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A strong coaching culture can help employees at all levels of your organization grow their skills, enhance their value, and reach their professional goals. It can also drive systemic changes leading to more diverse, inclusive workplaces. In this session, you will learn: * Why partnering with a professional coach can powerfully impact the way women work, lead, and live * The benefits of investing in a coaching culture for your organization * How you can drive change in your organization by starting the coaching conversation today

Magdalena Mook is the executive director and CEO of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She joined ICF in 2005 and has supported ICF with extensive experience in fundraising, development, consulting, and association management. Previously, Magdalena worked as assistant director of national policy and director of development with the Council of State Governments (CSG), a national association of state officials in all three branches of US government. She oversaw the design and implementation of a development strategy for CSG, coordinated policy-specific research and implementation activities, and worked closely with USAID’s US-Asia Environmental Program. Prior to CSG, she served as program manager for the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. Magdalena’s formal education includes a master’s in economics and international trade from the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland and completion of the Copenhagen Business School’s Advanced Program in International Management and Consulting. She is also a trained coach through the College of Executive Coaching, and she holds a certificate in the fundamentals of systemic coaching.

Tracy Sinclair is a professional certified coach[Ed.7] (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is also a trained coaching supervisor and mentor coach and is an ICF assessor. Tracy trains coaches and works with leaders to develop their capacity as leader as coach. Tracy is a corporate executive and board-level coach, a leadership development designer, and facilitator who has worked with a wide range of organizations, within the UK and internationally. She works with business leaders, executives, and other leaders to support and enhance their professional and personal development. She runs her own professional development business and coaching practice, which extends across a wide range of organizations and industries as well as private clients. Tracy serves as a mentor coach with coaches working toward their ACC or PCC credentials. She also offers supervision to both new and experienced coaches as part of their ongoing professional and personal growth. She is the 2018 ICF global board chair, having previously served on the board as secretary/treasurer and director. She was the president of ICF’s United Kingdom Chapter from 2013 to 2014.

I have struggles and successes in common with hosts of people I’ll never meet. I transform disappointments into energy rather than encountering them again and again as obstacles along the way. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself… and avoid some mistakes I’ve made. Better yet, I hope you’ll savor more fully your own private and public triumphs. * transform disappointments into energy * learn from the mistakes of others * savor more fully your own private and public triumphs

Raised in Dallas, Swanee Hunt first made her mark as a civic leader and philanthropist in her adopted city of Denver, where she led community initiatives on social justice issues such as public education, affordable housing, women’s empowerment, gay rights, and mental health reform for two mayors and the governor of Colorado. From 1993 to 1997, she served as President Clinton’s ambassador to Austria, where she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states. For more than three decades, her foundation has advanced innovative and systemic approaches to social change at local, national, and global levels. Her work combating the demand for illegal purchased sex (including trafficking) and promoting the full inclusion of women leaders in international security processes spans more than sixty countries. Through Political Parity, she advocates for increasing the number of women in highest-level elected positions in the United States. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Swanee is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, founder of the Women and Public Policy Program, senior fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and senior advisor at the Carr Center for Human Rights.

This session will guide participants in how to select great mentoring relationships, no matter which side you fall on. Participants will: * Learn practical tools they need to assess whom they should work with * Get tips for how to get started * Learn how to grow and develop a mentorship over time * Hear about the skills and responsibilities of satisfying mentors and rewarding mentees

Rinku Sen is a writer and a political strategist. She has trained thousands of organizers, activists, and agents of social change throughout the world. Rinku has over thirty years’ executive experience leading racial justice organizations in the United States. She is currently senior strategist at Race Forward, having formerly served as executive director and as publisher of its award-winning news site, Colorlines. She is also a James O. Gibson Innovation Fellow at PolicyLink. Under Rinku’s leadership, Race Forward generated some of the most impactful racial justice successes of recent years, including Drop the I-Word, a campaign for media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as “illegal,” resulting in the Associated Press, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and many more outlets changing their practice. Her books Stir It Up and The Accidental American theorize a model of community organizing that integrates a political analysis of race, gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other systems. Rinku is a key advisor in the philanthropy world and a devoted board member of numerous social justice organizations. She serves on the board of Maven, the largest independent media coalition in North America. Rinku also writes and curates the news at rinkusen.com.