College of Education,
Leadership & Counseling
Executive Coaching Conference
January 8 - January 9, 2016
Session Descriptions and Speaker Bios
SESSION 1
Coaching Mastery and the Master Voice
Friday, January 8; 8:15-11:30 a.m.
What is it that facilitates true mastery in coaching? This question is at the center of our
exploration in this session.
Presence, embodying the being of the Master Voice, is at the heart of engaging all of
who you are in the service of all the client can be.
Accessing your Master Voice is central to moving from Conscious Acquisition to Embodied
Integration and on to mastery. It is moving from the skills and doing of coaching to a
relaxation into and trust of the presence and being of coach. We will explore the power of
presence in coaching, the “Being” of the Master Voice, and engaging all of what our clients
bring to the coaching relationship. You will build a greater awareness and access to your
own Master Voice, explore your personal come-from stance as a coach, and learn practices
to support the ongoing development of your Master Voice. This session will empower you
to chart your personal path toward mastery as well as heighten your awareness of potential
barriers along the way.
Presenter: Jeff Staggs, ICF Master Certified Coach
Jeff Staggs, president of Business Coaching International, is an ICF Master Certified Coach
with 20 years of international coaching experience. He specializes in coaching senior
executives in Fortune 500 companies both in the U.S. and internationally. His client work
has focused on CEOs, board presidents, VP and above executives and their teams. His work
with hundreds of executives gives him incisive insight into the challenges leaders face and
what it takes to develop sustainable leadership in today’s global organizations. Jeff’s work
enables his clients to take on new business and personal challenges and to achieve new
levels of balance and performance­—akin to the world-class athlete who seeks intensive
coaching to move from silver to gold medal victories. His work has crossed a diverse array
of business sectors including extensive experience in the financial service sector, from
senior leadership to field producers.
www.stthomas.edu/celc
celcexcoach@stthomas.edu
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SESSION 3
Expanding Your Coaching Range
Friday, January 8; 12:45– 4:00 p.m.
Are you bringing the full range of yourself to the
coaching relationship? What aspects do you hold back?
What’s the potential impact of that? How might a more
expansive range serve your client in seeing a broader
view or different perspectives?
In this session we will explore the concept of range. As
with much of coaching, we’ll begin by looking within.
We’ll look at where we draw boundaries, intentionally
or otherwise, around what parts of ourselves we bring
to our coaching. Coaches both new and experienced
can settle in to certain familiar and comfortable ways
of being with their clients. We also make up certain
rules around what is professional or acceptable in
coaching. The issue is these boundaries or rules limit
our effectiveness, often causing our coaching to become
flat or stale. We will experiment and play with pushing
these boundaries in service of expanding our range
and therefore the potential richness of the coaching
relationship.
Presenter: Cameron James, Sr. Program Manager,
Global Learning and Performance
Cameron James has been training and developing
leaders within organizations since 2001. In the early
part of his career with Target Corporation, he trained
professional development courses on topics ranging
from Speaking Skills to Career Planning. He facilitated
team building sessions using instruments such as MBTI.
His favorite and most rewarding work was in leading a
variety of development programs designed to prepare
leaders at different levels for success in their next
position. He was part of building both internal Executive
Coaching and Action Learning programs at Target from
2007-2013. He is completing his Coaches Training
Institute (CTI) coaching certification in October, and is a
certified Action Learning Coach (WIAL). He is currently
a Senior Program Manager at Seagate Technologies
where he designed their first coaching skills for
managers workshop and is piloting their first internal
coaching programming. Cameron has a passion for
helping people see and bring out their best selves.
Leveraging Positive Psychology with Executive
Coaching Clients
Saturday, January 9; 8:15-11:30 a.m.
Explore the application of positive psychology concepts
to the practice of coaching. See how constructs such
as positive emotions, positive relationships, optimism,
and resilience can be applied in the coaching setting.
This workshop will also highlight ways to utilize visual
learning tools to help convey these concepts in an easily
understandable way. Further, we’ll explore a specific
tool - the Positive Approach 360. A common starting
point for beginning an executive coaching engagement
is to gather information through a 360-degree survey.
