LIZ WALKER-KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Liz Walker is an award-winning television journalist, creator, executive Producer and host of Sunday with Liz Walker, a half hour newsmagazine on Boston's WBZ 4, and now a documentary film producer.  An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a 2005 graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Liz has chosen to combine her communication skills with her passion for serving God and the world after 32 years as a television news journalist, 20 of those anchoring WBZ Television's evening newscasts.  

In the summer of 2001, Liz traveled to war-torn Sudan on a fact-finding mission on the controversial slave trade in southern Sudan. She was so outraged by the human rights atrocities in Sudan she co-founded "My Sister's Keeper", a grass roots initiative that advocates for the women and children who are trying to rebuild their country and their lives.  Liz returns to Sudan often, most recently visiting the region of Darfur, where 250 thousand people have been killed and 2 million displaced in what is considered to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.   

Liz shot her own footage during her trips to Sudan and was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Award for a News Story by the Regional Television Radio News Director's Association in 2002.  In January 2002, she produced an independent television documentary on Sudan entitled "In the Lion's Mouth".  Recognized often for her exemplary work on the air and in her community, Walker received the Prestigious Governor's Award from the New England branch of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1997.   In addition to her work in news, Liz has hosted and co-produced several documentaries for CBS4, including "Friends like These," for which she received recognition from the prestigious Gabriel Awards. 

Liz currently sits on the Board of Trustees for Andover Newton Theological Seminary, the Advisory board of the UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund in New England and is a member of the kitchen cabinet for One Family, a non-profit organization devoted to ending family homelessness in Massachusetts.  Over the years she has served on committees and boards of the Big Sister Association, Boston's Children's Museum, The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and the Pediatric AIDS Charitable Trust of Boston.  

A graduate of Olivet College in Michigan, Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.   She holds a number of honorary degrees from colleges and universities around the country.  Liz is the single mother of a son, Nicholas who attends New York University's Tisch School of Performing Arts.

FACILITATING CORPORATE CHANGE
For the last three years, Lea Belair, author of Walk on Water: How to Make Change Easier, has been working intensely with individuals and teams from Burton Snowboards, Inc. to help them transition to a coaching culture. Lea has found that in working with people who are asked to do more with less it is imperative to focus first on how they observe the world and show up rather than going straight to strategy. In this interactive presentation she will share with you “what to listen to” and “how to listen for” regarding what Julio Ollala has called “The interior aspect of knowing”. 

What participants will gain:
You’ll practice being in the Observer Orientation as part of the new technology for thriving in change and you will participate in an Innovation Diffusion game that Lea has used with corporations such as Burton to help them embody this learning.

 As the author of Walk on Water, Lea teaches classes in Mastering Change (based on her book) for CoachVille. She is a faculty member of Coach U and adjunct faculty for the University of Vermont/Vermont Business School. Lea is a collaborator in the development of the Worldwide Coaching Center focusing on the quadruple bottom line: People, Planet, Profitability and Possibility. Much of her work on thriving in change is based on her experiences living in India, studying and practicing yoga and meditation.

LESLIE WILDE

An accomplished performing artist, award-winning conservatory voice teacher, writer and certified professional creativity coach, Leslie Maglitta Wilde has devoted decades to exploring and igniting the creative spirit in herself and others.  Her students and clients have included successful recording artists, concert soloists, award-winning Broadway performers, and a wide range of entrepreneurs, artists, actors, writers and fellow coaches. 

When listened to, these deep, powerful forces within can be terrific guides for  our life.  Although sometimes feared – or have even gotten a bad rap –desire and passion can be real allies, if you let them.  They’re like radar, leading you toward the truth of who you really are and what you really want.  Come celebrate ~ 

~ the body’s craving for pleasure, comfort, health and sensual experience;

~ & the heart’s longing for love, purpose and creative expression;

~ & the soul’s natural climb toward greater joy, inspiration and meaning.   

Using music, poetry, art and other media, let’s celebrate your very human need to care, and to act, and to feel.  When you wake up to what makes you more alive, you breathe life into yourself, into others, and into the world – making your personal and professional life a whole lot richer, and a good deal more fun.  It’s transformation – from the inside-out!

