What do you do when a client is stuck? How do you help them navigate challenging emotions or unhelpful mindsets that derail their progress? This workshop introduces psychological flexibility, a powerful, evidence-based framework based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT). This approach is a natural fit for coaching, viewing the client as whole and resourceful, and has proven outcomes across many areas of life, from promoting employee wellbeing to healthy lifestyle change. Psychological flexibility skills help clients learn to get unstuck from unhelpful stories, relate more effectively to their emotions, and connect with their values to drive meaningful action. Join this highly experiential and interactive session to practice these skills yourself and discover a framework for integrating these powerful techniques into your own unique, non-directive coaching style. You'll leave with new tools to create deeper, more enduring change for your clients.

Creativity is involved in every aspect of leadership. It helps us innovate, inspire those around us, and maintain performance under pressure. It also locates us to ourselves — cultivating the vision, authenticity, and voice TO lead.

Creative activities are embedded in the BECI coaching curriculum and many of the coaching modalities we use with our clients. And yet rarely do we focus on creativity development, itself. This is understandable, even inevitable, given the widespread assumption that creativity is not something that can BE developed. But the truth is, all of us have access to creativity all of the time. We need only learn how to resource ourselves FOR creativity.

In this session we'll topple outdated ideas of creativity with the expansive RESOURCE BASED creativity model. We'll help you access your clients' unique genius by understanding them CREATIVELY. And we'll send you off with specific exercises for inspiration, courage, discipline, rest, and connection.

The effects will resound in every aspect of your coaching.

Why do some leaders inspire others and loyalty even in difficult times while others, just as skilled and experienced, fail to create followership and enthusiasm for their vision?
Drawing from my career as a consultant, CHRO, advisor and executive coach, here is what I’ve learned: the leaders who shine, inspire and transform their organizations are not the ones who “perform leadership best”. They are the ones who lead from something deep and personal, an authentic inner drive I call “vital energy.”
This is the force that emerges when you’re doing work that genuinely matters to you, resonating with heart and meaning, what psychologists call intrinsic motivation. Most leaders have been trained to lead in a certain way, following a certain idea of what leadership should look like. Some have lost sight of their vital force. This creates exhaustion and mediocrity.
In this session, we’ll excavate our vital energy and better understand how to access it and channel it into meaningful work. This work is at the core of what executive coaches do which is helping leaders become, not someone else’s version of a leader, but their own.
Expect deep reflection, practical tools, and insights that will provide another angle to leadership development, whether you are coaching or leading others.

What makes you tick as a leader? In today's hybrid, AI-enhanced workplace where DEI conversations are constantly evolving, understanding your cultural wiring is essential for transformative leadership and coaching.

This interactive session transforms theory into personal insight. Building on Erin Meyer's The Culture Map and drawing from Andrés T. Tapia's The Inclusion Paradox, we'll explore the 7 Cultural Dimensions framework as a tool to better understand how we each lead and collaborate.

You'll reflect and unpack:
> How you orient at work
> How your identities shape your leadership
> Where your patterns help and hinder your effectiveness
> Specific actions you want to take as a leader and/or coach

Expect: Arts supplies, paper plates, and "aha!" moments. This isn't typical DEI - it's personal, playful, and immediately practical.
Walk away with: Your personalized cultural map that connects the dots between your backgrounds and behaviors. Perfect for folks who want to deepen their own reflection, work with others more effectively, and/or bring cross-cultural competence more into their coaching.

Why us: Iris and Andrew bring different identities, lived experiences, and - as you’ll see - opposite cultural dimensions. We have 40+ years combined experience in corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, coaching, and DEIB.

This program will expose you to tools that help engage clients in between sessions, increase self-efficacy and provide data on how to better support them. A cutting edge platform will be shown that has been used by 2 BECI alum in work with their clients and organizations.

The Soul Operating System: Rewiring Leadership in an Age of AI

Leaders are being forced to upgrade—fast. Not just their tech stack, but their inner operating system. The Soul Operating System (Soul OS) is about integrating head, heart, and hands to lead with humanity while harnessing technology as a partner, not a threat. For executive coaches, it’s about guiding leaders to reprogram not just what they do but who they are in a world of rapid change.

What assumptions do we carry into the coaching relationship—and how might those shift when we step into another cultural reality?

In this 90-minute experiential session, Safarini Leadership Director Oli Raison will draw on his work with Samburu elders in northern Kenya and his experience coaching global executives through a cross-cultural lens. Through storytelling, dialogue, and peer learning, this session invites coaches to examine how their cultural programming—often unconscious—shapes their coaching presence, interpretations, and impact.

