Pre-conference webinar: Purposeful goal setting 

Goal setting is key for all of us. Imagine a road trip where you need to know the destination so you can set the route.  Goal mapping helps us to see what needs to be done to get to the goal, and using the 7 principles if a diversion occurs that can be taken on board and you can look at where changes need to be made. Using a mix of words and images you will create a powerful goal map. This can be created online and then printed off.  Within the session Taruna will cover the winds of change, bicycle of ability and 7 principles of success that can be applied in different situations.  

Taruna Chauhan is a Director as well as chair of the Central region for the Association of Business Mentors UK Network, Taruna is known as the Inner Wisdom Coach who integrates NLP, Mbit and goal mapping. Taruna notes that “we bring our whole self to work so working holistically with the person is important”. 

linkedin.com/in/tarunachauhan 

Pre-conference webinar: The future is digital… or is it?  

The last 3 years have seen digital the main mode for coach delivery and the past 12 months has seen the rise of AI. What impact will these have on the Future of coaching. Drawing from recent research papers, it is guaranteed that you will be up-to-date on research insights and implications for practices. 

Prof. Jonathan Passmore is a chartered psychologist, EMCC Master Coach and supervisor. He holds five degrees including an MBA and doctorate in occupational psychology. He holds professorship titles at the University of Reading, UK and the University of Évora, Portugal. He has published widely including 40 books, including Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide and The Coaches’ Handbook. and over 100 research papers. His current research interests include AI and coaching, digital coaching, diversity and inclusion, and coaching ethics. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-passmore-08427b57/  

Keynote: Listen differently to Coach differently  

In an ever-changing and progressively unsettled environment, coaching is a critical and impactful tool to effectively support, motivate and nurture all employees. The intrinsic purpose of coaching is to build self-belief, self-awareness and self-management while equipping individuals to innovate, thrive and collaborate in highly complex and diverse work environments. The big question is coaching fit for purpose for ALL employees? How do you effectively coach someone whose culture, sexual identity, family background, religious background, social class, or physical or neurological characteristics are very different from yours?  Coaching through a wide systemic lens of inclusion, belonging and equity is needed to serve our diverse organisations. This session seeks to explore these questions and the importance of lived experiences in coaching. Salma seeks to explore the need to offer a diverse pool of coaches to everyone that are of ‘high quality’. 

Salma Shah is an inclusion and belonging champion, who seeks to raise the bar in coaching equity and cultural transformation. Salma’s book Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching has been described as ‘timely, challenging and compassionate’ as well as an inspirational game changer on how to confidently and courageously meet the complex needs of employees. Salma was awarded the 2023 ‘Coaching at Work’ Editor’s award for outstanding contribution to Coaching and Society.

  linkedin.com/in/salmashah 

Keynote speakers

Energy for Impact or Effort for Impact: what does the future hold – Dr John Mervyn Smith and Nathan Ott 

When we are doing something we have energy for we thrive, we go the extra mile and we make a difference. Dr John and Nathan will offer a perspective to help us understand how we can engage and feed our Energy for Impact. They will help us recognise how considering energy, shifts some of the traditional views of an effective leader and manager and what we need to cultivate for the future. With this knowledge they will also encourage us to reflect on our Energy for Impact as a Coaches and Mentors.  

Dr John Mervyn Smith has over 30 years’ experience of coaching senior leaders and their teams. John’s work in both clinical and occupational psychology underpins his understanding of the ways in which people make an impact at work. His extensive research in this field has led to the development of The GC Index®.  John has achieved lots of things in his distinguished career from profiling high level politicians through to being ‘chased’ by a typhoon, but he rates the emergence of The GC Index as the most exciting moment in his career.   He led the research behind, The DNA of a Game Changer, The DNA of a Game-Changing Team and the book ‘Coaching Me, Coaching You’ that focuses on the premise that organisations are neglecting the very talent, which has the potential to transform the future. John is very proud of making a contribution to global thinking around leadership and talent.  

Nathan Ott has been working with business leaders for over 20 years, helping them to get the best from their talent and has always thought there was something missing. Subsequently, through years of conversations with business leaders he realised he was not alone. This notion that ‘something was missing’ is the key stimulus for the original GC Index research. 

Nathan is the vision and driving force behind The GC Index. He has a fundamental belief that everyone can make an impact in their world and has created a global community of GC Partners and GCologists that is committed to fostering the impact and contribution from everyone around the globe, whether they are a global Fortune CEO or a child in a developing country. 

