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The next high impact audience to experience the amplifying power of coaching is the word of social progress. Join us for a panel discussion of what is occurring already with highly effective outcomes through the United Nations and partners across the globe, focusing on Sustainable Development Goal 4, Education Access & Quality. ICF CEO Magdalena Nowicka Mook and ICF Foundation Chair Morel Fourman join our conference host, Janet M. Harvey CEO inviteCHANGE for a discussion of this next frontier for coaching to generate thriving human society.

Learn what systemic racism is so that you can step out of denial and into a place of insight. During her talk, Robin will inform, educate, and challenge you to reflect and begin to trace our past into the present so you may understand the "most complex and nuanced social dilemma that often leaves white people off the table".

The world is searching for a high impact climate solution in the short term while we still have the time to act. Cities represent 70% of the planet’s carbon emissions and citizens’ daily lifestyle choices represent 70% of these emissions. Cities are the pathway through which effective climate action must travel. How can we empower cities to become carbon neutral in a decade? The Cool Block initiative has been designed to tackle this audacious goal.

1. It adds the missing piece in climate solutions – the ability to achieve sustained behavior change at scale.

2. It accelerates the speed and magnitude of carbon reduction because of its whole system approach (top-down and bottom-up) and tipping point scaling strategy.

3. It is a demand side activator enabling investments in supply-side climate solutions of policy, technology and market creation to be significantly more successful or viable at all.

4. It has a proven track record in achieving significant carbon reduction in a short period of time, is scalable, cost effective, and is already deployed in several cities.

In this talk world renowned social change authority and architect of Cool Block, David Gershon, will offer a strategy for creating carbon neutral cities that can be applied to your community.

Looking at the world from the perspectives of both men and women, Dr. Farrell provides a remarkable communication program to assist couples in moving beyond the current tripwire assumptions that lead to so much gender-based conflict, and to allow them to understand and love each other more fully than ever. His methods are the culmination of thirty years of experience with thousands of men and women in workshops, groups, and seminars. They prove that strategies that create love at home can also produce success and respect in the workplace. With this session, Farrell will delve into the root of effective communication and how basic coaching can be implemented in not only your personal lives, but your professional ones as well. With the foundation of efficacious coaching being to listen and be open to communication, Farrell stresses the positive effects this can bring in the workplace and ultimately your communities as well.

There are 40+ million people in slavery globally today. Slavery is a multibillion - dollar industry, preying on the poor and the vulnerable. This catastrophic crisis is crying out for awareness, advocacy and engagement at every possible level. Human trafficking generates $150 B annually, and 1 in 4 victims of modern slavery is a child. Yet each enslaved person has a name, and the potential for a new beginning and a new story. You cannot afford to look away. Still, the nature of your response matters. Driven by your own internal triggers, your well-meaning passions, and heroic aims, you could miss your potential for wholehearted action and sustainable engagement. You could center yourself and your talents too in order to “be the change”. This work calls for a different kind of hero, with an intentional and strategic focus. Drawing on the stories and insights of anti-trafficking leaders, and survivor leaders, this session invites you to see how your distinct skill sets and perspective can lead to transformative impact.

It’s not policies on climate change, pandemics or inequality that will make the difference to our societies, but having those in authority lead and make decisions based on how those decisions impact people. Veronica Lysaght advocates for leading with humanity, saying you each have a responsibility to act with compassion and kindness in whatever work you do.

"We live in a time when old barriers are dissolving and old certainties are crumbling. Inevitable, necessary change also creates new opportunity.

The leadership of today is shaping the world for our children tomorrow. As a generation of leaders, what leadership do we bring? What does teamwork look like in this new paradigm - teamwork within and between organisations?

Examples will include World Bank projects, international corporations, governments and non-profits. Learn from distilled insights of International Coaching Federation (ICF) Foundation and ICF chapters to “ignite social progress.”

Our speaker believes passionately that the role of coaches and coaching can change the course of history – for the better. Coaches are natural partners leading into our new future.

This session offers an invitation for leaders, teams and coaches to reflect, renew and restart. Be ready to think your unthinkable and to see your world and life differently – practically and in a good way.

