ICF Edmonton upcoming events

Enhancing Your Visibility: Leveraging Speaking Engagements to Elevate Your Coaching Practice (28 Apr 2026)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

**Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**

This Event Awards 0.75 RD and 0.75 CC CCEU Credits

All who register for the event will receive a link to the recording, afterwards.

Date: April 28, 2026

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MST | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

Tickets: ICF Members: $15 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $30 CAD

Public speaking is a powerful tool for coaches to increase visibility, establish credibility, and attract clients. Yet, many struggle with how to leverage speaking engagements effectively. This session provides a step-by-step approach to identifying ideal speaking opportunities, crafting compelling messages, and converting engagements into business growth. Participants will engage in interactive exercises, including refining a talk title, brainstorming signature topics, and writing outreach emails to secure speaking gigs. By the end, attendees will have a clear roadmap for integrating speaking into their coaching business model, positioning themselves as thought leaders, and using speaking engagements as a strategic growth tool.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

By the end of this session, participants will:

1. Craft a compelling speaking topic that aligns with their coaching expertise, engages their ideal audience, and positions them as a trusted authority.

2. Identify and secure speaking opportunities by learning where to find ideal events, how to approach decision-makers, and what outreach strategies convert to bookings.

3. Leverage speaking engagements to grow their coaching business by implementing audience engagement techniques, strategic calls to action, and effective follow-up methods to turn attendees into paying clients.

About the Speaker

Dale Wilsher

Dale Wilsher is an executive leadership coach, keynote speaker, and personal development expert dedicated to helping professionals amplify their impact. A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Dale serves as faculty for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute of Organizational Management and the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. As Director of Programming for NSA Colorado and a certified virtual presenter, she has spent 17 years leveraging speaking engagements to grow her coaching business. Dale’s dynamic presentations blend neuroscience, psychology, and practical strategies to help coaches increase visibility, attract clients, and expand influence.

Coaching Clients Through Spiritual Uncertainty (28 Apr 2026)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

**Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**

This Event Awards 0.5 RD and 0.5 CC CCEU Credits

All who register for the event will receive a link to the recording, afterwards.

Date: February 24, 2026

Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MST | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Tickets: ICF Members: $15 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $30 CAD

Coaching clients through seasons of spiritual uncertainty is complex—for both coach and client. In this session, Stacey B. Wynn, MDIV, PCC shares practical strategies for supporting clients as they navigate shifts in faith and spiritual practice. Explore how to uphold ICF competencies while “going to the mat” alongside clients wrestling with belief, doubt, and evolving spiritual practices. Drawing on a decade of experience guiding clients through faith deconstruction, Stacey is dedicated to equipping coaches with tools and insights for navigating these nuanced realities—while maintaining the highest professional standards.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

By the end of this session, participants will:

Foster a Safe, Affirming, and Client-Centered Coaching Space

Objective: Create and maintain a secure space for clients to share doubts, questions, and struggles.

Strengthen Professional Boundaries and Self-Awareness as a Coach

Objective: Prepare internally to witness your own internal responses during coaching. Practice strategies to remain present and curious—upholding client-centeredness by avoiding over-spiritualization or directive approaches, especially when beliefs diverge.

Ethically Resource and Empower Clients for Ongoing Growth

Objective: Curate resources that empower rather than overwhelm, and consider utilizing the resources your client finds helpful, to come alongside their growth path.

About the Speaker

Stacey Wynn, MDIV, PCC

Stacey Wynn, MDIV, PCC, is a coach, author, and Enneagram specialist who has guided hundreds of clients across corporate teams and private practice. In her private work, Stacey’s trauma-informed approach blends theology, abuse recovery, and faith transitions to help individuals break free from harmful beliefs and reclaim clarity.

Certified in iEQ9 Levels 1 and 2 and currently pursuing advanced Enneagram leadership training, Stacey has empowered over 300 clients using the iEQ9 to rediscover authenticity and find renewed confidence—whether navigating personal, professional, or spiritual transformation.

