Join this panel discussion for the conclusion of our 2019 Grow Your Business Series. Hear how these established coaches found success and share some of their lessons-learned as entrepreneurs.

When: December 12, 2019, 12:00 PM – 1:15PM
Speakers: Stephanie Licata, ACC, Meryl Moritz, MCC and Eddie Turner, ACC
Format: Virtual Webinar
CCEUs: 1 RD CCEU

Who is this event for: New coaches building their practice or experienced coaches looking for new business development ideas.

This client acquisition webinar features established coaches to share their experiences from upstart to building a sustainable business. The culmination of our Grow Your Business series, this webinar will explore how the components of building a business come together in building towards success.

Through a moderated conversation, our panelists will share their stories and hit upon questions including:

What is your brand? What is your elevator pitch or how do you describe you and your business when you meet new people?

What marketing, networking and business development strategies have been most effective for obtaining new clients?

What have you tried for business development that didn’t work as well and what did you change? And what, if any, evolution has your business taken?

How many years did it take for you to feel that your business is sustainable?

Meet our speakers:

Meryl Moritz, MCC
Meryl Moritz Resources LLC
Chief Coaching Officer

How do we improve business results? Meryl addresses this in her work with global leaders and teams, focusing attention on the intersection of relationship excellence and brilliant execution. Coaching for 25 years and a coach educator for 22 years, Meryl has been assisting new coaches in business development strategies for the duration. She herself has felt the pain of needing clients and she is thrilled to share her journey and her time-tested approaches. ICF Global honored Meryl for her contributions to coaching by bestowing her with the Circle of Distinction Award 2019 of which she is hugely proud.

Eddie Turner
Eddie Turner LLC
The Leadership Excelerator®

Organizations that want to accelerate the development of emerging leaders call Eddie Turner, The Leadership Excelerator®. He is an in-demand expert who has worked for several of the world’s “most admired companies” such as Deloitte, GE, and Accenture. Eddie works with leaders to Accelerate Performance and Drive Impact!® through the power of facilitation, the art and science of coaching and professional speaking.

Eddie is a C-Suite Network Advisor and a national media commentator who holds international certifications as a trainer, facilitator, and coach—including being one of around 15% of speakers in the world to earn the Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®) credential from the National Speakers Association. He is also a published writer of content for Forbes.com and other national publications. Eddie is the international best-selling author of 140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders and the host of the Keep Leading!™ podcast, designated as New & Noteworthy by Apple Podcasts.

Stephanie Licata
SChange Ventures, LLC
Principal

With nearly two decades of leadership and management experience in the business and educational arenas, Stephanie is a skilled professional coach, adult learning specialist, consultant and speaker. Stephanie has worked in a variety of industries including marketing, technology, media, pharmaceutical consulting, automotive retail, public relations, education, hospitality, tribal-owned businesses and tribal government, gaming, nonprofit, healthcare, and with dozens of entrepreneurs running their own show.

With a subspecialty in marketing, Stephanie has successfully built a 1-1 career coaching practice and consulting firm which allows her to diversify her work experience while taking on new projects that promote growth. Stephanie has trained thousands of leaders and managers in the art and science of coaching for performance and development as an external organizational development consultant. She has coached hundreds of executive career changers to build and develop their personal brand while remaining professionally fulfilled. Stephanie is an accomplished speaker who spoke to over 350 participants at the Global ICF conference in 2017.

