5th Annual International ADHD Coaches Conference

Atlanta, Georgia
March 23—March 25, 2012

Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia

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The Many Faces of ADHD

Make your commitment to attend the 2012 ACO Conference, The Many Faces of ADHD, where we will celebrate the rapid expansion of our ADHD Coaching profession.

In 27 creative workshops over two and one-half days, attendees will participate in stimulating presentations and learn about new, emerging client and niche opportunities for business building.

Non-traditional business growth opportunities will be explored for their value and viability as emerging business markets.

Come and stretch the concept of your practice boundaries and celebrate the opportunities with new eyes!

Join us for the Celebration!

Look for an early bird discount registration coming soon.

Mark your calendars now. This will be a conference you’ll talk about for years to come.

March 23—March 25, 2012

Understanding executive function allows coaches to support clients in increasingly effective ways. All clients, whether or not they have ADHD, need tools and approaches for managing executive function challenges as they arise.

Listen to the one-hour recording of Karen Boutelle Preview Session

Approved for 6 ICF CCEUs

This workshop provides coaches with a practical model of executive function that will help them better understand, in specific detail, the challenges their clients face when trying to plan, prioritize, manage their emotions, and meet their goals. Mini-case studies will be used to deepen the learning and to introduce a strategy-design method coaches can begin using immediately with their clients. They will also learn practices and strategies that are useful with a wide variety of clients.

Presented by Karen Boutelle
A reoffering of this class has not been scheduled

About Karen Boutelle

Karen Boutelle, PCC, was the founding director of Coaching Services at Landmark College, and currently works independently as a leadership coach. She specializes in supporting individuals to maximize their leadership potential while managing executive function challenges. Recently, she co-authored “Executive Function Coaching for College Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A New Approach to Fostering Self-Determination,” Journal of Learning Disabilities Research & Practice (11/09). She is now exploring the intersection of mindfulness practices, adult development, and leadership coaching.

For more information about this course, use the ACO Contact form here.
Or call Karen Boutelle directly at (802)579-5680

Helping ADHD Clients Respond to Marriage Pressures

Make better recommendations when your ADHD client is faced with significant pressure at home.

About the instructor
What people say about Melissa Orlov

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Dates and content

Listen to the preview call: Special Preview Call with Melissa Orlov

Melissa Orlov is one of the foremost authorities on ADHD and relationships in the world today.

Dr. Edward Hallowell, Coauthor of Driven to Distraction and Married to Distraction

This overview course introduces ADHD coaches to the key issues ADHD clients  face in a difficult marriage.

After taking the course, coaches can expect to be more sensitive to the pressures difficult marriages place on their clients, the common marital “mistakes” that their clients may unintentionally make, and how to help clients develop skills that will lessen pressures at home more quickly.

Rather than be exhaustive in nature, the course is intended to provide a strong framework to help coaches make better recommendations when a client is faced with significant pressure at home.

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Dates and Course Content

Four Fridays, beginning September 16
12:00 – 1:15 pm, EST
Maximum enrollment: 35
ICF CCEUs: 6

• September 16: The Top Ten Pressures Your ADHD Clients Face at Home
  Clients with ADHD often face intense pressure from spouses – to be more responsible, less childlike, more on time and the like. This session explores the important behavioral patterns in both partners that ADHD can introduce into a relationship, as well as common ADHD partner responses to those patterns that often don’t work.
  Core competencies addressed:
  • provides background for establishing trust and intimacy with the client
  • improves coaching presence
  • all three areas of communicating effectively
  • creating awareness
• September 23: Common Pitfalls Your Clients Can Avoid
  So what can you expect, given the pressures

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One day registration option

Register at the bottom of this page for the morning workshop and either afternoon session
One price: $125

Friday Workshop Session: April 29, 10-11:30 am

Working with ADHD:
An Insider’s view of Accommodations, Challenges, and Success in the Workplace

Track: Advanced Coach Training and Mentoring

Learn the basics of ADHD workplace accommodations as well as insight into advanced accommodations. Don’t let the word “accommodations” throw you. Over half the accommodations suggested by the government don’t cost anything. This workshop will have strong value for coaches in their own practices as well as workplace success principles and tools to share with clients. Learn how to empower yourself and your clients to reach new levels of personal productivity. Adult ADHD Coach Jay Carter developed his expertise around ADHD in the Workplace from the inside out. As a high-level manager for a Fortune 100 company, Jay has become recognized as the resident expert on accommodations and productivity in the work place. With speaker Jay Carter, MBA, ACG

Friday PreConference Session: April 29, 1-4 pm
There are two sessions in this time slot. Register for only one!

