Coaching for Happiness and High Performance
2025-08-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Jackson Kerchis, ACC
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
CCEs: 1.0 (0.5 core / 0.5 resource)
In this session you’ll learn about Jackson Kerchis’s approach to coaching individuals around happiness and wellbeing. He will share a case study working with a burnt-out CFO and in doing so illustrate the framework you may apply to supporting your clients in this capacity. You will learn research-based determinants of happiness and how to support your clients’ flourishing.
LIST THREE TO FIVE PRIMARY LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

A framework for assessing your own or a client’s happiness levels (focused on behavioral inputs).
An approach to scoping an effective engagement with respect to quantifiable outcomes around wellbeing.
Factors and practices that support happiness grounded in positive psychology.

LIST THREE TO FIVE EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

You will be able to assess and improve your own level of happiness (even if you’re already doing well).
You will be able to help clients to assess and improve their levels of happiness.
You will be able to structure a coaching program focused on personal wellness.

Speaker: Jackson Kerchis, ACC is a former startup exec, operations leader, and Zen monk. He created the world’s first major in Happiness. He did research at the University of Alabama on happiness and taught the first course on happiness in school history. He holds a diploma from Emory’s Goizueta Business School in executive coaching. He operates two companies that bring wellbeing solutions into organizations: Happiness Means Business serves businesses while Warrior Leader serves military and first responders.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Join the Trauma SIG Group! - Sept 10, 2025
2025-09-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
Are you a coach and/or someone processing trauma? We are creating a Special Interest Group (SIG) designed to provide a safe space for discussion and support. Whether you specialize in DEI, leadership/executive coaching, trauma-related coaching, or simply want to normalize and understand trauma, this session is for you.
What to Expect:

A welcoming environment to be heard and share experiences.
Insightful discussions on managing trauma and secondary trauma.
No limit on the number of attendees; breakout groups may be used.

Details:
Date: September 10
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Topic: Overview of what Trauma SIG is and is not; develop agreements; set cadence
Facilitator: Steve Wendell, PhD, ACC, TIPC is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Faculty with Lodestar Consulting and Executive Coaching. Since completing his coach training in 2012, Dr. Wendell has designed and led innovative coaching programs, including Foundations of Successful Career Planning and Development- a course for graduate students and postdocs- and the ADAPT career coaching course for professional coaches. He also serves as an ICF Coach Mentor.
Fee: Free – $25.00
No CCEs provided
Don’t miss this opportunity to develop deeper connections and gain valuable insights. Register now and be part of our supportive community!
Register below:

“The Immunity-to-Change Process: When Change is Hard to Make”
2025-09-12 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Deborah Heisling, Ed.D
CCEs: 1.50 (0.75 ocre/0.75 resource)
Why is change so difficult, even when our clients are genuinely committed to it? What can we do to better support them to succeed in changing? The Immunity-to-Change (ITC) process is designed to enable individuals to identify assumptions they currently hold that are likely to interfere with their personal effectiveness. This chapter introduces the ITC process, illustrating how it works with examples of client work. Readers can gain their own powerful picture, or “diagnostic,” of the systematic way they unintentionally work against the wanted behavior (this is what we call the “immunity to change”), and what they can do to disrupt that system.
LIST THREE TO FIVE PRIMARY LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:

Understand what a psychological immune system is and how it operates
Gain a picture of the process for how to diagnose a psychological immune system
Consider how to begin the process of overturning an immune system

LIST THREE TO FIVE EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
Participants will gain knowledge on:

Draft their own immunity to change
Identify one or two limiting assumptions that support their immunity to change
Consider a couple of possible strategies for investigating their assumptions to assess their accuracy

Speaker: Deborah Helsing, Ed.D is Director of Minds at Work, where she coaches, consults and provides training on the Immunity to Change approach. Deb designs leadership development programs and learning experiences that are “deliberately developmental,” going beyond technical or informational approaches to engage transformational or adaptive learning and change.
She also holds a faculty position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, teaching courses in Adult Development and Immunity to Change. Deb has co-authored several articles and books, including: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (2016, with Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matt Miller) winner of an 800-CEO-Read Business Book Award; Right Weight, Right Mind: The ITC Approach to Permanent Weight Loss (2014, with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey); The Immunity to Change Coach’s Guide (2011, with Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan) and “Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change” (2010, with Lisa Lahey) in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Coach Lab via Zoom - Coaching in the Age of AI
2025-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
The topic this month is “Coaching in the Age of AI”. Come prepared to discuss how AI is impacting coaching.
Discussion Questions:

Will AI disrupt or deepen coaching?

