WBECS 2018 Pre-Summit
Is Now Over

Politics plays a major role in every part of our lives. Although as coaches we like to see ourselves as above the murk of political intrigue, the reality is that we cannot avoid politics (with a small “p”), whether it is in helping our clients navigate through the complexities of organizational loyalties, the rivalries between professional bodies, or how we position our own coaching practice versus those of competitors. If we want to be authentic, we can’t be political. Yet we can’t survive without being politically aware and politically astute.

So, what does this mean for us in how we manage ourselves and our client relationships? And in how we help clients remain authentic in sometimes toxic organizational environments? What political dilemmas do coaches commonly encounter and what challenges do these provide for us? In this pre-summit webinar we shall explore all these questions and more.

Carl Jung, one of the founders of the field of psychology, developed the notion of the Shadow to represent the aspects of being human that we do not acknowledge in ourselves. Instead, we project them onto others so we do not have to face them.

While this is a normal developmental process when we are young, it becomes a challenge later in life when we need these attributes in order to mature.

This is particularly true when we face adversity, need to make new choices, and address issues related to the second half of life. This is particularly true in a time of increasing polarization, a sure sign that we are not dealing well with our Shadows at either a personal or collective level.

In this session, I will introduce the basic concepts related to the Shadow, why it is essential for our growth, how to listen for it in your client’s stories, and a coaching process to help clients reclaim their Shadow and use it in learning from and moving through adversity. This session builds on my work in putting mindfulness in motion and will enable you to help your clients do more than just cope.

What many of us have come to realize is that to work at deeper levels and on more complex issues with our clients, we need to do this work for ourselves first. In the end, we are what Henri Nouwen called “wounded healers”, and facing our own adversities has been a catalyst for starting or deepening our practice for many of us. I know this is true for me, and I want to share with you what I have learned from my journey and the thousands of others I have supported.

Many of us as coaches, who are learners by nature, take many courses, study with many people, and try to hold a lot of new insights in our brains. If we have a life long dedication to learning, we often hold information that may be blocking us from integrating new wisdom and knowledge.

This session will talk about how to identify ways to cleanse your mind to create space for new thinking and to allow the energy of transformation to find its way into your aspirations. Learn how your DNA is influenced by healthy dynamics. We will leave this session having learned the five practices that shape our DNA.

We spend our days becoming better coaches. We read the books, do the training, be part of WBECS. We polish our questions and our presence and our processes. We’re on the path towards mastery.

But a coaching relationship is a relationship. There’s another person involved. And when the coachee is good, it’s great. You finish a session and you fist-pump: I love my client, I love my job, I LOVE COACHING!

And, more times than we’d care to admit, a coaching conversation can be a little bit … meh. Not terrible, exactly. But underwhelming, somewhat ho-hum.

It’s not comfortable to admit this to yourself, and even less comfortable to admit it to the person you’re coaching. Mostly, we just cross our fingers and hope for something a little better next time.

But hope is not a strategy.

In this provocative, interactive and surprisingly enjoyable webinar, we’ll take a good look at the dark side of coaching. We’ll look at some of the ways our clients can subtly or perhaps not so subtle opt out of showing up fully, and how we as coaches can collaborate.

And we’ll share some practical ways to tackle this, in a way that serves both the coach and the person being coached.

Executives face unique pressures in their role. They are often faced with competing priorities and multiple paths forward. Reveal Your Path is a proven system for making decisions, identifying the right priorities, and maintaining balance in their lives.

How could you impact your own life and the live’s of your clients if you knew how to harness the 93% of communication that is not related to the spoken word.
We are talking about gestures, body language, tone, breath and even when you get really good.. Facial tics.

By becoming a Communications “detective” and harnessing this skillset, I have been able to produce results like this:

1. 12 Months worth of sales in just 6 weeks.
2. From Losing $750k overnight with $6 mill worth of debt to Financial freedom and $10 mill in the bank within 3 years.
3. Adding 3 Million dollars to the bottom line in just 3 months.

In our short session, I will give you some tips, to get you started in this fascinating art and science. It takes years to master. You can also begin to achieve results once you are aware of this very powerful technique.

I have built my entire coaching business around this and it is not only effortless now, it is so much fun. If you LOVE human behaviour and like to know “HOW” someone ticks then this is a presentation you will not want to miss.

