This webinar has been submitted to International Coaching Federation for CCEUs.

Are you at times bewildered by some of your clients and the variety of challenges they present to you as a professional coach? Why is that, just when you think we’ve got coaching down pat, the following session seems clunky or forced? What makes for a smooth coaching session?

After meticulously analyzing 1000+ recorded coaching sessions and mentor coaching hundreds of coaches, our returning guest coach and speaker, Michael Cullen offers you his insightful observations, answers and solutions to these questions.

In this workshop, you will benefit from Michael’s in-depth experience as a professional executive coach & coach educator as you (re)discover the key components of what makes for a well-facilitated coaching session. More importantly, you will have the unique opportunity to reconsider and recalibrate your coaching approach in line with ICF’s gold standards of professional coaching as a means to truly better serve you and your clients, and to further the coaching profession itself.

Join us for a highly engaging, informative and interactive workshop where you will gain different perspectives in service of evolving your coaching knowledge, skills, and acumen.

Whether you are a new coach or a seasoned pro, this is one workshop you don’t want to miss!

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn:

• the 3 foundational components of facilitating a smooth coaching session
• how to keep themselves and their clients on track during a coaching session
• how to incorporate popular models and approaches that underpin the practice of professional coaching
• better orient the ICF definition of coaching and all 8 Core Competencies in their coaching sessions

Presenter Bio        

Michael Cullen, PCC is certified in Team Coaching, Group Coaching, Mentor Coaching, and Coaching Supervision. He is also a qualified Coaching Assessor for both ICF and AC. He currently serves as Regional Ambassador for the Association of Coaching Supervisors (AoCS), as Regional Chair for the Association for Coaching (AC), and as full-time Co-Director of the University of Toronto’s AC & ICF-accredited Rotman Executive Coaching Certificate program. A life-long learner, Michael lives, breathes, and thinks about effective coaching every day!

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This webinar has been submitted to International Coaching Federation for CCEUs.

About Tolu Akande

Tolu Akande is a personal and corporate coach, serving individuals and organizations to walk in destiny – the place where opportunity and passion meet. 

As a Professional Certified Coach accredited with International Coaching Federation, Tolu has committed his career to coaching excellence. Tolu’s coaching training focused on intercultural coaching and shaping leadership and career legacy. Tolu holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Conflict Resolution and does his best to bring a global perspective and approach to his coaching clients. 

Additionally, Tolu is the principal coach and career & executive coaching department head at a Fortune 50 company. He’s also served on many management and executive teams with a focus on leadership development and conflict resolution. Tolu allows these experiences to fuel his coaching engagements while keeping the client as the focus. 

Tolu’s goal for each coaching partnership is that leaders would experience clarity and action, like never before.

Join us for this introductory workshop to explore climate biodiversity coaching!

This interactive workshop will support you to reflect on how you and your work is embedded in the climate and biodiversity context we face on planet Earth.

We hope to spark your curiosity to find out more and to develop some next steps for your own personal and professional development and provide you with tips, tools and awareness of what the world needs from coaches and supervisors given our own and our clients’ current and future challenges.

During the session, we will explore what emotions arise in you when you think of climate change. Many coaches and coach supervisors are seeing the need to be able to support their clients as they become aware and increasingly concerned about how we as humans are treating our Earth. What are your clients facing and feeling? Are we as coaches ready to support? Have we prepared ourselves for this? We will explore how we can listen to and support our clients as we realize that our busy lives are not supporting us to look up and think longer term.

Topics we will focus on:

• Changing context of the world and what is needed for our clients
• Eco-phase cycle
• Eco-systemic mindset with practical exercise
• Eco-anxiety and building resilience including our connection to nature
• Q&A
• Please prepare any questions you have which we can cover during the session. 

Common questions may include:

• How to meet clients where they are at?
• How do we consciously and unconsciously relate to the ecology and more than human world and how does this show up in our coaching?
• Are we coaching the person in front of us or the wider system of which they are part of?
• What questions do future generations have for us today?
• What are the biggest challenges faced by our clients now and in the future which we need to resolve today?

We will provide some top tips from our experience and leave you feeling empowered when embracing the future we and our children are facing.

