut ourselves of from heart to heart connection with our clients. In this talk, Michelle Akin, PCC, will explore the ways in which technology could be the death of intimacy, and how we as coaches and trainers can leverage technology for deeper intimacy with ourselves and our clients.
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Michelle Akin is a Professional Certified Coach in private practice, as well as a Program Leader in the Accomplishment Coaching Life Coach and Leadership Training Program. With a background in video production, improv and sketch comedy, and music, she works primarily with clients in creative industries. She is also a new Mom with a gorgeous baby girl, and plans for more on the way!
Bolton, Nick; Towards Transformational Dialogue: Coaching as a Response to the Human Condition
Towards Transformational Dialogue: Coaching as a Response to the Human Condition will explore both the intellectual roots and the emerging future of coaching as a truly transformational space for asking and answering age-old questions around personal meaning. What were once questions for the intellectual elite are now firmly a part of most people’s experience of life in a time when most basic needs are met.
The workshop will ask what it means to be human and how coaching as a form of transformational dialogue can create a space of radical unknowing that allows for each individual to make sense of life their own way free from preconfigured frameworks of meaning. It will explore how previously “high-brow” debates and movements such as postmodernism, social-constructionism and more, have shaped the norm for how we think about life issues and have created the conditions for what are both deeply individual and collective responses that must be personally navigated.
The workshop will create its own space for participants to think about how coaching is a response to what it means to be human in the 21st century with the epistemologies and ontologies that are dominating our ways of thinking in the west.
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Nick Bolton is an educational entrepreneur, transformational coach, coaching supervisor, long-distance cyclist and Netflix lover! As the founder and CEO of Animas Centre for Coaching, Nick’s vision is to help redefine coaching as a response to what it means to be human in the 21st century and he believes that coaching is simply the current state of the art for asking ourselves what it means to live well. He is passionate about helping people and organisations have courageous conversations and his long term mission is to create one of the world’s largest transformational education companies of which Animas Centre for Coaching is but the first.
URL: https://www.animascoaching.com
Curnow, Karen & Terence Maltbia; Examining our Cultural Roots to Transform Our Schools
The dynamics of power, privilege, rank and culture (PPRC) have a profound effect on how coach training and coaching are delivered, where they are delivered, and how they are received. Brought to you by the Power & Culture Summit team, this segment puts a spotlight on the dynamics of PPRC and on how to recognize and evolve beyond the cultural roots that helped bring us to where we are today – as individuals and as schools. You will explore and acknowledge the impact of the sources of your cultural programming personally and as an organization (considering racial, ethnic, professional, and many other sources), recognize the lenses and frameworks those sources provided/created, and acknowledge their impact on your current ways of thinking, curriculum, faculty demographics, student make-up, and more. This will be a rich and transformative exploration as you learn from the experiences of others as well. You will walk away with new awareness, immediate actions, and longer-term steps you can take to help your school evolve beyond its history and contribute to the transformation of your program and our profession to ensure we serve all students and clients.
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KAREN J. CURNOW, MBA, MCC, www.compass-international.com. Compass International Founder Karen Curnow is an internationally recognized authority in developing powerful, compassionate leaders. Her work with senior executives, managers, teams, and coaches supports world changers in creating impact that matters. Having worked and lived in France, Turkey, Kenya, Austria, and the USA, Ms. Curnow has served as executive and team coach, consultant, university professor, and training director. Ms. Curnow serves on the faculty of Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching program, was selected by the United Nations as a certified coach and leadership consultant, and is an assessor for the International Coach Federation. Committed to supporting innovators with global impact, Karen also coaches TED Fellows and Fellows from Starting Bloc and the Unreasonable Institute.
Dr. Terrence E. Maltbia, http://www.tc.columbia.edu/coachingcertification/. Terry received a B.S. in Business Administration from Ohio State University followed by a 20-year corporate career in industrial sales, sales management, corporate employment, sales training, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. He worked for 2 consulting firms (sales effectiveness and process improvement) prior to joining the faculty at Columbia University, earned a master’s in organizational psychology, followed by a doctorate in adult learning and leadership, both from Columbia. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on strategic learning; integrated leadership (i.e., emotional, social, & cultural); cognitive, social, and behavioral neurosciences to inform professional coach education and evidence-based practices. He is the recipient of AHRD’s Dissertation of the Year for his award- winning diversity practitioner research.
Deaton, Ann; When Either/Or Won’t Do: How Coaching Leverages the Productive Tension of Both/And Thinking for Sustainable Impact
- Which is better-to support your coaching clients, OR to challenge them?
- Is it preferable to listen to what is said in a coaching session, OR to what goes unsaid?
- In effective coaching, does the client gain awareness OR take action?
- To enable coaches to make a solid living, should coach training programs focus on teaching coaching skills OR on teaching students to build a sustainable business?
If you find yourself responding “Well, it depends” or “Actually, it’s both”, you are experiencing the importance of Polarity Thinking, when it comes to effective coaching.
