00:18:27 Jennifer Whitcomb: Enjoying the sunshine and long walks! 00:18:42 Gigi Nang: Reacted to "preparing for delive..." with 👍 00:18:58 Heidi Townshend: Summer weather in SB 00:19:02 Dr. Kevin Gazzara: 1 year old granddaughter 00:19:07 Gigi Nang: Reacted to "1 year old granddaug..." with ❤️ 00:19:13 sue gonis: Life overall 00:19:39 Alexey Nazarov: beach volleyball on the beach next to ocean under the sun )) 00:19:41 Kim St Pierre: Settling into our new home in the redwood forest of Santa Cruz County! Magical. 00:19:43 Dr. Kevin Gazzara: I get to see her everyday 00:19:51 Lisa Perlman: the connections that my leaders are making in our group coaching sessions during the "crisis leadership times" 00:20:01 Heidi Townshend: Reacted to "I get to see her eve..." with ❤️ 00:20:02 Gigi Nang: Reacted to "the connections that..." with ❤️ 00:21:22 Nicole Venner: Reacted to "Settling into our ne..." with ♥️ 00:21:32 Jennifer Whitcomb: Reacted to "the connections that..." with ❤️ 00:21:36 Laila Keith: Reacted to "I get to see her eve..." with ❤️ 00:23:52 Rachel rodriguez: What was the name of the podcast that Tom mentioned? 00:24:19 Patricia Schwartz: Coaching for Leaders 00:24:23 Rachel rodriguez: Reacted to "Coaching for Leaders" with 👍🏼 00:24:31 Jorge Alzate: Reacted to "Coaching for Leaders" with ❤️ 00:24:31 Rachel rodriguez: Replying to "Coaching for Leaders" Thank you. 00:25:01 Patricia Schwartz: Hi Kim!! 00:25:06 Curt Doucette: Replying to "Coaching for Leaders" https://coachingforleaders.com/ 00:25:25 Rachel rodriguez: Reacted to "https://coachingforl..." with 👍🏼 00:27:00 Laila Keith: Welcome Curt, Deborah, Alexey, Nancy, Kim, Sarah, Louise, Rob! 🙌🏽 00:27:07 Sarah Mikutel: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with ❤️ 00:27:08 Dave Story: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with 🎉 00:27:12 Rob Rabe: Hi Laila! 00:27:13 Kim St Pierre: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with ❤️ 00:27:18 Rob Rabe: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with ❤️ 00:27:26 Curt Doucette: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with ❤️ 00:27:29 Kim St Pierre: Replying to "Hi Kim!!" Hi Patricia! 00:27:36 Alexey Nazarov: Reacted to "Welcome Curt, Debora..." with ❤️ 00:28:41 Dave Story: @Rob Rabe check your microphone gain in Zoom, it’s separate for Zoom. Happy to show you how if you haven’t already found the corner cases... 00:29:41 Sarah Mikutel: I forget to mention that I found this group thanks to Tom’s podcast ❤️ 00:29:50 Dave Story: Reacted to "I forget to mention ..." with 👍🏽 00:30:30 Rob Rabe: Thanks @Dave Story. It's very weird. It's at max volume and I had it set to original audio so it doesn't squash the audio signal. I guess I'll have to eat my mic for today. 00:31:54 Barry Bettman: Welcome everyone from Reno/Tahoe Nevada 00:31:55 Dave Story: Replying to "Thanks @Dave Story. ..." I’ve gone in and out of having problems. Original Sound for Musicians isn’t great, wasn’t a solution for me. I use it occasionally for allowing a meditation bell through, but now I found that noise cancellation LOW allows bells. 00:32:25 Laila Keith: https://www.icfla.org/our-sponsors/ 00:32:32 John Burt: Reacted to "https://www.icfla.or..." with ❤️ 00:32:35 Edward Vicedo: https://www.icfla.org/our-sponsors/ 00:33:00 Rob Rabe: Replying to "Thanks @Dave Story. ..." Ok, thanks for the tip. I have a fancy mic with a cloud lifter. It's only recently become a problem. I'll adjust those settings as you suggested. 00:34:57 Ted Imes: What range of costs are they asking? 00:35:31 Edward Vicedo: Here is ICFLA’s upcoming events page … https://www.icfla.org/events/ 00:35:31 Ted Imes: Anyone attending ICF Converge in Paris in May 2026? Please message me directly 00:35:50 Laila Keith: https://www.icfla.org/events/category/coaching-cafe-conversations/ 00:36:33 Laila Keith: https://www.icfla.org/c3-chapter-events/ 00:37:24 Laila Keith: https://www.icfla.org/how-to-join/ 00:37:47 Laila Keith: https://www.icfla.org/volunteer-icfla/ 00:38:18 Laila Keith: @Susan Smalley, Co-Host can you share the google drive resource link here in chat? 00:38:25 Jorge Alzate: Reacted to "can you share the li..." with 👍 00:39:00 Vic Bullara: Reacted to "can you share the li..." with 👍 00:39:11 Barry Bettman: Which link? google drive of resources? 