Session: Day 1 Traditional Indigenous Opening & Day 2 Traditional Indigenous Closing

March 21, 11:30a.m.; March 22, 5:00p.m.

Join Karl Dockstader in a Traditional Indigenous Opening on Day 1 and Closing on Day 2, so that we may begin and end our gathering in a good way.

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  Karl Dockstader

  Oneida Bear Clan, Co-Host of One Dish One Mic, Adviser for Indigenous content, culture and protocol for Plenty Canada

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  Karl Dockstader, Oneida Bear Clan, is active in One Dish, One Spoon territories as an advocate for Indigenous peoples. Karl loves grassroots initiatives, and is unafraid to take bold stances on matters that affect First Nations peoples. He has used art, public speaking, and audio storytelling to support community driven actions. Do you really believe in something if you won’t stand on a cold bridge in the middle of winter with a sign that shows your love for Our Mother the Earth?

  Karl is currently working as a radio freelancer, adviser for Indigenous content, culture and protocol for Plenty Canada, and is supporting curriculum with Niagara College where Karl has taken on past projects including instructor work.

Session: Coaching Foundations and Master Coach Demo

March 21, 2:15 p.m.

This session will be co-presented with hosts Jenn Wicks and Dana Wetherell.

In this session you will gain clarity on what coaching is, including what it means to be “coachlike”. The latter part of the session will involve an opportunity to watch a live coaching demo, led by coach, Marjorie Busse, with a volunteer participant as coachee.

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  Marjorie Busse

  Lead Faculty Member, Certified Executive Coaching Program, Royal Roads University, Principal Partner at Essential Impact

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  High-energy, sharply observant, and possessing a great sense of humour, Marj connects easily with people and creates a safe space for them to explore their own world and that of coaching. Marj excels at creating highly interactive and engaging coaching and learning environments, that facilitate permanent positive personal and corporate changes. Marj was Essential Impact’s      lead coach for JOEY Restaurant Group, the 2011 recipients of the ICF Global Prism Award.

  With 18 years as executive coach Marj has exceptional expertise in developing successful  leaders. She achieved Master Certified Coach, MCC, designation over a decade ago. Since 2001 Marj has been a lead faculty member in the International Coach Federation accredited Certified Executive Coaching Program at Royal Roads University. She is the Master Facilitator of Essential Impact’s Excelerator Coaching™ System and a co-author of the Excelerator Coaching Model, Team Coaching, Sales Coaching and A Coach Approach to Facilitation. She also uses Legacy Leadership®, and the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI).

  Marj has worked in a wide range of industries  with an extensive list of clients including executive business and company leaders, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, school board superintendents and educational leaders, police and fire chiefs, as well as leaders in faith-based organizations and charities. She enjoys the experiences of coaching  and working in Asia, Europe, the middle East and North America.

  Marjorie also pursues an active West Coast lifestyle. As a spirited sports and outdoor enthusiast, she shares her passion for biking, motorcycling, boating, kayaking, hiking and golfing with her husband, family and friends. Her basketball team brought home the Gold in 2016 when she played in an International Masters tournament with her long ago college  teammates. Marj’s strong family value shows most in her pride in the joy of adding (many times) “Grandmother” to her list of designations!

Session: Coaching Culture in Education

March 21, 3:15 p.m.

At Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC), coaching has been a way of life for nearly two decades. The university introduced coaching as a talent development modality in 2003; since then, it’s become an integral part of UBC’s culture and strategy and is the catalyst for leadership effectiveness and employee engagement. UBC’s motto is Tuum Est, meaning “It Is Yours.” In keeping with this, UBC HR invests in the well-being, engagement and growth of its leaders, staff and faculty through one-on-one and group coaching and by embedding a coach approach in its leadership programs for new and developing staff and Academic Leadership. This session highlights how modalities of professional coaching and coaching skills are impacting employees in the way they lead, learn and teach.

