ICCOSpeak

We know how you value the experience of learning, growth insight and shared meaning.  If you’re in the business of growing people in any capacity, whether as coaches, coach trainers, educators or internal corporate program leaders, you need to be a part of these dialogues.  These experiential symposia will not only enlighten you as to what’s happening in the ‘worlds’ of all stakeholders of Coaching but will give you the opportunity to build something unique to your area of work.

When you come away from these events, you can expect to take away tools and concepts that can be used immediately upon your return. That’s a given.  You will also take with you ideas and insights that will expand over time, increasing the value of your experience.  Add that to the like-minded colleagues you’ll be interacting with, and these symposia will be extremely powerful, unforgettable experiences.

Come and visit this page often for the latest news on upcoming Symposia, locations, dates and topics.

These are leading-edge learning events where you will be able to build an incredible network.

We envision a “United Nations of Coaching” a body of divergent opinions and perspectives, alert to the ideas of others, collaborative, inclusive, respectful of differences and transparently apolitical.

To ensure intimate dialogue and meaningful networking opportunities, these are limit-capacity events with a maximum of 35 participants.  Through these intimate conversations, participants will share successes and failures through real life case studies of coaching in organizations. Organizations will share their experience with executive coaches. Organizational decision makers will find that these explorations enable them to systematize and accelerate their internal processes due to these dialogues.  

We can describe how the symposia work however it is something you truly have to experience in order to understand the power and impact of these events.

Click here to read what attendees to the LA Symposium had to say

Next Event:   

September 11 - 13, 2008, Chicago Illinois - “Coaching Excellence for Sustainable Leadership”   

The global stakes for sustaining  and assuring powerful leadership at all levels in organizations have  never been so high.  Data indicate that some 75 million workers in the U.S. will retire in the  next five to ten years, including fifty percent of the CEO’s in major  organizations. The talent to replace them will need to be chosen from a much  smaller group. This same phenomenon is echoed throughout the world, in both public and private sectors.
 
In a fast-paced, global  business environment with information overload, virtual teams and  competing priorities, what roles can organizational coaching play to:
- Help leaders develop resilience, influence and emotional  intelligence? 
- Develop high performing teams?
- Help leaders manage and lead effectively across multigenerational  workgroups?
- Engage leaders and managers to alter organizational cultures to be agile, people-friendly, innovation-supportive, and able to execute  strategy to achieve results?
- Support thought leadership, refashion processes, structures, systems, and policies to view people as assets rather than as  costs?
 
Join us in Chicago at an ICCO symposium hosted by Leo Burnette  Advertising. We will engage, through provocative case studies and facilitated  reflective conversation, the challenges of  leadership and the role that  coaching excellence can play in enabling and building strength in  leaders and capability in organizations for long-term sustainability.

Symposia in the works…

Guatemala April 24 and 25, 2008
Dallas dates to be determined

New York City dates to be determined
Boston dates to be determined

“I have devoted considerable time at this point in my life to serving as Dean of the ICCO symposia for three primary reasons. First, I believe that this highly interactive format provides a setting for frank and insightful dialogue among coaches, the users of coaching services, and those who study coaching and provide coach training. I know of no other forum for this kind of extended conversation. Second, I believe that organizational coaching is at a crossroads. It will either soon fade away as yet another management fad, or will make an enduring contribution to organizations and their leaders as they face the challenges of 21^st Century complexity, unpredictability and turbulence, and as they seek to create that sustainable world in which we all wish to live. I believe that the ICCO symposia can play an important role in ensuring that organizational coaching does endure, does contribute and does continue to mature as a profession and interdisciplinary endeavor. Third, I believe that our increasingly “flat” world is in need of continuing, constructive and committed dialogue among women and men from different cultures, from different vantage points within organizations, and from different perspectives regarding the use of organizational coaching services. The ICCO symposia are dedicated to these dialogues-across-boundaries and for such dialogues I am willing to commit time, energy and imagination.”   - William Bergquist, Ph. D.