Polarities are interdependent pairs such as Support and Challenge, Self and Other, Awareness and Action. They are all those places where we, and our clients, experience tension that cannot be resolved by choosing one and neglecting the other. Either choice is right and, by itself, either is also insufficient to generate sustainable results. In this session, we will engage with the ICF core coaching competencies, noticing the inherent polarities, such as Structure and Flexibility, in the coaching process. Together, we will map several key polarities and identify next steps for leveraging polarity thinking in our work as coaches, as teachers, and as representatives of the coaching profession.
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Ann V. Deaton, PhD PCC is a leadership and team coach. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with specializations in neuropsychology and health psychology, and, after her first career in health care, completed her coach training through Newfield Network. She founded DaVinci Resources in 2003, and co-founded The Bounce Collective in 2009. Ann focuses on coaching individuals, teams, and groups who are experiencing significant change and growth. She is experienced with assessment tools including the Leadership Circle 360 and specialized approaches including Polarity Thinking, C-IQ, and The Empowerment Dynamic. Ann serves as faculty for The University of Texas at Dallas Executive Coach Training Program and is co-author of Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching from the Inside. www.wecanbounce.com
Espinal, Elena; Beyond Coaching: Thinking of our Future
Coaching is clearly oriented to create a future that is not a continuation of the past, and expresses a new understanding of human beings. Competences helped us in the ability of training coaches, and probably this will not be enough . What if we think together in developing more a “being”, and “observer” more flexible to inhabit a future that will not be a continuation for the past?
Let´s talk together about developing Sensitivities that could help us and our trainees in being coaches that can play as partners in the creation of the future, being more consistent with our existentialist paradigm of origin, instead of continuing in the same Cartesian model, where we are trying to adapt a profession that is an expression of the possibility of change and transformation.
Repeating Fernando Flores phrase: This is our challenge today, or we can finish being “cheap Psychologists” listening for solving what is in front of them, instead of opening new worlds for Humanity.
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Dr. Elena Espinal (PhD)(MCC), has 30 years of experience as an organizational coach, a Doctorate in Dentistry, a Master in Pathology, a Researcher, Master in Human and Organizational Development, Lic. In Psychology with deep knowledge in Ontological Coaching, Philosophy, Systemic Coaching, Positive Psychology and teams performance, and is an outstanding speaker,.
She founded the first School of Coaching through the Secretary of Education in Argentina and the Mastery in Organizational Human Development with Coaching training in the University of London (Mexico).
Elena has worked with diversity and has created Coaching con Vision, where blind coaches are formed and can work in organizations. She has worked in the 5 continents with Fortune 500 companies, Governments and NGO´s.
Fridjhon, Marita; Addressing Complementary Topics : “Shifting from the speed of change to the speed of evolution
The profession of coaching has its roots in multiple disciplines. Over time it set a new standard for the integration of relevant material and experiences from different professions into a body of work uniquely serving individual and systemic growth.
With so much research currently focusing on the speed of change and upheaval as a daily reality, it has become challenging – even in coaching – to focus on “being” rather than doing. In corporate and executive work, performance, and ability to deal with upheaval, has become key goals. Once again we are challenged to think out of the box, to lift the gaze beyond the obvious research that we all are familiar with. Where else might there be relevant information to create from? To quote Dr. Marshall Goldsmith “what got us here, won’t get us there”
This session will pull together research from longevity studies, animal research on ‘pecking order’, studies on isolation and increase in suicide statistics, top challenge themes in leadership and more, to gather new insights. When looking at these widely varying fields of research a remarkable theme of challenge and solution emerges. From that we can, and will, build new practices and approaches in real time, to shift from the speed of change and step into invitation of the speed of evolution.
Participants will leave with new data, provocative challenges, relevant new approaches and tools and a different sense of what is possible – and needed not only in their practices – but for this profession
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Marita is a coach and mentor to clients in a variety of fields globally. She is co-author of the ICF-accredited Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™) program, and CEO of CRR Global Inc.
Raised in South Africa during the Apartheid era, Marita has dedicated her career to systemic evolution and operationalizing complex theories into user-friendly tools and strategies. With degrees and training in Clinical Social Work, Community Development, Process Work, Family Systems Therapy and Alternative Dispute Resolution, she brings not only considerable knowledge but also a deep understanding of Systemic Evolution in cross cultural environments.
Marita is a popular public speaker, business consultant, master curriculum designer, and continues to hold a small practice of coaching teams and partnerships.
Hutchins, Erin and Michael; The Coaching Maturity Model: Where are you on your coaching journey?
Where are you in your coaching journey? This session will explore the coaches’ developmental journey. Whether you are just starting out as a coach, looking to become more coach-like or already a seasoned coach this session applies to you. We will explore the different coaching maturity phases of how coaches progress and grow. We will look at the process behind shifting from a problem solving and advising mindset to a coaching mindset. We will discuss what research and neuroscience tell us around the learning process and highlight key takeaways for what you need to know. This presentation will help you or your organization assess your coaching journey and explore best practices as well as practical, fun ways to apply your learning.
