Presentations
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ADD in the Spirit
In this session, we take the position that ADD is much more than a medical problem or disorder. God doesn’t make junk. There are lessons, challenges, and yes, even blessings in the experience of living with ADD. We will take a look at coaching ADD within a larger spiritual framework.
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Join award-winning blogger and author Andy Wibbels for a rowdy tour through the world of blogging for business. Andy is the author Blog Wild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging
and has been featured in USA Today, Wall Street Journal and in Entrepreneur magazine as a recognized expert in blogging for business. You'll learn how blogs can allow you to create products and websites quickly, easily and inexpensively. You'll come out with a firm understanding of the impact of blogs for business and how you can get started immediately with this powerful new format. GOblogwild.com
Coaching Students: Sticky Problem or Invigorating Coaching Experience?
Are you thinking about working with students as clients and not sure how to proceed? Are you already working with students but feeling like you're sailing uncharted waters? This session led by two coaches experienced in working with students will touch on many aspects of what it takes to successfully coach students -- including managing the family dynamics, parents' involvement in coaching and how to handle the financial arrangements. The session will include plenty of time for questions, answers, and discoveries useful both for those who already work with students and for those who are thinking about it.
Community: What the Heck Is It Good For?
You go to a professional conference to learn skills and strategies to support your growth in business. That’s why the IRS lets you deduct the money you spend as a cost of doing business. But the fact is meeting people and connecting with other professionals is at least as important as the sessions. OK, you knew that. This kick off session sets the stage. If you’ve heard Kerch tell a story before, then you’ll know what you’re in for. If you haven’t, get up on the lowdown here.
The Credibility Factor: Fast Track Your Success
This is an exciting time to be a professional coach. Public awareness is increasing, top tier organizations are implementing coaching programs and numerous studies are validating the measurable ROI that coaching provides. So how do you differentiate yourself and leverage the opportunities available in today’s marketplace? You use the Credibility Factor. In this provocative, insightful and engaging session you will learn three specific and easy ways to stand apart from the crowd, enhance your credibility with potential clients and increase your business success.
Defeat the Demons of Distraction and Improve Your ADD Coaching Practice and Profits
A profitable, home-based, ADD coaching practice often depends on effectively dealing with distraction. Labeled as demons, eight types of distraction need to be defeated to enhance a coach’s productivity, creativity, and profitability. Strategies are presented to deal with problems such as technology overload, inappropriate multitasking, interruption by others, and noisy or messy settings. Armed with an arsenal of strategies to decrease distraction, coaches develop action plans to increase task completion, speed, accuracy, and follow through.
Group Coaching: Miracle Grow For Your Practice
Sarah Wright, MS, ACT and Tara McGillicuddy
Coaching is considered by many experts to be one of the most effective interventions for people with ADHD, yet working with an ADHD Coach is beyond the financial means of many potential clients. Group coaching is one way to make coaching more accessible while keeping it financially attractive for the coach. It is also one of the fastest ways to grow your practice, and many big name coaches rely on it to keep their individual coaching practices full. Come and find out how.
How It's Done, 101:
The Definitive Primer on Coaching Practice Development
Is your coaching business as successful as you want it to be? Do you feel like you just can’t find your clients? We know there is a great need for coaches. All the coach schools say so. What they don’t tell you is that there is no existing demand. You need to create the market yourself. Ken Zaretzky is brimming with valuable information that every coach, no matter what area or level of skill and experience, can take advantage of. Here is your chance to learn what the schools aren’t teaching. You’ll instantly be able to apply this information to the building of your own successful practice.
How to talk so they will listen: Effective communication strategies to strengthen the relationship between you, your client and other AD/HD professionals.
As ADHD coaches we are in the unique position of promoting awareness of ADHD coaching and its value to others. But how can we do this most effectively not only with clients but also with other professionals like psychiatrists, psychologists, educational specialists, and physicians, etc.? How do we communicate our role, knowledge and expertise? Come to this session and gain confidence in representing yourself as an expert. Explore new perspectives to use in your conversations about ADHD and coaching. Learn how “different language” can secure the confidence of other ADHD professionals and lead to alliances and referrals for years to come. Leave with an expanded repertoire, strategies and tools to strengthen the relationship between you and other ADHD professionals.
Jet lag for life!
Madelyne Griffith-Haynie, MCC and Ken Zaretzky, MCC
Statistics tell us that over 75% of people diagnosed with ADD have attending sleep disturbances or disorders. Especially tricky are the sleep timing disorders -- night owls on steroids. Think about it. That means only one out of four of your clients with ADHD does not have to deal with sleep challenges. How much do you know that will be beneficial to them? In this 90 minute session we will rock your world regarding circadian rhythm disorders: how they impact your clients' functioning and how you can help them. Madeline Griffith-Haynie and Ken Zaretzky speak from the trenches! What you don't know WILL hurt your clients.
What the ADHD Coach Needs to Attract Publicity & Publishers The Inside Scoop
These days, if you want to book national TV, get quoted in magazines, and make megabucks on major-publisher book deals … or even to simply attract more clients ... you need platform. But if you've got ADHD, you've got a challenge on your hands. Platform must be focused and clear: a simple, gettable description of your business that will suitably impress publishers and the media. Platform is the critical piece that determines if major media and publishers will take you seriously. Join marketing consultant and former journalist Suzanne Falter-Barns as she takes ADHD coaches on a platform tour of the Web, explaining the inside scoop on what you really need to get known now.
The World of ADHD Coaching Is Bigger Than You Think
"The world of ADHD Coaching is at once bigger and deeper than you may think." With an eye towards stretching your pre-conceived notions of what a successful ADHD coaching business is, our keynote presentation will feature real case studies that bring this idea alive and inspire you to go further than you thought you could.