00:39:31 Dr. Kevin Gazzara: yes, please the google drive link 00:40:05 Cynthia Oredugba Producer Extraordinaire: Will get the link from Susan after she finish speaking 00:40:10 Damian Goldvarg: This is the link to join the Virtual Cafe on Coaching and Leadership next Wednesday at 12.00 PM PST https://www.icfla.org/event/leading-with-a-coaching-mindset-virtual-cafe-february-2026/ 00:41:24 Vic Bullara: Can you put the list back up? 00:58:24 Rachel rodriguez: Such a rich discussion! 00:58:43 Edward Vicedo: A.I in Coaching How to build trust within your team (in a toxic work environment)? How to work with a toxic leader? How to work with your coachee to influence company culture? Using social media to build business How to differentiate ourselves in the age of A.I. coaching? 00:58:57 Tracy Brown: What assessments do you use? 00:59:08 Ted Imes: AI to co-pilot a session. AI making your personal resources available to you in real time during the coachingsession. 00:59:09 John Burt: Diversity in the group - "baby" coaches and more experienced coaches. 00:59:21 gordon paddison: Our Discussion points: GETTING CLIENTS, AI, 360’s and Assessments, PRICING w/coaching packages 00:59:25 sue gonis: Group #3: AI - How to design an agent or avatar or both Coaching the C-Suite - individuals and team 00:59:27 Jennifer Whitcomb: Our topics are - Using Social Media Resources, AI Coaching with practice and with your business, Equine Facilitation, and Publishing a book panel 00:59:52 Debra Balamos: Does credentialing matter? WHY does credentialing matter? Best practices for team coaching. Lego Play. Top uses for AI -whereare you seeing most use? Coaching and what else?( outside of coaching? 01:00:22 Nancy Tylim (she/her): helping clients develop resilience and agility in times of constant changes. Coaching using somatic awareness. Coaching Founders and all the changes they experience. 01:00:23 Elaine Padilla: Bring cases to the group, tools/platforms that actually work, and client creation. 01:00:29 Lisa Perlman: AI in coaching, Team development, Assessment use what do you use, Linked in use 01:00:39 Debra Balamos: Coaching supervision 01:00:41 Nina Rubin: Team Coaching for Executives Humanness in Executive Coaching/anti-AI in coaching Enrollment of Executives Proposals from delivery to objections and showing the client Objections from companies ROI for businesses and executives - how to talk about it for groups vs individuals Tough Scenarios - supervision Executive Burnout 01:00:41 Heidi Budro: Using AI in coaching - it’s moving so quickly, how can we incorporate it more ethically with platforms and ChatGPT (cloning and avatars) as examples, and the future of ICF credentialing 01:00:42 Patricia Schwartz: For using social media resources that means hiring social media help, sharing who you are using, fees and results 01:00:59 Ted Imes: Example for AI co-pilot. If AI could monitor the session and recommend any resources from Tom Exec SIG folder 01:01:35 Laila Keith: Assessments, what's current, survey How niche do you need to be and exposing market capabilities without confusing ICPs Elevator Pitch and practice Storytelling, NLP and refining language 01:16:38 Edward Vicedo: Out of the box coaching approaches The future / evolution of coaching Coaching Return on Investment (R.O.I.) How to create “community” in our coaching industry? What parts of the coaching industry feel “icky”? 01:16:49 christy brandt: unconventional coaching modelties 01:17:12 Dave Story: Reacted to "AI to co-pilot a ses..." with 👍🏽 01:17:16 Deborah Dowling: Our group talked about how to get new clients 01:17:31 christy brandt: facilitative coaching (coaching relationships, teams, families, co-workers, etc) 01:17:32 Alexey Nazarov: How we can use a perk / performance driver impression of coaching, both one on one and team 01:17:40 Elaine Padilla: Best practices in agreements, government sub-contracting in the current (temp) environment, assessments 01:17:44 Deborah Dowling: Also about assessment tools 01:17:44 Clifton Carmody: - A.I - 360's - Managing the Exec Coaching Triangle most ethically - Coaching efficiency quantification. 01:17:48 Sari Brandes: Replying to "AI to co-pilot a ses..." I love this! The how to make and use, and/or best options available. Best practices for how to use. 01:17:51 Debra Balamos: How is AI replacing coaches. The future and foresight - What is the new need that AI does not address? What does not exist yet? Chat bots coaching the coach. 