Tools like ChatGPT, journaling apps, and personalized AI mentors: competition or complement?

Are clients evolving faster than we are?

Addressing digitally fluent clients who expect on-demand support and hybrid experiences.

Personal Practice: Discuss how each coach is (or isn’t) using AI in their practice.

no CCEs will be provided

Mastering Client Conversion: Empowering Coaches to Transform Skeptics into Committed Clients
2025-09-23 11:00 - 12:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Chris Kenney
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.5 (0.5 core/ 1.0 resource)
Coaches know how transformative coaching is—but when it comes to selling, even the best struggle to get potential clients to say “Yes!” The problem isn’t price or timing. It’s how you’re showing up in the sales conversation. In this talk, Chris shares The I-Help Selling System, a 5-step process for conducting sales calls that make potential clients feel seen, heard, and understood. Most coaches unintentionally create objections. That’s why they get ghosted or hear “I need to think about it.” Learn how to sell with confidence, integrity, and a “coach approach”—so the right clients say yes without hesitation.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

Master the “Coach Approach” to Sales Calls – Learn how to conduct sales conversations that make potential clients feel seen, heard, and understood, leading to confident buying decisions.

Identify and Eliminate Hidden Objection Triggers – Recognize how traditional sales tactics (and even well-intended coaching habits) create resistance and objections—and what to do instead.

Prevent Ghosting and “I Need to Think About It” Responses – Understand the deeper reasons potential clients hesitate and gain a proven process for guiding them to a clear and confident yes.

Speaker: Chris Kenney has spent the last two decades as a master sales coach, multi-million dollar business owner, and sought-after wealth mentor. He teaches brilliant coaches, consultants, and creative service providers how to break their money rules, rapidly accelerate their income, and live with uncommon freedom & choice. When he’s not coaching his private clients, you can find him speaking on stages around the world, sharing his 7-figure sales secrets with talented entrepreneurs, teaching them to step into their legacy work by shedding the chains of money shame and undercharging. His true gift is to show you how to become totally present to and accepting of your ability to impact the world.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

ICF Pittsburgh Coffee Chats - Sept 26
2025-09-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Coffee Etc, 3754 Willow Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15234, United States
We’re excited to launch ICF Pittsburgh Coffee Chats, casual, in-person gatherings hosted by our board members at local cafés throughout the region.  These relaxed meetups are a chance to talk coaching, share experiences, and build community—one cup at a time. There’s no agenda, just meaningful conversation in a warm, welcoming space.  Whether you’re new to ICF Pittsburgh or a longtime member, we’d love to see you there.  We’ll be hosting chats in different neighborhoods throughout the fall, so stay tuned for more dates!

Date: Friday, September 26
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Coffee Etc., 3754 Willow Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15234 (Castle Shannon)
Host: Tom Sullivan, ICF-P Board Member
Capacity: 6 participants 👉 Please register early to reserve your spot.

The Secret CORE of our Core Competencies
2025-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
The three principles that will multiply, expand, grow and deepen our Coaching Core Competencies (and all the Markers) to MasterFull levels—instantly and easily.
by Ben Dooley, MCC
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.50 (1.25 core/ 0.25 resource)
If you don’t know the CORE of our coaching, the deep nucleus of what we do, then you are missing out. Your coaching is unnecessarily hard, and you may not even recognize all the traps and stickies going on. The CORE has activated, enhanced, expanded, and exploded hundreds of coaches—from ACC to MCC—and has instantly made their coaching deep, effective, flowing and powerful..
It’s simple. ICF has defined the 8 Core Competencies to establish and define what coaching is, but it can be tricky to powerfully evaluate and supervise as we prepare for our credentialing or to grow our coaching. Why? Because we are actually tracking 37 markers within those competencies. And when your attention is on all those checkboxes, where is your focus NOT. You got it. You’re not truly with your client. Not only that, but focusing on the markers is unnecessarily making your coaching journey so much more difficult and complex.
And you want your coaching to be eeeeeeeasy and smoooooooth, right?
It’s time to discover the CORE of our Core Competencies—a tremendously simple, yet massively powerful model and design that focus on the three principles of MasterFull Coaching. This training goes underneath and supports and magnifies the Core Competencies in amazing ways. This is how coaches of ALL levels watch their coaching instantly expand, deepen, solidify and sharpen and the coaching experience is instantly enhanced. Your clients will notice the difference immediately.
WHO IS THIS IDEALLY FOR?

