April 22, 2024 
11:30am - 1:00pm ET

CCEUs - TBD

In this engaging roundtable discussion, participants will have the opportunity to openly discuss their strengths and challenges in cultivating relationships with corporate clients. Attendees will leave with concrete, actionable steps to further develop their professional practice. Our focus is on fostering a marketing and discovery approach that emanates from a service-oriented mindset, ensuring alignment with the values integral to coaching practices.

Participants will:

1) network with other coaches and build valuable colleague relationships

2) investigate their relationship with marketing and sales

3) practice creating and maintaining agreements with potential corporate clients

4) learn how to create new relationships that lead to increased business in their coaching practice

5) learn how to use market research to cultivate compelling corporate offerings

Host - Marie Deveaux,
Founder and CEO High Tides Consulting
Instructional Designer and Coach

Marie Deveaux is an executive leadership coach whose mission is to magnify the voices and agency of women and minorities in their workspaces.

Marie started her career in Americorps, serving youth in under-served communities. That led her to a robust career in education and management which eventually led her to the Director of Training and Development position at one of the largest charter school networks in New York City.Marie has brought her training and inclusive workshop interventions to companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, WPP, the 4As, Rocketship Education, Spotify, KIPP New Jersey, and the Ford Foundation.

You spoke, we listened!

Our members have told us that they want to engage

with each other via book clubs.

Join us for our first book club of the year on April 24 at 5pm ET, 

hosted by Pamela Maxson, PhD, MCC, President of ICF Raleigh Area.

We will discuss Quit by Annie Duke.

Click here to learn more about the book.

Facilitator and HEC SIG Co-Founder | Rebekah Layton, PhD, CMC, PCC

Target Audience: Anyone who is interested in coaching credentialing and education

Admission: free 

Contact information: rlayton@unc.edu

ICF RALEIGH AREA CHAPTER NEW MEMBER

HOST: Denise Stewart, Membership Chair

WHERE: Triangle Park area 

Our new member orientation is for individuals who have recently joined ICF RAC. It serves the purpose of welcoming new members, providing them with essential information, and helping them get acquainted with the chapter and its members. Here's some of what we will discuss - 

• Welcome and Introduction

• Chapter Overview

• Membership Benefits

• Chapter Activities and Events

• Chapter Resources

• Meet and Greet

• Q&A Session

We are excited to host Coach Connect for 2024. Our host this month will be Raquel Silva. 

Are you looking for connections with your coaching colleagues?

Bring your lunch and questions to this month's event, engage with other members, and  help to shape this space for this year .

Calling All Coaches and Coaches-to-Be! We invite you to join us each month to participate in 'getting to know you' conversations, meet your Board members.This month we will focus  on  what you want to see happening at Coches Connect for the rest of the year. 

Registration Fees:

This event is free and open to Members, Affiliates, Partners and Guests. Registration is required. 

Please contact us if you have any questions. admin@icfraleigh.org

ICF RALEIGH AREA CHAPTER NEW MEMBER

HOST: Denise Stewart, Membership Chair

WHERE: Zoom

Our new member orientation is for individuals who have recently joined ICF RAC. It serves the purpose of welcoming new members, providing them with essential information, and helping them get acquainted with the chapter and its members. Here's some of what we will discuss - 

• Welcome and Introduction

• Chapter Overview

• Membership Benefits

• Chapter Activities and Events

• Chapter Resources

• Meet and Greet

• Q&A Session

Your happiness and success depend on your working relationships. The people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients. But the hard truth is this: most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance. We say “Hi,” exchange pleasantries, hope for the best, and immediately get into the work. Soon (sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes minutes), the first cracks appear. A misunderstanding. An expectation not met. A low-grade irritation. A random act of weirdness. Different ways of seeing the world or getting things done. A flare-up under stress. Every relationship becomes suboptimal at some point, whether it’s a good one that goes off the rails or one that was poor from the start. When suboptimal happens, most of us don’t know what to do about it. We blame them, or ourselves, or the universe (or maybe all three). We get all the feelings: sad, let down, irritated, frustrated. But mostly we are resigned to the fact that this is what happens: relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre. Carry on. You will leave with a renewed optimism about the quality of their working relationships, a determination to actively manage them, and a plan to get things started.

Michael Bungay Stanier is best known for his book The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling book on coaching this century and is considered a classic. His most recent book is How to Work with (Almost) Anyone. It shows how to create psychological safety by building the Best Possible Relationship with key people at work. He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that has trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like in organizations from Microsoft to Gucci. He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University … where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian … which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. He recently won the coaching award from Thinkers50, known as “the Oscars of management”.

This event requires TWO registrations. You will need to register on ICF RAC (here) website and pay. Once you have registered and paid you will receive an email to register for the second time to receive the actual link to the event. Do not delay in registering the second time. The seats are limited and the event is expected to sell out.

