ICF San Diego upcoming events

Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results (September 23, 2026)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

ICF North Florida Chapter Presents: Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results

Most coaches ask questions to gather information or show active listening. But the right question can do much more - unlock breakthroughs, spark action, and align clients with their deepest values.

In this masterclass, renowned coach Laura Berman Fortgang reveals how to turn questioning into a powerful art form, blending insights from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral change. You'll learn how strategic inquiry can create profound shifts in thinking, feeling, and action.

Key Takeaways
• The Neuroscience of Questions: Discover how transformational questions rewire the brain, unlock creativity, and break limiting beliefs.
• The Question Hierarchy: Move from surface-level queries to deep, transformational questions that inspire action and alignment.
• Advanced Techniques: Master the Challenge Frame, Solution-Finding Method, Values Excavation, and Resistance Dissolution techniques.
• Practical Applications: Apply strategic inquiry in coaching, leadership, team building, business development, and personal relationships.

The Experience
Through live exercises and role-play, you’ll refine your questioning style, receive real-time feedback, and create a toolkit of powerful questions for coaching breakthroughs.

The Ripple Effect
Masterful questions create lasting change. Your clients will gain deeper insights, take aligned actions, and build confidence - while you’ll transform every interaction, from leadership conversations to personal relationships.

Why book this session?
With Laura’s decades of expertise and cutting-edge research, this session equips you with actionable strategies to elevate your coaching and communication. The right question at the right moment doesn’t just gather information - it changes lives.

CCE's:

*1 Core Competency CCEU

IMPORTANT: This registration process consists of TWO STEPS.

After completing your initial registration, you will receive an additional email instructing you to ALSO register via Zoom.

Please note that your registration will not be considered complete unless you also register through Zoom.

PRESENTER: Laura Berman Fortgang

Laura calls herself an OG coach since she has over thirty years of experience, had the first book by a professional coach published in the US and the UK and helped to found the International Coaching Federation. She was also the first coach on the Oprah Winfrey Show!

Her life’s work supports other people to find theirs and join the A-List of life. No, she doesn't mean becoming a celebrity, but does mean not settling for anything less than the best you want to reach for.

Her Now What?® Methodology for career seekers and A-List Business Mentoring Program for entrepreneurs helps those who are:

• ready to take the back burner dream and put it on the front burner
• unclear about what you want to do or have never known
• reinventing after a life hiccup
• a coach ready for your next level of impact and income

Do you own a business or do you have a job? (September 23, 2026)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Do You Own a Business or a Job?

Moving From Self-Employment to Enterprise Ownership

Many coaches start businesses in search of greater impact, freedom, financial opportunity, and control over their futures, only to discover that they have created a job they can never leave. If the business cannot operate, generate revenue, serve customers, or make decisions without you: You don’t own a business, you own a job.

In this engaging 60-minute workshop, Dr. Cornelia Shipley Bearyman challenges coaches to examine the degree to which their businesses are dependent on their personal time, expertise, relationships, and decision-making.

Participants will explore the mindset and practices required to move from working in your business to intentionally building your business. Together you will determine where owner dependency may be limiting growth, profitability, freedom, and long-term enterprise value and learn how greater leverage can be created through people, processes, technology, intellectual property, and strategic partnerships.

Participants will:

Examine where their business is unnecessarily dependent on them.
Determine what you should continue doing, and what you need to delegate, automate, systematize, or eliminate.
Explore how people, processes, technology, and intellectual property can create greater leverage.
What systems, boundaries, and accountability are needed to create sustainable growth
Identify one or two strategic shifts that can begin moving the business from owner-dependent to owner-led.

The goal isn't simply to work for yourself. The goal is to build something that works even when you are not.

PRESENTER: Dr. Cornelia Shipley Bearyman

Dr. Cornelia Shipley Bearyman is the Founder and CEO of 3C Consulting, where she advises senior leaders and organizations on building accountable, inclusive cultures that drive sustainable performance and unlock human potential.

With more than two decades of executive and advisory experience, Dr. Cornelia has partnered with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and governing bodies to transform organizational culture, strengthen leadership capacity, and advance systemic inclusion. She is a sought-after global keynote speaker whose work explores conscious culture creation, leadership accountability, and the connection between people, purpose, and performance.