By watching and observing behaviour, (gestures, tone, voice, breath) and becoming a “Human behaviour detective” whilst also finding a common “thread” through a client’s “story” or “issue” will give you a skill set second to none.

This session will focus on why objectivity in selection is important and how scientifically validated assessments reduce the error rate in hiring and drive better performance and outcomes.

We will introduce participants to current selection approaches and methodologies and describe the typical measurement error in these approaches. We will explore typical biases and errors in brain processing that predict typical errors in judgment that make objectivity in selection so difficult. We will also introduce researched approaches to improving selection accuracy as well as introduce the effectiveness of structured interviews as a means of correcting error and leading to better predictive outcomes.

A major pitfall of all coaches is to focus on the topics or problems clients bring to their sessions. When you follow this path, you might help them explore and choose options, but you don’t find the reasons the problems occurred and are difficult to solve. You coach the external problem instead of the person. As a result, the problem will show up over and over in many ways in the future. In this scenario, you act more of a guide than coach. If you instead shift to being curious as to why your smart and resourceful clients can’t figure out these solutions on their own, you will be able to discover what needs to be addressed in a way that your clients can see solutions and possibilities on their own. You expand their thinking and create more breakthrough experiences. This session will help you shift from problem solving to coaching the human in front of you. You will rapidly advance your mastery of coaching skills.

Taking on a new role, increased scope in an existing role, operating in a constantly changing competitive environment – all of these are next level situations that our executive coaching clients regularly face. What can we as coaches do to support them in these challenging transitions? Based on the research and experience behind the upcoming third edition of his book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, Scott Eblin will highlight the behaviors that executives typically need to pick up and let go of to succeed at the next level.

Drawing on the results of more than 1,000 360 degree assessments he’s run on the Next Level model of leadership presence, Scott will identify the behavioral characteristics that make high potential leaders successful in the first place and the changes they most often need to make to sustain their success. Scott will also teach you how to use some of the simple, practical and immediately applicable tools and techniques he uses with his clients.

In the full session, Scott will go deeper on all of these topics and also share the self-coaching process he teaches his clients so they can sustain their progress after the coaching engagement ends.

Personal branding is increasingly recognized as a must-have skill for every coach. It provides the sense of stability, empowerment, value-creation and recognition you need to succeed in today’s increasingly dynamic marketplace. Personal branding is about being yourself — your best self — in support of your clients and your coaching practice. In this actionable presentation, personal branding guru William Arruda takes you through his proven, three-step personal branding process so you can learn the secrets of building an authentic, unique and compelling brand. He shares powerful tips you can put into action right away so you can stand out, attract the attention of your ideal clients and grow a practice that’s aligned with your authentic self.

Being a terrific coach is one thing. Being an effective marketer or business developer for our coaching is another thing. Many coaches find building their business challenging, if not downright painful. They know what they need to do—follow up with contacts, participate in networking events, develop a website that captures the specialness of what they do and so on—but they don’t seem to be able to follow through consistently, if at all.

Any goal that is hard to achieve despite our best efforts and sincere intentions implicates some other goal that is running us, and is usually outside our awareness. In other words, without realizing it, we are brilliantly busy accomplishing goals that “have us.” Authors, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, have developed a method for bringing our hidden goals into the sunshine, the first step for succeeding with hard-to-accomplish goals. This is the “immunity to change” approach.

In Coaching or using a Coach Approach to relating, Curiosity is a foundational element in effecting the change that clients desire. Change does not happen without new thinking, new perspectives, new learning and challenging what is so. All of this is part and parcel of ‘being curious’. This conversation will explore how imperative it is for coaches to be experts at being and igniting curiosity in self and others. It will touch upon what can happen when we reignite and grow our own curiosity muscles. This will lay a foundation for the other elements of transformation that will be explored in the full conference offering of: Coaching Reimagined: Five Principles of Transforming Reality.

As the coaching profession matures, a new paradigm is calling coaches into inspired action. Individuals who have a natural gift for being on the leading edge and who walk in resonance are beginning to emerge. Catalysts who sense between the invisible and the visible, bridge builders who have the capacity to connect different paradigms, cultures and realities. Global human beings who are deeply intuitive and can sense into the gravitational pull of the future, defining new frontiers and capable of doing the deeper work that inspires sustainable change. Catalysts of risk and architects of new possibilities for ourselves and others. These are the coaches who are redefining our world one client at a time.