Click here to learn about our facilitators

Who should join? 

Expected group outcomes:

Schedule: 

Logistics:

Date: every other Thursday, May 16 through Thursday, August 8

Time: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Location: Zoom

CCEUs - TBD

Registration Fees: 

Q1 Membership Meeting and Speaker Event: 

June 14, 2024 
11:00am - 1:00pm ET

CCEUs - 2 TBD

Board of Director updates 11:00- 11:30; speaker from 11:30 - 1:00pm

Presenters: Kimberly Eastman Zirkle and Tracy Jenkins from UNC Health 

Topic: Building a Coaching Culture in Organizations: Opportunities to Expand Your Business

Description: Explore the stages of maturity involved in building a coaching culture within an organization and how knowing this can help you expand your business. More specifically, you will learn how 1:1 coaching, the training of coaches internally and the acquisition of coaching skillsets can grow in delivery and useability over time. A case study of how UNC Health has been building a coaching culture will be used as an example of one way organizations mature their use of coaching practices.

Three outcomes realized:

• Gained an understanding of the stages of maturity of organizational coaching practices in building a coaching culture.
• Developed collaborative partnerships for the expansion of your business with the focus on how you can help businesses enhance their coaching culture.
• Created initial plan for offering services to organizations at various maturity stages.

Bio:

Tracy Jenkins Bio 

Tracy is the Program Manager of Building a Coaching Culture and an Executive Coach at UNC Health. As Program Manager, she develops strategy and leads programs to expand coaching in the organization. At UNC Health, Tracy supervises the International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentialed and certified coaches and communicates the value of coaching, its use and how to access it to leaders. As an executive coach, Tracy works with executives and leaders to foster self-discovery in a thought-provoking and creative process designed to address specific goals in order to achieve personal and professional fulfillment. She helps leaders recognize their unique ability for self-awareness and their power to increase authentic engagement. Through working with her, leaders develop skills to take bold action toward achieving personal, team and organizational goals with integrity and responsibility.

Tracy received her coach training through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC) and is an ICF professional certified coach (PCC), currently working to become a master certified coach (MCC). She is also a certified executive coach (XCC) and inclusion coach (CIC). Tracy is a former president of the ICF Raleigh Chapter.

Kimberly Eastman Zirkle  Bio 

Kimberly is an Executive Coach and Co-founder of Building a Coaching Culture at UNC Health. Credentialed through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), she is passionate about building trusting, thought-provoking partnerships which enable self-awareness, discovery, and actions that lead to increased personal and professional fulfillment. Having developed the original Executive Transition Onboarding program, she frequently coaches executive new hires and those moving into roles of increased responsibility. She understands the challenges and rewards of developing and leading high performing teams, while climbing the corporate ladder, and striving for resilience and balance in one’s personal life.

After receiving her master’s degree, Kimberly completed her professional certified coach training through Duke Integrative Medicine before becoming credentialed by ICF. Additionally, she is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a Certified Inclusion Coach (CIC) and holds a leadership certificate from the Wharton School of Business. She is currently working toward becoming a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through ICF.

The Triumph of Hope over Experience

Mastermind Series (4 sessions)

Session 1 – July 15^th. 4:30pm – 6pm

Hope is not wishing, strength is not physical, you have more courage – and so do your clients – than you believe, and curiosity is a source of coaching skill and a red flag.

Hope is often confused with wishing, thinking things will work out for the best, assuming that tomorrow will be better than today.

But what our clients benefit from is not crossing their fingers but actually ENGAGING the science of hope.

Join Ruth Pearce, ACC, (PCC application submitted), JD, PMP facilitates this Mastermind and guides us in exploring how we as coaches can work with our clients to activate hope, leverage, and hone strengths, recognize, and cultivate bravery and fine tune curiosity.

The Mastermind series is based upon Ruth’s book Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious and will explore the four pillars of Hope, Strength, Bravery, and Curiosity.

*Purchasing the book is not mandatory and participants will still be able to derive value even without reading the book.

In this session we will explore:

1. What hope is – and isn’t!

2. The combination of vision, pathways and agency

3. How we want to incorporate hope into our practice

4. Ways that clients will benefit from actively creating hope. 

5. Optional case study from the group

Specific supporting information is available in Ruth’s book, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious – Chapter 5 - Expectation

In preparation for this session, take your FREE Hope Assessment* at: https://projectmotivator.com/the-future-scale-hope-assessment/

August 9, 2024 
11:30am - 1:00pm ET

CCEUs - TBD

Did you know that happy clients are 9x more likely to recommend your practice to others? And that the probability of selling to past clients is 60-70% (compared to just 5-20% with new prospects)?! Clients who become your passionate fans can sustain business forever - so how do you turn new engagements into lifelong relationships? Smartly brand, streamline, and deliver an unforgettable client experience!