Stacey draws on her academic foundation in theology and her own experience exiting toxic evangelicalism, along with a decade of supporting others deconstructing from harmful belief systems and spiritual abuse. Her coaching merges spiritual understanding, leadership wisdom, and practical support for those facing the complexities of identity and transformation.

Outside of coaching, Stacey enjoys exploring nature, sharing adventures with her daughter, and beekeeping alongside her partner Dave in North Florida.

Connect with Stacey: https://linktr.ee/clarityunleashed.

The Prosperous Coach, Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients (28 Apr 2026)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:30:00 GMT

0.5 RD & 1.5 CC** Pending CCEU Approval

Join Linda Maul and your ICF Edmonton Chapter colleagues in person for an evening of engaging conversations and community building

The bestselling book for coaches looking to build a practice with a small number of high-performing, high-paying clients. With over 100,000 copies sold, The Prosperous Coach has helped thousands of coaches and consultants build their businesses by invitation and referral only.

Show your clients what they cannot see. Say to your clients what no one else would dare to say. And you will have all the clients you ever desire. Whether you are a new coach or you already have a six-figure coaching practice, The Prosperous Coach will show you how to build a coaching practice based on value, not volume.

Especially Useful For

External or independent coaches building a private practice
Internal coaches or HR partners wanting a “practice mindset” for impact, not transactions
New coaches learning how to structure their business ethically
Seasoned coaches wanting to shift from hustle to intentionality

It’s a refreshing, human approach to the business side of coaching.

How It Differs from the Other Books

This is the only one focused on the business of coaching.
While other books focus on presence, challenge, or simplicity, this book teaches you how to:
- Build a client pipeline through service
- Design a sustainable practice
- Price confidently
- Deepen impact and income together
It complements the other books by grounding “who you are as a coach” in “how you create a thriving practice.”

Bottom Line

The Prosperous Coach reframes business-building as an extension of service.
Serve deeply. Connect personally. Build slowly and intentionally.
When you create powerful experiences, clients invite themselves in.

This is the book to read when you want to elevate both income and impact without compromising your values.

Challenging Coaching, Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the Facts (29 Sep 2026)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:30:00 GMT

0.5 RD & 1.5 CC** Pending CCEU Approval

Join Linda Maul and your ICF Edmonton Chapter colleagues in person for an evening of engaging conversations and community building

Challenging Coaching is a real-world, timely and provocative book which provides a wake-up call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching. Based on the authors' extensive experience working at board and management levels, they suggest that for far too long coaching approaches have shied away from adopting a more challenging stance - a stance that can provoke greater performance and unlock deeper potential in business leaders and their teams.

The authors detail their unique FACTS coaching model, which provides a practical and pragmatic approach focusing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous goals, Tension and Systems thinking. The authors explore FACTS coaching in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues and practical exercises so that the reader will be able to successfully challenge others using respectful yet direct techniques.

This is an original and thought-provoking book that dares the reader to go beyond traditional coaching and face the FACTS.

What Makes This Approach Different

More direct, courageous, and evidence-based.
Less about non-directive neutrality; more about honesty and results.
Integrates psychology, adult development, and leadership thinking.
Helps coaches avoid “collusion” — going along with limiting stories to preserve comfort.

Benefits to the Coach

Coaches who adopt this approach typically:

Become more confident confronting tough issues
Build stronger impact with senior leaders
Reduce polite, surface-level coaching
Grow their own range — moving from safe to bold
Create measurable behavioural shifts in clients

Bottom Line

Challenging Coaching is a powerful resource for coaches ready to stretch their clients, not simply support them.
The FACTS model gives you a practical way to raise accountability, encourage growth, and tackle uncomfortable realities — all while maintaining trust and partnership.

It’s particularly useful when you’re coaching experienced, ambitious clients and you want to push boundaries in a clean, ethical, and productive way.