Coaching Unique Brain Styles:
ADHD & Co-existing Disorders, Co-existing Conditions, and Behaviors

Track: Neuroscience and ADHD

ADHD tends to be associated with comorbidity throughout the life span. The first part will be a discussion of common co-morbid disorders, coexisting conditions, and problematic behaviors that ADD coaches encounter in coaching. Part two will describe a process that guides the Coach in gathering objective data. Part three will be an interactive discussion about selecting strategies from the information gathered. Case studies and real life scenarios will be used to facilitate this learning experience. With speakers: Daniel G. Pruitt, PCC, CPCC, SCAC and Chuck Blocher, Ph.D., ACC, CPCC, PACG

How to Make Millions While Making a Difference

Track: Business-Building and Practice Development

Suzanne Evans, owner and founder of Suzanne Evans Coaching, LLC, is the tell-it-like-it-is, no fluff boss of business building. She supports, coaches and teaches over 30,000 women enrolled in her wealth and business building programs. Having surpassed the seven figure mark herself in just over three years, she’s coached her private clients to total revenues exceeding eight million dollars. This year she will launch her Global Impact Project, a not for profit serving women worldwide in education, entrepreneurship and equality.
This year ACO coaches will learn from Suzanne:

• A step by step formula to keep a full pipeline of ideal high paying clients
• Strategies to create products and programs for passive income streams
• The I. C.A.R.E sales closing system that has heart and closes over 90% of the time

If you really want to turn your business around, or grow your business to greater highs, then register for Suzanne’s session.

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Setting the Stage for Client Success:
A Practical Model of Executive Function

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Don’t Miss This Opportunity!Two talks on credentialing for ADHD coaches
One each for IAAC and PAAC!

Both IAAC and PAAC will present their takes on the need for credentialing and how each organization helps guide you through the steps to become a credentialed ADHD Coach. This is an opportunity to listen to back-to-back speakers on a topic that is so very important to all of us.

To Credential or Not!

IAAC Member Coach Speakers:
Lynn Moran, MBA, ACC
Dee Crane, SCAC, ACC
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 8:00pm eastern
Bridge: (919) 424-5871 PIN: 144 809#

ICF CCEU credit available for attendees
Sponsored by the ACO
To read more about this presentation and register your attendance.

Getting Certified as an ADHD Coach – What’s the Deal?

PAAC Member Coach Speakers:
Barbara Luther, MCC, EFT-ADV, MA
Jeff Copper, MBA, ACG, CPCC, PCC

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 3:00pm eastern
Bridge: (212)457-9879 pin 176818#
ICF CCEU Credit available for attendees
Sponsored by the ICF ADHD SIG (open to ICF and ACO members)
To read more about this presentation and let us know you’re planning to attend.

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Framing the ADHD Experience Before One-on-One Coaching Begins

Listen to an hour long taste of this program here.

See the course outline here.

A reoffering of this class has not been scheduled

ADHD coach Joyce Kubik designed and will present this six-week, 12-hour course specifically for ACCE.

This program that will teach participants how to create a solid framework with their ADHD clients that will strengthen their client-coach relationships for more successful coaching experiences.

“This course will be interesting to any coach, but especially compelling for those interested in ADHD,” said Ms. Kubik. “I want to support coaches toward greater success with their ADHD clients and so I am offering each participant a copy of my KORS (Kubik Outcome Rating Scale) instrument at no additional cost.”

The International Coach Federation (ICF), the accrediting and credentialing body for the life coach profession, has approved the course for 12 hours of CCEs towards coaching certification or recertification.

Presented by Joyce Kubik

A reoffering of this class has not been scheduled

Read the class outline here.

For more information about this course, use the ACO Contact form here.
Or call Joyce Kubik directly at (440) 933-8309