Are you feeling called to awaken to your full potential as a coach and a human?

In today’s fast moving, interconnected global world, coaches are awakening to a different relationship with life and business. It takes courage to evoke the unseen, to reach beyond ourselves and open to a deeper dialogue with life. The shift in human consciousness starts with heightened self-awareness and the healing and reclaiming of our whole self. This is a courageous call for coaches who want to inspire new possibilities by exploring a new and meaningful energetic paradigm that enriches the lives of those who embrace it.

To compete in today’s market economy, organizations of all sizes are making a shift from top-down, command and control structures, which have been prevalent since the turn of the century, to flatter, leaner organizations that strive for agility, collaboration, customer engagement, and transparency. This is amounting to one of the biggest business transformations since the Industrial Revolution.

In addition to streamlining brought about the macro economic climate, three other key forces are coming together to create this Social Era – technology, globalization, and cultural changes led by Millennial employees entering the workforce. This Social Era requires new skills and behaviors from all of us, as leaders, coaches and leadership development professionals.

In this session, Shannon Banks, managing director of Be Leadership and a former HR director at Microsoft, explores the historical changes that are causing the shift to the Social Era and how that is impacting workplace and leadership trends today.

Do you ever wonder how to gracefully move from a conversation to close? Do you wish you could close a higher percentage of your prospects? Do you worry you will come across as “salesy” or get anxious about maybe hearing “no?” Learn how to gracefully move an exploratory conversation to the point where someone wants to hire you and dramatically increase your close rate.

The Know-Change-Lead Equation explores questions every leader must ask her/himself in order to lead more effectively.

This program is a distillation of coaching lessons that I have used in my executive coaching practice and it is designed to help you become a more self-aware, more focused, and more engaged leader.

For a coach to stand out from his/her competitive peers, he/she must create a recognizable brand of exceptional quality and value for the intended target audience. Today, this effort is dramatically enhanced through proactive digital campaigns. This session will delineate branding into the three phases of awareness, engagement, and future market gravity and share both proven practices as well as tools such as various social networks, private communities, video blogs, and simulcast mastermind group gatherings.

Balance is baloney! Discover a better metaphor for the realities of living in a 24/7 world. Learn the power of choice and how to conduct a C.A.T. scan of your life. Develop strategies to create a life by YOUR design and not by default. A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic. Make no mistake—everyone works—whether for free or fee!

How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America’s workforce and today’s world.

While leading a team of people was never easy, the challenges the modern leader faces are extraordinary. Gone are the days of the supervisor whose job is to oversee work and focus on tracking deadlines and deliverables.

Now, the modern leader is tasked with cultivating the talents of others, without skipping a beat on their own individual contributions, all while tracking the micro-metrics, updates and notifications that come with the territory.

The modern leader is burned out, overwhelmed, and, most importantly, left without the mental space and emotional resources to do the highest value strategic and creative work that we is our passion.

In this personal and practical session, Jonathan will offer us a new way forward,.

Drawing on his personal journey as a CEO and people manager, as well as the work he does today with people managers in high-growth organizations, he’ll share the fundamentals of what he calls Good Authority, a way to think about leading people that’s based in fostering the personal growth and individual accountability of each member of the team.

Cross-cultural skills are crucial in today’s rapidly expanding global demand for coaching. Coaches serving leaders and individuals in this growing multi-cultural environment will add an important dimension to their tool kit. This introduction is lead by Coach Initiative Board member Phyllis Haynes with two other skilled facilitators Bruce Gill, and Elizabeth Miu-lan Young. They each have more than 25 years of experience in international and domestic Diversity and Inclusion work. They have coached senior executives and organizational leaders in the corporate sector, academic institutions, and non profits. They look forward to hearing questions.

Have you ever wondered why some coaching engagements are more successful than others? While the experience of coaching can be positive, not all coaching pays off.

As coaches, we are uniquely passionate about developing positive change in people. Yet, many coaches and coaching organizations resist capturing deeper, more meaningful measures of impact through traditional evaluation methods, riddled with concern that their results won’t illustrate significant financial impact.

To create maximum impact in others, we must first understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ behind what exactly leads to change. Measurement, research, and evidence reveal powerful insights illuminating the path to success.

