The ICCO Symposium: Background and Purpose

ICCO convenes professionals for robust dialogue about the effectiveness and improvement of coaching in organizations. The Symposium is one of the foundational forums for extended and insightful conversation. During the golden age of Greek culture and civilization, the symposium offered a venue for rich philosophical debate and for the establishment and re-confirmation of long-standing friendships among colleagues. Some of the most lavish of Plato's dialogues were offered in symposia. Documenting the virtuoso performance of his teacher, Socrates, Plato identifies ways in which his renowned teacher used the symposium to display his entire repertoire of characters, ideas, contrasting viewpoints, and iridescent styles.

While the symposia of ICCO are not intended to recreate the elite and often-ethereal settings of the Greek symposium, they are intended like Socrates’ and Plato’s symposia to produce informal yet highly productive conversations about things that matter in the real world – and in particular the world of organizational coaching.

The ICCO symposia are not designed to be yet another series of large scale and often alienating professional conferences, replete with formal presentations and brief commentaries offered by passive attendees who dart in and out of heavily programmed sessions. Rather, the ICCO symposia are uniquely designed to maximize extended conversation and interaction among participants. Case studies, presentations regarding coaching models, and descriptions of findings from fields related to coaching are always kept brief. They are intended not to showcase the presenters’ expertise, but rather to animate reflection and dialogue among all symposium participants. Symposium presenters benefit as much from the dialogue as other participants. All symposia participants are identified as learners and as active players on a supportive and collaborative field of critical and constructive inquiry.

Join us for the next TeleForum!

COACHING IN TODAY’S MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Thursday, May 22, 2008
12 pm – 1 pm ET

Join us for a lively and curious conversation on:

What is Multicultural Coaching?
How does Multicultural Coaching differ from Traditional and Diversity Coaching?
Why is Multicultural Coaching Important to your Organization?
What are the benefits of at Multicultural Coaching?

You will be exposed to looking at your coaching practice through the different lenses of American and Canadian coaching professionals who made it their passion to specialize in the area of multicultural coaching.

You will leave this session invigorated at the possibilities of multicultural coaching and the impact on organizations and the people being coached.

Registered participants will receive a PowerPoint presentation prior to the TeleForum.

Our dialogue will be led by two experts in multicultural coaching: Evleyn Montalvo and Pat Comley.

Since her childhood in a Latino household in New York City, Evelyn Montalvo has been instinctively bridging and integrating cultures to benefit from the best of both worlds. Often finding herself as the only Hispanic woman executive in her business group, Evelyn saw a critical need for companies to address the unique professional development and advancement needs of women and multicultural professionals. Evelyn brings to her endeavors 25 years of corporate front-line experience gained at global companies such as American Express, Cigna International, Fidelity Investments, and The Prudential Companies. In 2004, Evelyn was awarded the prestigious National Hispana Leadership Institute Fellow for her leadership in the community. That same year, she completed the NHLI Executive Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has been a guest speaker at professional and leadership development conferences for such organizations as Working Mother Media, Odyssey Business Retreat and Spelman College.

Pat Comley, from Toronto, Canada, brings a broad reaching background in teaching, coaching, and training. Her doctoral thesis was on exploring best practices for counseling and working with new Canadians and has trained and lectured locally and internationally on this topic. Pat holds a doctorate in Applied Psychology, Counseling Education and presently teaches psychology at Ryerson University, Toronto. She specializes in models of personal growth and stress management. . She specializes in models of personal growth and stress management. Pat divides her coaching/training practice in both corporate and educational organizations. She is a licensed facilitator in Emotional Intelligence (Baron EQ-i Inventory) and holds advanced certification in Team Coaching and Leadership studies.

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ICCO TeleForum guest privileges.

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Our June TeleForum is set for June 19, 2008 from 12-1 pm ET.

ICCO is delighted to dedicate a special TeleForum for a dialogue with William Bergquist, PhD. This powerful learning session will focus on two animation questions from our recent Los Angeles symposium honoring the work of Frederick Hudson.

Bill will lead a discussion for ICCO members and guests that will generate a rich and significant experience based on these provocative questions:

Some developmental theorists (in the tradition of Jean Piaget) believe that we move to a more advanced stage of development only after we have mastered the cognitive/affective challenges of the previous stage. Until such time as we have mastered these challenges, we remain at this less advanced stage. Other developmental theorists (in the tradition of Erik Erikson) believe that we move to new stages of development irrespective of our success at mastering the cognitive/affective challenges of the current stage. When we move to another stage, yet have not mastered the challenges of the stage from which we just moved, then we carry the burdens of this previous stage to the new stage, making it more difficult to meet the new challenges associated with the new stage. What are the implications of each of these perspectives on adult development for those who are engaged in organizational coaching?