Join former Disney storyteller and branding strategist of 10+ years, Annie Franceschi, for this exciting presentation to:

1. Discover the hidden growth potential of developing a branded client experience

2. Gain key strategies to save time, increase your profits, and delight your clients right now

3. Spot the simple, yet powerful things you can do to care for clients ethically and authentically with personalization and professionalism (so they rave about you to everyone they know!)

Perfect for practices at all levels, this interactive workshop will leave you feeling excited to guide clients, get amazing referrals on autopilot, and run your business more smoothly, profitably, and confidently than ever!

Keep Moving Forward Even in Difficult Times

Mastermind Series 

Session 2 – August 19^th,. 4:30pm – 6pm

One of Ruth’s favorite coaching tools is character strengths. W can learn to identify strengths through storytelling and observation. 

When coaching clients know their strengths they are energized, uplifted, and empowered. They are more likely to be engaged at work, with family and friends, and in their community.

And there is plenty of opportunity to dial up and dial down strengths as needed. In fact, the closest thing there is in this model to a weakness is a misused strength.  

Join Ruth Pearce, ACC, (PCC application submitted), JD, PMP facilitates this Mastermind and guides us in exploring how we as coaches can work with our clients to activate hope, leverage, and hone strengths, recognize, and cultivate bravery and fine tune curiosity.

The Mastermind series is based upon Ruth’s book Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious and will explore the four pillars of Hope, Strength, Bravery, and Curiosity.

*Purchasing the book is not mandatory and participants will still be able to derive value even without reading the book.

In this session we will explore:

1. What is a strength?

2. What makes a signature strength signature?

3. When do our strengths get in the way?

4. How to use strengths work with clients

5. Modeling strengths optimization to and for clients by knowing, showing, and growing our own!

6. Optional case study from the group

Specific supporting information is available in Ruth’s book, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious – Chapter 6 – Motivation

In preparation for the session, take your FREE character strengths* assessment at:

https://ICFRACBC2024.pro.viasurvey.org/ 

We Are Braver Than We Think

Mastermind Series

Session 3 – September 16th, 4:30pm-6pm

How brave are you?

Where does your bravery show up?

Ask most people for examples of bravery, and you will mostly hear about physical feats of bravery – first responders – especially fire-fighters - or military.

But bravery is much more than that. 

Join Ruth Pearce, ACC, (PCC application submitted), JD, PMP facilitates this Mastermind and guides us in exploring how we as coaches can work with our clients to activate hope, leverage, and hone strengths, recognize, and cultivate bravery and fine tune curiosity.

The Mastermind series is based upon Ruth’s book Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious and will explore the four pillars of Hope, Strength, Bravery, and Curiosity.

*Purchasing the book is not mandatory and participants will still be able to derive value even without reading the book.

In this session we will explore what makes an act brave and when does it become reckless? We will also explore whether it is possible to feel fear and still be brave. 

In this session we will explore:

1. What is bravery?

2. How does your client assess risk? How do you?

3. What has fear got to do with it?

4. Spotting brave moments in ourselves and others. 

5. Identifying the inherent bravery in the coaching relationship.

6. Optional case study from the group

Specific supporting information is available in Ruth’s book, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious – Chapter 7 – Conversation

In preparation for the session, take your FREE Courage assessment* at:

https://projectmotivator.com/courage-assessment/

How Curiosity May Have Killed the Cat Coach

Mastermind Series

Session 4 – October 21st, 4:30pm-6pm

Most people would say that one of the top skills of an effective coach is curiosity. If they are not curious, why will they care? How will they ask powerful insightful questions? 

What curiosity is good curiosity – in us and in our clients?

What comes as a surprise to many is the discovery that curiosity is not just one thing. As of now, science says it is FIVE components. 

1. Joyous Exploration

2. Deprivation Sensitivity

3. Stress Tolerance

4. Thrill Seeking

5. Social Curiosity

Join Ruth Pearce, ACC, (PCC application submitted), JD, PMP facilitates this Mastermind and guides us in exploring how we as coaches can work with our clients to activate hope, leverage, and hone strengths, recognize, and cultivate bravery and fine tune curiosity.

The Mastermind series is based upon Ruth’s book Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious and will explore the four pillars of Hope, Strength, Bravery, and Curiosity.

*Purchasing the book is not mandatory and participants will still be able to derive value even without reading the book.

In this session we will explore:

1. How are you curious?

2. How does your client experience curiosity?

3. How curious should the coach be?

4. How do we match coach to client in terms of levels of curiosity?

5. Why does it matter?

6. Optional case study from the group

Specific supporting information is available in Ruth’s book, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious – Chapter 8 – Exploration

In preparation for the session, take your FREE Curiosity assessment* at:

https://projectmotivator.com/five-dimensions-of-curiosity/ 

* All assessments are evidence based, psychometrically sound and validated by multiple studies.