Spanning from personal purpose to humanity’s potential on this beautiful planet, Morel Fourman will share proven practical tools to use in-session and to use in the world, for impact at scale.

Every parent, coach and leader has a part to play in this once in a generation opportunity for impact at scale. "

We are all living in an extraordinary new world. The genie is out of the bottle and it’s never going back. To co-create the future that you want to be living in now, you need to exercise and develop three muscles:

• Managing your state and being resourceful under pressure
• Accepting the reality of situations and getting creative about solutions
• Starting quickly and adapting as you go

In this session, Kathryn and Alan will share a model you can use to help yourself, and others, make more conscious choices and tangible progress, every day.

Together you will explore how to choose your story, choose your response and choose your action.

In break out groups you will have the chance to practice the model and together you will explore how it can be applied in both one-to-one and team situations.

As leaders and coaches, by developing your ability to follow your client’s voice, you refine your empathy skills and learn to listen in ways that help clients clarify what matters most to them. In this session, you will learn a process of exploring voice that gives us the ability to play the full range of your own voices. With increased self-awareness, you can more effectively support your clients to discover the full range of their needs, concerns, hopes and desires so that they can design and create meaningful change.

This session will be interactive with practice of using the breath and gratitude. So let’s think about mindfulness and your emotional well-being as a bank balance. In order to buy food, pay the mortgage or go on holiday you need a healthy bank balance. In the same way you need to build up your emotional bank balance. As you learn and regularly practice more relaxation techniques, the emotional bank balance builds up so that when you are hit with those tough challenges, you are more stable to be able to deal with them. By being mindful and more present through simple tasks like conscious breathing, gratitude, eating or simply enjoying a cuppa the emotional bank balance can be topped up easily, regularly and daily.

Imagine if you woke up one morning and found yourself transported to another world. Guess what? We all have! Whether it's been a new job, a new family challenge or a new country, we've all landed in a strange territory and have had to lead someone, if only ourselves. Christine will share her experience as an ex-pat in Colombia who started a foundation to promote democracy and youth leadership in areas of conflict. She'll suggest how you can successfully lead in hostile and/or unfamiliar circumstances by following the Tenet Triad of: Situational Awareness; By, With & Through; and NON SIBI (Latin for 'not for self')

The quality of everything you as a human being do and feel depends upon the quality of the thinking you do first. How then do you help others think well for themselves with courage, imagination and grace? Why does it matter? Because more than at any time, you need to make the best use of your intelligence, respect and dignify each other as human beings and deepen your commitment to collaboration.

Why is it that we too often depend on external and usually brutal life events to make the changes that we have been longing for? What if these events do not happen? Is it possible to create our crucible moments from within and if the answer is yes, what learning process and self-discovery journey does it require from us?

The fact that defining moments are often born of hardship is well-accepted. Numerous stories attest to the fact that, when confronted with unforeseen life events, some of us are able to exercise our newly found resiliency to build a better, more fulfilling life.

However, the idea of self-generated defining moments has not been given enough thought despite being extremely compelling. It has fascinated me for the last eight years and my own as well as my client’s experience have provided me with a rich source of learning. Join me in this reflective conversation where I will share my own personal transformation and the 3 essential steps that I believe make this personal journey towards creating our defining moment possible. There has never been a better time to attempt to disrupt our current life trajectory if we so choose to.

This session guides conference participants through a 15-minute meditation to establish a calm state and expand awareness of their mental, emotional, and physical body. This awareness will support participants in engaging with the afternoon sessions on a deeper level.

In this hands-on workshop, world renowned social change authority and architect of Cool Block, David Gershon, offers both the strategy and the day-by-day steps for you to create a carbon neutral city in your community.

How can you empower your neighborhood and the next one two so that your city becomes carbon neutral in a decade? The Cool Block initiative has been designed to tackle this audacious goal.

1. It adds the missing piece in climate solutions – the ability to achieve sustained behavior change at scale.

2. It accelerates the speed and magnitude of carbon reduction because of its whole system approach (top-down and bottom-up) and tipping point scaling strategy.