Leslie has served on the faculties of Boston Conservatory, Emerson College and New England Conservatory, and continues to conduct popular master classes for singers and performers around the country.  She is a recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Association for Advancement in the Arts. 

Leslie holds a Master of Music degree, and is a certified graduate from the Coaches Training Institute. 

In addition to the Lust for Life series, she leads other innovative workshops and speaking events celebrating creativity, artistry and passionate living.  Leslie runs a private coaching practice in Cambridge, Mass.

TEAM COACHING

The live group coaching experience transforms the awareness and perception of coaches about what is possible.  Incorporating coaching core competencies, group coaching can expand coaching skills and expertise while making coaching more scalable within organizations.  It allows a coaching environment to develop more quickly within a company and/or organization when more people are being coached and the value is seen.  IBM coached more than 60,000 people internally—a process that would not have been possible without group coaching.  Presenting group coaching through a live session goes beyond words.  It impacts all the senses for a total learning experience.
What participants will gain: 

• Core Competencies demonstrated in a Group Coaching Demo
• Distinction between group coaching from other group dynamics
• How Group Coaching expands a coach’s reach and relevance in an organization
• The highest value for a coach is to show up as the COACH in group coaching—not a knowledge expert with a lot of content.
• With the emphasis on human capital in companies, group coaching allows for the scalability of coaching within the organization

As co-author of the new book Magnificent Masters in Financial Services, Amazing Women, Sensational Stories, she has highlighted fourteen exceptional women in the financial industry who share their individual models for business success and personal fulfillment.

Ms. Cockerham is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation where has served on the board of directors for five years. In 2007 and again in 2008, she serves as Vice President of this 12,000+ member organization.

She is the instructor for the Group Coaching Course, a graduate level course at Teachers College Columbia University in New York City. As a faculty member in the Executive and Professional Coaching Program in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, Ginger teaches executives, managers and coaches to effectively coach financial professionals.

Her coaching column, “Work/ Life Balance”, appears weekly in The London Times in the Times2 magazine section, and her on-line newsletter, Life Upgrade, provides inspiration to over 2,500 subscribers world-wide.

Ms. Cockerham is on the Board of Advisors for the Women’s Business Center in Fort Worth where she has coached several hundred women entrepreneurs who are launching their businesses in the Project New program sponsored by the SBA.

Her expertise in group coaching has led to her three CD series: Creating, Collecting and Coaching Groups becoming a best seller in the coaching industry. She coaches groups of professionals and executives in companies and organizations.

Ms. Cockerham is featured as a top international coach in The London Times, and in a feature article in The Spectator, a premier magazine in the U.K. She has appeared in publications nationally such as The Chicago Tribune, Fort-Worth Telegram, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Health Magazine. 

 MAYA BALLE

Trained and certified in personal and executive coaching, Maya’s exceptional strengths, insights and skills unite to assist people in bringing their special gifts to the world.

The screening and credentialing of coaches is one of the most important challenges facing the field today. There is little guidance for those who are charged with doing so, both for certification and hiring by clients.  

To become certified most coaching schools have both a written and an oral exam.  The ICF is now requiring these exams for certification.   

What is competent coaching?  How do you get in front of clients and be seen as highly competent and valuable?    Have you ever wanted to give and receive laser feedback and hold a higher bar for what “effective coaching” might look like? 

Join our panel, moderated by Maya Balle, with Stephen Carr, Sam House, and Steven Lishansky, outstanding certified coaches from different schools and backgrounds for demo coaching. 

Using our suggested guidelines of core competencies you will have a chance to give feedback to our coaches, ask questions and learn about what it takes to be courageous and competent in front of the room.

In 2004, while on a trip to Southern India, Maya was profoundly affected by the Tsunami.  She responded to the disaster by assisting with the establishment of a trauma coaching group and small business development assistance for the women of Tamil Nadu.

Maya is co-founder of Liz Walker Journey Productions. Maya and Liz Walker present keynotes and seminars on purpose and diversity.

Telling powerful stories about passionate people who are changing the world Liz Walker Journey Productions creates documentary film and educational coaching tools that promote healing conversation circles in diverse communities around the world.