Dr. Cornelia is the author of the Amazon bestselling book Design Your Life and the creator of innovative approaches to purpose-driven cultural transformation. Her unique blend of intellectual rigor, heart-centered wisdom, and practical strategies inspires leaders to create cultures grounded in equity, wellbeing, accountability, and shared human progress.

She also serves on the boards of organizations committed to advancing equity and expanding access for historically excluded communities.

Dr. Cornelia holds a PhD in Metaphysics with a concentration in Conscious Business and Leadership, an MBA in Strategy, and a BA in Communication.

CCE's:

1 Resource Development unit

Net-Workshop CC#3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements (September 24, 2026)

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for our Net-Workshop! This is a great opportunity to connect with other ICF San Diego members, build your coaching network and dive deeper into the core coaching competencies. A member of the ICF Board will lead a short lesson focused on one of the competencies. Then, in break out rooms, you'll have opportunities to meet other San Diego coaches, discuss the competency and share collective wisdom on how you can apply these learnings to best support your clients. We look forward to collaborating and growing with you and expanding on best practices.

In this Net-Workshop we will be covering CC#3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements.

We will discuss what it means to:

Partner with the client and relevant stakeholders to create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals.
Establish agreements for the overall coaching engagement as well as those for each coaching session.

All participants will 1.5 Core Competency Education units

PRESENTER: Lauren Bronson

Lauren Bronson is an accomplished trial lawyer and professional coach who works with those seekingself-leadership, to live from the inside out and redefine how they engage with their professional and personal lives. With more than a decade of experience as a civil litigator, she understands the demands of high-pressure roles and complexities of working with individuals whose perspectives may differ significantly.

In her coaching practice, Lauren creates a space for people to come home to their authentic self, deepen their relationship withthemselvesand others, and rediscover who they truly are beyond roles, expectations, and performance.

Lauren is a member of the Archetypes at Work™ Guild of Practitioners.

She is passionate about dancing, taking improv classes, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors. She loves spending time with her pup, friends, and family.

*CCE Requirement Notes for Participants: Zoom: You will not be able to join the meeting if you are not logged into a Zoom account. If you don't have a Zoom account, you can create one for free at https://zoom.us. For attendance tracking purposes, all participants are required to login to their zoom account associated with their event registration. CCE’s: To be awarded CCE’s for participation in this event it is required to remain on camera for a minimum of 80% of the scheduled event. AI note takers: Will not be allowed unless you are also attending in person.

STRAIGHT TALK . . . What It REALLY Takes to Succeed as a Coach! (October 21, 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

STRAIGHT TALK . . . What It REALLY Takes to Succeed as a Coach!

Do you believe you have to work hard … put in long hours … and pay your dues in order to be successful as a coach? That’s definitely one formula for success. But it’ll probably fail you as often as it delivers the goods because some important must-haves are missing from the equation. What if someone could show you, step by step, exactly how to work more strategically and promote yourself in the smartest possible way … a way that’s easier and virtually foolproof?

In this very personal, fast-paced, and fun presentation, you’ll discover the essential steps in Denise’s practice-building system that thousands of coaches and business owners have used to attract clients and build a solid book of business.

You CAN significantly increase your chances of success, but there are some things you have to know … and do … differently to set yourself apart from the crowd.

What you’ll learn:

The top 3 characteristics you must possess … or foster in yourself … in order to build and sustain success as a coach.
The keys to streamlining your promotional efforts, so you stop wasting time and start to generate more clients and opportunities, expand your circle of influence, and make more money!
How to master the strategies, tools, and “ways of being” by which extraordinarily successful people live their lives.

PRESENTER: Denise Hedges

Denise Hedges is a business development coach and speaker coach with over 30 years’ experience in sales and marketing. She’s an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Mentor Coach, and she served as a faculty member at Coach University for over a decade. Denise has sustained a six-figure coaching practice for nearly 20 years!

She specializes in working with coaches to market themselves more effectively using the strategy of speaking. Denise has trained personal and business coaches all over the world!

For more information about Denise and her work, please visit her website at: DeniseHedges.com

Each participant will receive 1 CCEU in Resource Development

CCE Requirement Notes for Participants: For attendance tracking purposes, all participants are required to login to their zoom account associated with their event registration. CCE’s: To be awarded CCE’s for participation in this event it is required to remain on camera for a minimum of 80% of the scheduled event.