In this session, we’ll talk in-depth about the existing research and evidenced-based approaches in behavioral science, behavior change, clinical psychology, and neuroscience that inform our thinking about what creates coaching related change. We’ll share our experience about what moves coaching from change to impact, and you’ll gain practical ideas you can immediately apply to your coaching to ensure your coaching leads to measurable impact.

Knowing what makes a difference, makes all the difference.

Building deep connections with those we influence is fundamental to the degree of impact we want to have. There are some people who just have a knack for penetrating even the hardest of human exteriors and convincing people to get past what’s familiar and do the unimaginable. Regardless of their profession, they all have one powerful thing in common. The way they connect. Known formally as “attachment,” the ways they construct genuine relationships with those they want to influence melts away natural defenses and opens others to possibility, new ideas, and ultimately, commitment to change. There are six dimensions great coaches employ to help develop genuine, healthy attachment with those they want to influence. And each of those dimensions, when over extended, has an unhealthy side. This session will explore each dimension, how to cultivate it, and look at the “dark side” of each that all of us can fell prey to.

Right now there’s an explosion of research about the brain and body. But our knowledge of this vast field – not to mention our ability to put it to use – is scant at best.

Take practical steps towards better living, stronger leadership, and more effective coaching by turning new research into applied practice. We’ll explore the neurobiology of your gut feelings and learn practical strategies to cultivate intuition in service of your own life and the lives of your clients. Come learn how to build intuitive capabilities that are as reliable and trustworthy as your intellect.

Conflict is a common shared experience. It is also a pervasive experience and it is a natural part of our lives. Conflicts can be emotionally challenging. They can trigger disempowering emotions, from fear to anger, from anxiety to withdraw. The spectrum of negative emotions we might experience in conflict are linked also to the behaviors we assume and that become our strategy to confront conflict. But not all behaviors are conducive to resolution or transformation. In this session, Aldo Civico draws on his more than 25 years of experience in international conflict resolution to show how conflict can be turned into an opportunity to increase cooperation, as well as an opportunity for personal growth. In fact, Aldo Civico, who is a master executive coach trainer and a lecturer in conflict resolution at Columbia University, has been involved in facilitating ceasefire talks and peace negotiations with armed groups in Latin America. Developing and honing skills in extreme conditions, has allowed Aldo to develop unique insights and powerful approaches for the transformation of conflict.

In particular, the session will address the following questions: how to master emotions when we face conflict? How to maintain a cooperative attitude while going through a conflict? What skills do we need to develop when we are facing conflict? And, since this is a session for coaches, the session will address the question, how can we teach others to master the skills needed to confront conflict in a constructive way?

The Dilemma. The vast majority of employees’ days are now spent working collaboratively, but still 96 percent of executives cite poor teamwork as the main source of workplace failures in their organizations. It might be the most-pressing question organizations must address: How can managers lead their teams to improved performance given the volatility and challenges we face today.

The Research. Based on an 850,000-person study of the most profitable, innovative work teams, New York Times bestselling author Chester Elton introduces his audiences to the new science of teamwork—helping leaders deal with the increased speed of change in business, global and remote employees, the rise of the Millennials, the need to work more cross-functionally across departments, and more.

One of the toughest things to do at work is to lead a team or a group when you’re not the person with formal authority. It can also be one of the most important, if the senior leaders are weak, distracted, unskillful, or conflict-avoidant.

By using a wide range of techniques and approaches from emotional grounding and team development to Commander’s intent and “Giving Yourself an ‘A’” (Zander), coaches can help clients galvanize team members to handle important work, resolve problems, and make pragmatic plans that move the business forward — even if those things are not in their job descriptions.

In our increasingly complex world, the coaches that thrive will be the true professionals who are helping their clients solve their most complex problems. We need to raise the bar for coaching and continue to articulate what it means to be a true professional.

To raise the bar we have to go much further than credentialing and ethics. It’s easy to be a “good” coach. Clients are happy with the results and the coaches feel good about their work. What’s missed is the opportunity to provide significantly more value for the client. The true professional is constantly working at the edge to improve their skill at delivering transformative results in a far more efficient way. This takes work!

