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Program Description: 
As coaches, we have a unique role in fostering inclusive leadership and belonging. This interactive session will explore how the ICF’s Core Competencies align with ICF’s ongoing global commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). We will discuss key insights from the Global DEIB meeting, share strategies for embedding inclusion into our coaching practice, and examine how our work supports leaders in creating equitable and psychologically safe spaces. This session will focus on practical coaching applications, avoiding legal and political discourse while strengthening our impact as inclusive coaching professionals.

CCEUs for this Program: 1.0 Core Competency

Lisa Ong, PCC, CPA
Lisa M. Ong is an award-winning consultant, keynote speaker, and professional certified executive coach. A widely known "talent gardener" and "inclusion connector," Lisa is a talent magnet for high-performing, high-potential leaders. Her C-suite-level clients hire her to support their talent management, employee experience, people strategy, career mentoring, career coaching, and leadership development programs.

Before launching Wishing Out Loud LLC in 2020, she was a national director in PwC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, a former HR director, and an audit senior manager. She earned her BBA in Accounting from UT Austin and her MS in Management from UT Dallas.

D CEO Magazine named her to The Dallas 500 directory as "one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW" for a fifth year in 2025. Lisa won the Dallas 2023 Visionary of the Year for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and was one of Dallas Business Journal’s 2022 Leaders in Diversity Award Winners. An Orchid Giving Circle, Dallas Women for Good, and Ascend Lifetime member, she served as an Executive Advisor on the Board of Ascend North Texas and is the Public Board Member of the global Infusion Nurses Society. Lisa coaches for the SHRM Linkage Women in Leadership Institute, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, and Coaches of Color and Culture. She is a member of the ICF-North Texas, the Workplace Programs Advisory Committee for Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, SHRM, and the Texas Society of CPAs, and a past Dallas chapter President of the Texas Society of CPAs, and serves on Zeal IT Consulting and the Advisory Board. Visit Lisa at LinkedIn.


Nicholas Dillon, MS. MA, NCAD, LCDC, SAP, CEAR
Nicholas Dillon, CEO of Believe Wellness Center, is a transformational leader, best-selling author, and international speaker. With master’s degrees in Adult Education and Counseling and a Post Graduate Doctoral Certificate in Behavioral Psychology, he empowers others to unlock their true potential. As a member of the John C. Maxwell Leadership team and a graduate of the ICF Coaching and Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence programs, Nicholas has refined his craft with over 20 years in corporate leadership, DEIB initiatives, and change management. Honored with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023, he remains a beacon of empowerment, purpose, and transformational change. Visit Nicholas at LinkedIn