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Friday, October 5, 2007

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Maria Nemeth
Would It Be All Right if Coaching Got Easier?

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM                     
Panel Discussion: Dick Ferrington, Paul Higuchi, & Greg Giuliano, PhD
Current Perspectives in Corporate Coaching
Chris Fernie, Qigong Master
Bones, Breath and Chi in Coaching: Connecting to Your Client with Vitality and Clarity

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Paul Walker
Storms and Clearings: Poetry to Unleash Genius

Saturday, October 6, 2007

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Ed Correira
Mobile Connectivity and Productivity Outside the Office

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
Brian Underhill, Ph.D. and Kimcee McAnally
Measuring Impact in Executive Coaching

Friday, October 5, 2007

Maria Nemeth

This program is designed to assist coaches to move their clients forward with clarity, focus, ease and grace. Coaches will discover the six forms of energy; money, time, physical vitality, creativity, enjoyment and relationship – that we use to create goals and dreams that have meaning. Participants will gain valuable tools to help their clients make real changes in how they use all the forms of energy in their lives. These changes will empower their clients to bring dreams and visions from the realm of ideas into physical reality. In this program participants will learn specific coaching tools that will bring immediate results and success for themselves and others with less time and less effort.
Topics covered include:

• Why simple steps are ultimately the most powerful
• The six forms of energy that guarantee success in whatever we do
• How to shift your client’s life paradigm to consistently create successful moments
• Why our clients stop going for goals and dreams—and what to do about it
• The six forms of energy that guarantee success in whatever we do

Maria Nemeth, licensed clinical psychologist, Master Certified Coach, author and internationally renowned lecturer, founded the Academy for Coaching Excellence in 2002 to make coaching principles available to the public.   Her ground-breaking training programs, fine-tuned over twenty years, prepare people in different professions to use coaching skills in every day life.   As a result of her leadership and exceptional credentials, The Academy became accredited by the International Coach Federation in 2004, sharing this distinction with only a small cadre of establishments worldwide.   Nemeth has devoted her life to supporting others in achieving their goals with clarity, focus, ease and grace.  Born in Chicago, raised in Los Angeles, parented by a physicist and a businesswoman, she received her doctorate from UCLA. Maria has also authored Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide for Your Relationship with Money.  www.marianemeth.com

Panel Discussion: Dick Ferrington, Paul Higuchi, Greg Giuliano, PhD

This panel of highly regarded coaches will share valuable insights as internal corporate coaches:

• Discover what leads corporations to hire and use internal coaches
• Hear how coaches are meeting organizations’ strategic needs, and the individual needs of their leaders
• Learn how internal coaching is conducted within corporations
• Understand what corporations require regarding coaching skills & credentials

Find out how coaching has impacted leadership development and system-wide changes.

	Dick Ferrington is an accomplished personal and professional coach with extensive experience advising and coaching CEOs and other senior executives. Dick has special expertise in coaching business leaders on how to achieve results during large-scale corporate culture changes and how to navigate successfully through organizational transformations. Dick’s clients represent a cross-section of industries; including: Energy, BioTech, Healthcare, and Telecommunications.
	Paul Higuchi, PCC, Executive Coach, Verizon, has over 17 years of corporate leadership development, training and management consultant experience in the aerospace manufacturing and telecommunications industries. His strength is enhancing the leadership capacity inherent in each client. He is interested in combining the power of intention with committed action for power personal and professional change.
	Greg Giuliano, PhD, is President and CEO of Leading Initiatives Worldwide Inc. Greg collaborates with corporate clients all over the world, engaging global players through workshops and executive coaching to provoke awareness, encourage development of personal and professional competencies, and to move people toward their stated individuals and professional goals. He writes, teaches and speaks about the need for personal evolution to enable professional development.

Chris Fernie

Do you want to learn more about somatic practices and how they can enhance your coaching practice? Do you want to deepen your state of presence, exploring how to track and use pure awareness to effect profound changes in you and your client?

Explore how awareness of the skeletal organization, breathing, Qi and energetic fields influences your ability to sense your client and respond innovatively.  This session will give you insight into a level of awareness and presence that most people never attain.