3. It is a demand side activator enabling investments in supply-side climate solutions of policy, technology and market creation to be significantly more successful or viable at all.

4. It has a proven track record in achieving significant carbon reduction in a short period of time, is scalable, cost effective, and is already deployed in several cities.

Need one more 'why attend this session?' The world is searching for a high impact climate solution in the short term while we still have the time to act. Cities represent 70% of the planet’s carbon emissions and citizens’ daily lifestyle choices represent 70% of these emissions. Cities are the pathway through which effective climate action must travel. You are the traveler on that pathway for change.

Even the most secluded person cannot fail to have noticed that the United States is riven by competing worldviews. The rhetoric of this disunity is couched in the language of values which challenges us to ask this question: If it is a fight over values, which values are best? Of course, the critical word here is best, so let me define what I mean by that. Best is the greatest state of wellbeing from the individual, to the family, the community, the nation, the Earth itself, and all the beings who inhabit the planet. Can we answer which values are best in an objectively verifiable way? Can we avoid the mires of theological or ideological dispute? Can we know with surety which set of values produces greater social wellness? The answer: Yes, we can. And we can do it on the basis of data, with no reference to polemics, ideology, or theology. Just data. And what we discover is that in every instance when wellbeing is the first priority the social outcome is more productive, more efficient, easier to implement, longer enduring, nicer to live under, and much much cheaper.

"This case study explores the topic of trauma-informed care through a panel discussion. Attendees learn how providing caring, compassionate and empathetic services that are trauma-informed spearheaded Elite Foundations mission and vision to co-create a future for every survivor and care for victims of sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking.

Trauma affects people of every race, age, ethnicity and socioeconomic level and it can be a single isolated event or a series of events which can bring out feelings of terror, helplessness and lack of control and power. The co-founders and the leader of the Elite Survivors Council discuss, through moderated narrative, their experience in Trauma-Informed Care and its impact on survivors of sexual exploitation. The session also discusses the framework with real time strategies to help others meet personal or organizational goals while utilizing Trauma-Informed principles.

The three panelists discuss, from each of their perspectives, cases and examples in which trauma-informed care was provided or not and how that experience impacted even further their mission to help those who have been traumatized."

A growth mindset not only empowers more positive lifelong opportunities but can have a profound impact on your workplaces. Real change first happens at the level of the self, then extends organically to your families, your work teams, and ultimately the business and the communities in which you live and operate. In this experiential activity-based workshop, you will explore the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset, how mindsets effect leadership styles, and how you can continuously shift to a more empowering mindset. Attendees will practice embracing this mindset shift, modeling growth behaviors, and develop a plan to inspire others to do the same.

In the process of building healthy communities and organizations, leaders spend a lot of energy learning how to influence others. Yet society is rebelling against this one-way, top-down, privileged perspective. What’s missing? Leaders truly being open to influence from others. The consequences of this missing piece are many: people mistrust their leaders and embrace “us versus them” thinking. Discussions about racial injustice lead to defensiveness and denial. We can’t distinguish between victims of the system and having a victim mentality. Attachment to our biases lead to blind spots that keep us from being effective change agents in a world that desperately needs us to step up.

If we are going to dismantle and transform injustice, inequity, and insecurity, we’ll need courage: to open our hearts and minds, to acknowledge our interconnectedness. This is where a coach approach can support us into moving to a new reality. In this interactive session, we’ll explore what it means to embody a coaching mindset as we work for change, whether that’s in our own backyard or as part of the national conversation. We’ll focus on the power of humility, curiosity, and empathy. And you’ll leave with deeper self-awareness and a new relationship to influence.

We have created a world that works for few… not even those it purports to work for. Our current systems and structures are dysfunctional. Our challenge is to envision a world that can work for all living beings. It is only in this way that you can heal yourself, heal your relationships with each other, and contribute to a healing Earth. We will do this by changing your consciousness and learning to practice Inclusivity – We are ONE.

