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Feel the joy and get a little jolly at this special ICF OC Holiday Event.  Join us in celebrating our achievements of the past and enjoy “Acting Up” – a hilarious night of improvisational fun.  The Corporate Recess players will be on hand to tickle your funny bone with specific exercises that will strengthen those laughter muscles and ability to respond in the moment. Great fun, great people a great evening!

One of the most powerful ways to become a better coach is to observe coaching and receive feedback on your coaching skills in a supportive and honest environment. Whether you are a New Coach or a Senior Coach, you will find great value in this very special hands-on session. Each person will work in a group and have an opportunity be coached, observe coaching and/or offer feedback as an observer. Focus will be on the 11 Coaching Competencies and written feedback will be provided for each coaching sessions. Plus, Master Certified Coaches and Evaluators Michael Stratford and Carly Anderson will be there to guide and support your coaching efforts. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to improve your coaching skills and effectiveness with your clients.

We are honored to have top senior coaches Michael Stratford, Christian Michelson and Carly Anderson with us on a panel and they will discuss their insights about coaching. They will be discussing what it means to be a coach during these times and the importance of taking your coaching practice deeper and moving from being a performance based model to becoming a transformational coach. The night promises to provoke, challenge, inspire and educate!

• Identify the difference between performance based coaching and transformational coaching

• See how to use the core coaching competencies at the Master Coach level

• Learn how to deepen your coaching skills and take your practice to the next level

MICHAEL STRATFORD Master Coach, Author, Speaker

“Provoking and Invoking Personal and Professional Transformation”

Michael Stratford is well known as a leader in the field of coaching, coach training and development. He has trained over 6,000 coaches worldwide.  As part of leveraging his expertise, he has authored curriculum for many coach training organizations.

Most recently he co-developed the Core Dynamics Coach Training with Tom Stone, the founder of Human Software Engineering.  Together they have created the Next Generation of personal and professional development.

In field of Executive Coaching, He has earned a reputation for helping others achieve a level of excellence in communication, leadership, and team performance.  Michael has coached a range of clients from executives and teams in Fortune 50 companies to Rock Bands.  In particular, he has worked with individuals and groups on Leadership Development at Cisco Systems, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, GE, the Whirlpool Corporation, Wells Fargo, and with the Next Gen organization – Blizzard Entertainment the world’s largest MMPORPG, (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).

In the field of Education he teaches at the Chapman College Leadership Development Services having co-created their Coaching Skills for Business Leaders Program.  He was also part of the Wharton Business School Leadership Retreat Team whose focus was to upgrade the Retreat to be congruent with the MBA course curriculum.  He especially loved teaching Shakespeare Workshops in the Gross Pointe High School summer programs.

Michael specializes in the Art of Provocative Inquiry for Leadership Development. His creativity, mastery of language, and sensing acuity have helped his clients align with emerging trends and personally congruent solutions.  Michael has a light and playful approach.  Yet through his keen insights, masterful coaching and training, he quickly reveals a depth of knowledge and understanding on a wide range of human and organizational issues.

A prolific author, Michael has written four books on coaching including Masterful Questions and The Game of Coaching, as well as Haiku, two children’s stories and numerous articles in his “Provocation Series.”  He has been featured in Men’s Health Best Life, as well as in a special profile on coaching for the NBC Evening News.   Currently his writing projects include more Provocation Articles, another children’s story A Dog Named Stay, and Quintessential Leadership: 5 Timeless Practices for Successful Leaders http://www.liwleadership.com/liwusa/c_michaelstratford.htm

Michael lives in Southern California with his brilliant, gorgeous and talented wife Carly.  His creative and loving son currently works for Blizzard in Austin, Texas.

CHRISTIAN MICKELSEN

Christian Mickelsen is the author of “How to Quickly Get Started in Professional Coaching”. He has been studying personal coaching for over a decade and has served 2 years on the board of directors of the International Association of Coaching. He’s been seen in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, MSN, and the Boston Globe and he has developed numerous support programs for professional coaches. To get 3 free tools to help you get more clients starting right now, visit www.CoachesWithClients.com

CARLY ANDERSON

Coaching valued senior employees to fulfill the potential expected of them.

Carly works with senior level employees who are highly valued by the corporation, yet find themselves in conflict or challenges that are barriers to fulfilling the potential expected of them. Carly brings about rapid transformation through heightened personal awareness, and practical approaches to dealing with confrontation. Her coaching process is solid and thorough. Her expertise is in the areas of personal authenticity and leadership presence. Using a range of traditional and non-traditional coaching approaches, she quickly gets to the heart of an issue, to bring about a shift in performance. She employs whatever is needed to get the job done, including interviews, assessments, core dynamics and human design information, mediation coaching, shadow and individual coaching.

Carly has been accredited since 2004 as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coach Federation. She has coached business leaders, managers and senior employees on three continents for companies such as Google, Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Cochlear and Lloyds TSB Bank London. From 2006-2008, she worked with a global leadership development company, providing coaching to leaders in Google and Crowe Horwath, as well as holding an internal role, evaluating the readiness of colleagues using a company driven assessment tool. Earlier in her career, Carly studied media communications in Australia and has worked extensively in the media and service industries, both as a consultant and in management positions. She co-founded a corporate communications consulting company in Sydney in 1993, helping publicly traded corporations and government agencies graphically display and communicate their vision, values and strategic intent to stakeholders. She sold her holding in the business in 1999.

