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 - Strengthening Organisations through Team Coaching: What factors really matter in building a stellar top team?
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
KEYNOTE + COACH DEMO LAB - Session 10
85 min
Coach Demo Lab:
Coaching Through the Fog of Fear
Dr Marcia Reynolds will share essential coaching skills to build awareness and confidence when clients face uncertainty and fear. The session will focus on how coaches can reduce tension and unlock imagination when clients feel stuck, including how to prepare mentally and physically and coach from presence rather than memory. The demonstration will show how coaching becomes a natural, flowing interaction, followed by a Q&A on embodying these competencies to better co-create with clients.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- How to use your own emotional state to ease tension and open a client's mind
- How compassionate curiosity creates the breakthroughs that change minds and
lives
- The direct experience of watching emotional co-regulation integrated with active
coaching
AFTERNOON
BREAKOUT SESSIONS - Session 11 - 2 Parallel rooms
60 min
Two concurrent rooms exploring the inner dimensions of coaching, identity, equity, presence, and authentic communication in a noisy world.
Room 1 - Why Coaching Works: The Science, The Stories, The Scale
Room 2 - The Gold Standard of Professional Coaching
AFTERNOON
WHITEPAPER PRESENTATION - Session 12
30 min
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Navigating the Complexity of Enterprise Coaching
As organisations increasingly embrace coaching as a leadership and culture enabler, many struggle to move it beyond isolated initiatives into everyday practice. This session shares lessons from an enterprise coaching journey, exploring how to build traction, drive adoption, and measure progress amidst competing priorities, limited resources, and evolving business needs.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
- Practical lessons for gaining organisational support and momentum for coaching initiatives
- Insights into common barriers to coaching adoption and how to make coaching more accessible for leaders
- A real-world perspective on measuring coaching maturity and using pilots to drive meaningful cultural change
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.
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