All-Texas Virtual Retreat and Conference

Coaching Presence 

CCEUs: 1.0 Core Competency 

Explore what you know about Coaching Presence. Compare your own Coaching Presence to great Coaching Presence. Consider the elements of strong Coaching Presence and how to improve your own. 

In this session, you will:

• Learn to stay curious
  
• Discover ways to manage emotions
  
• Be able to demonstrate confidence
  
• Master the use of silence
  
• Experience being okay with silence
  

About the Speaker

 Sara C. Smith, MCC, CPCC, is an executive coach, author, consultant and mentor coach in transformation and emotionally intelligent leadership. Sara’s broad range of experience began in sales, move into sales management and then into coaching and consulting. She spent nearly 30 years with IBM. Since leaving IBM, Sara has continued working to transform organizations and she is a master at helping people change, increase their effectiveness as learners and reinvent their organizations. Sara has served as an adjunct professor at SMU's Cox School of Business where she taught Leader as Coach in the MBA program. She is currently a guest instructor at Phillips Theological Seminary and TCU's Brite Divinity School, where she instructs doctoral students in the fundamentals of leadership and emotional intelligence. 

She is the author of Coach to Coach: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership for Winning Coaches. Sara is the Chair of our 2020 ICF Professional Coaches Global Board.