This session will help you develop the mindset of resilience and accountability during change. Successfully navigating an ever-changing global environment often involves new strategies, a growth mindset, but more importantly it also includes managing the people side of change and leading with courage. There is an emotional curve that most people travel when dealing with change. Join me for a safe ride on this emotional roller coaster where you will explore the value of dealing with your own emotions during change before you can assist others. You will travel through the four quadrants of emotional intelligence as you discover your natural behavioral tendencies towards change. Do you find yourself operating from a space of powerlessness or empowerment when asked to lead a change initiative? Learn how to take accountability for guilt free self-care that can lead to resilience even in the midst of change.

Over the past 15 years Josie has immersed herself in the world of complexity of living systems to understand the nature and dynamic of the paradigm shifting changes that we most need now. She brings expertise and practical experience in the fields of organisational sustainability, leadership and organisational development, complexity (living systems) and change. Her presentation will be as interactive as possible as you explore how it might be useful to perceive the world. You will also engage with practical models to assist you to guide similar transformations to the case study example you will experience.

Kool 2 Care is a company taking action right now to stop the out of control daily consumption of single use plastic items. Our strategy is to empower individuals, families, and communities to take direct action in causing change through sharing information about how they can be part of the solution. We provide tools and techniques needed to effectively reduce single use plastic waste in daily life and generally become more eco-friendly. We designed compact, reusable, and all-inclusive “K2C eco-reusable kits”. We also created a one stop online shop where you can find the kits and other items for purchase. Each time an item from the store or kits is used; it is a direct action to keep single use plastics out of the environment. K2C kits are designed to make it easy for families and individuals to transition to a more eco-friendly lifestyle by replacing single use items with sustainable reusable ones. We believe that every little bit counts, each action matters, and that something is infinitely more than nothing. We also believe that these efforts increase in efficiency exponentially when people share the simple positive message that it is kool 2 care about the planet and future generations.

Janet Harvey will share her personal vision and the motivating factors behind her passionate commitment to deploy coaching as the great amplifer and accelerator of social progress. The application of coaching in the social cause arena is far behind others and yet is the place of greatest need and contribution to the well being of the planet and all human society. The time is now to bring the full resource, capability and creativity of coaching to awaken consciousness and empower the leader inside every person on the planet. She will also offer a sneal peak into her new book, Invite change: 2020 The Year of No Return.

Alison Teal, named the Female Indiana Jones by Time Magazine, was raised around the world homeschooled by her adventure photographer parents, exploring ancient cultures, uncovering mysteries, and learning ancient survival secrets. Alison has taken up the torch of exploration and protecting the planet through her Alison’s Adventures films and book With a lifetime of stunning films and photos to excite and entertain the imagination, Alison is now excited to virtually take you on a wild adventure around the world to understand why water is our greatest treasure on earth AND how we can protect it!

Speaking from a perspective of lived experience, participants will be exposed in the session to an immersive glimpse into how the things individuals are unaware of play such a pivotal role in our lives. These unconscious pieces of our mental and emotional "wardrobe" are with us throughout all of our interactions and when we go about our daily lives, we do so wearing our 'armor' in such a way, so as to protect self at the expense of doing harm to others....be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritually. Eldra will share how the current criminal justice system is designed in such a way that it breeds an atmosphere that thrives on and encourages racial strife. That atmosphere is one that breeds the most toxic ways of being in those that society has already judged to be 'throwaways' due to toxic/dangerous demonstrative ways of being in the community at large. Upon entrance into the subculture of prison, 'the criminal' is indoctrinated into a deeper commitment of subhuman existence. In direct opposition to what seems and sounds like a hopeless situation, the willingness to be open and vulnerable in the most unlikely of places, a maximum security prison...it has been shown time and time again that healthy communities are not only possible, but can and should be the norm....when we take a risk on self and open up to not only what is possible within self, but the light present in the so-called other.