Some developmental theorists (such as Daniel Levinson) believe that we move through a set of developmental stages in a sequential and essentially linear manner: the developmental issues we address in our 40s and 50s differ from those we address either in our 30s or in our 60s. Other developmental theorists (such as Frederick Hudson) believe that we cycle through certain developmental challenges repeatedly in our lives, though in each cycle we approach these challenges in somewhat different ways. What are the implications of each of these perspectives on adult development for those who are engaged in organizational coaching?

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn with a leading expert in our field!

William Bergquist, Ph.D . is an internationally-known coach, consultant, trainer and educator. Having received his Bachelors Degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, Bill went on to do graduate work at Harvard University under a Rockefellar Brothers Fellowship, and completed his Doctoral Degree in Psychology at the University of Oregon. As an author, researcher and scholar, Bill has written more than 40 books and 50 articles over a period of thirty five years. Bill studies and writes about profound personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations. He has conducted research and scholarship in North America, Europe and Asia to establish the foundation for his written work.

As an entrepreneur and owner of The Professional School of Psychology (PSP) for almost twenty years, Bill Bergquist has created a unique opportunity for accomplished, mature adult learners to obtain a high quality graduate degree at a highly affordable price and in one of several instructional formats that provides appropriate access for the busy, working professional. Located in California, PSP offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in both clinical and organizational psychology.

As a coach, consultant and trainer, Bill Bergquist has served more than 1,000 corporations, government agencies, human service agencies, college and universities, and churches over the past 40 years. As an educator, Bill has taught in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior and development, management, public administration and public policy in more than two dozen colleges, universities and graduate institutions.

>> Members click here to register free

ICCO TeleForum guest privileges.

Get a taste of what ICCO has to offer before you become a full member.

>> Guests please click here to register for a nominal fee of $25.

Click here for free sample audio

European Pre-registration of interest on ICCO Symposium
May 5-6, 2008
Oslo, Norway

"Coaching and Mentoring in Talent Development in Organizations"

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 senior organizational coaches. Organizational decision makers will find that these explorations enable them to systematize and accelerate their internal processes due to these dialogues.

Roundtable discussions about innovative coaching applications will open up the individual perspective. All conversations will be in small groups and self managed, often in an open space style. Groups will share their findings with the community.

There will be 4 case studies, including Tine (the makers of Jarlsberg) and The Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.

You are invited to this exclusive event. This is a limited-capacity event with a maximum of 30 participants, to ensure intimate dialogue and meaningful networking opportunities.

Maximum 2 leaders from every company and accompanied by max 1 coach working with that company

Register here for Oslo:

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ICCOs formål er å bidra til samtaler om organisasjonscoaching mellom ledere av store organisasjoner. På et tilsvarende møte i april i år deltok ledere av politiske partier, ledere av US Department of Education, ledere fra CIA, ledere fra Boz Hamilton og ledere fra TINE.

ICCOs arbeidsmåte er spesiell ved at det er fokus på toppledercoaching, organisasjonscoaching og innovativ bruk av coaching. Deltakerne i symposiet vil dele egne historier og utfordringer gjennom 4 case-studier av Coaching i organisasjoner. Lederne deler sine erfaringer sammen med senior organisasjonscoacher. Beslutningstakere vil finne disse samtalene nyttige og inspirerende for å systematisere og sette fart på interne prosesser.

NB maks antall deltakere på 30. Dette sikrer intim dialog og bygging av gode nettverk. Regelen er 2 ledere fra hvert firma fulgt av maks en coach som arbeider sammen med dette firma.

Registre deg her:

Agenda:
To be finalized.

Symposium language:
English.

TINE is host and the fee includes:
lunch and dinner for 2 days at TINE headquarter.
Location at TINE headquarters.

Exclusive:
For visitors from abroad we offer ½ day of tourist attractions in Oslo, inclusive of free "coaching walk" around a lake in the outskirts of Oslo.

Should you have any difficulties with online registration, please email us at info@coachingconsortium.org.

Chicago, Illinois
September 11-13, 2008

“Coaching Excellence for Sustainable Leadership”

The 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 CEOs 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, and view people as assets rather than as costs?

Join us in Chicago at an ICCO symposium hosted by Leo Burnett 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 leadership and capability in organizations for long-term sustainability.

Register here for Chicago:

Should you have any difficulties with online registration, please email us at info@coachingconsortium.org.

Additional future Symposia dates:

For more information or to pre-register for these Symposia, click here to contact Alexia Longacre