Workshop: Accessing creativity to drive growth in yourself and others  

Do you think outside the box? Do you even recognise the box around your thinking? The future is unwritten, yet we all box it up before we arrive there.  

This workshop aims to facilitate you in discovering a new approach.  

What that approach is for, is up to you. Personal life, professional life, career development or the development of others. All these things can benefit from creative thinking, and this session will help you remove the box around them.  

This workshop aims to facilitate you in finding creative ways to support clients and will attempt to answer the following questions.  

1. Why the box? 
2. What is creativity? 
3. How do we apply creativity? 
4. Do we need the box? 
5. What next? 

Mark Phillips is a coach, mentor and facilitator that predominantly supports the creative and digital industries sectors in North Nottinghamshire. With a skill set that allows a person-centred, holistic approach to digital marketing and business growth, he also utilises his qualifications in mental health and counselling to assist individuals in the same communities find and access mental health support.    Understanding that unique people need unique approaches, Mark celebrates the fact we don’t all fit into traditional boxes by engaging in projects such as Project ReMake and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council’s ‘Build Your Business’ and aims to promote best practice. As a member of the Association of Business Mentors, accreditation, qualification and accountability are crucial in valuing the clients we serve. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mj-phillips/  

Workshop: Imposter Syndrome – Why it’s toxic and how to beat it  

Imposter Syndrome is when you doubt your ability, you feel like a fraud about to be exposed and you believe your accomplishments are not worthy of attention or respect. According to research, 70% of us have experienced it and for the 21st century it appears to be getting worse, holding people back from achieving their potential and leading to long term anxiety, self-loathing and depression.    We will take the opportunity to explore two types of Imposter Syndrome no one is talking about, held assumptions, self-management and much more with Andrew facilitating the conversation.  

Andrew Pain is passionate about developing decisive and resilient people, Andrew juggles charity work, social campaigning and sport, along with a thriving business as a Speaker, Coach and Trainer. His work revolves around men’s health, burnout, resilience, imposter syndrome, difficult conversations and mastery of time.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpain/  

@andrewpain1974 

Keynote: Inspiring Capability – how to coach diverse groups to make the most of their strengths, limitations and areas for development

 Inclusive work cultures require individuals to develop social competency in a diverse range of areas. Creating the conditions for all members of a group to experience safety, belonging and freedom can be a tall ask, it can be especially important that minorities are not being called upon to do all the adapting to the majority. What happens, however, when your requirements and preferences stop me from working at my best? How do we balance our rights and requirements with our responsibility to one another? In this session, Caitlin and Emily use their own experiences as equally neuro-divergent colleagues to illustrate how their differing requirements could clash and cause the other to be uncomfortable, awkward and potentially shamed. They will go on to demonstrate how they use clean coaching to uncover simple ways they can work together at their best more of the time. Clean Coaching can be used 1-1 to help individuals understand their invisible architecture, their needs and preferences. It can also be adapted to coach a whole team to create a ‘rough guide to …’ one another, so that more team members can advocate for their own needs and make the minimum necessary adjustments to ensure their colleagues can do the same.

Dr Caitlin Walker is a director of Clean Learning and Training Attention and the developer of Systemic Modelling. Her areas of expertise include; emotional-based school avoidance, conflict resolution, diversity, equality and inclusion, team development, clean language interviewing, coaching Agile teams and creating ‘learning organisations’.  She’s the author of: From Contempt to Curiosity, creating the conditions for groups to collaborate and So, you want to be Drama Free.

Emily Edwards is currently training to be an ICF-accredited coach through the Clean Coach Certification Programme. She has studied Psychology and Human Resource Management and is passionate about neurodiversity and inclusion. Emily is an actually Autistic and ADHD Neurodiversity Coach and parent to her neurodivergent daughter.

Workshop: Shift Gears with your Mentoring 

Do we sometimes characterise mentoring practices as ‘softer’ than coaching? It’s often described that way – with less emphasis on working towards a goal. When we frame our mentoring practice like this, we risk depriving our mentees of the Challenge that they need to achieve change. Using Nevitt Sanford’s Theory of Challenge and Support as a framework, this session will explore the potential of mentoring to challenge ‘stuck’ thinking, so that we can better enable our mentees to achieve personal and professional growth. We will challenge ourselves to overcome the barriers that hold us back from challenging our mentees. The workshop will be interactive and be of value for coaches and/mentors operating at any level.  

