Virginia Events - International coaching week

Theme - Coaching Foundation

🌟Title: Kick-off International Coaching Week in Virginia
📅Date & Time: May 12, 2025 | 09:00 – 09:30 AM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenters:

• Suzanne Currier, PCC - ICF Virginia Board President  (2025)
• Stephanie Brown, PCC - ICF Virginia Past President (2024)
• Alexa Beavers, PCC - ICF Virginia Past President (2023)

🎯Description: Join the ICF Virginia President, Suzanne Currier, PCC as well as past Presidents Stephanie Brown, PCC and Alexa Beavers, PCC as they kick-off International Coaching Week in Virginia and discuss how professional coaching benefits individuals, teams, and organizations!
👉Registration Link: ICF Virginia : International Coaching Week Kick-Off

🌟Title: Self-Knowledge and Self-Compassion: the 1st steps to Authentic and Intentional Living
📅Date & Time: May 15, 2025 | 11:00AM – 12:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Ninez Piezas-Jerbi, PCC - ICF Virginia Member
🎯Description: This interactive talk will focus on how an inner journey to oneself, though often uncomfortable, is an essential 1st step to living life with authenticity, purpose and without fear. The session will include a mindfulness practice and aims to help individuals be more conscious about who they show up as during common daily challenges and be more intentional towards working on who they want to be instead.
👉Registration Link: Self-Knowledge and Self-Compassion: the 1st steps to Authentic and Intentional Living

🌟Title: Recharge & Thrive: Prioritizing Self-Care for Professionals
📅Date & Time: May 15, 2025 | 06:00 – 07:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Brittany Brown, ACC - ICF Virginia Member
🎯Description: Self-care is essential for sustaining peak performance and fostering resilience in both professional and personal spheres. The "Recharge & Thrive" workshop equips participants with practical tools and actionable strategies to integrate self-care into their daily routines.

🔹 Understand the profound impact of self-care on personal growth and professional success.

🔹Explore and reflect on the key dimensions of self-care using the Self-Care Canvas.

🔹Develop concrete self-care goals and actionable plans to implement in everyday life.

👉Registration Link: Recharge & Thrive: Prioritizing Self-Care for Professionals

Theme - Coaching by Industry

🌟Title: The BrAIve New World: Artificial Intelligence in Coaching, Talent Development, and Human Connection
📅Date & Time: May 12, 2025 | 12:00 – 01:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenters:  

• Panel Host and Moderator:  Alexa Beavers, PCC. CEO of The Axela Group & ICF Virginia Past President
• Esteemed Panelists:
•  Becky Chung, SPHR, SHRM-SCP.  Vice President, Talent Development, Cielo
•  CheeTung (CT) Leong, EdTech SaaS Founder & CEO, NSightz, DisruptHR andTEDx Speaker
• Jazz Rasool, Industry 5.0 Coach, Consultant, Trainer, TEDx Speaker and Author

🎯Description: In this thought-provoking panel, we will explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in coaching, talent development, and organizational growth. As AI technologies continue to advance, they are reshaping industries and transforming how humans live, work, and grow— and the coaching profession is no exception. AI offers both significant opportunities and notable challenges. On one hand, it has the potential to enhance effectiveness and efficiency, streamlining methodologies and enabling more personalized and scalable development. On the other, it raises important questions about the potential loss of human connection and the ethical implications of incorporating technology into such deeply personal and transformative processes.
👉Registration Link: The BrAIve New World: Artificial Intelligence in Coaching, Talent Development, and Human Connection

🌟Title: Visibility Without Self-Promotion – How Tech Pros Get Noticed
📅Date & Time: May 15, 2025 | 12:00 – 01:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Art Akerman, ACC, ICF Virginia Board Member
🎯Description: You do great work—but you’re not getting the recognition, influence, or opportunities you deserve. Sound familiar? In this practical and empowering workshop, you'll learn how to increase your visibility without turning into someone you're not. We’ll bust the myth that “your work should speak for itself” and introduce a proven framework—ACE: Awareness, Connection, Evidence—to help you get noticed for the impact you’re already making. Perfect for introverted, high-performing tech professionals who want to grow their careers without self-promotion or politics. Walk away with actionable steps you can use immediately to be seen, valued, and promoted.
👉Registration Link: Visibility Without Self-Promotion – How Tech Pros Get Noticed

🌟Title: The Evidence and Business Case for Coaching in Healthcare
📅Date & Time: May 15, 2025 | 02:00 – 03:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Dr Wendy Schofer, MD, FAAP, DipABLM, PCC, NBC-HWC, TIPC
🎯Description: Coaching isn't just a nice benefit for physicians and colleagues in healthcare, it is an effective modality to support wellbeing, retention and the bottom line for practices & institutions. Join Dr Schofer and Dr Morales as they discuss the evidence for effectiveness as well as the business case for investing in coaching.
Target audience - physicians, healthcare executives, APPs, nurses.
👉Registration Link: The Evidence and Business Case for Coaching in Healthcare

🌟Title: How Agile is your... Career?
📅Date & Time: May 15, 2025 | 08:00 – 09:00 AM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Mark K. House, MCC
🎯Description: While you know about Agile for projects, can you leverage these tools for plotting out your Career? Leveraging the best-selling Designing Your Life, Mark House, MCC, will lead an experiential workshop with proven tools. It will help you take steps towards leveraging the chaos we are all experiencing to plot a path forward that is more impactful and embraces these changes for you.
👉Registration Link: How Agile is your... Career?

Theme - Coaching Culture

🌟Title: Coaching Ripple effect in the Organization (Panel Discussion)
📅Date & Time: May 12, 2025 | 02:00 – 03:00 PM (ET)
📍Format: Virtual – Live
🎤Presenter: Vishwajeet Agarwal, PCC
🎯Description: Explore how coaching initiatives extend beyond individual growth to catalyze widespread organizational transformation. This panel brings together experienced coaches and organizational leaders to discuss the "coaching ripple effect"—the phenomenon where coaching fosters positive changes not only in individuals but also across teams and the broader organization. Panelists will share insights on how coaching enhances leadership capabilities, boosts employee engagement, and cultivates a culture of continuous development. Attendees will gain practical strategies for implementing coaching practices that drive systemic change and elevate organizational performance.
👉Registration Link: Coaching Ripple Effect in the Organization (Panel Discussion)

🌟Title: Leaders Who Coach: Real-World Perspectives on this Leadership Style 
📅Date & Time: On Demand
📍Format: Recorded
🎤Presenter: Timothy Smith, PCC - ICF Virginia Board member
🎯Description: What does it really look like to lead like a coach? In this panel discussion, ICF Virginia brings together a variety of leaders who use a coaching approach in how they lead - not as professional coaches, but as people managers and executives committed to growing others. Join us as panelists share real-world experiences of applying coaching skills to everyday leadership. We'll explore how this style helps unlock potential, build trust, and improve team performance, as well as the mindset shifts that made it possible. The conversation will also cover common misconceptions and simple habits any leader can begin practicing right way! Whether you're a seasoned executive or a first-time manager, this session offers practical insights into using a coach-approach to lead with great clarity, empathy, and impact.
👉Recording Link: Coming Soon.