Leveling Up Your Coaching Business Workshop:
Adding Value to All Levels of Coaches
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: MN Humanities Center, St. Paul, MN
CEU: Pending
Description:
A half-day workshop for both newer and experienced coaches to learn, connect and grow.
9:00am - 9:45am – networking, meet the speakers/panelists and light breakfast
9:45am - 10:00am – ICF MN Introduction (Mission, purpose and upcoming events), explain the process of day.
10:00am– 10:30am – Top Ways Nonverbal Communication Will Add Value to Your Coaching Business
10:35am - 11:05am – Top Ways to Market Your Coaching With a Podcast
11:10am – 11:40am –Top Ways Hypnosis Will Add Value to Your Coaching Business
11:45am – 12:15pm – Top Ways AI Will Add Technology Support to Your Coaching Business
Break for lunch
12:30pm – 1:00pm - Panel Discussion of Assessment Tools to Enhance the Coaching Experience
1:00pm - Dismiss
Todd Fonseca (BS, MS, CPCC, PCC) is a former MedTech executive turned executive coach. Certified in body language, he helps leaders communicate with clarity and grounded presence, strengthening trust and influence in high-stakes moments.
Angie Kircher is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Subconscious Coach, Integral Eye Movement Practitioner, who knows firsthand what it's like to do everything right and still feel completely broken. As a frontline hospice nurse in 2020, she battled crippling anxiety that had taken over her life. Maxed out on medications, having tried every modality out there, and still not finding relief - until hypnosis did what nothing else could. Now she helps high-achieving individuals bridge the gap between who they've been and who they're becoming, by rewiring the subconscious programs that keep them stuck. Winner of Woodbury's Best Holistic Wellness Practice 2023. Minnesota-based, serving clients virtually worldwide.
Desiree Petrich is a leadership development and team engagement consultant, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. As the founder of Intentional Action, she equips organizations with the tools to build high trust and high accountability teams by helping them to strengthen communication and enhance teamwork. She brings practical insights to help organizations create stronger leadership pipelines, more engaged teams, and high-impact partnerships. Desiree is also the host of, You're The Boss, Now What?, a top 2% rated podcast for leaders who desire to lead themselves and their teams with confidence.
Matt Benesch is a Senior Developer of AI & Automation at Boston Scientific, where he builds intelligent systems that support hundreds of thousands of system automations annually. He has architected more than 35 AI projects across healthcare, finance, and marketing, ranging from multi-agent platforms to automated business intelligence pipelines. A U.S. Army veteran, Matt is passionate about making AI accessible and practical for everyone. His philosophy is that the best use of AI is not to replace people, but to free them to do more of what they do best.
Ann Piepkorn, owner of Piepkorn Leadership Solutions, is an executive coach and leadership workshop facilitator with over 25 years of experience accelerating the development of global, Fortune 500 leaders.
- Workshop Facilitation: Ann leads engaging, hands-on workshops that equip leaders with practical tools and strategies to elevate their impact. Her workshop topics include Executive Presence, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching Skills for Leaders, High Performing Teams and custom team building workshops.
- Executive Coaching: As an ICF certified executive coach, Ann helps clients quickly identify high-impact skills, deepen awareness of strengths and growth areas, and create focused strategies to reach their goals. She specializes in helping leaders increase their effectiveness, accelerate to the next level, and transition to new roles.
- Talent Development Consulting: Ann partners with HR professionals to design and implement internal coaching programs, leadership and high-potential programs, peer learning cohorts, mentoring initiatives, succession planning frameworks, and competency models that drive organizational success.
Julie is dedicated to helping individuals and teams reach their full potential by aligning their talents, resources,
and network with their mission. Julie brings over 29 years of diverse experience in program management and execution within national and local non-profits, museums, state government, and corporations. Julie enjoys coaching individuals and teams needing encouragement, structure, and thoughtful planning. JEG Consulting, LLC seeks opportunities with teams and individuals to build meaningful connections and foster relationships focused on communication, impact and balance.
Katie Genereux, ACC, is the founder and owner of BeeKnown Communications & Coaching, LLC—a small consultancy specializing in helping leaders build highly engaged teams through strategic communications and executive coaching. With more than 25 years’ experience, she has worked with many C-suite and executive leaders to elevate their reputation, build trust and motivate employees. Katie augments traditional communications services with executive coaching because employee engagement blooms when leaders communicate comes from a place of clarity, authenticity and passion. She also works with private coaching clients who are finding their way through any type of transition and are seeking to find their path forward. Certified by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC), Katie also has credentials as an Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and a COR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist and a COR.E Transitions Dynamics Specialist. Outside of her professional work, you’ll find her practicing yoga, reading, listening to stories on The Moth, tending plants and flowers, or snacking on chocolate whilst surviving the launching of her three teens/young adults.