New coaches will love how this clarifies and explains what they are learning in their course training, allowing them to deepen their education and also help support their coaching as they practice their skills with their clients.
Intermediate coaches will thrive on the extra solid structure that provides complete support and clarity for their coaching, along with reminders of how they can easily and effortlessly deepen their coaching experience even further.
Advanced coaches will go nuts over how this formula helps them not only get back to the basics, but also deepen and refine their own already developed process and system.

COACHES WHO ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP WILL DISCOVER:

Coaches will discover a deeper level of the Core Competencies and Markers
Coaches will be able to access their deeper coaching power, range and presence.
Coaches will instantly strengthen and grow EVERY core competency in minutes.
Coaches will be able to listen deeper and fuller, create a richer awareness, establish trust more easily, and get their clients moving into action more easily.
Coaches will watch their coaching expand, enhance, deepen and grow faster
Coaches will know how to coach the Uncoachable
They will also be able to recover their coaching when they get stuck, lost or fall out of coaching.
They’ll also have a solid and clear design that defines coaching so they can easily identify if they are coaching powerfully or not (and how to get into powerful coaching
This also makes the ICF Exam soooooooooooo easy.
In other words, this simple, yet extremely powerful structure/design will open up new levels and allow the coach to show up more confidently and truly BE the coach they are here to BE

Speaker: Ben Dooley, MCC for over 22 years, has devoted myself to the excellence of coaching—for myself and the coaches I train, mentor, support and grow.
Since I began my coaching journey, I have created so many amazing resources and experiences for all coaches: The bi-weekly “COACHING SKILLS FORUM” telecalls (amazing), the BeDo Bits Newsletter (insightful) and my “MasterFull IS as MasterFull DOES” workbook series (powerful). I have created a wide range of interactive and engaging coach growing workshops, webinars and courses for ALL coaches, like the one you’re going to get today. And I can’t recommend highly enough the powerful and unparalleled Level 3/MCC, “MasterFull YOU Advanced Coach Training Program” targets “the Science, Artistry and Performance of our coaching,” and has catapulted many coaches to their next level and beyond. I have trained and grown hundreds of coaches of all levels—from ACC to MCC—and presented to over 50 ICF chapters and conference events around the world. In fact, just about everything I do in the coaching world comes from my overwhelming commitment to helping coaches discover their powerful coaching magnificence, confidence and success. It’s simple: the world needs us to show up and BE the MasterFull coaches that we are here to BE and DO the MasterFull coaching that the world needs us to DO.
And your journey towards your own MasterFull Coaching continues to deepen right now.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

ICF Pittsburgh Coffee Chat - Oct 10
2025-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Tazza D’Oro, 1125 N Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, 15206, United States
We’re excited to launch ICF Pittsburgh Coffee Chats, casual, in-person gatherings hosted by our board members at local cafés throughout the region.  These relaxed meetups are a chance to talk coaching, share experiences, and build community—one cup at a time. There’s no agenda, just meaningful conversation in a warm, welcoming space.  Whether you’re new to ICF Pittsburgh or a longtime member, we’d love to see you there.  We’ll be hosting chats in different neighborhoods throughout the fall, so stay tuned for more dates!

Date: Friday, October 10
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Tazza D’Oro, 1125 N Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Host: Christy Stuber, ICF-P Board Member
Capacity: 5 participants 👉 Space is limited—register soon to join us.

Coach Lab - October
2025-10-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
ICF-Pittsburgh Webinar, Free, No CCEs
Hosts: Kerry Donati and Tom Sullivan

From SMART Goals to Sustainable Transformation: SMART goals work well for projects—but what about goals that spark lasting personal change? The DIVE-IN Goals™, a framework introduced by coach Hélène Thériault, MCC, centers goal setting around heart and values. When goals align with values, motivation becomes internal and sustainable. Unlike SMART goals, which focus on structure and measurable outcomes, DIVE IN Goals™ guide clients to connect goals with identity, purpose, and long-term growth. The result? Greater success, motivation, and personal investment.