Coaching has exploded worldwide; some are well-trained, and others merely added the title to their previous offerings with no apparent training or professional skills. We have others that use coaching as part of their job, however they aren’t a professional coach. If you want to thrive as a coach, you need to aim higher.

There are many trainers/marketers providing “coaching.” For them it takes little work and they can charge a lot. This is often actually individualized teaching and training. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unhappy customers who paid a lot for “coaching” that didn’t work. We need to define and distinguish ourselves.

As coaching has evolved we now see many coaches creating dependent clients. The coaching relationship starts becoming more valuable for the coach rather than the client. The true professional creates independence and autonomy and helps their clients become better learners.

In this session we’ll uncover the work needed to continually seek improvement of yourself, your practice, your offerings, and your value to your client.

Zeroing in on what she sees as the defining issue of creating a more purposeful and productive workplace, Gill explores how the science of hope theory, which derives from the medical and positive psychology communities, can shift mindsets from siloed to collaborative and productivity levels from sluggish to robust.

This presentation is not about feel-good theory or dry data. It’s an action guide informed by the thousands of people Gill has coached in both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds around the globe.

The former head of communications for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting, Gill is the founder and CEO of Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm. She has shared her success strategies on CNN, NPR, the Today Show, and in BusinessWeek, Time, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. Libby’s clients include ADP, Capital One, Cisco, Disney, Genentech, Honda, Intel, Medtronic, Microsoft, Sony, Warner Bros., Zurich Insurance, and many more.

This session will feature research from Rita McGrath’s new book on strategic inflection points. As disruptive change touches more and more parts of the economy, it is all to easy for senior leaders to become isolated and miss the critical early warnings of a major change brewing, while there is still time to mount an effective response. This discussion will offer tips and techniques that senior leaders might use to capture the early warnings and act on them.

The millennial generation and ones that follow are gifted. They are idealistic, passionate and unbelieving in limitations imposed by society on them. These generations can truly change the world we live in.

My experience is that the more gifted and successful they are, more likely they are of becoming discontent with what they achieve and themselves. Success and material benefits do not bring them the happiness they thought they would. Unlike previous generations they don’t accept this state of affairs. They rebel. They stop doing what they do when their spirits are no longer energized.

The trouble is that while they know what does not bring them happiness, they do not fully know what would bring them happiness. They are confused. Choices do not make options.

It is not only the millennials who are confused. Most of us are.

My personal discovery with several thousand clients was that we choose to imprison ourselves in a time space boundary that is defined by borrowed values.

How can the coach help confused generation clients in breaking out of this prison to realize their purpose to fulfill?

Ram talks about a mindless way of coaching that truly reflects the Eastern philosophical approach of Zen, Yoga and Tantra, in marked contrast to what is promoted as mindfulness. Ideally this session should be interactive.

Every new practice is created when the old practices in that domain cannot address emerging breakdowns or concerns. What breakdowns or concerns was coaching born to address?

We must integrate the inner aspect of human experience in our learning practices. Materialism and reductionism are leaving out the “human soul.” Learning is more than gathering information or becoming simply effective. How did we arrive here? And where can we go from here?

“The crisis created by our current level of thinking cannot be resolved with the same level of thinking.” – Albert Einstein.

Are you a fan of TED talks? Have you seen the careers of Brene Brown, Simon Sinek, Sir Ken Robinson catapult because they delivered an inspiring message that went viral? Would you like that to happen to and for you?

If so, you’ll love this session with Sam Horn, CEO of the Intrigue Agency. Sam has worked with hundreds of thought leaders on their high-stakes presentations and pitches (TEDx, SXSW, Wisdom 2.0, Google, Facebook) and has developed a secret sauce process that helps you:

* figure out what YOUR idea worth spreading is – and why it’s unique and needed
* distill your idea into an intriguing, one sentence premise that gets eyebrows up
* select a strategic title/topic that leverages your expertise and sets up your next 5 years
* develop an appealing 2 minute demo video that inspires decision-makers to choose you
* clarify the SHIFT you want your audience to make – what you want them to do differently
* draft a 100 word description that stands out and helps get your topic selected

Even though you already have a thriving career; a brilliant short talk can be the single best thing you do to scale your success and leverage your influence – for good.

From zoom, to WebEx, to Skype, increasingly, our clients and ourselves are exploring the power and reach of virtual conversations. Unfortunately, many are jaded by inefficient conference calls, and tech issues which have led the notion that virtual calls need to be a “one way” download of too much information! It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, virtual calls today can feel as if we are all in the same room, imbued by similar trust and connection.

