In this interactive Coffee & Conversation, we'll explore how the coach's internal state influences every coaching conversation, and why our clients experience our presence before they ever experience our questions.
Together, we'll:
- Experience two simple HeartMath® techniques that can be used before coaching sessions, between clients, or during challenging conversations.
- Discover how heart-brain coherence supports coaching presence, emotional regulation, resilience, and clearer thinking.
- Explore how our emotional state affects the coaching relationship and the environment we create with our clients.
- Learn practical tools to help shift from reacting to responding, allowing us to remain calmer, more curious, and fully present.
- Leave with simple, science-backed practices you can apply immediately in both coaching and everyday life.
This will be an interactive, conversational session designed to give coaches practical tools they can begin using right away while offering a gentle introduction to HeartMath and its application to coaching.
Special Guest: Debra Heslin, PhD., M.Msc
Debra is an executive coach, speaker, Certified Master Trainer, and HeartMath® Certified Trainer with more than two decades of experience in coaching, leadership, and adult learning. She helps coaches, leaders, and organizations build resilience, cultivate intentional presence, and create meaningful transformation from the inside out.
Debra combines the science of heart-brain coherence with practical coaching strategies to help individuals manage stress, strengthen emotional intelligence and communication, and make better decisions under pressure. She is a Certified Master Trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Techniques®, Hypnosis, and Coaching, with additional certifications in High Performance Coaching, HeartMath®, The Success Principles, Havening Techniques®, Huna, and other approaches to human performance and transformational change.
She has coached executives, entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, nonprofit leaders, coaches, and leadership teams, working with organizations including JetBlue Airways, Disney, Northwell Health, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, and Lululemon.