Stephanie received her professional coaching certification from New York University, and is also certified at the ACC level with the International Coaching Federation. She holds a BS in counseling and a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 16, 2019 “China is enjoying rapid acceleration of professional coaching,” says Meryl Moritz, Master Certified Coach and 2019 Inductee to the International Coach Federation’s Circle of Distinction. “In less than five years, coaching went from being a largely unknown field of practice to a sought-after second or third career, as women and men come up against mandatory retirement age in the People’s Republic of China.” Thousands of young and maturing professionals have undergone coach training, earned global coaching certifications, but found it hard to attract paying clients to their budding practices. Moritz says, “The missing element in coaching’s huge popularity is the coach’s vision. Articulating one’s vision and then strategizing to achieve the vision incrementally is crucial.” ICF Shanghai will host an evening workshop from 7-8:30pm, entitled “Coaches Vision” with Meryl Moritz, Master Certified Coach and Chief Coaching Officer of Meryl Moritz Resources LLC, from New York. Moritz will bring her 25 years of coaching acumen to the discussion, inviting attendees to think big and act courageously. “Coaching is still in the early years in China. When I was first starting out, it was hard to get people to grasp what coaching was in the US. The same is true now in China. Vision keeps the coach on track and supplies the energy and focus to keep on plugging away, while educating the marketplace about coaching’s value.” For more information on Meryl Moritz, visit www.merylmoritzresources.com To register for the November 19th event, visit www.icfshanghaichapter.com. The venue for the event is Cypress Gardens Hotel and Conference Center, 2558 Yan’an W Rd, Changning, China, Phone: +86 21 5262 9898

International Coach Federation Announces 2019 Circle of Distinction Inductees

Global association honors six coaches for significant contributions to and leadership in the profession.

Lexington, Kentucky, USA—The International Coach Federation (ICF) has announced the six coaches who will be inducted into its Circle of Distinction this year.

The ICF Circle of Distinction program celebrates the best of the coaching profession and ICF. Circle of Distinction members are experienced coach practitioners who have made their mark on ICF and the coaching profession. Last year, ICF inducted its inaugural Circle of Distinction class.

ICF CEO/Executive Director Magdalena Nowicka Mook unveiled the list of 2019 inductees in an October 3, 2019, video announcement.

The inductees are:

• Wai K. Leong, MCC (Malaysia)
• Patricia Mathews, MCC (USA)
• Sue McMahon, PCC (USA)
• Meryl Moritz, MCC (USA)
• Marcia Reynolds, Psy.D., MCC (USA)
• Dave Wondra, PCC (USA)

“As we look ahead to the 25^th anniversary of ICF, which we will celebrate next year, we can reflect on the journey we’ve taken together,” Mook said. “Many of our members have been part of our global family for most of the last 24 years. They took part in early conversations about how to set high standards for our profession, brought coaching to life in regions of the world where it wasn’t practiced previously, and invested countless hours in training and developing new coaches, while also investing in their own continuous self-improvement. It’s an enormous privilege to celebrate six such coaches this year, as we prepare to welcome them into the Circle of Distinction.”

The 2019 Circle of Distinction inductees each received a complimentary registration and travel stipend to attend ICF Converge 2019, which will take place October 23–26, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. During the conference, the inductees will celebrate their achievements alongside their coaching peers from around the world.

A volunteer selection committee comprised of ICF coaches from around the world selected this year’s honorees from a pool of 16 nominations. They scored the nominations according to five criteria:

• Contribution to and leadership in the coaching profession
• Career achievement
• Contributions to ICF
• Thought leadership
• Alignment with ICF’s core values

The selection committee included Damian Goldvarg, Ph.D., MCC; Zsofia Juhasz, PCC; Dr. Paras, MCC; Bill Pullen, MCC; and Anne Schweppenhauesser, MCC.