Carly is a founding Board member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) in the Australia/Asian regions and serves as an active member of the ICF Credential Review Committee, which evaluates candidates and certifies professional coaches globally. Originally from Australia, Carly has lived permanently in the United States since 2001. She is a huge sports enthusiast, having played competitive sport earlier in her life, and maintains a healthy lifestyle that includes a regular Bikram Yoga practice. Carly lives in Laguna Hills, California with her husband, Michael Stratford. http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlyanderson

Building Community with Ning with Rachel Pradhan. First, welcome to the new ICF-OC website! Our new site has many new features, including a community portion to the site – a Ning community. You can build a Ning community for your own business, in which current and past clients can connect and support each other. During October’s meeting, we’ll be discussing how-to build your community, what are some of the most important aspects of your Ning community, and how to keep it active and engaged. If you build a community around your business, your business is stronger and frees up more of your time!

Rachel Pradhan is a partner with BlazeInteractive.com, an award-winning website and internet marketing company for businesses in Orange County. She’s also host of the free internet marketing podcast Helping Hands for Coaches, with over 1,000 listeners weekly, and the VP of Technology for the International Coach Federation – Orange County, VP of Internet Marketing for The Foster Care Auxiliary of Orange County, and the Internet Marketing Director for The Eddie Nash Foundation

Organizational Coaching Bloopers from Around the World, Lessons from a Global Executive Coach with Agnes Mura! Our featured headliner for our monthly 2nd Thursday meeting, October 8th 7:30-9:00 p.m, is sure to be hit!

Ready to learn from those dramatic moments in our coaching practice we’d rather not remember? Ready to jointly think about what was missing when a coaching assignment disappointed some stakeholders? Ready to open your minds to alternative approaches? An old hand in global leadership coaching will share her learnings, candidly, examining the causes and solutions of many common breakdowns. Since she not only works internationally, but works with executives who have global reach, she will enlarge our horizon by discussing how effective coaching has to vary from one corporate or national culture to another.

Take-aways:

– Organizational coaching failures, bloopers and how to prevent them.

– The limitations of trying to change minds just with the mind, and how to reach the whole person.

– Dimensions of culture and how to use them in any culturally complex situation, from ethnic culture to firm-specific ones.

Agnes Mura, MA, is an international Master Certified Coach (MCC) to global executives, entrepreneurs and consulting companies. She has special expertise in coaching leaders through successful cultural adjustments of all types, including changes in location or geographic reach, integration into new corporate or departmental cultures, and how to successfully shift the culture of a function or a department. She is a founding director of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, the founding president of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations, and prominent in the coaching community as an expert practitioner and advocate of the profession. She has been an Assessor for the ICF for many years, accrediting foreign coach training programs as well as certifying PCC and MCC candidates.

Ms. Mura is an experienced and globally focused leadership coach who inspires and develops Fortune 500 corporate executives from Europe to Latin America. Fluent in six languages, Agnes has also mediated among diverse peoples and cultures. She is currently coaching in English, Spanish and German – virtually, as well as on all continents.

Her clients have included: Accenture, Avon, Bank of America, Banco Santander, The Coca Cola Company, ConAgra, CEMEX, Citigroup, Coors, CBS Paramount, Dell, Deloitte, East West Bank, Habitat for Humanity, KPMG, MGM, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Nissan Mexico, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Raytheon, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony Pictures and Electronics, Symantec, Toyota, UBS, Warner Bros., and many “fast” small and mid-size firms in the US and abroad.

Her book, written with Dr. Bill Bergquist, “Ten Themes and Variations for Postmodern Leaders and their Coaches” was published in 2005.

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Stuck? Move from Fear and Conflict…into Action and Momentum! with Frumi Rachel Barr. Do you find it necessary to be an island of calm in a turbulent sea for your clients and friends? Dr. Frumi Rachel Barr coaches accounting and financial services leaders who often find themselves tossing around in the perfect storm. Join Frumi to learn about her secret “Frumi Fix” and the best practices she uses to move her “drowning clients” into the lifeboat. Click HERE to Register.

Punt, Pass, or Power Through: Leadership Learned at the Line of Scrimmage with Mimi Donaldson! Our featured headliner for our monthly 2nd Thursday meeting, September 10th 7:30-9:00 p.m, is sure to be hit!

In this practical, extremely humorous, presentation, Mimi shares the secrets of capitalizing on opportunity and intention during challenging times and uses the game of football as a metaphor. Prevailing in challenging times is not a question of ability – people are able. True success hinges upon the ability to see opportunity, to have clear intention and a plan that works. Mimi uses the ultimate team game to highlight motivational and team building principles that leaders need to know in order to succeed in today’s challenging times and achieve personal and professional success. We are all in need of a good game plan, and this presentation promises to give key points right from the playbook of success.

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Come join us for an evening of LIVE masterful coaching demonstrations! This is one of the most popular events of the year and seasoned coaches, new coaches and individuals merely interested in coaching will find this evening to be extremely educational and informative. For the past three years the ICF-OC chapter has invited leading ICF Accredited Coach Training Schools to offer the community an opportunity to observe what transformational results can happen in a coaching session with a master coach.

This is a chance to learn more about what coaching is, and to observe the power of coaching when combined with the ICF core competencies. The evening will be divided into business coaching and life coaching demonstrations and offers a rare opportunity to get a glimpse of high level coaching in action. Through the various demonstrations the subtle differences in the style and approach of each school will be highlighted. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the magic of coaching come to life!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Irvine Marriott Hotel
18000 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA

$45 Early Bird Registration
by August 10th, 2009
$55 after August 10th, 2009