It is all too easy to rationalize big social issues as not occurring right in your own backyard. If you cannot see it, then it’s not happening. What if you are not looking and seeing clearly enough? A gifted storyteller, Jane Charles produced a feature film based upon the award-winning book, SOLD by Patricia McCormick, that tells the story of a Nepali girl sold into the brothels of India. Upon her return from filming, she realized that there is a horrific problem right in her own backyard. A recent study identified thatSeattle, WA has one of the top twenty worst records for the sexual exploitation of children in the United States. During this keynote session, Jane describes why and how child sex trafficking occurs. You will discover how to expand community awareness and to appropriately intervene on behalf of young people coerced into the sex trade. Sustainable and system-wide change in every community provides the path to eliminate this social issue. Learn how to see it and intervene to give the victims of commercial sexual exploitation a voice and a future, and ultimately to drive change in policy development and the public sector contribution to healthier communities everywhere.

If you have a brain, you're biased. The danger is not that you have biases, but that you have unconscious and unexamined biases that motivate your thinking and behaviors. The term “implicit bias” is used to describe when you have attitudes toward people or associate stereotypes, thoughtlessly and without conscious awareness. When you see another person as "the other" you miss the point. Let's explore ways to get courageous and curious about your biases so you create safe containers for having important and meaningful dialogue. With exercises, visualization and practice together you will build the courage that is an antidote to defensiveness.

Individuals, nonprofits and corporations seeking to invest in and bring about positive social change are increasingly asking for ways to measure their impact. Social Return on Investment (SROI) metrics, measurement and evaluation are critical tools for being able to track and report out on progress achieved towards social impact goals. They keep social change efforts focused on outcomes rather than outputs and provide feedback loops to leaders fostering strategies for continuous improvement in impact. This session will review how to develop and implement qualitative and quantitative methods for measuring social impact, explain how to develop "proxies" and how to use Social Impact Frameworks for ensuring that all investments of resources are targeted towards intended impact.

Find out how you can align what's happening deep within you to the effect you want your work and life to have in the world and for the future. Recent events have demonstrated how interconnected we all are; as humans, with our planet, and with a shared future. And how disconnected we can feel; between the parts of yourself and between what's happening in the world, what you want to see, and the effect you can have. Most of your leadership and development tools are still based in the Individual level of thinking (the idea that success can be achieved as a person, a team, an organisation, or indeed a nation, independent of others). For those who are not happy with where this has taken you, and who want to make things better from where you are now, you need new tools.Neil's Wheel is a new tool for unlocking awareness (and, with a thought-partner, a profound conversation) that enables you to connect what is deep within you (your values, purpose, sense of calling) and what is happening in the world and the difference you want to make. It helps you get clearer on the actions you can take now to enable the legacy you wish your life and work to leave. Making those connections, and bringing everything into alignment, unlocks inspiration, energy, purpose, fulfillment and peace of mind. The connections and alignment help you clarify your vision, build your belief and increase your ability to make the difference you want in your work, your life and the world. This session is for catalysts and leaders who want to make a difference. And for coaches who want a tool to unlock powerful conversations with clients who want to make a difference.

This experiential and challenging talk will explore the turning point in coaching from one focused on individual development, often for already highly privileged senior leaders and managers, to systemic coaching focused on partnering with the coachee to enable the coachee to deliver greater beneficial value to all their stakeholders.

At some point in life, every person experiences grief – an emotional response to loss. Even though grief is normal and an appropriate reaction to any type of loss, you and I live in a grief avoidance society. When grief is not addressed and emotions are suppressed, unresolved grief can develop and wreak havoc in your life.

You are taught how to do almost everything except how to grieve. This workshop is designed to increase awareness of the impact of unresolved grief and provide tools and strategies to help process it. You will explore how unresolved grief can be at the root cause of many problems, mental anguish, and unfilled goals.

In this presentation Jacquelyn explains how and why child sex trafficking is happening in your back yard. The solutions are clear and everyone needs to implement these actions in your churches, schools, communities, and homes to protect our youth which is the most vulnerable.

“How are you?” This question was asked by a colleague at the kitchen sink in your office, the same nothing question you get asked every day by everyone you run into. It was just after the holidays and it happened to me. I gave the honest reply, “The holidays are hard for me, I usually slip into a big depression and it takes a lot of effort to get out of it”. She blinked twice, said “I’m sorry to hear that” and walked away, leaving her unmade coffee on the counter. You are probably like most me, not used to or ready to talk about mental health at work. In this session you will learn about the power of story to normalize this difficult topic and take on the “How are you?” challenge.

