Coaching Demo by a PCC
Facilitator: Karen Mathre, PCC
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST
Location: Zoom
CEU: Pending
Topic: Competency 7: Evokes Awareness
Description:
This session launches a new year-long coaching demonstration series designed to give participants a rare opportunity to observe the full arc of a real coaching engagement rather than a single stand-alone session. Across four sessions spread over the year, the same professional coach and the same volunteer client will work together on one meaningful topic, allowing attendees to witness continuity, relationship development, evolving agreements, and measurable progress over time.
Each session will spotlight specific ICF Core Competencies while still honoring the natural flow of the coaching conversation. The client will select a goal broad enough to explore over several months, yet focused enough to demonstrate tangible movement within four sessions.
Examples might include building a business, planning a milestone life event, or navigating a career transition.
Attending the whole arc is ideal but not required. Each session will offer richness and depth around each competency, worth observing.
Competency Focus by Session:
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Session 1 – Competency 3: Establishes and Maintains Agreements
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Session 2 – Competency 7: Evokes Awareness
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Session 3 – Competency 8: Facilitates Client Growth
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Session 4 – Competency 5: Maintains Presence
By attending multiple sessions throughout the year, participants will be able to observe how agreements evolve, how awareness deepens, how growth is supported, and how presence anchors the coaching relationship from beginning through completion. This format provides an uncommon, longitudinal view into professional coaching practice and the PCC markers in action.
Currently, we plan to record and post all sessions, so even if you miss one, you can see the entire arc. However, we reserve the right to change that in the future.
Meet Karen Mathre, PCC
Karen Mathre is a seasoned executive coach and leadership development expert with deep expertise in organizational change and transformation. With over two decades of experience across Fortune 100 companies, consulting firms, and entrepreneurial ventures, she brings a rare blend of business acumen, systems thinking, and a human-centered approach to every engagement.
As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and a former executive leader, Karen has coached senior executives in complex, global organizations, including Bank of America, Medtronic, and Grant Thornton. She is recognized for helping leaders navigate complexity, expand their influence, lead through change, and align their purpose with organizational impact.
Karen also brings a strong track record of designing and implementing enterprise-wide change initiatives. At Medtronic, she developed and scaled the internal Coaching Center of Expertise, integrating coaching into the company’s leadership culture and driving measurable improvements in engagement, inclusion, and performance. Earlier in her career, she launched strategic planning and leadership development programs for businesses and nonprofits through her consulting firm.
Her work is informed by a master’s degree in psychology and organizational development, post-graduate training in evidence-based coaching, and certifications in multiple leadership assessments, including Hogan, EQi 2.0, and MBTI. Whether supporting individual transformation or organizational evolution, Karen helps leaders bring clarity, courage, and commitment to the moments that matter most.
Based in North Carolina, Karen lives with her husband, Chris Storment, and finds joy in singing, weightlifting, traveling, and continuous learning. Their two adult children live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area.