01:17:55 John Burt: Reacted to "Out of the box coach..." with 👍🏻 01:18:01 Jorge Alzate: what orgs provide 360s to their leaders and have/don't have coaching to support the results? 01:18:05 gordon paddison: ICF accreditation in the age of AI. Updated Guidelines regarding AI ethics in coaching Emotional Intelligence - updates 01:18:32 Nina Rubin: Neurodiversity and learning styles Business practices Coaching supervision: what it is and isn’t Play and gamification with executives Alternatives to aggregator platforms (how coaches who work for bid places make little money) Resources Library: key references to distill and pass out to clients 01:18:40 Lisa Gillette: 1 - Leadership Assessments –Hogan, 34 Strenghs,  cross compare – benefits, certain aspects, potential for SIG members to take assessement 2 - Leadership during Exceptional time – tools that build agility/resilience/ambiguity 3 - Coaching Proposals for Executive and Group Coaching - do you use them? What’s your favorite RFP! Handling objections// your RFP template 01:18:51 Dave Story: Replying to "Group #3: AI - How t..." sue ann - great! I’m doing the former, and particularly interested in that second point…my partner and I often coach multiple leaders at the same firm, and the CEO wants us to do that … and then facilitate & coach the team together… would love to hear from folks who balance those 01:18:52 Damian Goldvarg: Replying to "Coaching supervision" There is a SIG for Coaching Supervision in the ICF LA chapter, once a month 01:20:01 Patricia Schwartz: A session w/ 2-3 topics where zoom is set to allow us to move into different breakouts as we desire and then come back and share from each of the topics a A time to briefly share resources such as client opps or other resources. An Open Space Technology session w/ a topic An open meeting time where ppl can connect on zoom to further discuss a topic A chance to take conversations off to discuss in between our sig meetings 01:20:03 Laila Keith: AI tips & tricks, discernment/when to use it, how & which ones for which activities/ethical considerations What does communicating & marketing authentically look like How to manage all parts of my business effectively without energy drain & overwhelm building courses without overwhelm what does scaling look like in today's landscape 01:34:27 Dave Story: finding and landing on my niche that I feel super passionate about … esp if I feel some resistance to being niched. What are examples that work? Client Proposals — would love to see how others are doing their proposals. Bring proposals you’re willing to share, see different styles & production values & pricings. What’s normal? Am I in range? How do folks choose pricing? ROI of coaching to convince folks to sign, and later to evaluate the coaching. This is not ALL of selling. How do you get folks over the hurdle to sign? What do you actually say, and what works? When I have someone who isn’t a coach explaining coaching, how do I set them up to be right about it? Assessments — there are so many and they are so expensive. Which one is the right one to get trained in? What to do when a company already uses one (and certification costs more than I want to spend.) 01:34:28 Nicole Venner: Our group- Yes. AI. 🙂 More specifically- leveraging AI as tool to facilitate coaching business. -AI- what does future-forward look like for Executive Coaching, given AI’s continued evolution. -Business modeling conversations, integrating AI -What are we noticing (thematically) with our exec clients, ‘coaching through the apocalypse’. -Economic contractions and the impact to Exec Coaching businesses. -Always useful to continue conversations around assessment tools- how coaches work with and handle conversations around tools. 01:34:36 Edward Vicedo: Consider three topics (breakouts) each session so as participants can choose which topic most resonates with them. 01:34:51 Clifton Carmody: - Family systemic constellation work - AI Agents in Coaching - Coaching trends - being prepared - Coaching for current political situation*** 01:34:54 Rob Rabe: AI - Cloning and use of avatars in coaching. Ethics around AI. How are we evolving to remain relevant in the midst of AI. Validity of accreditation in coaching. Getting corporate clients Subcontracting 01:34:59 Edward Vicedo: How to work with leaders to navigate company ethics in a chaotic world? Challenging scenarios in executive coaching (case studies) Books to read for leadership coaching 01:35:03 gordon paddison: Ethical Dilemmas and sticky situations in Executive coaching 01:35:19 Alexey Nazarov: Coaching square, not just triangle - coach, client, team leader and sponsor (!) 