The International Coach Federation (ICF) is dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high ethical standards, providing independent certification and building a worldwide network of credentialed coaches across a variety of coaching disciplines. ICF is active in representing all facets of the coaching industry, including Executive, Life, Leadership, Relationship and Career Coaching. Its 32,000-plus members located in 138 countries work toward the common goal of enhancing awareness of coaching, upholding the integrity of the profession, and continually educating themselves with the newest research and practices.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 20, 2019 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in collaboration with American Express is hosting a nine-month long Emerging Leaders Boot Camp, to prepare upcoming leaders of major arts institutions with support as they identify next steps to grow their leadership. NYFA — a nonprofit service organization that provides the concrete resources that working artists and emerging arts organizations need to thrive – has engaged Meryl Moritz, Chief Coaching Officer of Meryl Moritz Resources LLC to work intensively with 17 upcoming leaders from museums, festivals, dance companies, etc. Moritz has a 25 year background coaching leaders and their teams and is a trusted resource of NYFA, which has used Moritz to coach its own leadership team. Director of NYFA Learning Felicity Hogan says of the Bootcamp experience, “NYFA’s Emerging Leaders Boot Camp is a free leadership development program for arts administrators from all disciplines within commuting distance to New York City. The nine-month program includes five full-day intensives, check-ins, individual consultations, and a two-day final session. NYFA is pleased to announce the fifth session of Emerging Leaders Boot Camp, which will train up to 25 arts administrators in the principles of leadership. The core objective of the program is to provide participants with skills that will assist them in their current roles in order to be more effective within their own organizations, as well as develop training that will help them to assume more executive roles in the future. Since its inception, more than 100 arts administrators have participated in the program, coming from a diverse range of arts organizations serving a wide variety of disciplines and constituents.” For more information about Ms. Moritz, visit www.merylmoritzresources.com. For more information about NYFA and its Emerging Leaders Bootcamp, visit www.nyfa.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   October 25, 2018

BIG PICTURE COACHING FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT

On Sunday, October 28^th, 2018, 13:30-15:30, the International Coach Federation (ICF) Shanghai chapter will host an afternoon workshop entitled Coaching for Maximum Impact. The event is designed for business decision makers, HR practitioners, and professional coaches to illuminate how coaching technology can have the greatest impact on organizational efficiency.

“Professional coaching has become a very popular development strategy for business people,” says Meryl Moritz, visiting organizational coaching expert from the United States, who will be the guest speaker. “However, the most effective coaching doesn’t focus only on the issue at hand but at the wide angle view, or big picture. Business people must make decisions by considering all the possible impacts and interdependencies on their department, their company, and their industry. Coaches must learn how to support their clients to have the ‘big picture’ view.”

Ms. Moritz appears courtesy of ZheDaoxing Enterprise Management Consulting Co. , a Shanghai-based academy which conducts training in business skills and coach education programs. She is a coaching pioneer who works with executives and teams on five continents and a coach educator who has trained the new generation of coaching in Europe, Asia and North America.

The venue for the workshop is Multi-function Hall, 1st Floor, Compaq Court Hotel, 2558 Yan’an West Road, Shanghai. Free for ICFS members; non-members pay RMB100.

Meryl Moritz is President of New York-based Meryl Moritz Resources LLC and a Master Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation. She has designed and measured coaching programs for dozens of organizations in her 24 years of practice as a professional coach. She has taught coaching at the University of Miami, Florida, at New York University, and is presently an examiner for Columbia University in New York. In China, Ms. Moritz trains coaches for PEMI Shanghai’s NLP coaching program. To learn more about Ms. Moritz, visit www.merylmoritzresources.com.   To learn more about PEMI Shanghai’s coaching program visit www.pemish.com.

Executives in today’s VUCA environment – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – must develop a new master competency to help their organizations navigate effectively: leadership agility.

On October 17^th, 2018, at the 3^rd International Columbia Coaching Conference, Meryl Moritz, Chief Coaching Officer and Founder of the New York-based coaching and consulting firm Meryl Moritz Resources LLC, will demonstrate how to support a senior leader in pursuing an agile agenda. She and Patty Keenan, President of Keenan Insights, Inc., from Georgia, will coach Karthik Krishnan, CEO of Britannica Group on stage.

The Conference theme for 2018 is Systemic Coaching: Whole-Person, Whole-Organization Engagement. It runs from October 17 through October 19 and will feature key note addresses by management science luminaries Daniel Goleman and Marshall Rosenberg. More about the conference and registration details may be found at www.columbiacoachingconference.org.

More about Moritz and Keenan may be found at www.merylmoritzresources.com and www.keenaninsights.com.

Contact Meryl Moritz Resources LLC for additional information at (914) 793-3936.