1. 4th & 5th September 2012
Resorts World Convention Centre
Sentosa - Singapore
The Vision for APCC2012 is to increase
the positive impact of coaching across
the region. This vision will be expressed
through the theme “Coaching Beyond
Boundaries” and achieved through the
three progressive dimensions:
• Transforming Self
• Developing the Profession
• Inspiring Organisations and Societies
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2. Transforming Self Developing the Profession
Amy Barnes Doug Riddle
Co-Director of Scherer, Leadership International Global Director of Coaching Services and Assessment
Portfolio at the Center for Creative Leadership
Experimenting in the Here and Now-What Gestalt
has to offer coaches. Carpentry or Poetry?
The highly interactive session is based on Gestalt principles Impact on Individuals and Organisations.
used by coaches, therapists and facilitators. In this session, we In the competitive world of leadership coaching, the
will look at how coaches can facilitate change by co-creating coach who can demonstrate consistent positive results
experiments in the here and now so that clients can get in touch with ‘what is’ present from coaching will be in high demand. A mature discipline can demonstrate its
in the moment. This way of working demands a moment by moment freshness in effectiveness through meaningful measures. While coaching has been obsessed
approach that puts the coach at the edge of his/ her knowing- the coach and client with showing that it can yield good results, consistent and credible measures
both learn and grow in their relationship with one another. This workshop will suit of coaching impact have been slow to emerge. As the person responsible for
people who are ready and eager to explore and play at the boundary. one of the largest managed coaching communities in the world, the Global
Director of Coaching Services at the Center for Creative Leadership will identify
the challenges and the opportunities for measuring the impact of leadership
Carol Courcy coaching. Practical solutions for individual coaches and coaching companies
Featured speaker on emotional agility and coaching will be presented.
in the USA, Singapore, and Europe.
Mastering Emotional Agility
Hsieh Tsun-yan
How is it that smart, often well-educated people find
Chairman and Lead Counselor of LinHart Group
themselves stuck or repeating ineffective patterns?
Carol claims it is a missing--yet easily learned-- life skill Coaching for Group Breakthrough
of emotional agility. Want to spend less time exhausted, anxious, guilty or For a senior executive to change, often his stakeholders
frustrated? Carol will show you that “You don’t have to change everything for must change too. Grounded in his 30+ years of experience
everything to change!” Participants will leave with at least one simple practice as CEO counselor and board advisor with McKinsey & Co
for increasing their day to day level of satisfaction and joy in the weeks to come. and his own firm LinHart Group, Tsun-yan will address the
challenges and key success factors of coaching several executives experiencing
a shared challenge, often while leadership succession is also happening.
Emma Wheat & Jeff Jacobson Tsun-yan will also bring his perspective as a serving board member of large
Coaches Training Institute (CTI) enterprises such as Sony Corporation, Manulife Financial, and Bharti Airtel.
Senior Faculty Members
The Warrior and the Geisha: Inner
Coaching Tools for a Changing James Fulton
Paradigm. Need tools to help your clients Asia Pacific Head of the Pine Street
thrive in today’s global marketplace? Then join Emma Wheat and Jeff Jacobson, Leadership Development Group
international coach trainers for the Coaches Training Institute, to learn how to
integrate the servitude of the geisha and the courage of the warrior. Participants will What clients and commissioners really want
learn how to utilize these seemingly contrasting styles to help transform their clients from their coaches.
and their organisations to greater success. The session will look how to bridge the gap between
business/organisational contexts and coaching and how
to sharpen interventions and their commissioning. James leads Goldman
Ryan Ross Sachs’ approach to developing the performance and succession pipeline of the
Hogan VP Partner Alliances region’s Managing Directors.
Ho Wan Leng
CEO Optimal Consulting Group
Jerry Connor
Co-Founder, Coach in a Box
Strategic Self Awareness –
It is not just for our clients anymore. Coaching Collaboration - Encouraging
Creating strategic self awareness is the primary goal of any coaching practice. Breakthrough Beyond Boundaries
What happens when the coach is not strategically self aware? How does this lack In complex or fast changing environments many
of awareness of his/her strengths and own development impact the effectiveness leadership challenges are coming between, across and
of the coaching process and ultimately transfer onto the client? This session’s beyond teams, geographies and organisations. Coaching
focus is on the strategic self awareness that coaches should develop to better not has a big role to play in helping leaders adapt to this and the workshop will
only themselves but also their practice. Specifically, coaches can derail without explore a set of highly contemporary ideas and tools around how to do this.
awareness in three broad areas – the risk of flight, the risk of fight, and the risk of
In the session we’ll share the findings of a joint research project involving
needing to be right.
the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Bridge and Coach
in a Box on this subject and explore its application to a number of live case
studies currently operating in major global organisations. We’ll also spend time
Joseph Tigani
interactively experimenting with the tools themselves.
Author, Business and Marketing Consultant
A Rose By Any Other Name: Building a Successful
Market Brand as a Professional Coach.
“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”
Or would it? Branding is not just about promotion (name),
but also about how you conduct your coaching services
including your clients’ experiences (sweetness) interacting with you.
