SUMMIT DAY 1 - 22 July 2026 - IN PERSON - KLGCC- KUALA LUMPUR
Embracing Disruption:
From Uncertainty to Clarity, Coaching as a Compass
Focus: Awareness, context, and big-picture trends — how coaching must adapt while maintaining its core value · 7.5 CCEUs (6.0 CC + 1.5 RD)
DAY 1 - 22 July 2026
MORNING
KEYNOTE - Session 1
60 min
The Listening Compass: Getting In Our Way or Getting On Our Way?
A compass has no opinion about where you should go, it reads the field you are standing in right now and shows you where you are. This session takes coaching's role as a compass seriously enough to challenge some of its most comfortable assumptions. Drawing on live transcript analysis and a research-grounded framework, participants move from concept to immediate use.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- A new language for reading what is already moving in any conversation, before interpretation, before action
- Practical fluency with a research-grounded tool for noticing conversational orientation in real time
- A reframe of listening as an instrument of calibration, not a technique of intervention
MORNING
FIRESIDE CHAT - Session 2
60 min
Coaching the Unimaginable: Building Human Capacity in Ambiguity & Change
Conscious leadership, navigating complexity with empathy, systems thinking, and adaptive capacity. A real-world conversation with senior leaders from Malaysia's most forward-thinking organisations.
MORNING
PANEL SESSION - Session 3
60 min
Disruption Across Sectors: Coaching as a Catalyst for Adaptive Leadership
How coaching develops adaptive leaders across industries. Adaptive leadership concepts, coaching frameworks, and cross-sector case studies from leaders who have used coaching to drive real organisational change.
Lunch & Power Networking
AFTERNOON
BREAKOUT SESSIONS - Session 4 - 2 Parallel rooms
50 min
Coaching at the Intersection of Innovation and Humanity
Two concurrent breakout rooms exploring coaching across diverse themes and sectors.
Room 1
Room 2 - The Future of Learning: Integrating Coaching, Technology, and Real-Time Growth
AFTERNOON
KEYNOTE + LIVE COACHING DEMO - Session 5
75 min
Integrating Psychological Safety & Leadership Coaching for Improved Performance
When people don't feel safe to speak up, performance stalls quietly. This session bridges the gap between creating a psychologically safe environment and driving real accountability through coaching, featuring a live 20-minute coaching demonstration using the POW Coaching Model (Problem, Outcome, Way Forward).
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- How to identify and replace fear cues that shut down innovation
- The POW Coaching Framework, a 3-step structure for coaching conversations that move performance
- How to maintain high standards while fostering psychological safety
- Live observation of tone, presence, and powerful questioning in real coaching
DAY 2 - 23 July 2026
SUMMIT DAY 2 - 23 July 2026 - IN PERSON - KLGCC- KUALA LUMPUR
Elevate Coaching to Human Potential:
From Inner Shifts to Systemic Change
Focus: Tools, Transformation & the Human Touch — Skills, Collaboration, Professionalism & Innovation
MORNING
KEYNOTE - Session 7
60 min
The Algorithmic Leader: Preparing Coaching for the AI Revolution
As AI tools increasingly provide real-time insights, structured reflection, and on-demand guidance, aspects of coaching once considered high-value are becoming more scalable. This forward-looking session explores how core coaching competencies remain irreplaceable, and introduces a model where AI augments rather than replaces the coach.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- How to remain relevant as a coach in an AI-accelerated world
- How to address shifting client expectations around AI tools
- A practical model for integrating AI into your coaching practice
MORNING
PANEL SESSION - Session 8
60 min
Beyond Algorithms: Coaching Human Potential with AI and Measurable Impact
Can AI deliver coaching impact without losing the human touch? This panel explores data-informed coaching, AI-enhanced insight, and how to measure real coaching ROI, featuring case studies from practitioners actively working at this intersection
Power Networking & Lunch
AFTERNOON
BREAKOUT SESSIONS - Session 9 - 2 Parallel rooms
60 min
Rediscovering Purpose, DEIB, Mindfulness & Authentic Communication
Two concurrent rooms exploring the inner dimensions of coaching, identity, equity, presence, and authentic communication in a noisy world.
Room 1
Room 2
Coaching School (TBC)
AFTERNOON
KEYNOTE + COACH DEMO LAB - Session 10
85 min
The Algorithmic Leader: Preparing Coaching for the AI RevolutionCoach Demo Lab: Life Coaching in the Face of Change
Dr Marcia Reynolds shares the essential skills to expand awareness and confidence when clients face uncertainty and fear, then demonstrates them live. This is not a scripted performance. It is real coaching, in front of the room, showing what it looks and feels like when a coach works from presence, not memory.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- How to use your emotional state to ease tension and open minds in clients experiencing disruption
- Mental and physical preparation for maintaining presence in uncertain coaching moments
- How compassionate curiosity creates breakthroughs that change minds and lives
- Live witnessing of emotional co-regulation integrated with active coaching skills
AFTERNOON
CLOSING SESSION
30 min
The Future is Now: Reimagining Coaching in the Next Decade
A summary session looking ahead to emerging opportunities, global trends, and bold futures for the coaching profession, and a commitment to what comes next.
* The organiser reserves the right to amend the programme without prior notice.
Tea Break & Networking
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