Join Effective Virtual Conversations author, Jennifer Britton, for this WBECS pre-summit session where we will explore several key ingredients for creating a more engaging virtual conversation – whether you are leading a virtual team or group coaching session, or you are looking to launch your first webinar.

During the session we will also explore two essential techniques for making your session more engaging and participant-centered. Finally, we’ll explore a series of questions to consider when setting people up for success virtually (yourself included!). Incorporating more virtual conversations supports scale of business and expanding your reach – two related topics I’ll be exploring in my Full WBECS session “Expanding Your Reach – Team and Group Coaching”.

Leadership in the twenty first century is less about dominating a market place or exercising authority over others. In a world ramped up by technology that moves businesses in non-linear paths, leaders are required to continually function at warp speed and deliver results.

In this environment coaching will need to take a completely different and compelling approach that is aligned to support leadership deliver high performance. Coaching in the future is all about helping leaders to develop a heightened level of self-awareness improve their skills of critical thinking, learn the management of paradoxes and create their own personal philosophy,

Coaches will need to further their learning of the existing frameworks, models, processes and competencies that were largely derived from an eclectic mix of subjects like positive psychology, philosophy, spirituality and so on. While these subjects provide tremendous insights, the future of coaching demands that we move beyond supporting the individual’s personal and professional growth and support the leader in creating an engaged and high performing workforce with a commitment to higher social responsibility and community consciousness.

Great leaders bring about transformation by applying leverage, at the right place in the right manner and at the right time. Coaching can show leaders how to apply leverage and create an atmosphere of trust and self- belief that helps others to overcome the limitations that they have set for themselves, increase the emotional well-being of their communities and gets them to perform at their best.

In a world where most coaches solve their client’s ‘problems’, it’s a rare and high-level coach who is able to coach extraordinary top performers.

Rich Litvin has over a decade of experience in taking high achievers to the greatest level of success. His clients include Olympic athletes, CEOs, Special Forces operatives and serial entrepreneurs. One of his clients is currently selling her company for a billion dollars, another is raising $100 million to transform the future of work.

In this session, Rich will introduce you to the power of Deep Coaching and exponential thinking. You will learn how to coach clients who are more successful than you, wealthier than you, and more intelligent than you!

You will leave this session with a deep understanding of how to coach extraordinary top performers. Rich will teach you the five elements of Deep Coaching and you will be ready to apply one key distinction from each in your very next coaching session. And Rich will introduce you to a tool to assess your coaching and 10X its impact.

Learn how business and executive coaches are utilizing the latest innovations in neuroscience and behavioral analytics to optimize leadership and team behavior to improve bottom line results

Your client wants to be a great boss–a place where people want to work. But they also have tight budgets, looming deadlines and product to ship. The two often seem at odds, but it doesn’t need to be that way. According to Whitney Johnson’s proprietary research around disruption, each of us, including you, is on an S or individual learning curve. While every organization is a collection of those individual S or learning curves. In this session, Whitney will explain how to identify where people are on their current learning curve, how to lead them along that curve, and at the appropriate time, to disrupt themselves and jump to a new S curve. As your clients allow, encourage, even require their people to learn, leap and repeat, not only will sales increase and margins expand, your client will become a boss people want to work for–a boss people love.

The rapidly changing business environment and upcoming disruptive technologies require the leaders of business world to become more agile. Mentoring systems supported by executive coaching practices are an efficient way to sustain a corporate culture resilient enough to sustain a desired work environment. In this session we will be talking about the current disruptive technologies, and how coaching and mentoring help us getting prepared for the future of work.

Shirzad’s New York Times bestselling book Positive Intelligence offers a breakthrough Saboteur Assessment framework based on research with 300,000 people from more than 50 countries. Thousands of coaches use this free online assessment to quickly focus their client work on areas that would deliver lifechanging benefits immediately, often within the very first session.

The assessment takes less than 5 minutes to produce a bar chart representing the relative strengths of 10 Saboteurs: Judge, Controller, Victim, Stickler, Avoider, Restless, Pleaser, Hyper-Vigilant, Hyper-Rational, and Hyper-Achiever. The Saboteur descriptions illuminate each Saboteur’s lies, limiting beliefs, negative emotions, and devastating impact on our happiness, relationships, performance and effectiveness.

