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From Insight to Action: Applying Coaching and Change Management Together

When: 9/24/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

Where: Virtual Meeting - Meeting link is provided after registering.

Registration closes 9/22/2026

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Change management brings structure: stakeholder alignment, readiness, communication, adoption planning, reinforcement, and sustainment. Coaching brings depth: presence, inquiry, reflection, accountability, self-awareness, and behavior change. When used together intentionally, they can help people not only understand change, but engage with it, own it, and sustain it.

In this interactive session, Sophia Schell, President of ICF Charlotte, and Taniya Shaikh, President of ACMP Carolinas, will explore how coaching and change management can be applied together in real organizational and individual change scenarios.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain how coaching and change management complement one another in supporting sustainable change.
• Identify where coaching skills and change management practices can be applied across a change journey.
• Recognize the distinct yet complementary roles of coach, change practitioner, consultant, and leader.
• Apply coaching and change management concepts to a practical change scenario.

Continuing Coach Education Units (CCE)units available for this program: TBA

Meet Your Presenter: Sophia Schell, ACC, CPA, CRISC

President of ICF Charlotte | Executive Coach & Speaker

For more than 30 years, Sophia Schell has led global teams and advised Fortune 500 executives across financial services, technology, consulting, manufacturing, and professional services. She has seen firsthand how even highly successful leaders can feel stuck, misaligned, or isolated at pivotal moments.

Today, Sophia serves as a trusted guide to CEOs and senior leaders, helping them lead with clarity, courage, and strategic influence. As a Vistage Chair, Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Strategist, she partners with growth-minded leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, complex challenges, and evolving team dynamics.

Sophia is President of ICF Charlotte and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation. She is also the visionary of Transformed & Victorious. Through executive coaching, leadership development, CEO peer advisory groups, and keynote experiences, Sophia Schell creates transformational spaces where leaders gain clarity, strengthen alignment, build trust, communicate with impact, and lead with purpose.

Meet Your Presenter: Taniya Shaikh

President, ACMP Carolinas | Change Management Leader

Taniya Shaikh is President of ACMP Carolinas, one of the largest professional communities for change practitioners in the region, and a change management leader at Cisco Systems, Inc. In her professional role, she leads the Change Management Office for a global business organization, helping leaders, teams, and stakeholders successfully navigate and sustain large-scale transformation.

Passionate about the people side of change, Taniya focuses on building readiness, driving adoption, and creating sustainable business outcomes through human-centered change practices. She is especially interested in the intersection of change management and coaching, where structured change practices and coaching conversations come together to build trust, navigate uncertainty, strengthen leadership, and support lasting transformation.

As part of the ACMP × ICF Carolinas collaboration, Taniya brings a practitioner's perspective on how these disciplines can work together to help people and organizations thrive through change.

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