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  Heather Turnbull

  Lead, Coaching Services, University of British Columbia

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  HEATHER TURNBULL, COC, PCC is currently the Lead for Coaching Services at UBC and before that was the program lead for UBC Extended Learning’s Certificate in Organizational Coaching. Heather has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of organizational coaching, leadership development, learning and strategy. As lead of Coaching Services at UBC, Heather is responsible for setting the direction and professional standards for the successful delivery of Coaching Services, including 1:1 and group coaching, for staff and faculty. To advance UBC’s learning and leadership strategy, Heather is building and delivering a comprehensive internal coach-approach skills training for managers and leaders to move important learning, development and leadership priorities forward. Heather’s approach is partnership driven with the long-term aspiration that the communication capabilities, skills and competencies can take root and be given the conditions to thrive and excel on their own.  Heather is a certified organizational coach, a certified systemic team coach and is an EMCC Accredited Team Coach at Practitioner Level through the Global Team Coaching Institute.

Session: Leveraging Coaching (and Emotional Intelligence Coaching) towards Inclusion in Higher Ed: A Focus on Trans & Non-binary Inclusion

March 21, 4:15 p.m.

Barriers to inclusion in higher ed settings are not always obvious to everyone, but identifying barriers is one step towards dismantling them and advancing equity & inclusion. This session helps uncover some the lesser known and lesser talked about barriers to inclusion for trans and non-binary persons in higher ed settings. Participants will walk away with a greater understanding of how coaching and emotional intelligence coaching are some of the ways in which we can move inclusion strategies forward in higher ed settings. Through brainstorming the implementation of calls to action, this session invites participants to take up practical next steps to help advance inclusion.

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  Jesse Grimaldi

  Founder, Yeti Consulting and Manager BCom Careers, UBC

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  Jesse Grimaldi (he/him or they/them) dedicates his work to helping students, business professionals, and communities thrive. As an ICF-accredited (PCC) Certified Organizational Coach with 17+ years’ experience working and studying in post-secondary settings, Jesse’s work blends coaching, student career development, teaching & education, and advancing equity & inclusion strategies. As a white settler, Jesse is a lifelong and deeply curious learner grateful to live, work, and learn on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.

  Jesse is currently co-Associate Chair of UBC’s Trans, Non-binary, and Two-Spirit Task Force which provides strategic direction to UBC’s senior leadership in the area of gender identity, gender expression and human rights. Jesse is a co-founder of Beyond the Binary @ UBC, an accessible educational resource which aims to help staff, faculty, and students put UBC’s commitments to gender inclusion into action. Jesse has been a founding member of the newly formed UBC Sauder Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee since 2020, which helps identify and remove barriers for those who have been systemically, historically and persistently marginalized.

  Currently, Jesse is a Manager, BCom Careers at the UBC Sauder School of Business Career Centre, providing customized career, personal development, and emotional intelligence (EQ) coaching to undergraduate business students. As part of his role, Jesse designs and delivers in-class EQ educational programming to 2nd-year Bachelor of Commerce students, trains fellow staff on EQ, and Certifies coaching staff to become practitioners of an EQ assessment.

  Jesse recently launched a consulting and coaching company, Yeti Consulting (www.yeticonsulting.ca). His aim is to work in partnership with leaders to help uncover the myriad of ways they can move mountains in pursuit of their goals, and in pursuit of building thriving and inclusive organizations.

Session: Coaching Practices to Address Global Trends in Education

March 21, 5:15 p.m.

In June 2022, the ICF Thought Leadership Institute invited 34 Wisdom Weavers from 15 countries — experts in education, business, technology and coaching — to explore how coaching can facilitate progress in education at the Manifesting the Future of Education Convening.

Together, we envisioned education’s future in the domains of K-12 education, digital transformation, higher education, and lifelong learning as an integral component of the future of work. Our discussions challenged existing paradigms in education and investigated opportunities to collaborate and reimagine education as an interdependent system for learning that prepares students as lifelong learners for an ever-changing future.

Inspired by this conversation, a smaller work group came together to build on the ideas that were generated from the Convening. From that work, we issued our first Manifesto for the Future of Education. The Manifesto for the Future of Education establishes a vision for transforming education around the globe while integrating the practice of coaching as a catalyst for positive change and a mechanism for amplifying human potential. 

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  Alicia Hullinger

  Executive Director/VP – Thought Leadership Institute, International Coaching Federation (ICF)

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  Alicia Hullinger, Ph.D. is the Executive Director/VP of ICF Thought Leadership Institute (TLI). As a Cultural Sociologist who received a doctorate in sociology from the University of Kentucky and a Certification in Coach Training from Coach Academy International, Alicia is passionate about social change models and making the world a better place. Prior to joining the TLI team, Alicia was the founder of Consulting for PLACE, a consulting firm that promotes cooperative models and builds community partnerships, and a senior research consultant for The Land Institute, a nonprofit research organization developing sustainable agricultural systems. Among her many publications, Alicia worked with a team of TLI researchers to publish the peer-review article “The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching” in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science in 2022.