01:35:20 Tracy Brown: Awesome discussion. 01:35:20 Mona Khalil: How does storytelling fit into coaching? Coaching out of the box- outside ICF methodology, horses example, left and right brain, art, music, Legos, walking coaching Generational change- coaching theories and evolving philosophy or approach of emerging leaders/Gen Z 01:35:30 Briana Sharp: Suggestion: Sharing info on upcoming events in the google doc and/or the SIG chat 2. What's it like... Coaching perspective by geography (different countries, different states) 3. Taking an out of the box approach to coaching 4. TED talk style session with multiple topics: e.g. Somatic coaching, Mindfulness and coaching, coaching supervision as a business 5. Virtual Cafe 01:36:00 Tracy Brown: Platforms that enhance coaching skills, Fathom, Granola, etc. 01:36:28 Nina Rubin: Agility & Resilience in a disruptive and uncertain world Subcontractors and aggregators - pros and cons How people are using AI Anti-AI coaching Team coaching as a perk vs PIP Assessments: vote on a few, compare them, and do psychoeducation 01:36:35 Laila Keith: Add AI coaching questions into the 2026 pricing survey How do we differentiate ourselves as coaches with the rise of AI and it's pricing advantages How do we couple ourselves with AI 01:37:31 Dave Story: here’s his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CurtDoucette 01:37:40 Dave Story: click that now and look at it later! :) 01:38:38 Curt Doucette: Reacted to "click that now and l..." with ❤️ 01:38:47 Laila Keith: Note taking resources discussed: https://www.granola.ai/ https://www.fathom.ai/ 01:39:15 Dave Story: Replying to "here’s his channel: ..." here’s a clip I shared with a client just yesterday — could be good one for your channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjhHrcyiQI 01:39:32 sue gonis: Reacted to "click that now and l..." with ❤️ 01:39:34 Nina Rubin: Laser talks are a great idea! 01:39:56 Curt Doucette: Reacted to "here’s a clip I shar..." with 👍 01:40:09 Rachel rodriguez: Replying to "Laser talks are a gr..." Laser talks + break outs to debrief, discuss 01:40:12 Dave Story: Replying to "here’s his channel: ..." client is planning a 60% RIF at his startup, and is struggling with being human vs being efficient/effective…. hence that clip. I wrote: Random movie reference if it’s useful to your approach in notifying folks: I’m remembering Moneyball — do you take the Jonah Hill approach or the Brad Pitt approach in notifications? Mensch (jonah) or “we’re going in a new direction, here’s what that means for you” (Brad) Either way, your attention needs to be on the folks that are staying, and save your extra energy for them once the mechanics of the action are figured out / deployed. found the clip 01:40:29 Dave Story: Replying to "here’s his channel: ..." (actual text message above…) 01:40:38 Nina Rubin: I have a client who created a laser talk event at her company. Those who want to can sign up to speak for a max of 10 min on anything! 01:41:01 Patricia Schwartz: Reacted to "I have a client who ..." with 👍 01:41:08 Heidi Budro: Copy paste! 😁 01:41:47 Nina Rubin: Tom, I have a workshop on Coaching in a Messed up World. 01:42:09 Cynthia Oredugba Producer Extraordinaire: Group 3 1 – Navigating the ethics of ‘performance management’  regarding the needs of the client (employee) vs. the sponsor (HR/SR management) 2 -  Team Assessments. – description and cross compare 3 -Balance coaching and mental health needs – in this turbulent world 4 – Regulating the Nervous System 5 – Dynamic of Group Coaching within the Sr Leadership Team – benefits/confidentiality/conflict – how to create a safe space – clarity on who should not e in a group 6 – Systems – scheduling, note taking, billing, 01:42:15 Dave Story: Replying to "Note taking resource..." I’ve started having Granola challenge me based on my transcripts. They have a “recipe” called “Coach Me Matt Mochary” (a very opinionated & known CEO coach) … it’s been useful (and wrong) but good to challenge me with new ideas. 01:42:38 Jorge Alzate: Want vs Need 01:44:11 Susan Smalley, Co-Host: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19GotMAcbkL7wAqhhBHyb1UhtnfW9eZcR 01:45:11 Laila Keith: Laila Keith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lailawkeith/