Learn to align promotional messages with branding achieved through client
interactions, using personal authenticity and a real point-of-difference to develop
a cut-through brand in a competitive marketplace. Joseph Tigani knows first-
hand how to do this, building a successful coaching practice from start-up.

3. Inspiring 3rd September 2012, 9.30am to 11.30am
Organisations and Societies
From Solo To Supported: How To Outsource, Delegate
and Automate Your Business to Save your Sanity
Julian Whiteley
Many of entrepreneurs pride themselves on being the chief cook
Chief Executive Officer, United World College of
and bottle washer. Most likely they created their first website,
South East Asia (UWCSEA) designed their marketing materials, updated their spreadsheets
Educate me for my future, not your past. and spent hours installing software they thought they needed.
Whilst employers have been grappling with the expectations They did everything because in the early days, they simply had to
of Generation Y, Generation Z has appeared on the horizon do it all to survive. But surviving isn’t the goal – thriving is. Being
and Generation AO (Always On) is not far behind. well-rounded is overrated. Feeling overwhelmed is unacceptable.
Nicole Graham
The workshop will give an insight into how one leading school has been preparing
students for the adventure of life, and how it is adapting to the challenge of Mindfulness One of the main tools of a good coaching session
educating children, the youngest of whom will enter employment in 2030, for is the quality of the presence the coach offers to
such an uncertain future. It will explore the skills and qualities necessary to the coached. The ability to stay present in the
lead a successful life in the 21st Century and how one can develop them. We moment, fully aware of the client, is a crucial skill
will explore some of implications and share insights for coaches about how to for any coach. Mindfulness training is the method
interact with the young of today, the emerging work force and our future leaders. for developing present moment awareness with the
object of our choice.
Ramus Angela
Hougaard Spaxman Through the session the top six reasons (as defined
Mansour Javidan by Angela Spaxman, Potential Project trainer and
Founding Director of the Global Mindset Institute coach) for coaches to train in mindfulness will be
presented.
Coaching Executives for Global Roles
Coaching executives beyond boundaries requires a more 3rd September 2012, 12.30pm to 2.30pm
sophisticated approach than simply developing cross-
cultural awareness; it involves developing a Global Mindset. Using Social Media and Webinars to Expand your Reach
In this session, you will learn which essential global leadership attributes create
and Impact as a Coach
a Global Mindset, based upon the findings of an extensive research project For coaches, social media is perfect as a means through
including data from over 14,000 managers from companies around the world. which to share knowledge with a far extended audience.
You will leave this session with a clear understanding of what When combined with webinars, the message is enabled to be
communicated to an audience of hundreds, if not thousands of
Global Mindset is, how to measure it, and, most importantly, how to nurture attendees at a cost that is accesible to all coaches.This session
it among your coaching clients in ways that leverage performance and is designed to introduce the audience of coaches to a practical
effectiveness. methodology for applying social media and webinars into
Ben-Croft their existing coaching models. It will introduce the very latest
tools, techniques and technologies as well as a defined system for using these to
dramatically increase the reach and scope of their coaching footprint.
Katherine Holt THREE Strategies For Transforming Yourself and
Founder, Peakinsight
Your Coaching Practice
These days in business, it’s not just about being a better coach.
Kyoko Seki It’s about being better at selling. As a professional coach,
Coaches Training Institute (CTI) Lead Trainer you need to stand out from other coaches, in a world where
consumers and HR professionals are inundated with choices.
Being Leadership
What are the top three reasons your ideal client should choose
Participants will learn about four shifts that are required for leaders to navigate
YOU? In this refreshingly streetwise session, you’ll challenge
our complex world: 1) appreciating individual uniqueness in the context of
your assumptions of selling, assess your capabilities and learn
cultural differences, 2) cultivating the “being” dimension of human experience, 3) Tom Abott how to reach the next level in your coaching practice.
developing multicultural effectiveness, and 4) becoming adept at managing
paradoxes. Participants will apply the learning in an experiential exercise where
they will be primed to recognize how the impact of “Being Leadership” could
3rd September 2012, 3.00pm - 5.30pm
shift their coaching practice - as well as global leaders being coached.
Coaching Supervision: Double Whammy
Transforming Your Coaching and the Coaching Industry
This workshop will introduce you to the professional
practice of coaching supervision and how it keeps
you at a learning edge by inviting you to engage in
insightful reflection and grow beyond your current
coaching boundaries. In this highly participative
session, delegates will have the opportunity to
Paul Lim Katherine experience supervision first-hand and understand
Chen how it can enhance and even transform one’s
coaching practice.
Accessing the chemistry of wellness,
performance and leadership
Participants will be familiarized with the very latest in
neuropsychological research. They will also receive instruction
in a new and comprehensive application designed to extend the
coaching modality beyond its traditional environment.
In this new context the coaching modality interfaces directly with
neuropsychological influences affecting wellness, performance
Dr I Weinberg and leadership.