Crystal-Clear Communication
2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Max Polec, PCC
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.50 (1.00 core/ 0.50 resource)
Organizations grow at the speed and quality of their communication channels. In this interactive workshop, learn how to:

Have effective 1:1s that turn your team into problem solvers (not problem creators)
Give & receive feedback that promotes effective actions and lessens ineffective actions
Delegate clearly so key actions are done and you don’t run into “I thought so-and-so was going to do that.”

.Attendees will learn:

Coaching questions to ask when their clients come with a challenge or opportunity about how to communicate.
Frameworks to use to help a client in a work setting with things like having an effective 1:1 meeting, giving/receiving feedback, and delegating clearly to inspire action.
Common friction points that arise in organizations, what trouble they cause, and how to proactively prevent them.

Attendees will leave the workshop:

With a greater sense of confidence around serving their clients around communication challenges and opportunities.
With frameworks and coaching questions ready to use in their coaching calls.
With a direct understanding of how communication drives action, both inside of a coaching call with a client and in our client’s work-life outside of the coaching call.

Speaker: Max Polec, PCC has over a decade of experience across startups and businesses where his background was in growth strategy, operations, and talent development. To date, Max has coached hundreds of startup founders and CEOs. He has worn many, many hats and blends his background as an accelerator director, business owner, and executive coach to help leaders unlock their potential through focused coaching and strategy frameworks that scale.
Max believes that leaders are one of two things for their organization:

A ceiling that caps their organization’s ability to drive impact.
A multiplier that brings out the best in the organization to maximize impact.

REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

All Member Board Meeting
2025-11-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
We invite all members (those who belong to ICF-Global and ICF-Pittsburgh) to join our extended ICF-P board meeting on November 5 at 6:00 pm via Zoom.
We’ll review our vision, outline chapter priorities for 2026, and introduce the newly elected board team.
Key takeaways:
* Meet your 2026 board members and directors
* Learn about our vision
*Learn about chapter priorities
* Hear about new developments for 2026
This event is free to attend. No CCEs, RSVP is required to attend.

Coach Lab - November
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
ICF-Pittsburgh Webinar, Free, No CCEs
Hosts: Kerry Donati and Olivia Payne

Client Transformation Stories and How to Create Them: A dynamic forum where life coaches connect to both share and learn the strategies, tools, and real-world experiences that drive meaningful client breakthroughs. Together, we’ll explore how coaches guide individuals from feeling stuck to achieving extraordinary results, while exchanging approaches to navigating challenging situations with confidence and integrity. Through open discussion, case studies, and proven techniques, you’ll not only contribute your own insights but also gain fresh perspectives and practical methods to spark lasting change. Join us in the Coach Lab and discover how to turn every coaching relationship into a story of success.

Pathways to Consciousness: A Neuroscience inspired Coaching Journey
2025-11-12 18:00 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Ursula Pottinga, PCC

6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

CCEs: 1.50 (1.00 core/ 0.50 resource)

In this highly inter-active and fascinating presentation we will dive into the question of “What is consciousness?” Is it an off or on switch or rather are there different levels of consciousness. We will explore how coaching inspires and activates the four key ways of the consciousness journey. We will clarify and identify each of the four: of realization, regulation, integration and stabilization, look at what the neuroscience tells us about these stages and explore how we can support our clients through each of these, leading to sustainable transformation.
ttendees will learn:

Exploring the question of “what is consciousness”?
Understanding the four key ways and what neuroscience tells us about them and
Which coaching strategies support clients through these stages

Participants will

Explore the four key ways that contribute to consciousness
Get a greater understanding of the neuroscience rationale behind the four key ways on our clients consciousness journey
Learn the many ways coaching already supports clients’ toward the consciousness journey and
Which other strategies might also be useful.