In this engaging WBECS session you will learn how to use the free Saboteur Assessment to either attract new clients, or deliver lifechanging value to existing clients within just one session.

Imagine a consistent steady flow of warm inbound leads for your business. With all the free tools that are widely available today that dream is more possible than ever before. However, there is a lot of bad advice out there and a lot of people teaching things that they haven’t actually done themselves. In this program, New York Times bestselling author and 8-Figure Entrepreneur, Rory Vaden, shares a content creation system and process that you can use in just minutes a day to build your personal brand and raise your public profile. If you follow this proven checklist you will be able to automate much of the promotion and prospecting work to get your name in front of new clients. Don’t miss out on the power to exponentially grow your business – register now.

Annie McKee’s session, Becoming a Resonant Leader, will enable you to delve deeply into emotional intelligence–what it is, why it’s important, and how to develop it in yourself and others. Annie will take you through a journey of discovery, looking at the world as it is now, and why we need to completely change how we think about management, leadership and work. She will not only help you to focus your attention on your coaching skills, but also on your own leadership, your own power to influence people and the world positively.

What is “whole Intelligence”? Every executive and life coach realises that for coaching sessions to be successful, both coaches and coachees (whether individuals or teams) need to draw upon a whole variety of different skills, attributes, abilities, and understandings, and demonstrate constructive features of their personalities at the same time. They arrive all together and interact with one another in complex ways that make for unique configurations. I describe in this talk how a holistic approach is necessary and can be rigorous and practical, despite being mostly impossible to quantify. Working towards greater Whole Intelligence offers coaching a radically different perspective – providing an essential grounding for promoting effective work relationships and successful systemic interventions. I shall introduce five dimensions of Whole Intelligence: Responding to the Situation, Interrelating, Embodying, Self-Recognising, and Experimenting, and show how they are all necessary, interdependent, with each area of competence and capability requiring the other four dimensions to be ‘in play’. In particular, all are necessary in managing complex situations, handling of sensitive issues of ethics and values, and in handling ‘difficult moments’ with assurance. The emphasis will be on practical steps that coaches can take in their own development of Whole Intelligence, as well as in the lives of their coachees. The background thinking for this approach is contained in my book: Future Sense: Five Explorations of Whole Intelligence for a World That’s Waking Up.

Coaching invariably involves making changes – or innovating. Innovation so often involves risk, be it financial, reputational, emotional or physical. So how are you, your team and your clients with risk?

How we relate to risk affects our innovative potential in every area of our life – including coaching. Risk is an integral part of living a human life. Everyday we make assessments about the relative risk of doing one thing rather than another – and so do our clients.

It’s useful if you have some way of calibrating and deciding what’s appropriate. That’s why I created the Risk Continuum.

Risk is a reality of our lives. It is real and it is also a mind-set. How we engage with both dimensions will affect our own and our clients’ potential. Whether we’re talking about an individual, a team or an organization we need to distinguish between being out of our comfort zone versus being scared versus being at risk.

Some people are simply risk averse. With organisations this often correlates with concern about litigation and culpability. Then there is the more nuanced risk avoidance aimed at minimising risk by avoiding as much of it as possible. However, there is a third way. I call it risk awareness. Here your actions constitute experiments which you learn from. Here there is no such thing as failure, only feedback, which can then feed forward and help you improve future performance.

These different mindsets have distinct neurological signatures as they trigger activity in different parts of the brain. Not surprisingly risk aversion and to a lesser extent avoidance trigger amygdala activity. At its most acute this is associated with fearfulness, anxiety and distress. By contrast risk awareness involves the more dispassionate assessing associated with the pre-frontal cortex.

You and your clients can learn to move along the Risk Continuum. I want to show you how.

Carole will share an introduction into two of the most insightful new tools available to make more of a difference with your coaching clients – Neuro-agility and Motivational Mapping.


Neuro-agility: helps people do things Simpler, Better, Faster – they improve their performance by Being More Neuro-agile. People who are neuro agile have the flexibility to learn new skills, attitudes and behaviours faster and more easily. Coaches can learn how to boost brain fitness by accelerating the 6 drivers of brain agility and leveraging the 7 factors that make up a person’s unique neurological design, which dramatically improves their performance, productivity and wellness.