Service before self or self and service? Is it possible to have both? Understanding the value of WHY an Executive Coach will elevate you personally and professionally is a journey unto itself. Prioritizing time to work with a coach shifted my thinking of service before self and allowed me to understand that there can be a balance between self and service in order to reach both personal as well as professional goals.

The power of a personal coach has heightened my awareness and unlocked my potential. I have now empowered myself to set parameters which has allowed me to be guided by two three letter words, WHY and YES. Allowing myself to say Yes to a personal coach has given me the confidence to say NO to protect my WHY.

The benefits of mindfulness are increasingly appreciated by coaching clients and business leaders. By integrating coaching with mindfulness in a single practice, coaches can help clients better develop awareness, enhance focus and performance, manage stress, improve relationships, and produce desired results.

This session guides conference participants through a 15-minute meditation to establish a calm state and expand awareness of their mental, emotional, and physical body. This awareness will support participants in engaging with the afternoon sessions on a deeper level.

Coaching is THE skillset for our rapidly changing decade and Charly will show you which coaching skills shift entrenched mindsets so you can tackle systemic challenges like climate change. She will share the Climate Change Coaches model of how coaching can influence systems to change by building individual and collective resilience and capability. Charly will explain how organisations and leaders are changing and how you can become more adept at working with big themes like uncertainty and volatility, to stay relevant and better serve the leaders with whom we work. Charly will offer practical coaching tools for tackling feelings of scarcity and threat, and she will empower you to choose the future you seek for the world, to more powerfully define your social and environmental imperative for doing the work you do, and to believe in your ability to influence and change systems. She will offer that when you do that, you scaffold your emotional resilience AND the resilience of your organisations. Charly will make a clear connection between coaching, behaviour change, change management and threats like climate change, and explain the importance of resilience, purpose and identity in managing large scale change. Her session will include real examples and skills development and you will leave with skills you can immediately use. Charly is an incurable optimist, and an inspiring public speaker, who will inspire you to get into action.

Professional coaching has been well accepted by the corporate world. Many governmental organizations also rely on coaching to increase productivity, employee engagement and help building strong cultures of leadership and inclusion. Yet Social System Change organizations are only learning about professional coaching and how this modality can significantly improve their ability to deliver on their goals and ambitions. Its highly adaptable nature has led coaching to become an enterprise-wide activity. Other modalities can be accelerated or have greater impact when layered with coaching (e.g., training, change management consulting).

The Human Capital Institute study indicates that high performing organizations have similar traits, including coaching and maintaining a coaching culture. Of the high performing organizations, 13% saw coaching accelerate and improve performance. 22% of high-performance organizations used coaching as an evidence- and evidence-based practice. And still, coaching is not currently utilized by most Social Change organizations and most of them do not have funding for coaching in their annual budgets. Why is it? Should it be?

Change often rocks your world. What if you could thrive amidst change? You can by being more resilient. How resilient are you and your clients/team? How do you build resiliency within yourself and clients/team? What if you could make a plan to build resiliency? You can.

This interactive workshop for you, a person who wants to understand and build resiliency in themselves and others. During this hands-on activity, you will learn about the characteristics of resiliency, assess your own resiliency, and learn methods to grow and nurture resiliency skills for yourself and others. You will walk away with a plan for your personal growth plan for resiliency and tools for use with your clients or team.

When leaders meet some of the human basic needs such as belonging and social support, you will unlock the secrets of a fully engaged, motivated and productive workforce. After the basic needs of shelter and food, the most important need of the human kind is belonging and connection. Social support is proven to be one of the most effective ways humans use to cope with stressful situations. Leaders can make a huge impact on teams and in the outcome of a change just by connecting and providing support to their people. Many leaders don’t know the power and influence they have over their teams. The “Change your VIEW - a human approach to change”, provides a framework to help change leaders to provide the support their people need to make successful transitions. This simple and intuitive approach unlocks your secrets for an easier, more pleasant and enjoyable change process.