Lucy Marder is a consultant, coach and facilitator working with non-profit leaders and organisations to help them: find their focus; embrace change; compete in their sector today and into the future. Lucy completed the ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching as a member of the West Midlands Coaching and Mentoring Pool when working for Herefordshire Council and went on to Chair the advisory board. Lucy’s other qualifications include an MBA from Lancaster University and she is a SFEDI-recognised Social Enterprise Advisor. Lucy holds Chartered Management Consultant status and Professional Membership of EMCC UK. 

linkedin.com/in/lucy-marder-b37322b    

https://twitter.com/LucyMarder  

PM Workshop: Write Your Next Chapter – A Creative Writing Workshop to Imagine Your Future – Michelle Mclean  

Are you, or are you working with clients, feeling a bit stuck, distracted or unsure of how to take the next step? In this practical workshop, Michelle will help you to discover how creative writing can be a tool to help you think more clearly and unearth the ambition and answers which are already within you. Michelle will guide you through writing techniques and prompts to help you:  Work through blocks, create headspace and find joy and playfulness.  The techniques are also helpful for reflecting and preparing for supervision. No writing experience is necessary and there is no requirement to share work or read aloud. 

Michelle Mclean; by day a Change Consultant, by night a Writer. Michelle has an MA in Creative Writing and is a blogger, a copywriter and a contributor to the Mass Observation Archives. She is the author of the short story collection Pay Day and Other Teabreak Tales and is currently writing a novel.  Combining her writing skills with her experience as a coach and change manager, Michelle delivers a range of writing workshops to show people how writing can support well-being, unlock creativity and unleash the answers that they already have within them. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-mclean-39640227/ 

@writesaidshell   

Keynote: The Golden Nugget – Jason Davenhill 

Jason says he’s lucky to have seen the world from a range of perspectives, Royal Marine, Royal Air Force helicopter and fixed wing instructor, musician, actor, coach, coaching supervisor, psychotherapist and track athlete; and the more he’s done, the more he’s realised people are just people. Everyone needs help at times and it’s our gift to be that help. Coaching and mentoring, he believes, is walking at someone’s shoulder as they forge their chosen path. Drawing on a range of ideas, tools and beliefs he’s looking forward to bringing everything together to end the conference to help you realise where you can forge your impact in the future.  

An RAF pilot and instructor, Jason Davenhill is a performance coach, coaching supervisor, and psychotherapist who wants everyone to know that ‘human factors’ are key. Walking with your client and working with whatever they bring creates a safe environment for personal flight where instinct, thoughts and emotions sync.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-davenhill/   

Post Conference Webinar: Succession planning – coaching and mentoring the missing link  

When thinking about the future of your organisation, having an idea of who could step into key roles, identifying talent and nurturing people to reach their potential is key. Some teams do this really well and some individuals are great at identifying who might be good to step into their shoes. Join Dr Amanda Potter as she shares her research and case studies while helping us understand the connection between succession planning and where coaching and mentoring can make all the difference.  

Dr Amanda Potter, CEO at Zircon, is an award-winning Chartered Occupational Psychologist, international speaker, researcher and creator of the Chief Psychology Officer podcast with vast amounts of experience in the areas of talent strategy, facilitation, development and leadership/executive coaching. Dr Potter is an expert on leadership in crisis and resilience, and has led a number of research papers on the subject. Amanda has nearly 30 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organisational strategy and objectives. 

Post Conference Webinar: Coaching with the power of pictures 

It’s said ‘a picture paints a thousand words’ so how can pictures be used to create connection and deeper reflection in coaching and group sessions?  

metaFox Coaches Trisha & Tobi will take you on a 60 minute journey to
– understand projective techniques and how they support reflection
– discover practical methods to apply them online and in person
– experience the method first-hand in a small exercise 

Tobias Weghorn
Tobias loves building tools for people development. Being an engineer by education and a trainer by heart he combines his passions as co-founder at metaFox Coaching Tools. 

https://de.linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghorn 

Trisha Reyeg
Trisha enjoys building deep connections with coaching tools. She is an aspiring facilitator and has developed products centring on emotions, grief, and resilience. 

https://ph.linkedin.com/in/trisha-gil-reyeg-56a95223b