Motivational Mapping helps people ignite the Fire Within to Boost Engagement, Performance and Happiness


How many of your clients really know what motivates them?


Carole will explain the roots of motivation and help you to understand your own and your client’s motivational drivers. This has far-reaching implications for energising ourselves as well as step-changing the impact a coach can have when they know the motivational hot buttons of their coachees – relighting the fire within.

Coaches have long debated the extent to which it is appropriate to focus on emotion. Skeptics worry that too much attention to emotion encroaches on the professional territory of psychotherapy. Proponents, on the other hand, argue that it is impossible to tackle goals or motivation without some attention to emotion. In this presentation, we will discuss major theories of emotion and how they might effectively inform coaching. In particular, we will address:

— Common myths and biases regarding emotion
— The function of emotion
— The relation of emotion to self-defeating behaviors

This session is about the practice of evolutionary coaching—what every coach, caring professional and human resources manager needs to know to support the full emergence of their client’s or employee’s potential.

At the core of the theory of human psychological development are two ideas: first, we grow and evolve in stages, and second, each stage has its own specific needs. What motivates us at any moment in time is the satisfaction of the needs of the stage of psychological development we have reached—our primary motivation, and the satisfaction of the needs of the stages of psychological development we have passed through where we still have unmet needs—our secondary motivations.

For whatever reason, and for whatever period of time the unmet needs from the earlier stages of our development predominate over our primary needs, we become arrested in our development: While our conscious awareness is taken up with satisfying our secondary motivations, we cannot focus on our primary motivation.

The job of the evolutionary coach is to help their clients prevent this from happening; and if it does, to support their clients in refocusing on their primary motivation by teaching them how to overcome or master their unmet needs and help them build new neural pathways.

Based on the Book: Evolutionary Coaching: A Values-based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential by Richard Barrett

Connie’s session on influence is unlike any other. Influence is not about how to get what you want by manipulating others. It’s not about shallow, sneaky, short-term persuasion tactics that can blow up in your face and ruin relationships. Instead, Connie will reveal a higher state that anyone can use to make their greatest contributions to the world: The state of Influence 360.

When you reach this level of influence, you have the ability to change minds, behavior, and outcomes for lasting results. You earn commitment, not mere compliance. People trust your judgment, respect your opinion, and seek you out for help on important decisions.

True influencers don’t play the game, they change the game. Even when conditions are challenging, communication is collapsing, and people are difficult. Connie’s Influence 360 session is deeply substantive, highly interactive, and entertaining.

Neuroscience research has begun to ‘connect the dots’ on how the brain works and how brain functioning supports both conscious and unconscious thought processes. With this newfound knowledge, we are beginning to understand the power of unconscious bias and its impact on behavior, decision-making and interpersonal dynamics. It is important for coaches to be knowledgeable about unconscious bias, since its impact—and fallout—is part of our daily life.

In this highly interactive webinar, participants will learn about the two basic systems that link biases to decision making, and how unconscious bias operates in the brain. We will discuss what coaches need to know to identify and work on the gap between a client’s intentions – and their actual behavior.

A young black manager in south Africa described executive coaching as “ Very expensive personal development for the highly privileged.” This talk will show how Systemic Coaching is focused on the coach and coachee working together to deliver value not only to themselves but all the stakeholders that the coachee’s work serves. It will explore how to engage, contract and coach to maximise the benefit for the coachee, the people they lead, their team, their colleagues, the wider organisation and the organisation’s stakeholders.

There is a great deal written about decision making. The purpose of this session is to not to focus on decision-making techniques, but rather, focusing on how a coach can help themselves and their coachees determine the best decision to make. It is about how to determine the best decision to focus on that will provide the highest impact for both the coach and the coachee. It will enable the coach to help the coachee to disaggregate complex problems and make their crisis more solvable and make the changes necessary more attainable.

This session will focus on how leaders are changing today and what coaches need to do to help them become more authentic, starting with their life stories and their crucibles, and how coaches can help them discover their True North. It will then focus on the areas of coaching and development required for them to become authentic leaders: Self-awareness/EQ, practicing your values, finding your Sweet Spot, building a support team, leading an integrative life, the journey from I to We, and knowing your leadership purpose.