What to bring with you.

Your full humanity and somewhere to capture your insights and reflections.

About the facilitators

Lydia Stevens is a co-founder of Climate Biodiversity Coaching - a social enterprise specializing in coaching, supervising, training and facilitation for the transformation towards a thriving planet for all living species and future generations. Lydia has co-created and delivered Climate and Biodiversity Coaching courses for Natural England - the British Government’s adviser for the natural environment in England. She has co-designed and delivered 4 ICF accredited training courses for coaches and supervisors who would like to focus their coaching in relation to nature, climate related issues, regeneration and biodiversity. She works outdoors wherever possible either in person or on the phone walking and talking with clients around the world.

Lydia is an active member of Climate Coaching Alliance, the Royal Society of Arts and the Association for Coaching. She is an executive & leadership coach, facilitator, trainer, mother and grandmother. Before coaching, Lydia was an entrepreneur and international development consultant – she founded Triple Line Consulting in 1999, which she grew and sold to IPE Global in 2014. After three years as a board member she re-trained as an executive coach at Henley Business School to work with businesses, communities and individuals to serve people and the planet. Lydia uses her coaching skills to find the spark that we all have within us that motivates us to contribute both small and big steps to a sustainable regenerative world.

You can hear Lydia in a Coaching in the Climate Crisis podcast with Jackie Arnold, author and co-founder of Climate Biodiversity Coaching. Topics covered: Sustainability (climate and biodiversity coaching), founder-leadership transition, feminine leadership, mindset, effective conversations, trusted relationships, personal and company resilience. Lydia is based in London, UK and can coach in English and Spanish and also speaks French and some Italian.

Education

Professional certificate in executive coaching (Henley Business School) accredited by ICF, EMCC and ACMSc rural development (Colegio de postgraduados, Mexico) – distinction BSc geography and European Studies (Durham, UK and Aix-Marseille, France).

Interests: Gardening, composting and walking in nature, outdoor adventure and challenges (running, cycling, ski-touring), and volunteer work for homeless charity (Glassdoor).

Laura Wolfe is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, a member of the ICF Gulf Coast Chapter, and recently earned an ICF accredited certification through Climate Biodiversity Coaching. While completing her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Laura gained experience in both large private and government entities; after graduation, she worked as an internal consultant with a Fortune 500 company. For years, she enjoyed teaching management courses at LSU as an award-winning faculty member.

Additionally, Dr. Wolfe’s involvement with Dialogue on Race Louisiana as a participant, facilitator, and supporter has allowed her to be part of a cause she believes vital to our communities—that is, ending racism. In the same way, she sees taking action to arrest climate change as vital to our future. She coaches individuals, leaders, and people doing climate work to discover ways they can make a difference, both large and small.

Laura has coached for more than ten years around matters related to influence, difficult conversations, coaching others, self-efficacy, emotional regulation, stress, resilience, and more.

She recognizes the relevance of these qualities to individuals and leaders not only in organizations but in a world experiencing climate change. Her work is supporting the evolution of leaders, careers, and climate consciousness.

1 Core, .5 RD

Overview: In this presentation, coaches will revisit popular spiritual principles as pillars for pursuing the coach’s life despite the majority of corporations, clients, and agencies not operating by those standards. There are rules that run the Universe which are easy to be skeptical about in our five-sensory world. In this presentation, you will revisit spiritual principles that you likely hold dear but may be challenged to actively live them with the challenges your world and/or your clients’ lives present.

Laura is an award-winning coach known internationally as a pioneer in the personal coaching field. Laura is also a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, TV personality (Oprah and All National Morning Shows), corporate spokesperson, interfaith minister and performer. Her TedX talk currently boasts over 1.9 million views.

Laura’s five books are published in 13 languages. She has addressed audiences around the world on topics such as Reinvention, Career Satisfaction and Small Business as well as bringing coaching to diverse clients ranging from homemakers to celebrities and Fortune 100 companies.

She’s known for her unique career clarity “Now What?®” methodology and her A-List Coach Business Mentoring Program.

Competencies: Listens Actively, Evokes Awareness, Demonstrating Ethical Practice, Cultivating Trust and Safety, and Facilitates Client Growth.