However, traditional 360s are not always looked
at favorably. Unfortunately, people look forward to
them like they do a performance review. The Positive
Approach 360 is different. It builds on a number of
positive psychology theories including appreciative
inquiry, solution-focused coaching and social network
analysis. It provides a practical approach for coaches to
leverage positive psychology in their engagements while
creating an environment that is conducive to the client’s
progress and growth.
Presenter: Pete Berridge, ICF Professional Certified
Coach, MAPP
Pete is an experienced coach and facilitator who utilizes
the sciences of positive psychology and executive
coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations
be more engaged, effective and productive. Pete became
a certified executive coach through the Hudson Institute
of Santa Barbara and is one of 300 people in the world
with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP)
degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Pete Berridge lives in Minneapolis and has an executive
coaching practice, Shorebird Coaching & Consulting
(www.shorebirdcoaching.com), where he puts into
practice more than 20 years of coaching and Human
Resources experience.
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SESSION 4
Use of Self in Executive Coaching
Saturday, January 9; 12:45-4:00 p.m.
What is use of self and how does it affect your coaching?
In this session, we are interested in bringing use of self
concepts, understanding and skills to your masterful
coaching, through sharing, activities and facilitated
discussions. Who you are is always with you in your
work and when your work is in service of others, and
it can help or hinder your outcomes. Cultivating selfawareness is critical in knowing your strengths and
how to use them and recognizing your less developed
aspects, biases, triggers, habitual actions and confidence
gaps allows you to manage your use of self for the
benefit of your client. To more fully understand use
of self, we will explore real presence, the role of clear
intentions and desired impact, the power of reflective
cycles and “pause”, and how vulnerability, self-efficacy
and confidence play into how we show up and what we
can do.
Presenters: Lora Geiger and David Jamieson
Dr. Lora Geiger, Sr. HR/OD Advisor and Leadership/
Well Being Coach, Landscape Structures
Dr. Lora Geiger earned her doctorate in Organizational
Leadership from Pepperdine University. She earned
her B.S. degree in Human Resource Management
from Winona State University and her Master’s in
Human Resource Development from the University
of St. Thomas. She has the Senior Professional in
Human Resources (SPHR) designation from the
Human Resources Certification Institute and is an ICF
(International Coaching Federation) accredited coach.
Employer honors during Lora’s leadership as head of HR
have included:
• Platinum Level Wellness by Design Awards from
Hennepin County for finding unique and innovative
ways to promote well-being at work, 2011, 2012,
2013 and 2015
• Outstanding eWorkplace Employer Award from the
University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute for
the advancement of Telework, for demonstrating
corporate social responsibility, and contributing to a
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• The Star Tribune list of “Top Workplaces” based on
employee survey feedback
David W. Jamieson, Ph.D.
Dr. Jamieson is Professor and Department Chair,
Organization Learning and Development, College of
Education, Leadership and Counseling at the University
of St. Thomas. President of the Jamieson Consulting
Group, Inc., Dave has 40 years of experience consulting
to organizations on leadership, change, strategy,
design and human resource issues. Dave is co-author
of Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity
Advantage (Jossey-Bass, 1991), The Facilitator’s
Fieldbook, 3rd Edition (AMACOM, 2012), Consultation for
Organizational Change (IAP, 2010) and Consultation for
Organization Change, Revisited (2016) and Handbook for
Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development
from the OD Network (AMACOM, 2012). In addition
he has published 16 chapters and numerous articles
in journals and newsletters. He serves as Editor of
Seasonings, an OD Network on-line journal; Associate
Editor for the Reflections on Experience Section of the
Journal of Management Inquiry and on the Editorial
Boards for the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science,
Journal of Organization Change Management, and
Organization Development Practitioner.
• Work-Life Seal of Distinction, WorldatWork Alliance
for Work-Life Progress
• Workplace Well-being Award, Society for Human
Resources Management (SHRM)
• HR Excellence Award – Management Resource
Association, Employer’s Association
• The Alfred P. Sloan Award for Workplace
Effectiveness and Flexibility
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