Stephen Carr, PCC has more than 25 years of experience coaching, consulting and managing at the sales, general and executive management levels in large organizations, start-ups, government and education.  He is a coach to executives and professionals as they focus on improving personal performance, interpersonal relationships and organizational results.  He has a talent for seeing the best in people.  Stephen’s work is to inspire and support individuals, teams and organizations as a coach, facilitator and speaker to discover their capacity to create extraordinary results as they learn the power that exists in their ability to choose what works.  His experience, enthusiasm, and commitment create a positive, productive environment for learning and change.  Stephen is a graduate of CTI and the Executive Coaching Institute and is a certified PaperRoom™ Coach and Facilitator.  He is a multi-disciplinary learner, and by being an active member and Board Member of ICFNE, he has been able to support his passion for learning.
 

Samuel P.B. House, MCC, CPCC, is a partner in Soulutions Leadership and Coaching, where he provides executive coaching, group and team coaching, coaching skills training, leadership development, and Board facilitation to industry leaders and their teams in governmental, private and non-profit sectors.   

Sam has over 10 years of experience as an executive coach, working primarily in the private sector, where he has coached CEO’s senior executives, managers, and entrepreneurs.  In this tenure, Sam has enhanced the functioning and productivity of teams, developed the communication skills and inspirational capacities of organization leaders, and trained high-level managers and leaders to use a “coach approach” with their subordinates and peers.  He has used Strengths-based Assessments to enhance this work.  His clients include privately held high tech companies, Fortune 500 companies and non-profits. He has trained executives and managers from governmental, private, and non-profit sectors in publicly offered and customized coach trainings. 

Prior experience includes extensive training as a psychotherapist, where Sam maintained a successful private practice for eight years, while also working in inpatient psychiatric settings, and outpatient clinic settings for 15 years as a clinician, supervisor, and director. Sam has served as an Employee Assistance Program counselor and conducted stress management trainings as well as having done group crisis management in corporations where extensive layoffs were announced. 

Sam is a Master Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. He has a wealth of expertise in workshop design and delivery. Sam has a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work.

Steve Lishansky is the founder and President of Lishansky Partners, the successor company to Success Dynamics that he founded as one of the first executive coaching firms in the United States.  He is recognized as a leader in the fields of building high-value relationship skills, executive coaching and development, and improving organizational alignment and performance.  Steve is also the founder and Executive Director of the Executive Coaching Institute (ECI), the oldest coach training organization dedicated to elevating results by educating top-level executives and coaches in the principle-based, highly effective work he pioneered. 

Trance-formation to Transformation: The Seven Intelligences of Leadership^®

A holistic and dynamic approach to leadership for coaches and their clients, The Seven Intelligences of Leadership provides a template for understanding what you need to know to be an effective leader who is both integrative and visionary.  

We will discuss seven areas of awareness that all leaders must cultivate to lead a business successfully, bring a vision to life, an organization to fulfillment, or a product to market. The Seven Intelligences of Leadership are: Emotional, Relational, Organizational, Technological, Financial, Social and Civic, and the Creative and Spiritual. We will examine the creative challenge for a leader: to understand how each of the intelligences emerges in daily life and how to be in charge of them while leading a business from trance-formation to transformation. 

Participants will: 

1. Learn The Seven Intelligences of Leadership self assessment tool for identifying strengths, challenges and competencies in each area of leadership intelligence.
2. Assess your Seven Intelligences and generate a plan for your own development as a leader.
3. Increase your effectiveness as a coach to support leadership intelligence in your clients.
4. Model holistic, integrated leadership to assist your clients in transforming challenges into effective actions.

Coach clients in assessing, mapping and implementing the Seven Intelligences of Leadership to create accountable results.
 

Nancy Miriam Hawley and Jeffrey R. McIntyre are the co-founders of Enlignment^®, Inc., a coaching and leadership consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Successful life and business partners for 30 years, they are currently writing a book entitled Intimate Leadership: The Power of Couples in Business Together.