• Sense subtle “energetic” and somatic shifts in your clients
• Sense your client’s needs more fully
• Notice when you are merging with clients
• Explore what it means to embody change
• Develop intuitive ability to respond
• Discover how you can create change in your client through your own subtle awareness

Chris Fernie, founder of the Institute for Internal Transformation, is a well-known Qigong master and somatic genius. He began his study of internal and external energetic systems in England at the age of 6. He has studied Qigong for the past 16 years under three renowned masters and is currently the master instructor in the United States of Taijiwuxigong, a medical system of Qi Gong. Chris is committed to helping people find true health so that they can lead full and satisfying lives. This quest has taken him throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. where he has studied Qigong, martial arts, the Anat Baniel Method, the Feldenkrais Method, yoga, Buddhism and many other spiritual and healing practices.  He teaches full-time throughout the United States.  www.internaltransformation.com

Paul Walker

Paul Walker’s beautiful and timeless poems reflect his uncanny ability to see the beauty in everyone and everything, as well as the deeply felt concern for the human condition. The insights he has gained through the medium of poetry have not only guided him through his own life, they have been of tremendous value in his work as an Executive Coach to CEO's of Fortune 500 companies. Open your heart and mind and let his poetry take you on a thoughtful and exciting spiritual adventure. He will take you on a journey into the heart and mystery of leadership         forming a foundation for any leader to become truly great. www.turiyalc.com

Ed Correia

With only 24 hours in a day and you already working overtime, how are you going to grow your business?  Ed Correia of Sagacent Technologies, Inc. explains that it is not merely more hours you need, but greater productivity. And since a consultant's life often starts at the client's site, you need greater efficiency and access to your data when outside the office. 

Discover how the experts (and increasingly your competitors) maintain access to all their data no matter where they work (at home, a client’s office, on a business trip or even on vacation). Often using tools that you have already, like your PDA, SmartPhone and remote access software to your office computer. If you’ve been considering purchasing a new cell phone, PDA, or have been curious about cellular broadband wireless then this presentation is for you!

Ed Correia is a national speaker on the technology used to grow and secure businesses.  As CEO of the technology management and consulting firm, Sagacent Technologies, Inc., Ed utilizes his 28 years of computer industry experience to increase the efficiency, competitiveness and security of small and medium-sized businesses.  He lives in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA.   www.sagacent.com

Brian Underhill, PhD and Kimcee McAnally, Ph.D.

The Coaching Profession continues to grow and change … are you keeping pace?Large organizations are trending toward large-scale, coordinated executive coaching programs.  They achieve Return on Coaching Investment (ROI) by demanding high-level, high-quality coaching, reducing duplication in procuring and implementing coaching services and eliminating multiple pricing and delivery structures.

In this presentation, Dr. Underhill will discuss his research that measures the impact that coaching can have in the corporate setting. Areas covered will include:

• How corporations benefit from coordinated coaching programs
• The use of mini-surveys to measure impact—a unique and effective tool
• How partnership value can be leveraged
• How results are impacted by executive self-selection of coaches
• How results can be guaranteed in writing.

Brian O. Underhill is a founding member of the Alliance for Strategic Leadership. Brian is an industry-recognized expert in the design and management of worldwide executive coaching implementations. His executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior. He has also helped pioneer the use of “mini-surveys”—a unique measurement tool to help impact behavioral change over time.   Brian is the engagement leader for High-Impact Executive Coaching research study with Executive Development Associates. His most recent article on Agilent Technologies’ coaching program appears in Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change (Wiley: 2005). He is a regular speaker at Linkage, The Conference Board and other industry events. www.coach-source.com

Dr. Kimcee McAnally’s background includes 20+ years working in or consulting to organizations. She co-authored the book, Executive Coaching for Results and is a partner with a consulting group Claris Solutions. Here consulting practice includes developing executive coaching and leadership development programs; developing training and education programs; facilitating workshops and strategy sessions; company culture change creating new organizational structures, roles and responsibilities; improving group processes and communication; and designing transition strategies for implementation of new processes and technology. She holds a B.A. in psychology and masters and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology. Kimcee can be reached at Kimcee@claris-solutions or 760.8346.0461