"Development assistance spending of OECD members totaled USD $153 billion in 2019. Case studies from our World Bank work in Kenya demonstrate 10 to 100 times return on investment from our team’s coaching approach. This harnesses diversity and builds the coaching, leadership and technical capacity of officials who lead “Service Delivery Units” and focus on their county governments’ most critical projects. We’ll work through specific examples of the amazing work done by them –and its impact

We’ll share the power of this coaching approach to improve outcomes for nations and cities as well as achieving climate goals (COP26), Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19 Recovery.

If you are running development projects for an NGO, Foundation, Government or Donor organisation, our experience suggests potential for disproportionate return from combining coaching, leadership, measurement and digital platforms. The approach aligns the hearts, minds and actions of those involved.

In our talk we will outline what worked and how, and provide a practical framework to apply in your projects. This includes the organisational structure of a Service Delivery Unit, leadership for alignment, coaching for results and digitisation, all of which saves time, improves agility… and delivers.

The session includes time for discussion to consider the role of your organisation or coaching practice, regarding the great issues of today – such as COVID-19 recovery, climate change and a more inclusive society.

The presentation is supported by surprising case studies from multiple projects and countries, providing useful takeaway tools."

Clutter in all forms impacts your life. It makes us physically stumble over it when it gets in the way.

It holds you back from getting involved in the big project because the imposter syndrome gets in the way. It silences you when you should speak up because a residual fear from a past experience gets in the way. What if you could release some significant invisible value in an enjoyable and stimulating way? What would that be worth to you? In this session, you will explore how you can begin to unlock productive space for yourself and those around you by taking a fresh look at some of the clutter you are currently blind to. And by doing so, you will create some space to lead well, do good and drive change.

Around the world, people strive to achieve a healthy diet for themselves and their children. Before food reaches our forks, farmers, traders, millers and others confront a labyrinth of obstacles to delivering high quality, safe food. In developed countries, a diverse array of innovations produced through public and private sector research, well-developed agricultural industries and effective regulation spare people from many of the hazards faced in developing country food systems. One fungal toxin alone, aflatoxin, has been estimated to contaminate a quarter of the global food supply, threatening the health of 4.5 billion people. Since 1998, my research has focused on crop diseases, food safety and post-harvest issues, and since 2009, I have led international agriculture activities spanning over a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As director of an international agriculture program at Kansas State University, I work to lead and empower broadly interdisciplinary, multi-cultural teams to address daunting challenges, whose resolution holds the key to healthy food for millions who need it most. Through stories of solving obstacles to the delivery of healthy food, from Kansas to Kathmandu, the role of professional coaching at key moments in my career will be highlighted.

A lot of us feel limited at work, feeling less than powerful. If that's you, this is an interactive workshop to claim that spot in the world only you stand, a function of your history and experiences, visions and hopes. Because the spot on which one stands—Onlyness—is the source of new ideas, perspectives, and breakthroughs. Innovation and new ideas are the lifeblood of our organization. And, so, figuring out how to have each of us tap that which only we can ...this is the key. We can solve tough problems, see new ways to delight customers, and even generate breakthroughs. We will work together to help you name and claim that which is your onlyness. We will each do more meaningful work when we better know our own meaning.

Over the past 15 years Josie has immersed herself in the world of complexity of living systems to understand the nature and dynamic of the paradigm shifting changes that we most need now. She brings expertise and practical experience in the fields of organisational sustainability, leadership and organisational development, complexity (living systems) and change. Her presentation will be as interactive as possible as you explore how it might be useful to perceive the world. You will also engage with practical models to assist you to guide similar transformations to the case study example you will experience.

Moderator Janet Harvey will engage the visionary speakers to connect the methods, resources and case study date shared in the opening and subsequent sessions of the day with current events in order to reveal inevitable necessity and opportunity for action. Participants may submit questions throughout the day for the panelists to address as well as spontaneous audience participation. All four social cause areas will be explored with you: racial equity, climate emergency, healhty communities and human trafficking.