  Her purpose is to live compassionately bold by partnering with individuals and organizations to be the change they want to see in the world. Alicia collaborates with change agents who are committed to human development and want to enhance the overall well-being of people and planet. Alicia’s unique perspective as a Cultural Sociologist and Executive Director/VP of ICF Thought Leadership Institute offers a holistic, integrated approach to the problem-solving process. Alicia’s work is grounded in the ethical principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Session: Day 1 Debrief

March 21, 6:00 p.m.

An opportunity to share insights, reflect on learnings from the day, and set goals.

Session: Transforming Educational Experiences through the Lens of Indigenous Worldviews

March 22, 12:45 p.m.

Coaching in education has existed in traditional knowledge transfer systems within Indigenous communities since time began. Our community structures, social laws, and values dictate that we must engage in a style of education that allows for such safe spaces to grow, learn, try, fail, and transform. Coaching relies on mutual respect for the learner and coach, which removes barriers to receiving critical feedback and ensures that we all see development as good for the collective and not a competition for prominence or an identifier of hierarchal status. A deeper view of how Indigenous world views know this approach to community-supported learning and a reciprocal relationship of mutual respect and responsibility can enhance learner spaces no matter the subject. Join us in this virtual learning circle to explore how adding a view of coaching and mutual knowledge exchanges can support your work in education.

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  Jewell Gillies

  Indigenous Advisor, Two-spirit member of Musgmagw Dzawada’enuwx

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  Jewell Gillies (they/them) is a two-spirit member of Musgmagw Dzawada’enuwx. They are the daughter of Daisy Susan Gillies (nee Webber) and the granddaughter of Fanny Wamiss.

  Jewell attended the University of the Fraser Valley in their Criminology program and, in 2006 was commissioned as a Vancouver City Police Officer for the City of Vancouver. In their six years with the VPD, they served as a Beat Enforcement Officer in the Downtown East side, as a seconded Detective in the Sexual Offences Team, and were part of the Musqueam Response Team, among multiple other community-driven events.

  Jewell’s passion for supporting historically excluded community members and seeing equity and social justice centred on issues in education and financial security led them to change professions in 2012. They spent ten years working in the Education System, from K-12 and most recently in Higher Education, as the Indigenous Student Services Coordinator for Okanagan College. They were also the Executive Board Chair for Strengthening Connections, the Indigenous Student recruitment Collective for Higher Education in the Province of BC.

  Jewell is also an Indigenous advisor for provincial training programs working with BCcampus on topics covering Sexual Violence and Misconduct and Mental Health and Wellness.

  Jewell brings a wealth of traditional knowledge from their community and the many knowledge keepers, community members, and Elders have shared with them over the years. Jewell considers their 9-year-old daughter one of their best teachers/coaches, leading with love, curiosity and wonder for the world. It is these teachings that ground Jewell in their work.

Session: Coaching in the Classroom

March 22, 1:45 p.m.

Coaching is a lot like teaching and learning and vice versa.  I approach all teaching at the university as a coach whereby I engage with students, I work to enlighten and empower them, and I hold them accountable such that they excel in the classroom and beyond.  In this presentation I’ll be sharing teaching techniques based on a coach approach and the importance of building emotional intelligence skills through assessment.  

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  Hayley Hesseln

  Economist and Professor – University of Saskatchewan, Co-founder EI Advantage

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  Dr. Hayley Hesseln has dedicated her 20-year career as a university professor to teaching and learning. She is an economist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan with extensive experience working with Indigenous communities in the North.

  Active in education in the North, she has served as a Research Associate for the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the University of the Arctic. Dr. Hesseln co-founded EI ADVANTAGE and is responsible for its curriculum development.

  Dr. Hesseln is an alumnus of the Royal Roads University Executive Coaching program in Victoria, BC, Canada and a Member of the International Coaching Federation.

Session: Day 2 Debrief

March 22, 6:00 p.m.

An opportunity to share insights, reflect on learnings from the day, and set goals.