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Erin Hutchins- PCC, CPCC
Erin is an executive coach, trainer and organizational consultant who support’s leaders and organizations to act with greater purpose, authenticity, and impact. Through coaching, consulting, and leadership development, Erin helps organizations achieve alignment, clarity, and organizational health. Erin has trained over thousands of individuals to become certified coaches. She has designed and executed large scale coaching programs with Fortune 100 companies, the Federal Government 
and humanitarian organizations. Prior to entering the field of coaching and development, Erin was a change and organizational consultant for PwC and for the Federal Government. She has delivered coaching and leadership programs in North America, Europe, and Asia. Find us here: www.actleader.com
Mike Hutchins, PCC, CPCC
Mike has over 20 years consulting, training and coaching experience with large professional services organizations. He qualified as a Certified Professional Coach through CTI and ICF and has worked with over 100 clients from leading international organizations. He co-created an ACSTH coaching certification program, “Leadership and Performance Coaching” which is being delivered across a number of organizations including 500 leaders in the federal government. The program extends to a team coaching and leader as coach program, working with individual leaders and groups to develop their range and impact. Mike is also a CPA, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, with over 20 years consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies. Find us here: www.actleader.com
Larson, John; Using Technology for Materially Better Coaching Outcomes
Unless applied in earnest, coaching devolves to little more than some really good ideas that soon fade from memory: feel good insights that make no difference.
In this session we’re going to look at the very real and human problem of what it is to make space in one’s life to act upon coaching received
No matter how skillful the listening, how great the material, and how brilliant the co-creation of insights during coaching sessions, we’ll explore how structures to support the coachee BETWEEN those sessions are often what make the pivotal difference. In doing so we’ll unearth distinctions and best practices in an oft ignored area of coach training: how to design and set in motion structures that better assure coachee success.
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John Larson is the founder and creator of CoachAccountable, an online platform focused primarily on making coaching intrinsically more effective and the experience of being coached more satisfying. His fundamental aim with the platform is to leverage technology to elevate the coaching industry as a whole, making it more widely understood and appreciated in the general public by being both more tangible and more demonstrably results based.
https://www.coachaccountable.com
Rutledge, Hile; Demand for EQ is rising – are you ready?
Emotional intelligence (EQ) continues to be a key differentiator in today’s leaders, teams and organizations. The need for these skills is in demand today and growing even in the face of changing demographics, automation, more rapid communication and the proliferation of technology in all aspects of our lives. How can coach trainers prepare their students to support their corporate clients as the demand for EQ coaching increases? In this interactive workshop participants will explore the need and value of emotional intelligence for the workforces of today and the future. Participants will also participate in interactive exercises they and their coaching students can use to explore and introduce the value of EQ to leaders and teams. The EQ-i2.0, the world’s leading emotional intelligence assessment, and its application to coaching and training will be introduced to explain how to use assessments for greater learning impact and sustainability with coaching leadership clients.
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Hile Rutledge is an experienced organization development consultant, trainer, executive coach, author, and public speaker with a background in management, sales, adult education and leadership development.
Hile Rutledge is President and Principal Consultant at Otto Kroeger Associates (OKA), a leading training consulting, and publishing firm. His primary area of expertise is the establishment and exercise of self-awareness leading to greater communication, decision making, leadership and team performance.
Among the tools/approaches in which Hile specializes are the EQ-i2.0 (Emotional Intelligence), the Pearman Personality Integrator, the MBTI assessment (Psychological Type) and generational cohort theory (using his book, Generation Translation). Hile is active in the coach training space – training thousands of coaches in his career. He has a MSOD from American University and is best-selling author in the field of Personality Type.
Zampella, Tony; Listening for Future: Bringing a generous dose of nothing to coaching
Listening is the ultimate commitment to our roots, our practice, and our future.
- Speaking cannot say what listening is.
- What isn’t said, cannot be said, as it cannot be heard.
So then, what is listening?
Mostly, listening is seen as a process beginning with not speaking and then capturing what others have said. At its fullest, however, listening consists of a radical openness of mind, heart, and will that expands awareness of self, focuses attention on others, and generates meaning from a deeper intention.
With the generative power of listening we tune into emerging futures: to what’s happening and emerging in ways that guides questions, shapes observations, and engages conversations for possibility. Such deep listening requires a new relationship to who we are as humans.
This workshop will present a framework to help clarify different levels of listening such as Apprentice, Expert, Professional, Master and Co-Creator. It presents an ontological inquiry into frames and offers contemplative practices for observing and cultivating future in your listening, as well as observing and expanding the listening of your clients.
Participants will leave with greater appreciation of this territory in your life and a framework to observe (practice) listening in your clients.
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Anthony V. Zampella is an educator, activist, leadership coach, writer, and researcher in the field of adult learning and leadership development. His work presents an eclectic fusion of Western business models, generative learning methods, language-action theory, and contemplative practices.
His firm, Zampella Group, is a pioneer in “first-person learning,” which cultivates insight and perceptions to alter mindsets and develop leadership cultures. Tony integrates Western knowledge and Eastern wisdom and practices to explore the connections between language, listening, and learning to cultivate leadership.
Tony’s blog, Learning Curve, presents ideas and practices that connect learning, listening and leading. He serves on the Editorial Board of “The Philosophy of Coaching, an International Journal,” and can be reached at www.zampellagroup.com
Keynote Presentations and Presenter Bios