4. ASIA PACIFIC COACHING CONFERENCE 2012
BENEFITS & FEATURES
The Largest and Foremost Coaching Conference in Asia Pacific – and discussion. They pool their conference takeaways and examine
This two day coaching conference will be held on 4th and 5th September these from various angles. Eventually they integrate their diverse
and will focus on “Coaching Beyond Boundaries”. APCC will offer two individual perspectives into a new collective view. The theme for
keynote addresses from internationally renowned thought leaders; this session will be appreciating what we have heard, seen, thought
13 focused sessions by presenters from Asia, Australia, Europe and about, discussed, set an intention for during the past two conference
America; two panel discussions on current issues facing our community; days and then dreaming around what might be as a result.
and much more.
Pre-Conference Event – A Pre-Conference to APCC will be held
New Ideas, Methods and Inspiration – Our vision for APCC2012 is to on 3 September 2012. The goal of the Pre-Conference is to offer
increase the positive impact of coaching across our region. This vision master workshops and deep learning opportunities to all conference
will be expressed through the theme “Coaching Beyond Boundaries” delegates. The day is planned specifically for delegates to immerse
and achieved through the three progressive dimensions: Transforming themselves in new thinking and avail themselves of learning in-demand
Self, Developing the Profession, and Inspiring Organisations and skills and knowledge. What sets the pre-conference apart from the
Societies. A broad range of presentations, panel discussions, and main conference, is that it is designed to be highly experiential and
interactive conversations will explore the many facets of these interactive, rather than presentation-based.
themes. Participants will benefit from exposure to many new ideas,
Bookshop – Resources, books and materials from the international
methodologies, and applications about coaching and its impact.
speakers at the APCC conference will be offered, as well as materials
Networking – Meeting new friends and colleagues from around the from international best sellers on topics covered during the conference
world is typically a highlight of APCC. This year we are anticipating including human capital, organisational and societal development.
more than 300 participants from throughout Asia and the Pacific. We This is a one stop shop for all you need to know about the coaching
will also have visitors from Europe and the Americas. Our conference profession and topics covered during APCC 2012.
will not only include coaches but also HR leaders, educators, and
Exhibitors – Bringing together a platform for coaching schools,
representatives from those businesses that support coaching, learning
coaching organisations, publishers, sponsors and learning &
and development. APCC will offer plenty of “networking” time at coffee
development organisations to provide further information on what is
and tea breaks, mid-day meals, and various inter-active sessions.
in the market for the coaching profession.
Open Space Sessions – We will be offering two “Open Space” (OST)
CCEU Credits for members - An opportunity to learn, reflect and
style track segments, in addition to our regular presentations. OST
further develop our own coaching practice through various formats;
will provide delegates an opportunity to interact with the conference
breakout rooms, international keynotes and interactive group sessions
by offering and hosting a session of their own. This can be a session
to keep us relevant and sharpen our skill set.
they have thought about and decided to offer at APCC before arriving
at the conference or it can be a session idea that pops up during the Gala Dinner – Bringing together delegates from various cultures
course of Day One of the conference that they feel is important and across the region in an social setting conducive to deepening bonds
would like to explore further. and new friendships.
World Café - This closing session will offer delegates an opportunity To register for your seat,
to reflect, synthesise and create new points of view through dialogue please go to: http://apcc2012.com/conference_fees.php
FAQs
How many participants are expected? duration are planned for the Pre-Conference on September 3. Details
and from which countries? will be posted on our website in the coming weeks. And yes, all learning
APCC2012 will draw participants from throughout the Asia Pacific region. activities at the APCC2012 will earn ICF CCEUs.
At APCC2010 we had participants from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, Why Singapore? Why Resorts World?
New Zealand, India, Malaysia, and Singapore. We also had participants Singapore is a convenient transportation and learning hub at the center
from North America and Europe. Over 280 people attended APCC2010. of the Asia Pacific region. This makes it easy for participants from all
This year we expect between 300 and 400. corners to visit. It also makes it attractive for speakers and facilitators
from overseas to participate.
Will there be opportunities for networking?
Yes. The Conference has numerous networking opportunities – lunches, Resorts World Sentosa is one of Singapore’s newest resort destinations.
dinners, and tea breaks; several Open Space discussion sessions; an It combines a lovely setting on Sentosa Island (connected by road and
Appreciative Inquiry Cafe session. rail) with the Universal Studio Theme Park, a world class casino, and
many fine restaurants. The hotel is just 15 minutes from downtown
Are any workshops being offered? Singapore and the Orchard Road shopping area.
Will they qualify for ICF continuing education?
Yes, many of the concurrent sessions during the main conference
(Sep. 4 and 5) will be highly interactive. Moreover, workshops of longer
3rd September 2012 4th & 5th September 2012 – Main Conference
PreConference Fee: Early Bird till 31 May Extended to 15 June
$200 for 1 workshop (optional add $85 for lunch) ICF & APAC Members : S$730
$325 for 2 workshops includes lunch Non-Members: S$780
$400 for 3 workshops includes lunch
Standard till 31 August 2012
ICF & APAC Members: S$780
For registration visit http://www.apcc2012.com Non-Members: S$880