Participants will explore a range of tools and experiences that help heighten self-awareness and challenge cultural assumptions. We’ll briefly introduce assessments like Aperian GlobeSmart and the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) as examples that can support developmental insight—but the broader focus is on how any reflective modality can surface blind spots, expand empathy, and grow our intercultural range as coaches.

Expect group discussion, and shared learning as we uncover what it means to coach more inclusively, with humility and openness to difference. This is particularly helpful for (but not exclusively) people who are working in a multi-ethnic, cross-cultural setting

One of the big questions many of us face after BECI is: How do I actually find clients? For some, the answer is building a business from scratch. For others, it’s joining a coaching platform where the marketing, client acquisition, and scheduling are handled for you.

In this session, I’ll share what it’s been like to step into Strawberry.me—one of today’s largest coaching platforms—alongside stories from other BECI coaches exploring similar paths. We’ll talk candidly about the trade-offs, boundaries, and very real challenges of maintaining presence at scale when you’re one of many coaches in a “coaching club.”

If you’ve ever wondered: Do I need to be ICF certified? What are the benefits of joining a service? What’s the pay like? Do I just become another coach in the system?—then this is your chance to peek inside the club. You’ll walk away with a grounded perspective on what platform coaching offers, and whether it might be a fit for your next step.

Emotional Intelligence now separates high-performing leaders from the rest. While IQ and technical skills open doors, Emotional Intelligence determines who truly succeeds. As an executive coach, your ability to recognize, navigate, and skillfully address both displayed and hidden emotions, in yourself and your clients, directly impacts their success.
"The Unspoken Language of Emotions" provides executive coaches with a unique framework to master Emotional Intelligence both personally and professionally. As you learn to recognize, understand, and skillfully navigate your own emotional landscape, you become equipped to guide your clients through the same transformative journey. Through experiential understanding of emotions' true nature and dispelling common myths, you'll embody deeper emotional literacy and personal insight, positioning you to develop next-generation leaders who thrive through Emotional Mastery.

At it’s best, coaching can be a powerful, transformative experience between to human beings. At it’s worst- it simply remains transactional. What happens when we invite in our cultural and ancestral spirits and tap into our consciousness as humans, so that we acknowledge and affirm ourselves and the needs of the diverse clients we serve? What happens when we find joy in our identities- and can amplify the spirits of our clients...and their communities/teams?

In this session, we will explore strategies that a) help coaches tap into their cultural spirit and b) raise the consciousness of our praxis, inevitably illuminating the needs of our clients. The end goal, creating a coaching continuum that validates and elevates the full humanity of our clients.

Using anthropological tools and a “stranger’s gaze of curiosity" we will investigate ways to elevate our own awareness of the unwritten rules, norms, and behaviors, that can influence and shape our coaching mindset.

How might you use drawing as a coaching tool? Leadership coach, storyteller, and artist Ali Bloomfield Meyer gives you a hands on session in why and how to use drawing in your coaching toolkit. From daily prompts, visual journaling, annual reviews, and future visioning, drawing engages our brains differently than words and can help uncover insights in a new (and fun) way.

Getting to the truth can be difficult. We see that displayed in all its glory in today's world. Often, the truth lives in the shadows - the parts of ourselves that are unwelcome or have been discarded, and the experiences too uncomfortable to dive into. But sometimes these are the very places we need to unearth to truth drive change. InnerTruthWork is a proprietary framework with a 5 step practice to safely begin the journey of uncovering the deepest truths - for yourselves, for your clients. Join Cari Jacobs-Crovetto as she leads you through this process with a poignant, adaptable framework to help increase change and accelerate personal awareness.

What narratives are holding you back from the life, career, or job you dream of? How can you finally shake off old stories and rewrite new ones in a way that sticks?

We often find ourselves stuck inside limiting narratives. We came by them honestly, often as kids. Maybe it was the playground bully, an absent parent, or the harsh competition loss. We concluded, “I’m not good enough,” “I’m too good for this,” or “My job is to take care of everyone else.” Sound familiar?

The stories helped us make sense of things back then. But why do we still hold on to them now? And how can we move past them? Here’s the secret: We LOVE our limiting narratives! It’s only by coming to understand why we love them that we can decide whether to hang onto them. Synthesizing the work of Byron Katie, Susan Campbell, Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, and others, you will explore a series of provocative exercises that will empower you to identify limiting narratives, decide whether to give them up, and then the fun part: rewrite a new story from a place of possibility.

Step beyond strategy and into soul

In this immersive and reflective workshop, you’ll explore the powerful practice of presencing, the art of sensing and embodying the future as it emerges. Drawing from Otto Scharmer’s Theory U and rites of passage work, this session is an experiential journey across the threshold of what comes next, not just for your clients, but for you.

