The International Consortium For Coaching in Organizations

Cancellation and Refund Policy for Symposia

If cancellation notice is received within 30 days or more before the start date, a 15% administrative fee will be held back from registration fee and the balance refunded.

If cancellation notice is received less than 30 days prior to the start date, fees will not be refunded. Substitutions may be permitted at our discretion.

The “Wander Woman” Phenomenon: New challenges in coaching high-achieving women

The news is full of statistics proving more women in the boardroom means a better bottom line. Many companies are offering women’s leadership programs, flex-time programs and even creating promotion quotas to make sure they move women up. Yet top talent women often come to coaching with very different challenges and goals than what their companies defined. They feel misunderstood and mismanaged. How can we best coach them?

This session will look at a new identity of women that is expanding around the world as women become more self-sufficient and redefine success. Although they may earn high-ranking, high-paying jobs, success means realizing their greatest potential while making a significant contribution.

However, they keep defining their full potential as something more than they are doing. So even if a job starts out strong, before long they feel underutilized, bored, frustrated, and even angry. The solution is often to wander from job to job, career to career, and business to business in search of fulfillment and purpose. Then after years of wandering, they start asking questions about the validity of their purpose and sometimes, they aren't sure who they are distinct from what they do.

ICCO member Marcia Reynolds, PsyD observed this shift in the demeanor of high-achieving women in her coaching and teaching. Through her research, she was able to identify what is at the source of this emerging identity of women. In her new book, Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction, Dr. Reynolds goes beyond the research to provide exercises and powerful coaching questions to help the women release their "burden of greatness" and still enjoy the journey.

Please join us for this teleforum that will include a review of the research results, an open discussion on the “dark side of abundance” these women face, and a sharing of exercises and coaching approaches we can use to best serve these amazing women.

Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, MCC has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works, especially the brains of high-achieving women. She speaks and coaches globally focusing on the needs and challenges of today's smart, strong women and on creating workplaces that inspire high-performers. In addition to Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction, she authored Outsmart Your Brain and has been quoted on emotional intelligence issues in many publications including Harvard Communications Newsletter, U.S. Business Review, and The New York Times and has appeared on ABC World News and National Public Radio.

Successful teams are created and developed by leaders cognizant of the following:
    

§  Members who understand their roles and the ability to be interdependent on others

§  Focused on compelling challenges, both individually and collectively

§  Authorized by senior management to address the task and bring it to completion

§  Small group of complementary skills and decision making ability

§  Supported by the organization with training, information, and rewards

The latest research by Richard Hackman, Ruth Wageman and others will be discussed to enhance the participants’ understanding of how to create and develop effective teams.

Samuel R. James will present the latest team development research. Following an initial theoretical introduction, he and  one of his clients will review the process used to implement these ideas with a new team. Together they will review the client’s team, discuss strategies for on-boarding each member and creating the team. They will also discuss in detail how the plan was implemented. Together they will apply team research theory to transforming a collection of individuals into a high performance team. Following the live discussion, the teleforum will be opened for questions & answers and general discussion.

Sam has worked with high-level executives and groups within such notable companies as Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Old Mutual Asset Management, Dwight Asset Management, New Boston Fund, Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Roche USA, Ahold USA, Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, Giant Food, Kohler Corporation Sunbeam, Kimberly-Clark and many others.

Sam received his BA from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and his Doctorate in Psychology from Boston University. He is a licensed psychologist with a specialty in groups and is a founding member of the American Board of Professional Psychology-Group Psychology.  Sam has been a clinical fellow and lecturer at Harvard Medical School and has presented widely throughout the United States.