Nancy Miriam Hawley is one of the original founders and co-authors of the best seller Our Bodies, Ourselves. Ms. Hawley has a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan. She is an accomplished group therapist and organizational consultant, and a highly regarded speaker and facilitator of dialogues focusing on women's, partnership and family concerns. She coaches executives in the areas of personal power and business success, and has recently launched a year long coaching program entitled Beyond Success: A Leaders’ Learning Forum for Executive and Professional Women. Ms. Hawley’s professional memberships include the National Association of Social Workers, Society for Organizational Learning and The Family Firm Institute, Inc. 

Jeffrey R. McIntyre is an Executive Coach and creator of The Seven Intelligences of Leadership^®, a theory that addresses the dynamic interplay between seven types of intelligence, vision, relationship and results. He brings a thorough knowledge of complex systems to leadership and executive team initiatives. Mr. McIntyre has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a certificate in Authentic Leadership from the Marpa School of Business, Naropa University. He was an instructor and supervisor in the Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance Family and Couples Therapy Training Program from 1992 to 2006. Mr. McIntyre’s professional memberships include the International Coaches Federation, Inc., American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Inc., Society for Organizational Learning and The Family Firm Institute, Inc.

Suzanne Falter-Barns is best selling self-help author, former New York City journalist and marketing consultant who helps coaches package their businesses for maximum credibility and platform.

CNN Called: How to Set Up Your Coaching Business So the Media Contacts You

Recent studies show that 79% of all major media find their resources and story ideas from blogs and the Internet.  So, yes, the major media really will call you… … but only if your web presence has instant credibility and the ability to stand out from the crowded pack. 

This is what media and publishing pundits call ‘Platform’, and it’s critical to not only attracting key decision makers but impressing them, too. Platform also allows you to build your national audience and spread your message further, so it’s an important part of any serious coaching business. 

Participants will gain a strong sense of what’s missing in their current platform, and how to get a firmer hold on just what it should be. They’ll begin to probe issues of branding, consider what their unique selling proposition might be, and learn what coaches just like them did to attract calls from some of the biggest media available today, as well as major publisher book deals.

Are you PLAYing? I sure hope so! Life is a series of GAMES - like business, career and romance – the fundamental purpose of a coach is to guide an individual or team to PLAY a game better and win on their own terms.   

The nine transformations of PLAY! will have an immediate impact on your quality of life.  Starting with the pattern language shift from work to play and ending with the sustainability shift from willpower to worldpower these ideas will help you play better right away and they will stay with you for a life time. 

In this presentation you will learn a powerful coaching model based on the Nine Transformations of PLAY! That you can use right away with your clients.
 

Dave connects the worlds of life coaching, personal development, business, and athletics.
As a life coach he has coached over 1,000 individuals one-on-one and in small groups.  He has also trained several thousand coaches as the lead trainer for CoachVille's Graduate School of Coaching. 

Dave is a leader in the coaching industry; he was selected by the International Coach Federation to participate in the first ever Global Coaching Leaders Summit with 30 colleagues.  In 2004 Dave was awarded the first annual International Coach Federation (ICF)  Peace Maker award for bringing CoachVille and the ICF together. 

Dave worked side-by-side with Thomas Leonard – the founder of the life coaching movement – to create CoachVille in 2000 and became the CEO shortly after Thomas passed away in February 2003.

Dave is a Founding Member of the Transformational Leadership Council; a group founded by Jack Canfield (author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series) and includes several leaders of the personal development movement including Wayne Dyer, John Gray and Rhonda Byrne. Many members of the council are part of the hit movie and book "The Secret". 

Dave is a life-long solo-preneur.  He has an MBA from Monmouth University and has worked for himself since he was 19.  Dave has taught an MBA program for the Seton Hall Stillman School of Business called "The Joy of Business". He has appeared on The Coaching Show, has been interviewed by Choice Magazine (a leading coaching publication) and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Dave has a love of personal growth and world travel.  He spent two summers  playing soccer in Bolivia at the famous Tahuichi soccer academy. He explored  the most sacred temples in the southern tip of India accompanied by Sri Guruji (of  Dr. Wayne Dyer's Meditations for Manifestation fame)  He is still an active  soccer player.  In his younger years, Dave sang jazz in coffee houses and has fronted a big band. He occasionally weaves a capela performances of Jazz standards into his presentations.

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