Speaker: Ursula Pottinga, CPCC, PCC, MNTC is the co-founder of BEabove Leadership and is the co-developer/leader of its ground breaking training program for advanced coaches: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching.
Ursula also has her own consulting and coaching company, Profound Growth. In this capacity she supports highly successful leaders break out of patterns that have held them back from claiming the best version of themselves, impacting culture, relationships and creating new paths forward. She speaks and coaches internationally and has co-authored a number of books. She is the co-author of The Guide to Getting It: Remarkable Management Skills, Create a New Normal and the spiritual journal: Universal Intentions.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

ICF Pittsburgh Happy Hour Chat
2025-11-19 16:30 - 18:30 | Cadence Clubhouse, 9999 Kummer Road, Allison Park, PA, 15101, United States
We’re excited to launch ICF Pittsburgh Coffee Chats (though this one is at happy hour!), casual, in-person gatherings hosted by our board members at local cafés throughout the region. These relaxed meetups are a chance to talk coaching, share experiences, and build community—one glass at a time. There’s no agenda, just meaningful conversation in a warm, welcoming space. Whether you’re new to ICF Pittsburgh or a longtime member, we’d love to see you there. We’ll be hosting chats in different neighborhoods throughout the fall, so stay tuned for more dates!

Date: Wednesday, November 19 (rescheduled date)
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Cadence Clubhouse, 9999 Kummer Road, Allison Park, 15101
Host: Terrie Sackett, ICF-P President
Capacity: 10 participants  Space is limited—register soon to join us.

Special Interest Group: Trauma
2025-11-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 24, 2025, Noon – 1:00 p.m.,
Facilitated by Mary Catherine Ward, *tools meeting
(Zoom meeting, No CCEs, for ICF-Pittsburgh Members and Affiliates only)
Are you a coach who is processing trauma (through your coaching practice or personally)?
ICF-P created a SIG designed to provide a safe space for discussion and support. In the first gathering, in September, it was decided that topics will rotate between sharing tools for coaching those experiencing trauma and providing space to support those in the group experiencing personal trauma.
The topic for November is: Foundations of Trauma Informed Coaching: Brain-based Coaching and Breathwork. Mary Catherine Ward will present a concise overview of a trauma-informed coaching framework, highlighting a range of techniques that support clients through a trauma-sensitive lens.
We’ll explore:

the neurobiology of trauma from a specific perspective
examine how breathwork can play a pivotal role in regulation and healing
and review several practical breathwork techniques.

Mark your calendars for: Monday, January 12, 2026, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Facilitated by Ann Begler, *support meeting

Club Express Orientation
2026-01-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
To help all of our members get comfortable with our new Member Management system (Club Express), join Cailee Olsson (Virtual Administrator) and Terrie Sackett (ICF-P Project Lead) as they host an orientation session on January 8, 2026, from 6:00–7:00 p.m. (via Zoom). Learn high points about our new web page, learn how to sign up for events and manage your profile, and learn how to set-up your ‘Find-a-Coach’ page. This webinar will be recorded and available on our website.
Registration is required.

Special Interest Group(SIG): Trauma Informed Coaching
2026-01-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Facilitated by Ann Begler
Are you a coach who is processing trauma (through your coaching practice or personally)?
ICF-P created a SIG designed to provide a safe space for discussion and support. In the first gathering, in September 2025, it was decided that sessions will rotate between sessions that will share tools/techniques for trauma informed coaching and those sessions that will provide space to support those in the group experiencing personal trauma.
January’s meeting is a support meeting. Coming off of the holidays and going into the new year, Ann Begler will facilitate a session with the goal of sharing and support. This session will not be recorded and is available to Members (paid members of ICF-P AND ICF-G) and Affiliates (paid members of ICF-P).
Ann Begler brings her background as a lawyer, a mediator, her work with a range of businesses, nonprofits and government agencies, as well as her extensive training with the Gestalt Institutes of Cleveland and New England to her practice in Executive and Leadership Coaching. Ann received her initial coach training through Teleos Leadership Institute, leading to her certification by the International Coach Federation.

ICF-Pittsburgh’s New Year/Holiday Party
2026-01-22 17:30 | Coughlin’s Law, 138 Green Valley Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15237, United States
When: Thursday, January 22nd, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Where: Coughlin’s Law (Mount Nebo Pointe, 138 Green Valley Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237)
Let’s celebrate, connect, and welcome the new year together. Join us for our holiday event!
We’ve planned some fun activities along with discussing where ICF-P is headed in 2026 with the introduction of ICF-P’s new President Christy Stuber and other new Board Members. Dress is casual but keep in mind, this event is upstairs (with no elevator). Last year it was very warm so dress appropriately.
We look forward to celebrating with you and making this a memorable evening!
REGISTRATION by January 9th
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0 (A member of ICF-G AND ICF-P / A paid member of ICF-P)
Guests – $20 (Members of ICF-G, or non-members)