Through poetic prompts, visioning exercises, somatic movement, and future-self dialogue, you’ll walk through a metaphorical “gate” to glimpse the future that is waiting to be born. You’ll listen from your heart, speak from your highest intention, and receive guidance from the version of you that has already crossed over.

Expect silence, depth, reflection, and surprise. You’ll leave with insights not only about your coaching practice, but about your place in the larger story unfolding on this planet.

This is a chance to reconnect with your calling, let go of what's outdated, and return with clear next steps and renewed presence.

As an emergency medicine physician, executive coach, and lifelong lover of the arts, I work at the intersection of science, healing, and creative expression. What is medicine? What is art? The United States is on the edge of a healthcare renaissance. Challenges to the traditional Western view of medicine have created misunderstanding and distrust. This breakdown is avoidable with a broader perspective. Medicine can be movement, music, poetry, or any practice that restores alignment and vitality with minimal harm.
In today’s climate, individuals and leaders are redefining health on their own terms. For coaches, this shift raises a vital question: how do we remain healthy, embodied, whole, and aligned in order to support clients at the highest level?
This interactive session blends reflection, embodiment, and creative practice with medical insight. Participants will examine their own resilience, experiment with tools that connect physiology and art, and discover new ways to bring integrative approaches into coaching. Whether or not you adopt the same metaphors of medicine, you will leave with practical methods to maintain your health and extend that vitality to your clients, creating conditions for transformative leadership.

Psychological Safety! Is it a buzzword, a movement, a goal? Whatever it is, we know people are asking for it and realizing the power of safety on the job, on the team, in the session. In this workshop, participants will engage in a short, interactive presentation about the principles of psychological safety, and then engage in activities designed to help coaches translate and integrate mechanisms for building psychological safety in their 1:1 and group coaching sessions. Come prepared to be silly, connect with others, and create a space that feels safe, full of possibility, and, hopefully, familiar.

You know you're good at what you do, but getting noticed can feel like an uphill battle. In this workshop, you'll discover why some coaches consistently attract clients while others struggle to get found.

Led by Samantha Fackler, with 13+ years in brand and marketing at companies like PayPal, Adobe, and LinkedIn, you'll walk away knowing:

- The one marketing thing that makes clients choose you
- Why your expertise isn't getting you clients – and the quick fix
- Your marketing strategy: where to build your brand (plus how to market without social media)
- Simple tweaks that instantly make you look more professional online
- The mindset shift that makes marketing feel energizing instead of exhausting

This isn't about becoming someone you're not or mastering every social platform. It's about getting clear on what makes you unique and communicating it in a way that sticks with your ideal clients.

The coaching market is crowded, but you have a place in it. You'll walk away with a clear plan and practical tools to implement immediately.

Building a coaching business leveraging digital marketing tools can feel overwhelming and like you are diving into a big black box if you don't live in the digital world (and even if you do). Creating your own "brand voice" as a coach and standing out in a crowded space takes knowing the tips and tricks of what works and doesn't work and all the shortcuts I wish someone had taught me when I started coaching 3 years ago.

I will take you through a simple step-by-step process that includes how to create a compelling product offering, the do's and don'ts of Linked In, how to create hooks that draw people in, how to identify your point-of-difference as a coach, how to create and set-up "freebies" that get people interested in what you have to say, and more!

It is said we learn more from our errors than our successes, but do we make time to reflect on our mistakes, own them, share them with others? Let's do it! Think of this as a failure party. Perhaps there will be a prize for the most interesting mistake one of us coaches has made that in turn improved their practice. Come prepared to listen and laugh, stand and stretch, break out into small groups, and learn from each other.

Led by 3 women from the Fall 2020 online cohort: Laurie Sherman, Anjali Apte, Susie Medak

This is a hands-on (and barefoot) session inviting participants to slow down, and honor the lineages we carry, from our ancestors to our mentors to our communities (like BECI), and the places that shaped us.

Through the art of weaving ti leaf in the Hawaiian style accompanied by heart-centered storytelling, we’ll explore how our lineages inform our values, our kuleana (privilege and responsibility) and our mana (unique personal life force). Each leaf we weave into our lei can represent a different lineage: maybe a parent, a spiritual tradition, a coach, or a hard-won lesson, and remind us who we are, and what we bring to coaching.

Participants will set intentions with each twist, engaging in a somatic and ceremonial experience of remembrance, gratitude, and connection. By the end, each person will walk away with a woven lei infused with meaning and story and a deeper understanding of how their personal lineages, history and culture contribute to their unique coaching voice.

The special session is led by Adam Aronowitz, who completed a two-year Hua ’Āina course to learn traditional approaches Hawaiian cultural practices which he’s regularly integrated into group facilitation with the blessings of his kumus (teachers), and Don Borges, a respected kupuna (Hawaiian elder), who holds the distinction of being the very first BECI coach.